that the personal support from the successcoach was “simple, but it was powerful” [FGP41 Ad, Male].Other than the advisor, students talked about faculty being a close point of contact for manystudents. This matter is especially true for students who started during the pandemic; forthem, the faculty was the only representative from the university. However, FGPs mentionedfaculty only relate to students narrowly on their courses. FGP31 Ig, a transfer student whostarted school during spring 2020, shared an experience when she heard her uncle died duringa class. At that moment, she did not feel the faculty were approachable enough for her toshare the news; she also did not find any resources about how to deal with the unpleasantsituation. During
Paper ID #36702Results of 2021 Energy Education Stakeholder SurveyKenneth Walz Dr. Walz has been a faculty member at Madison Area Technical College since 2003, teaching science, engineering, and renewable energy technology. He completed his Ph.D. at the University of Wisconsin in Environmental Chemistry and Technology, while conducting electrochemical research on lithium-ion batteries with Argonne National Laboratory and Rayovac. Dr. Walz is an alumnus of the Department of Energy Academies Creating Teacher Scientists Program at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory, and he has also worked as a visiting
Education, member and chair of the International Education Committee, and elected member of Leadership Organizing Physics Education Research Council. © American Society for Engineering Education, 2022 Powered by www.slayte.com Factors Influencing the Choice of the Industrial Engineering Undergraduate ProgramAbstractChoosing a career is one of the most important decisions a person makes. The literature reportsvarious investigations of the factors comprising students' career decisions, including educationaland career aspirations, socioeconomic status, ability, parental encouragement, college attributes,and financial limitations. Some
chemical engineering graduate student interested inunderstanding how students learn chemical engineering concepts and developing tools to supportstudents’ understanding of these concepts. Her perspective on how students navigate theintroductory chemical engineering MEB course is informed by evidence from literature and herpersonal experience as an undergraduate student (in the same chemical engineering program).Godwin is an associate professor in engineering education and chemical engineering. Her workfocuses on how diverse students develop identities as engineers and how they experience theengineering education ecosystem from high school, through college, to their early careers. Herwork focuses on multiple identities of becoming an engineer and
and in-depth at the middle school and high school levels.The sessions increase in duration and complexity through the grade levels, with elementaryyouth focusing on an invention for a user they know and have easy access to, to middle schoolprograms which provide the student a user or an invention scenario, and finally, at the highschool level, growing to a project inventing for a community with a particular need. At eachlevel of programming, business and community members can be called upon to act as users inneed of help. There is limited research showing business owners and community members are eager tobe involved in STEM learning that is situated in the real world and at their place of business
the major.” “The best features of this course were the thread presentations and the professors who spoke about their respective threads. That was very informative.” “I liked the spotlights of the different concentrations so we could understand the differences and hear from the teachers.”These student perspectives underscore the important of faculty thread representatives withinECE Discovery Studio. Thread experts are critical to achieving student-learning outcomes,including: • Students will build an understanding of the ECE curriculum threads and make a preliminary decision regarding their course of study. • Students will explore the broader field of electrical and computer engineering with respect
efficacy of the program’s virtual activities.The results above demonstrate the ability of the EXPLORE Mobile Lab to affect change instudents’ engineering identity; however, the change is statistically significant following multipleinterventions rather than just a single intervention. This suggests that repeated outreach programactivities may have more of an effect on the students’ identification with engineering than asingle exposure. In the case study results, greater increases were seen in the recognition vectors.It is hypothesized that having the students work on the activity in a group, having the programfacilitated by an engineering faculty, and having the faculty member reinforce the idea that theydid an engineering task could be the reason
summarized in Table 1. All episodes were created by a graduate student aspart of an NSF-funded study; the episode detailing the experience of the first-generation studentwas co-created with undergraduate students participating in a service-learning course in theHonors College.Table 1. Summary of Podcast Episodes Episode Episode Description Invisible Voices in Now that we are all learning and socializing virtually, let’s take time to Covid-19 talk about how COVID-19 has changed the ECE department. What is it like to be a student, faculty member, advisor, and graduate student in a department and a world that will never be the same? In this episode
