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committed to increasing the number ofHispanics in all computing areas [4, 5, 6, 7].CAHSI focused much of its energy on retention and graduation efforts, and over the years itbecame known for certain proven practices, called signature practices, which consistentlydemonstrated to be beneficial for Hispanic students. Three of these signature practices are theAffinity Research Group (ARG) model, Peer-Led Team Learning (PLTL), and Fellow-Net.The ARG model [8, 9, 10] is a set of practices built on a cooperative team framework imbuedwith cooperative-learning principles, which have been shown to increase student achievementand self-esteem [11, 12, 13]. ARG supports the creation and maintenance of dynamic andinclusive groups in which students learn and
Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Director of the Center for Ad- vanced Computation and Telecommunications and formerly Associate to the Dean for Research and Grad- uate Study at the University of Massachusetts at Lowell. He received a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from New York University, a M.S. in Electrical Engineering from the Polytechnic Institute of NewYork, and a Ph.D. in Acoustics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Upon graduation he became an Assistant Professor of Engineering Science and Mechanics at the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. In 1987 he joined the Department Electrical and Computer Engineering at UMASS Lowell as its Analog Devices Career Development
) Identifyspecific student characteristics that can be leveraged to grow programs oriented toward socialand/or ethical responsibility, while increasing program alignment with – and impacts on –participating individuals. As these objectives suggest, the findings from this project are intendedto help guide ongoing efforts to positively impact the social and ethical commitments ofengineering graduates, including through research-based recommendations for curricular reform.In this paper we give an overview of this research project, with particular emphasis on thelongitudinal, mixed-methods study design being leveraged in support of the objectives givenabove. More specifically, we present our research questions, study contexts, target subjectpopulations, and
Concept Inventory and a Chemistry Concept Inventory for assessing conceptual knowledge and change for mate- rials science and chemistry classes. He is currently conducting research in two areas. One is studying how strategies of engagement and feedback and internet tool use affect conceptual change and impact on students’ attitude, achievement, and persistence. The other is on a large-scale NSF faculty develop- ment program and its effect on change in faculty teaching beliefs, engagement strategies, and classroom practice. Recent honors include coauthoring the ASEE Best Paper Award in the Journal of Engineering Education in 2013 and the ASEE Mike Ashby Outstanding Materials Educator Award in 2018.Prof. Keith D
about their experiences designing, facilitating, and refining a pre-collegeengineering summer camp intended for students from diverse racial, ethnic, socioeconomic,ability, and/or gender backgrounds. The reflections provide a structure to interrogate the culturalnarratives about engineering embedded in the program design and transmitted to the students.The goal of this reflective practice is to understand the cultural narratives of engineeringtransmitted by the programming to students that may impact the inclusion of students fromdiverse backgrounds. In the remaining sections of the paper, we present an overview of theprogram design and explore embedded assumptions and manifested practices that define what itmeans to be an engineer.Theoretical
” by adding manyinnovations, we are first collecting data to understand the current impact of our work,contextualizing our future goals and possible techniques with published research, and thendeveloping tools and processes for improvement.One intersection which we believe to be promising is aligning best practices in hands-onteaching with our newly embraced collegewide pedagogy. CEAS adopted UDL, a frameworkthat offers multiple entry points for learners to engage with new knowledge and demonstratetheir gained skills. UDL relies on three pillars: • the Affective Network engages the “why?” of learning, • the Recognition Network engages “what?” and • the Strategic Network engages “how?”These pillars invite students to interact in
confident intheir ability to do well in their major.IntroductionThis paper describes the Engineering Freshmen Intensive Transition (E-FIT) program, which is aweek-long summer boot camp designed based on best practices for retaining students [1] and theBiology Intensive Orientation for Students (BIOS) program at Louisiana State University (LSU)[2]. Studies have shown that difficulty adjusting to college life for new students can lead to lowgrades and issues with persistence in completing a degree. [3], [4]. Stress can also negativelyaffect first-year students and in some cases lead to students dropping out of college [5], [6].Furthermore, studies show that students who are academically unprepared for the rigors ofuniversity courses leave school
