that any analysis that does nottake intersectionality into account does not adequately address the manner in which Blackwomen are subordinated16. Being sure to look at the Black woman as she is, both a woman and ablack person, is both powerful and insightful. The studies in this literature review use anintersectionality lens by looking specifically at African American women.For the African American woman faculty member oppressions take the form of invisibility,isolation, and other barriers that stand in the way of career advancement as faculty. Malcom,Hall, & Brown discovered in their analysis almost forty years ago that, “[t]he more an individualresembles the ‘typical scientist’ the lower are the costs. Each deviation from the norm raises
informed us that exams were not used in the class this year. Some of the faculty havesuggested that they gave more challenging exams because of their perception that students wereachieving deeper learning. This question has not yet been explored with every member of thevirtual community, but our informal analysis suggests that it may be difficult to compare examperformance between the control group and the intervention. PARTICIPANTS’ EXPERIENCES AND RESULTS At the conclusion of the second semester of the VCP, each participant had implemented his orher course transformation using RBIS. From the conversations during the VCP sessions, the ideaemerged for the participants to disseminate their RBIS experiences with the broader communityat the ASEE
thesuccess of each respective student “type” that will prove useful to faculty, staff, and practitionerswho work with Black male students in STEM.IntroductionThe nation strives to maintain a competitive edge internationally by contributing significant andinnovative advances in science/engineering. However, our postsecondary institutions are notproducing the number of graduates with degrees in science, technology, engineering, and math(STEM) fields, necessary to keep pace with demand. To curb projected shortages, it isimperative that the country invests in developing and educating a talented pool of qualifiedSTEM graduates. It must do so with an increasingly racially/ethnically diverse society andcollege-aged population. Despite the high demand and
in sharing their logical thought processes as well as beingquestioned about them.Intentional community building in PREP begins on Day 1 of the intensive when students,TAs and faculty are randomly paired, interview each other and then introduce their partnerto the group. The same short bios are later posted to a members-only website that supportsthe cohort, next to a photo of that person. During the first week other ice-breaker andteam-building activities continue to be implemented so that students bond and feelknown. Having this sense of ease among the group is important, as the academic tasks theyare given can be daunting. Students are divided into four different small groups over thetwo weeks so that they have worked closely with nearly
project-based curriculum to more fully Page 26.751.3engage first-year students.Project Descriptions The projects in spring 2013 were selected by the engineering Graduate Teaching Assistants(GTAs), who work within the first-year program. Each GTA represents one of the engineeringdisciplines within the Watson School: Mechanical, Electrical, Computer, Systems Science andIndustrial, and Biomedical engineering departments. Each GTA submitted three ideas andpresented them to the Engineering Design Division faculty, who made the final decisions. Theengineering faculty then wrote a brief summary of each project for the students. Each GTAserves as an
is Professor and Vice Chair of Biomedical Engineering with an affiliate appointment in Educational Psychology. Her research interests include vascular biomechanics, hemodynamics and cardiac function as well as the factors that motivate students to pursue and persist in engineering careers, with a focus on women and under-represented minorities.Wesley Collier, University of Wisconsin-Madison Wesley Collier is a graduate student in learning sciences in the Epistemic Games research group at the University of Wisconsin-Madison working on the Epistemic Network Analysis tool. He is interested in how games and simulations can be assessed using discourse analysis.Jeff Linderoth, University of Wisconsin-Madison
. Page 26.1673.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2015 Using On-Line Education to Meet the Needs of Working Engineering ProfessionalsWorking engineering professionals and their employers understand the value of, and the need forcontinuing education; be it training courses, certificate programs, or advanced degrees. Theseconsumers are looking for an efficient means to gain the required skills and knowledge to movetheir career, company, or project forward. These consumers demand well-written and well-presented material that matches their current need for knowledge. Often, the best approach tomeeting these needs is a team consisting of university faculty members
