Paper ID #27578A Mixed Methods Analysis of Motivation Factors in Senior Capstone DesignCoursesElisabeth Kames, Florida Institute of Technology Elisabeth Kames is a graduate student working on her Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering at Florida Institute of Technology. Her research focuses on the impact of motivation on performance and persistence in mechanical engineering design courses under the guidance of Dr. Beshoy Morkos. She also serves as a graduate student advisor to senior design teams within the mechanical engineering department. Elisabeth is a member of ASME, ASEE, Tau Beta Pi Engineering Honor Society and Pi Tau
-founder and Chief Technology Officer at Ceyba, an optical long-haul networking company that employed 250 people at its peak. Hanan also worked at Nortel Networks in different positions conducting pioneering research in various areas of photonics, rang- ing from device physics to optical networking. She has numerous journal and conference publications and patents. Hanan’s current research interests include Biophotonics, Innovation and engineering educa- tion.Her passion is to help students graduate with an entrepreneurial mind set that enable them to play leading roles in existing organizations or create their own jobs.Dr. Patrick Dumond, University of Ottawa Professor Patrick Dumond is an assistant professor in the
design courses and are evaluated as graduate attributeoutcomes integral to the Canadian Engineering Accreditation Board (CEAB) evaluationprocesses. Continual course improvement processes require reflection on the success oflearning activities, the tools used for teaching, and alignment of learning outcomes,activities, and assessment. Peer evaluation and feedback tools can encourage studentlearning and leadership development. The method of data collection, the type of feedbackand the contextual validity of the feedback may impact students’ development of useful teambehaviours and personal strategies for working in team environments. Mixed methodsuccessive case study analysis provides insights enabling targeted improvements to learningactivities
teams to solve aproblem. Our study uses an identity lens to understand Latinx persistence in engineering.Theoretical Framework and Literature Review We draw from a sociocultural theory of identity [5] - [7] to understand how Latinxengineering students see their trajectory through engineering studies and how they decide onnext steps, whether it be entering the engineering workforce or pursuing graduate school. Briefly,this perspective argues that identities are situated in social and cultural worlds that are populatedby social types that members of those worlds recognize as meaningful, i.e., their actions and theiruse of cultural artifacts such as words, images or texts [8]. Literature over the past decade indicates that developing
great deal of self-care. Whenpursuing social justice work on topics I care about but have not as deeply victimized me, I sensethat I am not weighed down as deeply. In the times when I have given LGBTQ inclusionworkshops, I found I was particularly sensitive and not as easily generous to faculty whodiscounted the opinions of LGBTQ students or who microaggressed them in dialogue. I imaginemy perspective on which research questions to pursue will continue to evolve; currently I workon issues which matter deeply and intellectually to me, they relate to experiences and problems Ihave had, but they are not so extremely personal that I find myself paralyzed or despondent overthe findings.Cassandra’s reflection on the questions she asks
. Wieselmann is a Ph.D. Candidate in Curriculum and Instruction and National Science Foun- dation Graduate Research Fellow at the University of Minnesota. Her research focuses on gender equity in STEM and maintaining elementary girls’ interest in STEM through both in-school and out-of-school experiences. She is interested in integrated STEM curriculum development and teacher professional de- velopment to support gender-equitable teaching practices.Dr. Emily Anna Dare, Florida International University Dr. Emily Dare is an Assistant Professor of Science Education at Florida International University. Pre- viously, she taught at Michigan Technological University from 2015-2018, where she is still an affiliated faculty member in
private, with an over-sample of minorityserving institutions. Interviews were conducted using a semi-structured approach with questionsfocusing on elucidating the structure of governance at each institution. Interview subjects wereselected by occupying a range of organizational levels at each institution—provost, dean,department chair, faculty member, staff member—determined by availability at the time of thevisit.To address the first research question a set of codes is being developed to identify symbols orinteractions related to educational change processes and a second set for references to, orsymbols of, EER. Codes are tagged as either direct and indirect references where directreferences include reference to specific documents or events, or