-Based Learning (RBL)” throughout the entirety of a four-year course.This is in contrast to the conventional model, which is well known for including RBL solelyin the final year of the graduation thesis project (see figure 1 below). The program begins tointroduce students to laboratory research from their first year, while providing an environment that enables them to pursue cutting-edge research, doing so directly underthe guidance of a supervisor, advisers, and graduate students. To ensure students gain the deep understanding needed for advanced research whileengaged in RBL, they will also study foundational natural science courses, requiredspecialized subjects, and other disciplines. We also encourage students to take Liberal
faculty tend to be very capable researchers, but too many areunfamiliar with the worldly issues of ‘design under constraint’ simply because they’ve neveractually practiced engineering.”2 This study investigated both the accuracy of this observationand the perceptions of EL held by a sample of engineering faculty through a national survey.Findings from the LiteratureThe concept of engineering leadership is a relatively new one in engineering education, withmost publications on the topic and formal programs to develop it appearing in the last ten years.3In fact, a 2009 formal review of engineering leadership programs found only eight worthy ofconsideration for best practices.4 While in 2007 a seminal text on improving engineeringeducation addressed
Paper ID #34324Student-Led Summer Diversity Workshops for Built-Environment MajorsDolores Herrera, Dolores Herrera is a graduate student in architectural engineering at California Polytechnic State Univer- sity, San Luis Obispo. She serves as the co-chair of the Student Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) Committee in the College of Architecture and Environmental Design; she works closely with faculty, staff, and administrators to voice student concerns regarding curriculum, departmental operations, and student success. After graduation, she seeks to practice structural engineering in the United States.Claire Marie
. According to Kayes, one of the most common myths in diversefaculty hiring is that if the president, dean, provost, chancellor, department chair, humanresources officer, and trustees all openly advocate for faculty diversity then it will be evident inthe search and hiring process37. This myth assumes that the members of the Search Committeesalso prioritize diverse hiring when in reality many are unaware of the institutional anddepartmental advantages of a diverse faculty and staff37. Breu et al., recommends that all faculty Search Committee members participate in anorientation on best practices in outreach, recruitment, and interviewing strategies designed toensure diverse candidate pools and to foster fairness and inclusion36. The
. Journal ofEducational Psychology, 93(3), 604.Sorby, S. A. (2001). Improving the Spatial Skills of Engineering Students: Impact onGraphics Performance and Retention. Engineering Design Graphics Journal, 65(3), 31–36.Sorby, S. A. (2009). Educational Research in Developing 3-D Spatial Skills for EngineeringStudents. International Journal of Science Education, 31(3), 459–480.https://doi.org/10.1080/09500690802595839Sorby, S. A., Casey, B., Veurink, N., & Dulaney, A. (2013). The role of spatial training inimproving spatial and calculus performance in engineering students. Learning & IndividualDifferences, 26, 20–29. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lindif.2013.03.010Sorby, S. A., & Veurink, N. (2010). Long-term Results from Spatial Skills
inclusion of arts and design in the move to STEAM can be thought of as a natural extensionof STEM as design consideration are often crucial import in the building of technologies andsystems. Not only do the branches of STEAM complement one another in practice, they supporta holistic view of knowledge creation. For example, research on project-based learning such asLearning by Design (LBD) has demonstrated that design considerations assist in overall scienceliteracy for complex systems16. The multi-disciplinary focus in STEAM education should notonly be thought of on the instrumental level, however. Another crucial aspect of the STEAMframework is the creation of more openings for exploration and discovery among youth. Whenscientific and technical
WOC.For students of color, campus climate issues around race, class, and gender shape their highereducation learning environment. Research suggests hostile campus climates are associated withstudents of color leaving STEM fields before graduating. Such barriers can be more pronouncedfor WOC who often experience a “double bind” of race and gender marginalization whennavigating the STEM culture. Therefore, it is important that educators understand experiences ofWOC and what is needed to improve students’ experiences in order to minimize the performancegap in key indicators (e.g., retention, achievement and persistence). We seek to address thisSTEM need through the guiding research question: “How does the double bind of race andgender impact the