engineering profession is focused on student skills developmentto meet future infrastructure demands in establishing a sustainable world and raising the globalquality of life. To meet increasing societal demands, civil engineers are required to be effectivemaster builders, skillful stewards of the environment, innovators, managers of risk, and leadersof public policy1,2. These characteristics are especially relevant to graduates entering careers inengineering. Effective application of well-constructed scholarship of instruction techniques inhigher education curriculum, play a valuable role in preparing engineering graduates to meet thehigh calling of these demands. Instructional methods that focus on active learning techniques,hands-on field
student understanding of an innovative product development process that requires rigorous evaluation of multiple options before arriving at the design of record. Early exposure in their academic career allows the student to integrate the process in subsequent academic semesters. By repeating and iterating the process the graduates are better prepared for working in an innovative field. • Students understand the value of product evaluation including tangible results against proposed gains. Grading in sophomore design is based in part on verification results. Often verification shows unexpected results, solidifying the value of verification to students. • The understanding of the teamwork required
technical and club advisors forthe EWB-USA. The local club already had professional mentors who travelled in-country theprevious summer on an assessment trip with a team of students. These mentors continued withthe class and supported the faculty for EPICS who was an added advisor and managed the courseand assessments along with a graduate teaching assistant. He was also added as an advisor for theclub to keep him informed about activities and also to make it easier on the student members toobtain required signatures within the university system. A second club advisor was kept from theprogram that had overseen EWB-USA previously and still had responsibility for the organization.This shared ownership has worked well.Student Reflections and
support one or more strategies throughout the academic program Figure 3. The strategy for teaching and learning creativity/innovation could be embedded in undergraduate and graduate curricula.As suggested by Figure 3, the strategy includes explaining the need forcreativity/innovation to first-year students, providing them with some neurosciencebasics, and introducing them to a subset of tools and basic, mostly hypotheticalapplications. This introduction to creativity/innovation could occur primarily within andas a small part of an exploring engineering, introduction to engineering, or similarpreferably first-semester course. Of course, the Need, Neuroscience, and Tools elementsof the strategy could be mentioned in other
Paper ID #13454Welcome to the Maker Movement: Parallel Education Pathways of AdultMakersMs. Chrissy Hobson Foster, Arizona State University Chrissy Foster is a Ph.D. candidate in Engineering Education at the Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College of Arizona State University. Her dissertation study explores the approaches to technical innovation within Native American communities.Mr. Aubrey Wigner, Arizona State University Aubrey Wigner is a PhD student in Human and Social Dimensions of Science and Technology at Arizona State University. He has an undergraduate degree in Chemical and Biochemical Engineering and a Masters in
architecture, has provided the power to combine a series of discrete,unlinked, and unmeasured activities into an enterprise-wide process of continuous learning thatdirectly links business goals and individual outcomes (McCrea, Gay, & Bacon, 2000). Oureconomic, social, and technological forces today are pushing all of us to become moreproductive in every walk of life, and learning is no exception.Timely and an appropriate feedback is a critical element for improving student learning andsimulation-based training is no exception, as it guides and refines learning through scaffolding.A number of studies in literature have shown that students’ learning is enhanced when feedbackis provided with personalized tutoring that offers specific guidance and
post-secondary institutions, the study university has implemented several programs tohelp first-year students transition to college. Three such programs relevant to this study include: 1. First Year Seminars (FYS) – special sections of a three-credit core curriculum course. Compared to other sections of the core courses, FYS include only first-semester students, are limited to an enrollment of eighteen students per section, are taught by a full-time faculty member (instead of adjunct faculty), and include additional learning outcomes intended to develop academic habits of mind (i.e., reflection, explanation, etc.). 2. RWU Experience (RWUXP)41 – a non-credit course meeting one hour per week. Led jointly by a faculty
. Stephanie G. Adams is the Department Head and Professor of Engineering Education at Virginia Tech. She previously served as Associate Dean for Undergraduate Studies in the School of Engineering at Virginia Commonwealth University and was a faculty member and administrator at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln (UNL). Her research interests include: Teamwork, International Collaborations, Fac- ulty Development, Quality Control/Management and Broadening Participation. She is an honor graduate of North Carolina A&T State University, where she earned her BS in Mechanical Engineering, in 1988. In 1991 she was awarded the Master of Engineering degree in Systems Engineering from the University of Virginia. She received her