Paper ID #25934Is Sociotechnical Thinking Important in Engineering Education?: SurveyPerceptions of Male and Female UndergraduatesMaggie Swartz, Colorado School of Mines Maggie Swartz is a graduating senior in Chemical Engineering with a minor in Public Affairs through the McBride Honors Program at the Colorado School of Mines. As a member of the McBride Honors Program for the past three and a half years, she is passionate about sociotechnical interfaces and human impacts in engineering. Her involvement with the Society of Women Engineers increased her awareness of the challenges facing female engineering students, both
are Sudan, Canada, Mexico, Bermuda, Turks and Caicos, Qatar, Puerto Rico, and Sweden.Old Dominion University’s Engineering Management ProgramThe Engineering Management and Systems Engineering (EMSE) Department at Old DominionUniversity (ODU) offers a Master of Engineering Management (MEM), EngineeringManagement certificate, and an Engineering Management minor option for its Bachelorprograms in engineering. The MEM program is directed at working professionals as well astraditional full-time students seeking technical graduate degrees. The engineering managementminor and certificate programs allow students to supplement their more traditional engineeringdegrees with management and project-based decision making tools.Program mobility at ODU uses
to analyzing the Nomad, an airplane in the atrium of ouraerospace building [14]. And second, to encourage self-assessment of their models, we gavestudents an entire class meeting to discuss their models in a small group of four.In W19 OEMP 1, students were given a model of the airplane’s landing gear that considered themain landing gear as two-force members. Students were asked to model the airplane as a set offorces and moments, calculate the internal force on the main landing gear, and then select asuitable material and diameter for the main landing gear. In doing this modeling, we instructedstudents to size the landing gear for actual operations, which required them to model the forcesand moments on the airplane in the operational
quickly thanthrough traditional ILL methods. Jong and Nance [7] also explored alternative methods of fillingpatron requests for materials such as direct purchasing, although they found these alternativemethods were not greatly used.Tolppanen and Derr [8] conducted an analysis of ILL activity at Eastern Illinois University,finding that graduate students and faculty submitted the most borrowing requests and 67% ofloans were borrowed only once. Munson and Savage [9] focused on Interlibrary Loan as a meansto provide students with textbooks specifically, finding that students used ILL because textbookswere too expensive but also required for their coursework. Students reported being satisfied withthe ILL service, although the study found that the fill
scholarly and systematic innovation in engineering education: Ensuring U.S. Engineering has the right people with the right talent for a global society. 2009: Washington, D.C.7. Hixson, C., et al., The Rising Engineering Education Faculty Experience (REEFE): Preparing Junior Colleagues, in 2015 ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition. 2015: Seattle, WA.8. McCord, R., et al., Graduate Student and Faculty Member: An Exploration of Career and Personal Decisions, in 121st ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition. 2014: Indianapolis, IN.9. Hixson, C., et al., Teaching with the Innovation Canvas: A tool for value-driven, integrated design education. 2014: 2014 ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition
motivated to improve their communicationskills.Figure 1 % represents respondents’ degree of agreementThe Dark Side of Graduate Student’s Perceptions of Improvement PossibilitiesDespite widespread recognition (by faculty and students alike) that problems in communicatingrepresent a significant hurdle to career success, actually taking steps to build these skills appearsto be another hurdle. While faculty interviews overwhelmingly acknowledged the criticality oftheir students having adequate communication abilities to function and excel in their field, worrywas expressed that time devoted to writing and speaking courses threatened displacement of timefor primary work. The time-crunch argument poses a dilemma for students who recognize
engage with specific tasks. This latter step was important in that it provided both amotivation to engage the work and a means to pilot the new instructional strategies.From the perspective of the authors and PLC members, the PLC provided a consistent space forits members to explore the concepts of social justice and inclusivity as they relate to curriculum,to our students, and to our own self-development. The environment was challenging but invitingand respectful, allowing for authentic discussion of ideas for teaming instruction activities andfor an opportunity to receive critical feedback. The variety of perspectives and experiences of thePLC members improved the quality of the teaming activities and modules that emerged, and alsopromoted the
-enrolling students into the course on their behalf, we were side-stepping their ownautonomy to select their courses, resulting in some students feeling that they were duped ordisrespected. This paper examines multiple ways in which the instructional team exerted powerover students, and presents data to illustrate the resulting consequences on student attitudes,motivations, and beliefs about the course.However, we also wonder how starting up any new course initiative within an established systemof curricular flowcharts and requirements can be done without leveraging some amount of powerto get students enrolled. Our analysis explores the implicit trust of students in an institution toknow what’s best for their educational preparation for engineering
