) engineers [3]. As a result, there isheightened awareness of the impact and value of out-of-school, pre-college STEM programs toenhance student interest and understanding of STEM concepts, disciplines and careers [4]. Thispaper revisits the impact of STEM programs and shares best practices of university practitionerswho transitioned traditional face-to-face STEM programs to effective, inclusive, and engagingvirtual events due to COVID-19 pandemic.Since, the 1950s universities have been instrumental in developing STEM programs andinitiatives to cultivate STEM interests, with an aim towards enlarging and diversifying theengineering graduate pool [5]. Evidence indicates that students who participate in a high schoolSTEM summer program are likely to
Doctorate and Goals Program ▪ to increase the diversity of students who apply to, enroll, and graduate from the College of Engineering at VT; ▪ to increase the awareness of engineering and other technical fields as an exciting and rewarding career path to a diverse population
resultsindicated that factors such as comprehension of traditional and alternative project deliverymethods as well as construction experience significantly influence student’s inclination towardsmastering skills in alternative technical concepts. Moreover, the CM students also reported thatthe integration of such advanced contract delivery methods in CM curriculum will provide anedge in their professional careers. The study demonstrates the feasibility of reforming coreconstruction management curricula to incorporate current practices of the construction industryas well as nurture advanced skills and knowledge, which better prepares and equips our futureworkforces in their professional careers.Keywords: Accelerated Construction, Construction Management
health disorders across their career, with 47% believingthere was an increase in the severity. Surprisingly, 31% of faculty had never received trainingrelated to student mental health. The results of this study highlight faculty experiences withundergraduate student mental health and could guide the development of targeted training toprepare engineering faculty for interacting with students with mental health concerns.IntroductionIt has been said that colleges and universities are experiencing a “mental health crisis,” with asignificant increase in the prevalence of mental health concerns across campuses [1]. There aremany reasons why college students are at increased risk for mental health problems during theirundergraduate careers. Many mental
as amore hands-on option that trades some of the theory for application while still allowing them topursue a STEM career. For this reason, the primary entry path into the engineering technologyprograms has historically been through students changing their program of study (referred toChange of Curriculum within the university), typically from one of the many engineeringprograms. Table 1. Engineering and Engineering Technology Departments at Texas A&M University Biological and Civil and Aerospace Biomedical Chemical Agricultural
fromlearning about and participating in social justice issues and discussions, and 3) empower studentsto learn how they can work towards social justice in ways that support their professionaldevelopment and career plans.Study ContextThermal Systems Design is a required, senior level, thermal capstone course. Students havecompleted all other required courses in thermodynamics, fluid dynamics, and heat transfer. Coursetopics include engineering economics, design of piping/pumping systems, designing heatexchangers, system simulation and optimization. Mechanical Systems Design is a required upper-level course focused on the analysis and design of components including gears, shafts, bearings,clutches, brakes, fasteners, and springs. In this paper, we will
Paper ID #38296Board 339: Mentoring Competencies From the Perspective of Mentors andTheir Racially Marginalized STEM MenteesMiss Vibhavari Vempala, University of Michigan Vibhavari (Vibha) Vempala is a third year PhD student in Engineering Education Research at the Univer- sity of Michigan. Her research interests include understanding access to opportunities, social networks, and career management of engineering students. Vibha received her B.S. in Engineering from the joint de- partment of Biomedical Engineering at The North Carolina State University and The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and a M.S. in
biomicrofluidics. More recently, her interests have emphasized mentorship of women and underrepresented students in order to promote persistence and success in engineering. American c Society for Engineering Education, 2021 A Book Club Model to Promote Personal and Professional Development Activities for Female Engineering and Computer Science StudentsIntroduction and MotivationProfessional and leadership development is one recommended strategy to support and retainfemale engineers and computer scientists in their professional careers in industry or academia[1], [2], [3], [4]. For women in engineering and computer science, personal
