Systems Engineering Research and the Fulbright International Science and Technology Award. Dr. Salado holds a BSc/MSc in electrical engineering from Polytechnic University of Valencia, an MSc in project management and a MSc in electronics engineering from Polytechnic University of Catalonia, the SpaceTech MEng in space systems engineering from Delft University of Technology, and a PhD in systems engineering from the Stevens Institute of Technology. He is a member of INCOSE and a senior member of IEEE and IIE.Mr. John Ray Morelock, Virginia Tech John Morelock is a doctoral candidate at Virginia Tech. His research interests include student motivation, game-based learning, and gamified classrooms. He received the NSF
inhospitable to transitions and career paths that fall outside the dominant narrative ofthat story.This research explores the professional transitions experienced by an engineering facultymember across role types, discipline affiliations, and institution types. Though personal andfamilial transitions were also occurring, the scope of the research is major professionaltransitions initiated by an engineering faculty member (e.g., change in institution, change indepartment, change in role title or type), rather than those related to tenure and promotion,administration, and retirement. Existing studies of faculty transitions tend to focus on careerprogression for tenure-track faculty members, transitions into the academy, transitions into thediscipline of
- Champaign with a focus in Engineering Education. His interests are centered around mentorship, mental health, and retention in STEM students and facultyDr. Karin Jensen, University of Michigan Karin Jensen, Ph.D. (she/her) is an assistant professor in biomedical engineering and engineering edu- cation research at the University of Michigan. Her research interests include student mental health and wellness, engineering student career pathways, and engagement of engineering faculty in engineering education research. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2023 The Stressors for Doctoral Students Questionnaire in Engineering: Year 2 of an RFE project on understanding graduate engineering
and collaboration with others cuts across mental and physical health and he has done research on HIV/AIDS, depression, serious mental illness, child- hood diarrhea and acute respiratory illnesses, obesity and complementary and alternative medicine. Ryan has worked extensively in Latin America and Africa on health-related issues and helped redesign and implement a large-scale education reform in Qatar.Dr. Gery W. Ryan, Gery Ryan is Assistant Dean for Academic Affairs and core faculty at the Pardee RAND Graduate School where he teaches policy analysis and methods courses and mentors graduate students. Trained as a med- ical anthropologist, Ryan has conducted research on decision-making processes, ethnographies of
, focus Page 26.872.10 groups and surveys—are effective in identifying and defining graduate students, as well as their specific needs and preferred resources. Innovation through Technology: University websites are often an information-rich portal for students, employers, faculty/staff, parents and alumni. Most sites offer targeted pages for each of these groups. Websites also offer a medium for delivering career services— indeed, web based resources are increasingly used as an alternative to physical locations. Career Courses and Workshops: Semester courses offer students the option to earn credit while
personal connections they may notshare with a more senior mentor. Near-peer mentors are often perceived as more in tune with thestruggles of their mentees [1] and more approachable than an individual who identifies as an“expert” scientist [2]. Examples of near-peer mentoring relationships in academia include anupper-level student and a first-year student, an undergraduate student and a graduate student, or agraduate student and a new faculty member. Near-peer mentoring can positively affect both the mentor and the mentee. Studentmentees have stated that they feel more comfortable asking a near-peer mentor for academic helpthan they do a professor [3] and believe access to near-peer mentors promotes success in theircoursework [4]. Students
a different institution) to understand the differences in the natureand number of comments associated with both types of proposals. This qualitative approach isintended to inform the direction of future research rather than to provide conclusive evidence oftrends in reviewer comments [4]. Methods Data Collection The workshops supported two-person teams, comprised of the PI (who, in accordance with S-STEM program requirements was a faculty member teaching in an S-STEM eligible discipline) and a team member with expertise in educational or related areas of research (referred to in this project as researcher participants). A total of 21 teams (42 participants) comprised the 2017 cohort. We