further study.Keywords: Undergraduate, Gender, Race/Ethnicity, EngineeringIntroductionIn an effort to address this issue of persistence for undergraduate students majoring inengineering and taking general chemistry, typically one of the pre-requisite courses taken duringthe first two-years on campus, we have developed a career-forward laboratory curriculum that isdesigned to support persistence. A career-forward curriculum targets the long-term goal ofpersistence—the personal capacity of students to continue towards an academic goal—byframing experiences with the content, context and specific skills of working in the target careerfield. Created as an extension of an earlier reform of the recitation component of chemistrycourses [1], this
. Does the STEM networking intervention result in greater retention of community college women in engineering and computer science programs?Conceptual FrameworkArcher et al. proposed the concept of “science capital” as a theoretical lens to help explain whysome students have intentions to pursue science careers, have different levels of science self-efficacy, and see themselves as a “science person” [10] [11]. This theory builds on Bourdieu’stheory of cultural capital – that the relevant attitudes, knowledge, information, skills, andresources that an individual possesses can contribute to one’s power and progress [12]. Anindividual’s social network can serve to provide access and information that help a studentnavigate and persist on the CC
as avirtual four-week research camp. For Summer 2021, megaGEMS hosted the inaugural eight-week in-person Apprenticeship Research Camp from June 7-August 6, 2021, for eight risingjuniors or seniors. This Apprenticeship Research Camp was held at the Autonomous VehicleSystems (AVS) Research Laboratories located at the University of the Incarnate Word providedthe students with an experiential research camp mentored by both faculty and graduate studentsin the science of autonomy. The camp was funded through two grants provided by the ArmyEducation Outreach Program.Examples of projects included brain-computer interfacing, virtual reality, and Infrared andLIDAR sensor collection. One apprentice was able to obtain her FAA Part 107 UAS
cultural change in engineering education come at a cost,however. Faculty members must support the changes and institutional resources must beprovided for initiatives to be successful for an extended period of time.Retaining students' interests and supporting their long-term career development is a culturallydependent process. Diverse students have a diverse set of backgrounds, interests, andexpectations [15]. In particular, racially-minoritized students face distinct equity challenges [16].Such challenges and the corresponding inequities exist both in CEE education and in the publicinfrastructure that is the tangible output of CEE education. Malcom-Piqueux characterizesmilestones in the history of US public education in two dimensions: race
, ethnicity, employment, etc. [12], [22], [25].Considering causes related to academic factors, research also indicates that student dropoutpertains to how the student relates to the academic system [6], [12], [14], [16]–[18]. Forexample, Tinto’s model suggests that the level of social and intellectual integration, the intentionto follow an academic path, and the commitment to finish the career, are the main areas drivingstudent dropout. At the same time, Gorky [27] proposes that student satisfaction with academicservices can drive a student’s decision to drop out. Student satisfaction refers to the fulfillment ofmainly three categories when providing the academic service which are reliability, empathy, andresponsiveness. These last factors are mainly
;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 Bi- ological Engineering Department, completing her Ph.D. in 2015. Her primary research areas include 1) social competence in engineering education and 2) innovate instructional strategies for Biological and Agricultural Engineering students. She is also a Member of the Engineering Education Faculty, Insti- tute for Engineering Education and Innovation, Food Science Graduate Faculty, and Multidisciplinary Engineering Graduate Faculty groups at Texas A&M University. American c
epistemic matter, faculty agency, and researcher identity.Daniel Patrick Mountain I have a background in chemical engineering, getting my Bachelor's in 2021 in this area. I am currently pursuing my Master's in Chemical Engineering, as well as an Engineering Education Graduate Certificate. I have done past research in engineering education, working with how the COVID-19 pandemic affected engineering students. My current research looks at how perceptions of engineering affect pre-service teachers' self-efficacy at teaching engineering. © American Society for Engineering Education, 2022 Powered by www.slayte.comDevelopment of a Hybrid Community of Practice Course