a Cronbach’s alpha level of .95 and found teaching self-efficacy was significantlyrelated to university teaching support and colleague support [6]. Moreover, more experiencedcompared to less experienced faculty reported higher levels of teaching self-efficacy [6]. Teaching satisfaction. Teaching satisfaction was operationalized by the teaching/servicesatisfaction scale reported in prior studies examining well-being among faculty [7]-[9]. Theseitems were part of a large cadre of items from the Collaborative on Academic Careers in HigherEducation (COACHE) faculty job satisfaction survey [21]. The scale consists of six five-pointLikert items in which higher scores indicate more satisfaction. The content of the items includednumber of
well as experienced professionals. A seasoned leader and former high school special education teacher, Meeropol reorganized and restructured NSBE’s Programs Division to reflect strategic priorities and make better use of resources. Through its programming, NSBE strives to increase the number of black engineers graduating from college each year and to make Engineering a mainstream word in homes and communities of color. Prior to NSBE, Meeropol served as Assistant Superintendent for Postsecondary & Career Education for the District of Columbia.c American Society for There he oversaw theEngineering $35M/year Education
are on track in regards toplacement into STEM careers. Since the last reporting period, eighteen students graduated inMay 2015 and eight of scholars are on track to graduate in May 2016. The May 2015 graduates are reporting 89% success in career placement within their area of study, and/or enrolled ingraduate studies in their field of study. The upcoming graduating cohorts of freshmen andtransfer students are on track to be gainfully employed.Cohort Groups Cohort One: Ten freshmen - Eleven transfers (Bridge Program - All) • Graduated 8 38.10% • Lost 13 61.90% • Total 21 Cohort Two: Five freshmen - Twenty-two transfers (Bridge Program, freshmen only
and chapters, her research centers on the intersections of career, change, leadership, and resilience. Fellow and past president of the International Communication Association, she has received numerous awards for her research, teaching/mentoring, and engagement. She has worked on Purdue- ADVANCE initiatives for institutional change, the Transforming Lives Building Global Communities (TLBGC) team in Ghana through EPICS, and individual engineering ethical development and team ethical climate scales as well as everyday negotiations of ethics in design through NSF funding as Co-PI. [Email: buzzanel@purdue.edu]Dr. Andrew O. Brightman, Purdue University, West Lafayette (College of Engineering) Andrew O. Brightman serves
interest in both applications of hardware and software for areas such as robotics.Ms. Bianca Corine Villanueva Doronila, Canada College Bianca Doronila is currently a sophomore at Canada College in Redwood City, CA, majoring in Computer Engineering. She hopes to transfer to obtain her B.S. in C.E. and eventually pursue a career involving gaming design and enhancement.Victor Josue Melara Alvarado, Canada College I’m a Applied Mathematics transfer student. I wish to work on computer vision as I believe it’s really interesting the idea of teach a computer to see the way we do.Christopher ThomasMr. Ian M Donovan, San Francisco State UniversityMr. Kartik BhollaDr. Amelito G Enriquez, Canada College Amelito Enriquez is a
science and engineering in a variety of contexts, both in and out of school.Participation in informal science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) activities,along with interest in STEM subjects, is associated with interest in STEM careers when studentsreach the university level [1]. Out-of-school, informal learning can occur at a variety of sites,including everyday experiences; designed sites such as museums, nature preserves, and libraries;and structured programs such as after-school activities and summer camps [2]. This paperdescribes the programming provided at one academic library to a STEM summer camp formiddle schoolers [3] and explores the opportunities and challenges of this kind of programmingin an academic library.STEM
assistant professor in the Mechanical Engineering-Engineering Mechanics Department at Michigan Technological University since 2011. She is the founding director of the Nonlin- ear and Autonomous Systems Laboratory (NASLab). Her research interests include robotics, dynamics and control of autonomous systems, and energy autonomy. She is a recipient of 2015 National Science Foundation CAREER award and 2015 Office of Naval Research YIP award.Ms. Saeedeh Ziaeefard, Michigan Technological University Saeedeh Ziaeefard is a PhD student and research assistant with Nonlinear and Autonomous Systems Laboratory (NASLab) in the Department of Mechanical Engineering-Engineering Mechanics at Michigan Technological University. Her
Examiner, Setterfield balanced building code requirements with owner and contractor concerns. Setterfield teaches Autodesk Revit and its integration into analysis software, including Navisworks. Setterfield spearheaded a six-discipline IPD capstone resulting in student work that has been featured at various venues, including AU, the American Society for Engineering Educators and the League for Innovation in the Community College.Chad R. Bridgman, Sinclair Community College Chad currently serves as an Internship Coordinator for the Science, Mathematics, & Engineering Division at Sinclair Community College. Prior to managing the internship program he served as Aca- demic/Career Coach for Sinclair on a Department