, alongside a significant proportion of assertive members who promoted teamcohesion and connection instead of personality conflicts. The team received an 87% rating forefficacy, with approximately 94% of team members attributing assertiveness-related qualities(confidence, decisiveness, and open communication) to the team’s success, as opposed topersonality conflicts and incompatibility. The implementation of the conceptual framework ofthis study will be beneficial when supervising other extensive STEM educational initiatives.AcknowledgementThis study is part of the work supported by the National Science Foundation Grant # 1915615,titled “Adapting an Experiment-centric Teaching Approach to Increase Student Achievementin Multiple STEM Disciplines.” It
opportunities for graduate school. As a result of these findings,we increased our outreach opportunities to allow students to discuss and explore the benefitsof graduate school to build the interest and self-efficacy of our target population. Further, weasked faculty members that work with the students to reach out to students individually andencourage them to apply. Using this approach, after identifying 79 eligible students, 38applications were received, 84% from our list of eligible students, and 63% from populationsunderrepresented in engineering.Problem One of NSF’s strategic objectives is fostering the growth of a more capable and diverseresearch workforce [1]. According to the recent National Academies of Sciences, Engineering,and Medicine
joining Carnegie Mellon University as a Teaching Faculty in August 2016. Dr. Bedillion’s research interests include distributed manipulation, control applications in data storage, control applications in manufacturing, and STEM education.John Ziadat, South Dakota School of Mines and Technology Mr. Ziadat received his Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering from the South Dakota School of Mines & Technology (SDSM&T) in 2014 before going to work for Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX) in Hawthorne, CA as a Mechanical Design Engineer. In 2015, his decision to pursue graduate studies in Mechanical Engineering led him back to SDSM&T, where his thesis topic involves the numer- ical simulation of ballistic
forthe sake of the institution’s reputation, the desire to protect their most prolific and well-knownscientists, and the fear of being sued by the targets of bullying” 31 . Furthermore, the kind of negativerelationship between PhD student and advisor discussed in Narrative 3 can be a major contributingfactor to a students’ decision to either leave the PhD program or to complete the PhD programbut abandon a faculty career 32 . A 2018 Nature editiorial stated “[we] will never know how manypromising scientific careers around the world have been brought to a premature end because youngresearchers felt they could not continue to work under a bullying senior figure” 33 . Another author of this work had a very similar experience in their previous
Paper ID #25241Exploring Parents’ Knowledge and Awareness of Engineering through Mid-dle School Students’ Summer CampsEmel Cevik, Texas A&M UniversityDr. Michael Johnson, Texas A&M University Dr. Michael D. Johnson is an associate professor in the Department of Engineering Technology and In- dustrial Distribution at Texas A&M University. Prior to joining the faculty at Texas A&M, he was a senior product development engineer at the 3M Corporate Research Laboratory in St. Paul, Minnesota. He received his B.S. in mechanical engineering from Michigan State University and his S.M. and Ph.D. from the
findings.For a number of years, several members of the American Society for Engineering Education(ASEE) thought that ASEE should engage in the recognition of educational qualifications if itwas to be a truly professional society. It was felt that ASEE had a professional responsibility toencourage all new engineering educators to gain an initial teaching qualification, not to beconfused with subsequent faculty development. There were no courses equivalent to IGIP [9] butthere were a few well established and recognized courses that were regularly offered (e.g. NETI)[10]. The opportunity to pursue this issue came when Professor Arnold Pears invited one of usto join him in presenting a one-day workshop on evidence-based teaching for persons with littleor
discussed the pros and cons of various gradingoptions (e.g., credit/no credit versus a regular grading scheme), tools for synchronous andasynchronous learning, and strategies for assessing learning. For example, in a late March facultymeeting, faculty spoke about a decision not to give any midterm exams and grappled with how toshow care for all the hardships and uncertainty students were experiencing, while also trying tofigure out how to monitor student learning. One faculty member said: “In the classroom setting,you can walk around and watch the students do a problem. [Online], how do I determine whetherthe students are actually working on material or not? That's, that's what I don’t have an answerfor.”At meetings from spring 2020 all the way to
sports with his wife, son, and dog.Dr. David B Knight, Virginia Tech David B. Knight is an Associate Professor and Assistant Department Head of Graduate Programs in the Department of Engineering Education at Virginia Tech. He is also Director of International Engagement in Engineering Education, directs the Rising Sophomore Abroad Program, and is affiliate faculty with the Higher Education Program. His research tends to be at the macro-scale, focused on a systems-level perspective of how engineering education can become more effective, efficient, and inclusive, tends to be data-driven by leveraging large-scale institutional, state, or national data sets, and considers the inter- section between policy and