societal impact of engineering infrastructure.Dr. Jeremi S London, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University Dr. Jeremi London is an Assistant Professor in the Engineering Education Department at Virginia Poly- technic Institute and State University. London is a mixed methods researcher with interests in research impact, cyberlearning, and instructional change in STEM Education. Prior to being a faculty member, London worked at the National Science Foundation, GE Healthcare, and Anheuser-Busch. She earned B.S. and M.S. degrees in Industrial Engineering, and a Ph.D. in Engineering Education from Purdue University. American c Society for Engineering
Wyoming, he is now an Associate Professor, serving as the Director of the Cybersecurity Education and Research (CEDAR) Center and Lab, and the Co-Director of the Advanced Blockchain Research and Development Lab. He is a former hardware security architect and data scientist, having worked in both the semiconductor industry as well as several since-acquired startups. His research interests include Secure Distributed Systems, Security and Resilience of Autonomous Systems, Continuous and Adaptive Authentication, Cyber-Physical Systems and Applications, and Hardware-Level Security for Lightweight Agents. He and his students have published over 46 journal and conference publications. He is a senior member of the IEEE, ACM, and
used with0 indicating, “I will not be able to learn this no matter how much practice” and 10 indicating, “Ican become an expert at this if I practice a lot.”Each individual received two separate subscale scores (a General score and a Personal score) byadding the coded item values.The two separate subscales were designed to differentiate one’s generalized beliefs about certaincharacteristics in others and one’s personal beliefs about themselves. Previous research hasexplored perceptions of students with respect to an instructor’s mindset about students (Muenks etal., 2020), as well as research about faculty mindset about their students (Canning et al., 2019).This previous research highlighted that someone may hold different mindsets not only
subjects and themes for studentsuccess. Students need these skills, “to successfully face rigorous higher education coursework,career challenges, and a globally competitive workforce,” (Partnership for 21st Century Skills,2011, p. 1). Similarly, throughout the 21st century, innovation thinking, as an outcome ofinnovation education, has been a focus and is identified to involve creative thinking, criticalthinking, reflective thinking, and decision making (Nakano & Wechsler, 2018). As CL has beenfound to develop critical thinking and problem-solving skills in students (Laal & Ghodsi, 2011),by incorporating CL into a classroom setting, along with the benefits of transdisciplinarylearning identified by Bartholomew, Strimel, Swift, and
Paper ID #38062Examination of Ableist Educational Systems and Structuresthat Limit Access to Engineering Education throughNarrativesAutumn CuellarBrady Edward WebsterSakshi SolankiCatherine Mcgough Spence (Assistant Professor)Marissa Tsugawa Marissa Tsugawa is an assistant professor in the Department of Engineering Education at Utah State University. Their research interest is in neurodivergence and how it manifests in engineering education. Past work includes exploring motivation and identity of engineering graduate students, women of color's experiences on engineering teams, and experiences around LGBTQ+ advocacy in
resources and research practices ● Providing consultations to biomedical engineering faculty, researchers, and students at each stage of the research life cycle, on topics such as research data management, scholarly publishing, grant development, and research integrity ● Partnering with faculty by actively contributing to research proposals and projects, curriculum development and delivery, and evidence-based decision makingThe size of the Biomedical Engineering program has increased and that has resulted in the BMEliaison librarian having an opportunity to focus more on the design of 100 level classes.Connections between the library and the BME department have always been strong, but now theapproach is more
Professor at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University in Daytona Beach, FL where he directs a research team called Engineering, Arts & Sports Engagement (EASE). Dr. Long has helped to lead research, funded by the NCAA Innovations in Research and Practice Grant, to improve the well-being of the student-athlete through support of their career readiness. He has helped to lead research funded by NSF (award # 2024973) to examine the potential benefit of using critical narratives as a pedagogical tool in the professional formation of engineers.Taylor Mitchell Taylor Joy Mitchell is an Associate Professor of Humanities and Composition at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University in Daytona Beach, Florida. She teaches general composition
, requires the soft skills, like motivation, self-directed learning and confidence, as primaryelements as part of the college degree program. E. Pang et al. [11] investigated the competencies (Ability andwillingness to learn’, ‘teamwork and cooperation’, ‘hardworking and willingness to take on extra work’, ‘self-control’ and ‘analytical thinking’) effectively needed for fresh graduates to succeed at work and they foundthe earnest need of developing these competencies among university students prior to their entry into theworkforce. It is clear from these studies that the skillsets needed to succeed respectively in university and inthe professional career have an overlap, but they indicate a requirement of more than the basic course contentknowledge