efforts to document and promote the use of evidence-based pedagogy (aka research-basedinstructional strategies, high-impact practices, etc.) in STEM focus on classroom and laboratoryactivities but also do note some updated instructional materials (IM) and a few textbooks thatadopted best practices from disciplinary educational research [5]. Textbook selection practices,particularly OER adoption, have been studied for STEM courses, including engineeringmechanics [7] and health sciences [4]. Other OER-related research includes the positive effectson student learning outcomes [1], efforts to design OER [8], how OER could be better curated inrepositories [9], and detailed case studies [10].For some STEM instructors, there is tension between faculty
Paper ID #37490The Efficacy of Student-Revised Homework Assignments in an IntroductoryEngineering CourseCapt. Robert A. Hume, P.E., United States Military Academy Robert A. Hume is an Instructor of Civil Engineering at the United States Military Academy at West Point and an active duty Army Engineer Officer. He is a graduate of West Point (B.S. in Civil Engineering) and the University of Cambridge (MPhil in Engineering for Sustainable Development). His research interests include sustainable infrastructure design, energy efficiency, and engineering education. He is a licensed professional engineer in Missouri.Lt. Col. Adrian
employment opportunities. ● Center for Global Engagement (international office)CPT/OPT Workshops: Most international students come to the US knowing that their F-1international student visa comes with the benefit of being able to gain practical experience intheir field of study after graduation and are eager to learn about employment opportunities. Inparticular, students studying in a STEM discipline on the Department of Homeland Security'sofficial STEM Designated Majors list have the added benefit of applying for an additional twoyears of work authorization in addition to their first year, for a total of three years. Therefore,CGE offers workshops on Curricular Practical Training (CPT) or internship opportunities andOptional Practical Training
assessment best practices. She focuses on building and evaluating academic programs that promote inclusive excellence for all learners. Currently, Dr. Cullington serves as the Associate Provost of Academic Programs at Sacred Heart University. Previously, she was the Founding Co-Chair of the Honors Program at SUNY Farmingdale and Associate Director of the Research Aligned Mentorship (RAM) Program where she designed, implemented, and evaluated academic programs to engage students from historically minoritized communities in undergraduate research opportunities. She has served as a principal investigator and educational researcher on number grant initiatives, including grants from the National Science Foundation and the
graduatingengineers.Introduction Culminating design events serve as a hallmark of most undergraduate engineeringprograms [1], [2], and many undergraduate programs leverage a quarter, semester, or evenyearlong capstone course to meet this objective. This paper presents a case study of a novelapproach to conduct a compressed-timeframe culminating event just prior to graduation, in thecontext of a two-semester capstone sequence. The culminating event is designed to leverage best practices in literature related to team-building, competitions, student leadership, real-project case studies, and high-impact practices.Literature related to these practices is embedded throughout the paper as it describes the overallstructure and design. The event also helps achieve
/1-2--42971ActivitiesThe project has completed its first year and is now halfway through its second. A wide variety ofactivities, key cornerstones for reaching capacity, have been executed and are in place (see Table1). The initial months of the first year were spent on planning and preparation. Implementation ofactivities began as early as the third month of the first year and continue. In addition, tuitionsupport, student ambassadors, continuous improvement research and graduation of scholars whohave been supported by the program, have occurred. A timeline for Year 1 and Year 2 activitiesand milestones is laid out in the table below. Table 1: Overview and Evaluation of Timeline and Related Activities 2to4
with Silicon Valley’s informationtechnology companies and their competitive technology industries. Moreover, India and China,each with populations over one billion, have a significant impact on global environmental andenergy issues.One distinguishing feature of the GTI study-tour is that it is almost 100% sponsored; GTIfellows are selected independent of their financial standing. For the past three years, GTIstudents have been asked to pay for a small portion ($250-$500) of the airplane ticket; however,this fee has been waived for students in financial need. It has been supported by the GTI fund aswell as the College's endowment fund of over $22 million. This is a key component of ourprogram as most of our students come from middle-class and