decisions about technology? The module includes an assignment that hasstudents reflect on a robotics film of their own choice and discuss it from the perspective of thequestions posed. This work is complemented by technical research assignments that result instudents identifying new opportunities for robotic applications in the context of these social andethical considerations.ENGR 494 - Engineering PeaceAn engineering faculty member and a faculty member from a school of Peace Studies havedeveloped this course that focuses both on the design and use of drones while cultivatingempathy across disciplinary boundaries. [1, 13, 14, 15]. The class is taken as an elective byengineers (usually seniors) and graduate students in Peace Studies. The first
’ students and faculty; the challenges that students at HSIs faceand institutional responses to the challenges; and resources that could help to address unmetneeds. As people around the tables learned that their institutions shared similar challengesdespite their locations in disparate parts of the country and different-sized enrollments,participants shared more details about successes and impediments they had encountered inbuilding STEM technician programs on their campuses.The groups identified the following strategies for positive project outcomes: • Bring relevant business and industry people onto advisory teams while planning an initiative. • Involve advisory team members in internships, mentoring and other experiential
3 2 6 Associate professor 0 2 2 Professor 0 0 2 Non-tenure track faculty member 2 2 1 Postdoctoral Research Associate 2 0 0 Graduate Student 3 0 1 Non-academic Positions 2 2 2Data collectionData collection consisted of in-depth, semi-structured interviews conducted in the Fall of 2018by a trained doctoral student in educational psychology
of K-16 engineering learners; and teaching engineering.Dr. Glenda D. Young Collins, Mississippi State University Dr. Glenda D. Young Collins completed her doctoral work at Virginia Tech in the Department of Engi- neering Education. Her research interests include the role of university-industry partnerships in shaping student career expectations and pathways, the student to workforce continuum, and broadening participa- tion in engineering. Dr. Collins has worked as an Employer Relations Assistant for the VT Career and c American Society for Engineering Education, 2019 Paper ID #27724 Professional
engineering. Perhaps one way to characterize the role of LEES faculty in engineeringeducation is that we are brought in to compensate for that mismatch. Graham and Porterfield’s“Preparing Today’s Engineering Graduate: An Empirical Study of Professional Skills Requiredby Employers” compared the language used by ABET to describe non-technical skills with thatused in advertisements for engineering jobs and found many inconsistencies in the categories andterminology used. As the faculty responsible for helping students develop non-technical skillsand competencies, we may have an important role to play in establishing more consistency.Session 534A: Communicating Across Cultural and Epistemological Boundaries raised thelongest list of issues and potential
directly from a source other than the narrative provided (for example, from an emailor personal notes).In the collaborative narrative, we bold the barriers and opportunities that emerged from ourresearch. We also list these findings in Table 2 for easy reference.Creating the AssignmentIn summer 2018, four faculty members of our research group (three of the intervention courseinstructors (Professors A, B, and C) and the project lead (Professor D)) and an undergraduateresearcher (Student B) met for a half-day workshop to craft the first assignment that would beimplemented across our three courses.Table 2: Barriers and opportunities for sociotechnical integration. Barrier Opportunity Diverse
Alumni Extension (AE) National Leadership 2006 award and the Region 3 NSBE AE Dedication 2006 award. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2019NSF S-STEM: TranSCEnD: Transfer Success Co-Design in EngineeringDisciplinesAbstract Beginning with the graduating high school class of 2015, the Tennessee Promise programprovides "last-dollar" scholarships and mentoring programs focused on increasing the number ofstudents at any of the state's 13 community colleges, 27 colleges of applied technology, or othereligible institution offering an associate's degree. In its inaugural class, about 58,000 students(90% of Tennessee's senior class) applied for Tennessee Promise. Thus, the faculty andadministration at the
, 2018), and during theimplementation of the curriculum in homeschool settings (e.g. Dandridge et al., 2019). In allthese studies, we have observed evidence of children engaging in both engineering and CTpractices. The project involved various researchers including faculty members, postdoctoralscholars, staff professionals, and graduate and undergraduate students. Throughout the four yearsof the project, more than 60 kindergarten, first, and second grade in-service teachers participatedin the study. The participating teachers were from 15 different public elementary schools and oneprivate elementary school within five different school districts. Four homeschool educators werealso included. More than 1,000 kindergarten to second grade