not to answer/Others 2 0 0 0Note: 1East Asian includes Chinese, Korean, Japanese, etc.; 2South Asian includes Indian, Pakistani, Bangladeshi,Sri Lankan, etc.; 3Fellowship/scholarship/grant indicates gifted monetary award that students do not need to repay;4 Self funded indicates personal finances and/or savings; 5Student loans indicate money borrowed from a financialinstitution that must be repaid; 6Others include money borrowed from family/friend with an expectation to repay orfrom parents, and foreign (non-U.S.) support.Data Analysis The first goal of this study—To understand similarities or differences in the student’sidentified stressors between engineering graduate student
Paper ID #15266Student Persistence Through Uncertainty Toward Successful Creative Prac-ticeNajla Mouchrek, Virginia Tech Designer, Doctoral Student in the Individualized Interdisciplinary PhD in Human Centered Design at Vir- ginia Tech. Master in Design at the Graduate Program in Design, Innovation and Sustainability, School of Design, University of the State of Minas Gerais, Brazil. Bachelor in Social Communication at the Faculty of Philosophy and Human Sciences, Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil. Her current research fo- cus on the application of co-creation and participatory design activities on education
Paper ID #18274Impact of a Biomedical Engineering Undergraduate Research Program onStudent and Faculty Perceptions of CreativityMegan Huffstickler, Pennsylvania State University Megan Huffstickler is an Educational Psychology graduate student at Penn State who is interested in student learning in STEM fields.Dr. Sarah E. Zappe, Pennsylvania State University, University Park Dr. Sarah Zappe is Senior Research Associate and Director of Assessment and Instructional Support in the Leonhard Center for the Enhancement of Engineering Education at Penn State. She holds a doctoral degree in educational psychology emphasizing applied
Paper ID #13330Exploring the Interest and Intention of Entrepreneurship in Engineering AlumniMiss Janna Rodriguez, Stanford University Janna Rodriguez is a third year PhD student in Mechanical Engineering at Stanford University. Her re- search focus on exploring how engineering students, both undergraduates and graduates, can be prepared to become entrepreneurs and innovators in the corporate sector.Dr. Helen L. Chen, Stanford University Helen L. Chen is a research scientist in the Designing Education Lab in the Department of Mechanical Engineering and the Director of ePortfolio Initiatives in the Office of the
engineering postdoctoral appointments influence postdoctoral scholars’ view of the professoriate? 2. How does the view of the professoriate influence postdoctoral scholars’ career decision-making process?Literature ReviewA postdoctoral appointment is evolving into an important stepping stone to entering theengineering professoriate because it affords doctoral graduates with advanced preparation toassume the research, teaching, and service responsibilities of a tenure-track faculty member(Andalib et al., 2018; Main & Wang, 2019). Research has demonstrated that postdoctoralappointments are exceptionally advantageous for URMs and women, as their enhanced trainingleads them to be more competitive in the professoriate job
first iteration can be found at the end of this work-in-progress paper (Appendix B). Assessment of LearningThis seminar was offered on a pass/fail basis, and students were evaluated based on mandatoryattendance and the completion of an end-of-course assignment. In addition to attendance,students were required to complete a Personal Development Plan (PDP) as their end-of-courseassignment to be submitted no later than two weeks after the conclusion of the course.The PDP was broken into four sections each with two parts. For example, there was Section 1:Research and Learning which focused on developing identity, confidence, and independence as aresearcher (LO6). Part A asked students to explore their current career goals, competenciesneeded
Page 26.1323.11 potential to both create and make visible a wide range of connections—what I might call integration in time and integration in the person (phrases I arrived at after talking with Lauren). Regarding the former, I described to Lauren my hope that the reflection activity we discussed helped the learners inquestion—graduate students interested in engineering education—relate their experiences in an onlineworkshop to prior experiences and knowledge about engineering education, as well as to anticipatedexperiences in their academic careers. Ideally, learners would gain more from the online workshopexperiences by understanding them in this larger temporal context. What I am calling integration in the person is another