has also architected SFAz’s enhanced Community College STEM Pathways Guide that has received the national STEMx seal of approval for STEM tools. She integrated the STEM Pathways Guide with the KickStarter processes for improving competitive proposal writing of Community College Hispanic Serving Institutions. Throughout her career, Ms. Pickering has written robotics software, diagnostic expert systems for space station, manufacturing equipment models, and architected complex IT systems for global collaboration that included engagement analytics. She holds a US Patent # 7904323, Multi-Team Immersive Integrated Collaboration Workspace awarded 3/8/2011. She also has twenty-five peer-reviewed publications. She has
) relatedfields are key to the country’s continued economic, social, and military success, especially in anever-changing, global, connected, competitive, and technology-driven world. Therefore, it isimperative that colleges and universities continue their outreach efforts to recruit and expandopportunities in these highly sought after career fields. The growth that STEM related jobs areexperiencing is a direct result of the need to renovate the country’s physical and electronicinfrastructure through traditional and modern fields. With the ever-expanding use of 5G, drones,Big data, cloud computing and IoT, modern database systems, web technologies, social mediaplatforms, AI and Machine Learning algorithms, STEM related jobs are bound to
, including the Development of a Model for The Metal Laser Powder Bed Fusion Additive Manufacturing Process. Dr. Ahmed Cherif Megri is currently the chair of the NCAT CAM’s Education subcommittee. He contributed to the outreach CAM since 2015.Dr. Sameer Hamoush P.E., North Carolina A&T State University Professor and Chair of Civil and Architectural Engineering DepartmentMrs. Donna Lynn Stallings Mrs. Donna Stallings currently works for Lincoln University as a staff member in the Career Services Department. She retired in May 2016 as an Assistant Professor of Mathematics. She received a Master’s in Secondary Education with an emphasis in mathematics in 2000 from Lincoln University. Mrs. Stallings taught mathematics
skills, and leadership talents) and (D) apply them to their future aspirations, suchas graduate school, careers, civic responsibility, et cetera. Our curricular and co-curricularexperiences intersect in what are known as high-impact practices, eight of which are at the centerof our UTEP Quality Enhancement Plan (QEP): 1. First-Year Experience; 2. Student Employment& Leadership; 3. Undergraduate Research & Creative Activity; 4. Learning Communities; 5.Internship & Practicum; 6. Study Abroad/Study Away; 7. Community Engagement & ServiceLearning, and 8. Capstone Experiences.We have chosen for practical purposes to focus on supporting our students with disabilities toengage in the second and third of these practices. Further, in this
. Cultivating this ability before entering the work force could be highlyimpactful for the career trajectory of new engineers.Just as there is variability in student preparation, there is variability in structural design instructors.Some are well prepared to skillfully blend lessons in structural behavior and the details of thedesign specification, while others are not and may tend to fall into the common trap of assigninga linear presumption to the amount of material they cram into their course. This is a well-recognized problem in engineering courses, as wonderfully described and analyzed by ProfessorEmeritus David Bella of Oregon State University [3], where the focus is on productivity – the moretopics covered in a course, the better the course
includes a B.S. in Biomedical Engineering from Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology, a M.S. in Bioengineering and Ph.D. in Engineer- ing and Science Education from Clemson University.Dr. Allison Godwin, Purdue University, West Lafayette (College of Engineering) Allison Godwin, Ph.D. is an Assistant Professor of Engineering Education at Purdue University. Her research focuses what factors influence diverse students to choose engineering and stay in engineering through their careers and how different experiences within the practice and culture of engineering foster or hinder belongingness and identity development. Dr. Godwin graduated from Clemson University with a B.S. in Chemical Engineering and Ph.D. in Engineering and
Karlin, University of Southern Maine Jennifer Karlin spent the first half of her career at the South Dakota School of Mines and Technology, where she was a professor of industrial engineering and held the Pietz professorship for entrepreneurship and economic development. She is now at the University of Southern Maine where she is a research professor of engineering and the curriculum specialist for the Maine Regulatory Training and Ethics Center.Dr. Cassandra M Degen, South Dakota School of Mines and Technology Dr. Cassandra Degen received her B.S. degree in Metallurgical Engineering from the South Dakota School of Mines and Technology in 2007. She received her Ph.D. in Materials Science and Engineering in 2012