Paper ID #40736Cutting the Curb for Students with Disabilities Transitioning to HigherEducationSeth Vuletich, Colorado School of Mines Seth Vuletich is the Scholarly Communications Librarian the Colorado School of Mines. Seth provides specialized support to graduate students through all stages of the research lifecycle. Prior to entering the field of librarianship, Seth was a professional woodworker and earned a bachelor’s degree in geology from the University of Colorado, Boulder. Seth earned his Master’s in Library and Information Science from the University of Denver in 2021.Brianna B Buljung, Colorado School of Mines
relation to environments, technologies, and human lives.Dr. Breanne Przestrzelski, University of San Diego Bre Przestrzelski, PhD, is a post-doctoral research associate in the General Engineering department in the Shiley-Marcos School of Engineering, where she seeks to innovatively integrate social justice, humani- tarian advancement, and peace into the traditional engineering canon. Before joining USD in August 2017, Bre spent 9 years at Clemson University, where she was a three-time graduate of the bioengineering program (BS, MS, and PhD), founder of The Design & Entrepreneurship Network (DEN), and Division I rower. In her spare time, Bre teaches design thinking workshops for higher education faculty
professional conferences and workshops. She has received several prestigious research and education awards including the award for Best Paper in the IEEE Signal Pro- cessing Magazine 2007 as coauthor of a paper entitled ”Particle Filtering,” the IEEE Outstanding Young Engineer Award (2009), for development and application of computational methods for sequential signal processing, the IEEE Athanasios Papoulis Award (2011), for innovative educational outreach that has in- spired high school students and college level women to study engineering, the Stony Brook University Hispanic Heritage Month (HHM) Latino Faculty Recognition Award (2009), and the Chair of Excellence by the Universidad Carlos III de Madrid-Banco de Santander
: first-year seminars and experiences,7-12 writing intensive courses,13collaborative assignments and projects,14, 15 undergraduate research,16, 17 diversity/globallearning,18, 19 and learning communities.20-22 In additions to these practices, some authors havereported other interventions designed to improve retention, including peer and facultymentoring,23, 24 bridge or college preparatory programs,24-26 and mandatory math tutoring.27In this study we explore the effectiveness of a variation of a learning community – namely aliving-learning community (LLC) of first-year engineering students that was started at ouruniversity in the fall of 2013 and is now in its second year. Loosely defined, an LLC is a groupof students who live together in a dorm
Paper ID #21919The Redshirt in Engineering Consortium: Progress and Early InsightsProf. Eve A. Riskin P.E., University of Washington Eve Riskin received her BS degree in Electrical Engineering from M.I.T. and her graduate degrees in EE from Stanford. Since 1990, she has been in the EE Department at the University of Washington where she is now Associate Dean of Diversity and Access in the College of Engineering, Professor of Electri- cal Engineering and Director of the ADVANCE Center for Institutional Change. With ADVANCE, she works on mentoring and leadership development programs for women faculty in SEM. Her research in
available inhibitors of the sonic hedgehog signal transduction pathway. Dr. Gibson’s research interests include breast cancer health disparities amongst African-American women, natural products as chemopreventive agents in breast cancer and undergraduate STEM education. Dr. Gibson has taught Principles of Biology I and II, Comparative Vertebrate Anatomy, Human Biology, Zo- ology and Biotechnology. She has a deep passion for teaching, helping others to learn, mentoring and increasing the number of underrepresented minorities entering into STEM graduate programs. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2016 Making the Case: Adding case studies to an Environmental
practicing engineer in industry, and holds a B.S. in mechanical engineering, an M.S. in environmental engineering, and a Ph.D. in chemical engineering; all from the University of Connecticut. His current research efforts focus on increasing our knowledge of physical and chemical processes for enabling sustainable design of engineered systems including water treatment and wastewater treatment systems.Ms. Paula Quinn, Worcester Polytechnic Institute Through her role as Associate Director for the Center for Project-Based Learning at Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Paula Quinn works to improve student learning in higher education by supporting faculty and staff at WPI and at other institutions to advance work on project
accredited engineering technology program. She holds an FAA Airframe & Powerplant certificate. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2019Student Led Paper Student Perspectives on Using Hands-on Discovery Activities in a Critical Systems Thinking CourseIntroductionAt a large midwestern university, students in an aviation and aerospace engineering technologyprogram may choose to take a graduate course on Critical Systems Thinking (CST). This courseexplores the application of critical systems thinking to complex problems in aviation andaerospace industries. The course materials use systems theory textbooks and case studies thatexplore the practical applications of critical