and communities have suggestedthat communities gained increased access to resources from the university while the universitybenefitted from an increased presence, and expansion of research and outreach programs [15]. Inrural Appalachia, the Appalachian Regional Commission [16] has also suggested collaborationbetween stakeholders in the region can build economic resilience and support all members ofcommunities. One such collaboration that exists in Southwest, Appalachian Virginia is called VirginiaTech Partnering with Educators and Engineers in Rural Schools (VT PEERS). The focus of VTPEERS is to provide recurring hands-on activities for students to explore engineering inclassrooms with the support of local engineering industry
in a particular field [e.g., 19]. Similarly,students’ skills development in a particular field are outlined in the curriculum and assessedagainst specific learning objectives. There are general skills (often called transferable skills) aswell as domain-specific skills. An individual’s skills proficiency can be judged by the results oftasks performed. It can be judged on the continuum from low to high.Thinking, skill, and knowledge interact with each other to control students’ career or vocationaldevelopment. But literacy can also be thought of as having three interdependent dimensions:knowledge, capabilities, and ways of thinking and decision making [e.g., 40]. Literacy, then, isbest conceptualized as including three dimensions of literacy
resistance andengineering identity to explore ways that engineering identity, social identity, and identificationwith social justice may be co-developed in engineering students. We used a single case studymethodology to examine the counternarrative of Andre, an Afro-Latino male undergraduatecomputer engineering student who took an engineering course that integrated issues of racialinequality. We found that Andre’s social identity was not only related to but was inseparablefrom his engineering identity in that he identified as a “Black engineer.” His experiences as aBlack person caused him to have a personal connection to his critiques of social oppression, andhe learned how he might have a role in working toward social justice through engineering
legislative level,the goal of I-Corps is to catalyze entrepreneurship and economic development throughtechnology ventures that emerge from science being developed at research universities.At an institutional level, I-Corps aligns with university objectives of achievingtechnology transfer targets to show contributions to economic development, enhancingpublic relations opportunities, and recruiting the best faculty and students. At anindividual level, academic researchers and graduate students are concerned withtechnology commercialization outcomes such as impacts on career development,research, teaching, tenure and promotion, or quality of life. These individual outcomesare often key to their support for, or motivation to, become involved in
methods to enhance the learning processes of undergraduate engineering students.Angela Minichiello (Assistant Professor) Angela (Angie) Minichiello, Ph.D., P. E., is an Assistant Professor of Engineering Education and Adjunct Faculty in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at Utah State University. Her research employs asset-based frameworks to improve access, participation, and inclusivity across all levels of engineering education. Angie engages with qualitative, mixed-method, and multi-method approaches to better understand student experience for the ultimate purpose of strengthening and diversifying the engineering workforce. Her most recent work explores the effects of mobile educational technology, online learning
, signaling self-doubtabout performance in engineering classes. Students with low engineering self-efficacy were alsoless satisfied with faculty interactions, an important aspect of retention of women and minorities[2], [18]. Finally, being in a program characterized by low STEMpathy and low fairness wasassociated with a greater frequency of considering changing majors and an avowed lowerprobability of pursuing a career in engineering after graduation.Eleven percent of the sample was non-white and 32% identified as female. Qualitative findingsindicated that women were significantly more likely to experience or report discriminatoryexperiences to self or other(s), such as different expectations for women or minorities, exclusionexperiences, or
Engineering, also from the University of Michigan. In addition to his pursuing his degree, Harsh is also a graduate student instructor (GSI) for Engineering 101, Introduction to Computers and Programming, a first-semester course mandatory for all engineering students. In addition to his teaching duties, Harsh has helped facilitate and develop course logistics, course development, and professional development for staff members through the Foundational Course Initiative at the University of Michigan. Outside of teaching, Harsh enjoys developing software for autonomous aircraft systems, cooking, and collecting Vinyl LPs.Ryien HosseiniMegan Beemer © American Society for Engineering Education, 2022