to expect to find them as faculty members in these colleges. In aneffort to create a pool of Black women who qualified to pursue academic careers in engineeringor computer science, there must be intentional initiatives focused on understanding the authenticexperiences of these women. Strategies, grounded in research, must be developed to enhance therecruitment and retention of Black women across all academic levels. The academic communitymust also gain a better understanding of how to increase the awareness and interests of Blackwomen to pursue careers in the professoriate. Once these most promising practices are unveiled,meaningful avenues must be created to share how they can be effectively implemented.Project OverviewThe Niela Project is
new products and processes. (2) Work within an interdisciplinary group to design a new product or process using an engineering design cycle. (3) Describe different ways STEM activities can be incorporated into curricula and extra- curricular activities by developing a grade-appropriate instructional STEM unit. Implementation and evaluation of the CSI course in conjunction with other components ofa STEM Middle School Residency Program have led to the successful career placement of pre-service teachers (up to 100% in 1 cohort), excellent retention (82-100% over 4 cohorts), andintegration of STEM into lesson plans.Introduction According to the US Department of Education’s STEM 2026 report [1], STEM
maximize their academic skills; contribute to and benefit from productiveuniversity communities; offer best practices to help them navigate their college careers; andwork individually and collectively to further promote the goals of the program. The effortsdescribed in this study may provide a model for a wide range of retention and success programs,based around diverse populations and affinity groups, or general cohorts of students. Aggregateresults indicate that this cohort was able to achieve significantly higher GPAs and complete ahigher number of credits as compared to similar populations of students. This paper furtherdiscerns the impact on the engineering students, who coincidentally made up over 40% of thegroup, showing that first year
Medal and the 2005 Quinn Award for experiential learning, and she was 2014-15 Fulbright Scholar in Engineering Education at Dublin Institute of Technology (Ireland)tephanie Farrell is Professor and Founding Chair of Experiential Engineering Education at Rowan University (USA) and was 2014-15 Fulbright Scholar in Engineering Education at Dublin Institute of Technology (Ireland).Dr. Rocio C. Chavela Guerra, American Society for Engineering Education Rocio Chavela is Director of Education and Career Development at the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE). She holds a Ph.D. in Engineering Education from Purdue University, a B.S. and a M.S. in Chemical Engineering from Universidad de las Americas, Puebla in
Clemson University. Her research interests focus on social factors affecting the recruitment, retention, and career development of underrepresented students in engineering. Dr. Martin is a 2009 NSF CAREER awardee for her research entitled, ”Influence of Social Capital on Under-Represented Engineering Students Academic and Career Decisions.” She held an American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) Science and Technology Policy Fellowship in 2012-2013, with a placement at the National Science Foundation. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2016 Cross-Disciplinary Teamwork During an Undergraduate Student Project: Results To DateAbstractThis
and Trends for the Development”. She also received additional minor degrees in Management (1998) and Psychology (1999) in Kazan State Technological University. Julia joined the team of Kazan State Technological University as an instructor at the Department of For- eign Languages and the School of Foreign Languages ”Lingua” in 1999 and was rapidly promoted to the position of Associate Professor at the Department of Foreign Languages in 2003. Her teaching career was perfectly balanced by the experience of a translator and an interpreter. She is a well-known person at Kazan international conferences and other events for her high quality consecutive and simultaneous interpreting, such as interpreting for the
underrepresentation of women (in particular, women of lowsocio-economic status) in engineering careers by studying the impact of an arts-infusedengineering intervention in the middle grades. Engineering, like the other STEM (Science,Technology, Engineering and Math) fields, has traditionally been perceived as a male domain,whereas the arts and humanities have traditionally been viewed as more “feminine” fields. 1These stereotypes have been increasingly challenged, including by studies that show girls earnhigher grades than boys in all subject areas, at all stages of their K-12 schooling. 2 Yet, in thepost-secondary realm, males continue to dominate the STEM fields in terms of educationaldegrees earned and career paths. This phenomenon has been attributed to