. 327-349). Los Angeles, CA: Sage.[5] Zoltowski, C., Buzzanell, P., Oakes, W., & Kenny, M. (2013). A Qualitative Study Exploring Students’ Engineering Ethical Reflections and their Use in Instrument Validation, Proceedings of the 2013 Frontiers in Education Conference, Oklahoma City, OK, October 2013.[6] Fyke, J., & Buzzanell, P.M. (2013). The ethics of conscious capitalism: Wicked problems in leading change and changing leaders. Human Relations, 66, 1619-1643. doi: 10.1177/0018726713485306Trevino, L. K. (1986). Ethical decision making in organizations: A person-situation interactionist model. The Academy of Management Review, 11(3), 601-617.[7] Trevino, L. K., Butterfield, K. B., & McCabe, D
, additional usage of energy sources other than fossil fuels is required.DREXEL University (DU) works in collaboration with The University of Texas at El Paso(UTEP) on a collaborative project on Green Energy Manufacturing Education. In this project, weformulate two geographically separated virtual teams between UTEP and DREXEL,collaborating on green energy manufacturing education and research over the Internet.Implementing a mixed method of research design, students and faculty involved in the projectare assessed in formative and summative formats to measure the efficacy of the project. Ourproject aims to develop and establish an integrated research-oriented teaching facility to supportand enhance learning in the area of green energy manufacturing by
understood the hard work that goes intomaking a part. I also worked on a machine that solenoid valves, which was great because I knewhow they worked after taking (the course). I cannot express enough how much (the course)helped me during my internships, and I wish more of that was introduced to freshman, at least ata very basic level to familiarize early engineers with what they may see on the job”.“It made me realize I wanted to be a maker and be an engineer who does very hands on buildingaspects. It also taught me about the diverse career prospects for engineers, and showed me that Idid not have to leave school and become a number cruncher”.With regard to its impact on their decision to remain in the major, some of the students reportedthat they
Paper ID #12048The Power and Politics of STEM Research Design: Saving the ”Small N”Prof. Amy E. Slaton, Drexel University (Eng. & Eng. Tech.) Amy E. Slaton is a Professor of History at Drexel University. She write on issues of identity in STEM education and labor, and is the author of Race, Rigor and Selectivity in U.S. Engineering: The History of an Occupational Color Line .Prof. Alice L. Pawley, Purdue University, West Lafayette Alice Pawley is an Associate Professor in the School of Engineering Education and an affiliate faculty member in the Gender, Women’s and Sexuality Studies Program and the Division of
. (2008). Why the unskilled are unaware: Further explorations of (absent) self-insight among the incompetent. Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, 105, 98-121.8 Kruger, J. & Dunning, D (1999). Unskilled and unaware of it: How difficulties in recognizing one's own incompetence lead to inflated self-assessments. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 77, 1121-1134. Page 26.1566.59 Thomas, G., Martin, D., & Pleasants, K. (2011). Using self- and peer-assessment to enhance students’ future-learning in higher education. Journal of University Teaching & Learning Practice, 8(1
Freeman, Northeastern University Susan Freeman, is a member of Northeastern University’s Gateway Team, a group of teaching faculty expressly devoted to the first-year Engineering Program at Northeastern University. The focus of this team is on providing a consistent, comprehensive, and constructive educational experience that endorses the student-centered, professional and practice-oriented mission of Northeastern University.Dr. B. Kris Jaeger, Northeastern University Beverly Kris Jaeger, PhD is on the full-time faculty in the Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering at Northeastern University teaching Simulation Modeling and Analysis, Facilities Planning, and Human-Machine Systems. She has also been an
Undergraduates (REU) programs. For example,Willis, et al. studied the impact of an NSF-sponsored REU on ten students in mechanicalengineering and found that, while the students gained experience and knowledge, thenumber of students who were strongly considering graduate studies declined whileparticipating in program [8]. Hung, et al. considered students at a summer REU focusedon micromachining, which had a large percentage of students from groupsunderrepresented in engineering; their findings demonstrated that most of the studentswished to pursue a research career through graduate school [12]. Mahmud and Xu foundthat students’ participation in an REU resulted in an improvement in their technicalcommunication skills [13]. Finally, Willits and Barnett
. Page 26.87.10 a career in computing attending graduate school other/undecided such as a non-computing career, part-time graduate studies, or an entrepreneurial activityA number of self-assessment and psychometric questionnaires such as the Myers-Briggs TypeIndicator are used in the course to help students better recognize their talent and interest areas.Students are also encouraged to join various professional societies such as IEEE or ACM to stayinformed with the latest state of the computer technology and a possible means for networkingwith their peers. Other activities that could help their careers such as attending various job fairs,graduate school forums, internship at local industry and devoting their