engineering design. How Slack facilitates learning, course inquiry and group interactionsamong engineering students, faculty members and student assistants is discussed. In addition, theimpact and correlation to good pedagogical principles are also explored. Social software is any e-learning tool that is designed for collaborative purposes and introduced to help with user self-determination of content generation. They traditionally come in the form of wikis, blogs, orforums [6], [9]–[11]. Bernsteiner [6] describes social software as follows “Social software emerged and came into use in 2002 and is generally attributed to Clay Shirky (2003). Shirky … defines social software simply as “software that supports group
Academy for Excellence in Engineering Education (AE3) at UIUC. At the national level, she served as the Executive Director of the biomedical engineering honor society, Alpha Eta Mu Beta (2011-2017) and is an ABET evaluator (2018-present).Prof. Marina Marjanovic, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign Dr. Marina Marjanovic is a Teaching Associate Professor in the Department of Bioengineering and Asso- ciate Director of Center for Optical Molecular Imaging in the Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She is teaching several undergraduate and graduate courses, and she is active member in the Undergraduate Curriculum Committee. She has been Principal
requires students to develop a problemstatement of their own. Students evaluate global, personal, ecological, social, technological, andother diverse sets of problems to determine the focus of their project. Students are required tocreate a working prototype, though it is not expected to be as fully functional as the predefinedprojects. The final product is a realistic solution that can be described as marketable,manufacturable, and applicable. At NYU Tandon School of Engineering two types of OEPs are being explored for first-year curriculum. In the Fall of 2018, 13 groups, an increase from the 6 from previoussemesters, participated in free-choice open-ended design projects where students were taskedwith generating their own problem
[12].Social capital can be considered to consist of resources such as information, influence, andreinforcement that support individuals who belong to a social network through purposive actions[31]. This ‘capital’ is generated through investment by individual members of the social network,such as participants and facilitators of a teacher PD, in building trust and creating channels formutual recognition and acknowledgement. The returns can be seen as resource exchange, creationof intellectual capital, and cross-functional team effectiveness [32]. Researchers have reported thatthe quality of teacher-student personal relations and teachers’ enthusiasm for science teaching areimportant indicators for effective teaching [17]. Theories championed
, nanomanufacturing, optical measuring techniques, and intercultural design.Dr. Patrick Cunningham, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology Patrick Cunningham is an Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology. He holds B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees in Mechanical Engineering from Purdue Univer- sity and was an NSF Graduate Research Fellowship recipient. Dr. Cunningham has industry experience through 7 co-op experiences as an undergraduate student, 2 sponsored projects as a graduate student, and as a consultant after joining the faculty at Rose-Hulman. He teaches a range of courses across un- dergraduate levels with specialization in dynamic systems, measurement, and control. During the 2013- 14
settings. While the tension apparently affected some students negatively,most members still had an overall positive experience.EE693, UAS Systems Design.Fall 2016. The following are student responses from a recent (fall 2016) offering of this course.The makeup of this course consisted of graduate and undergraduate students from electrical,mechanical, computer engineering/science, and geomatics from 2 geographically separatedcampus locations, communicating on a daily basis via videolink and electronic media. Note thatthese students, almost universally, had a positive experience with the course.1. Comments on course difficulty: • Most of the HWs were easy to do. But some questions were really hard to answer as they were conceptual questions
strategy consists of students completing an online module outsideof class, participating in online or in-class discussions, and completing an activity or assignmentrelated to the module content. Each element of this integration approach provides students aplatform and experiences to build knowledge and competencies resulting in increasing levels oflearning at each step. The integration of these e-learning modules into courses first took place inspring 2015, and since then 14 modules have been fully integrated. Four new modules will bedeployed in fall 2019, which will complete the integration of all eighteen modules. Our focusgroup of spring 2018 graduates in this study completed 4-11 e-learning modules (see Appendix 2),since the integration of the