experiences expose students toaerospace research projects and help them build a supportive community of peers and mentors,which is critical for their persistence in graduate programs and/or careers. The impact of suchprograms extends beyond skill development, as they also play a crucial role in fostering self-efficacyand sense of belonging in the aerospace engineering community. This is particularly important giventhat URM students often face additional challenges, including imposter syndrome and a lack ofrepresentation among faculty and industry professionals [1]. Furthermore, the intersectionality ofmarginalization based on ethnicity and social class compounds the challenges faced by URMstudents, making it essential to consider multiple dimensions
havebeen documented to negatively affect the progress of women faculty in engineering and otherSTEM areas. This is presented with an iterative identification of elements through differentstages of the academic career, layered with variables that are measurable, and potentialapproaches for future modeling given existing research and the characteristics of the ADVANCEprogram. The challenges of modeling such a complex system are discussed, together withpotential alternatives as a first modeling approach using existing data from different sources.IntroductionFor the advancement of the engineering discipline in the U.S., it is paramount to ensure fairparticipation of all members of its diverse society [1]; promoting women representation at thefaculty
Education, 2015 Recruitment Efficacy of a Summer Undergraduate Research Program: Impact on Graduate School Intent and SelectionIntroductionSuccessful recruitment of an inclusive student body is essential to enriching the quality ofgraduate programs1, 2. Therefore, universities implement multiple activities to recruit diversestudents for post-baccalaureate studies to their institutions. Some of the recruitment activitiesinclude offering informational meetings, campus tours, career fairs, summer research programs,and assistantships3 to prospective students.Poock3, who surveyed members of the National Association of Graduate AdmissionsProfessionals (NAGAP), found that NAGAP members “perceived only one of the twenty fiverecruitment
an S-STEM team member for an end-of-semesterone-to-one meeting to discuss their current academic status along with their graduate school orprofessional career goals.Mentoring also plays a crucial role for women and minority students who are significantly under-represented in academia, particularly in STEM fields [15]. When asked about the key factors inrecruiting and retaining women to careers in the trades and STEM fields, Donna Milgram [16],the executive director of the Institute for Women in Trades Technology and Science (IWITTS)identified the paucity of female role models and female mentors in STEM careers. In line withher impressions, some of our activities have been explicitly aimed to encourage and supportfemale students, such as
; domestic students organizational part of a group of life or its graduate students who members' provide each other with perception of academic support and/or and attitudes encouragement. towards those dimensions"Institutional 4 dimensions: motivation: bouncing ideas off each engineering alumni and no mixed: [63]climate" historical, mastery climate; other; support from current grad students interviews structural, faculty & peers
over graduate school. Thepaper provides an in-depth discussion on the findings of the REU program evaluation and itsimpact on undergraduate students with respect to their future plans and career choice. The analysisis also done by gender, ethnicity, academic level (sophomore, junior, senior), and type of homeinstitution (e.g., large research universities, rural and small schools) to explore if there was anysignificant difference in mean research competency scores based on these attributes. 1. IntroductionToday’s manufacturing operations are more complex and globally scalable compared to those inthe last century (Lee et al., 2016). This complexity in manufacturing operations is due to a shift inmanufacturing from craftsmanship model in the
Paper ID #41898An Exploration of Game-Based Learning in Enhancing Engineering, Design,and Robotics Education via ”The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom”Prof. Ryan D. Sochol, University of Maryland Dr. Ryan D. Sochol is an Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering within the A. James Clark School of Engineering at the University of Maryland, College Park. Prof. Sochol is a Fischell Institute Fellow within the Robert E. Fischell Institute for Biomedical Devices and an Executive Committee Member of the Maryland Robotics Center, and also holds affiliate appointments in the Fischell Department of Bioengineering and the
may not be obvious to faculty or career support specialists wanting tohelp them.In Gault, Redington, and Schlager, research on internships and career success and career skillpreparation was grouped into four categories: communication, academic, leadership, and jobacquisition skills [22]. Though their research provides valuable insight regarding career skillpreparation, it does not include measures to investigate students’ understanding of a moreholistic process of exploring choices, gaining skills needed for the job, and acquiring the job.Within our study, analysis of data from Career Decision-Making Socializers (CDMS), peoplehaving an impact on a student’s career choices, were reviewed for reasons given by CDMSs toencourage student