, dispositions, and worldviews. His dissertation focuses on conceptualizations, the importance of, and methods to teach empathy to engineering students. He is currently the Education Di- rector for Engineers for a Sustainable World, an assistant editor for Engineering Studies, and a member of the ASEE Committee on Sustainability, Subcommittee on Formal Education.Ms. Sarah Aileen Brownell, Rochester Institute of Technology Sarah Brownell is a Lecturer in Design Development and Manufacturing for the Kate Gleason College of Engineering at the Rochester Institute of Technology. She works extensively with students in the mul- tidisciplinary engineering capstone design course and other project based elective courses, incorporating
are acceptable, etc.” [16] But given the dominant, privileged and isolatedposition of the ES, engineering students and faculty in those courses do not feel the need to takethese negotiations seriously, as the ES supposedly live in the abstract.ESJ criteriaYet, as far as we know, engineers have no framework to guide them through these interactions.Grounded on the above definition of SJ, we have proposed criteria aimed at guiding engineers torecognize and map human and non-human, engineering and non-engineering elements involvedin problem definition and solution with social justice at the core. Although each criterion byitself is important, as we explore below, the criteria are interconnected. The six SJ criteriainclude 1. listening
member of the NASPA Center for Women National Board and co-founded the University of Michigan Women in Student Affairs chapter. Jennifer’s research interests include the culture of busy, the intersection of women’s higher education career ascension and professional development, and women’s leadership development. She is currently a doctoral student at New England College and holds her M.Ed. in Higher Education Student Affairs from the University of Vermont and a B.A from Oakland University.Mr. Stefan M Turcic II, University of Michigan Stefan Turcic is a recent graduate from the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, MI, where he received his M.A. in Higher Education from the Center for the Study of Higher and
Leaves with Industry: Three ExperiencesIntroductionOne approach to developing and strengthening relationships between universities and industry isto have tenured faculty members engage in one-to-two semester sabbatical leaves at an industrysite. Personal relationships between the faculty member and managers/engineers at the host siteare developed; graduate students can become involved in a way that leads to a masters ordoctoral degree research topic; follow-on contracts and publishable results often benefit thefaculty visitor; new methods/technology introduced by the faculty visitor, and introductions toother faculty members with specific expertise, can benefit the industrial host.In contrast, most sabbatical leaves involve leaves of absence for
social justice could vary by community context.In general, the survey responses on the definition of social justice did provide evidence of thestudents’ prior exposure to social justice elements (RQ1). The range of conceptualunderstandings about social justice from the student survey resembles a range of understandingsamong those in the engineering and social justice research community, even though theresearcher understandings tend to be more robust [1], [7], [15]. SQ2. Envisioning your own future career, what social justice concerns do you anticipate that you will need to consider as you design engineering solutions?In response to this question, many students identified an element of design decisions that protectfrom harm, with the object
focusing on humanitarian engineer- ing. In addition, she teaches STEP 1 and STEP 2 education courses through CU Teach Engineering, a new General Engineering Plus program specifically designed to prepare students to earn a secondary math or science teacher licensure through engineering. She manages and mentors graduate and undergraduate engineering Fellows who teach in local K-12 classrooms through the Integrated Teaching and Learning Program’s TEAMS initiative, is on the development team for the TeachEngineering digital library, and is faculty advisor for CU-Boulder’s Society of Women Engineers (SWE).Jaclyn L. Cunitz, University of Colorado Boulder Jaclyn L. Cunitz is an undergraduate student in the department of
; and faculty members must bequalified and demonstrate abilities to instruct and assess curriculum [4]. Of these broadrecommendations, Criterion 3 (Figure 1) directly addresses student outcomes: what students areexpected to know and be able to do by graduation. Criterion 3c in particular addressesengineering design abilities.(a) an ability to apply knowledge of (b) an ability to design and conductmathematics, science, and engineering experiments, as well as to analyze and interpret data(c) an ability to design a system, (d) an ability to function on multidisciplinarycomponent, or process to meet desired needs teams