at the college of engineering, computer science and technology (ECST).Prof. Paul S Nerenberg, California State University, Los Angeles Dr. Paul S. Nerenberg is currently an Assistant Professor of Physics and Biology at California State University, Los Angeles. He received his PhD in Physics from MIT and has a strong interest in improving the quality of introductory physics education, particularly for students who enter college with little or no previous physics coursework.Ni Li, Northwestern Polytechnial University Ni Li, Ph.D., was an Assistant Professor of the Department of Mechanical Engineering at California State University, Los Angeles. Now, she is working in the school of Aeronautics at Northwestern
Future Careers Over Time,” in Frontiers in Education Conference, 2018.[17] C. D. McGough, “A Mixed Methods Study on Mid-Year Engineering Students’ Perceptions of their Future Possible Careers,” 2019.[18] C. McGough, A. Kirn, and L. Benson, “Different Perceptions of Future Careers for Mid- Year Engineering Students,” J. Eng. Educ.[19] C. McGough, A. Kirn, and L. Benson, “Work in Progress : Developing a Quantitative Instrument for Measuring Undergraduate Engineering Students ’ Future Time Perspectives,” in American Society for Engineering Education, 2016.[20] A. Kirn and L. C. Benson, “Engineering Students’ Perceptions of Problem Solving and their Future,” J. Eng. Educ., 2018.[21] H.-F. Hsieh and S. E
authors made a list of freshmen lost opportunities that included: • Students may have some friends, but not a peer support network, study circle, or community of learning. • Students see faculty as distant entities, if a faculty talks to you is because you are in trouble. • Students don’t see themselves as part of research labs. • Students don’t understand the benefits of joining an organization. • It takes various semesters to create a strong identity as an engineer. • Students feel that accessing resources implies that they cannot solve problems on their own. • Students think that it is enough to take the necessary courses and not engage in extracurricular activities. • Family is a strong
in the Public Policy Center, and director of the Center for Research on Undergraduate Education at the University of Iowa. His research uses a social psychological lens to explore key issues in higher education, including student success, diversity and equity, admissions, rankings, and quantitative research methodology. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2023 Systems Engineering Initiative for Student Success (SEISS) Framework for Transforming Organizational Designs Arunkumar Pennathur1*, Priyadarshini Pennathur1, Emily Blosser2, Nicholas Bowman3 1 Department of Industrial, Manufacturing and Systems Engineering, University of Texas at El Paso
work is part of a larger study exploring the experiences of rural engineering students. Inaddition to investigating the motivations behind rural students’ decisions to pursue engineering,the study explored the formation of engineering identity and barriers rural students face whileentering an engineering community of practice [20]. A sample of the questions developed tospecifically probe the research question of this paper is as follows: • Why did you choose to attend college? • Why did you choose this university? • Why did you choose an engineering major? • What motivates you? • After graduation, do you plan to return to your rural community? Why or why not?Data AnalysisInterviews were recorded and transcribed by a
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, Virginia Tech Dr. Amelink is Director of Graduate Programs and Assessment in the College of Engineering, Virginia Tech. She is also an affiliate faculty member in the Departments of Engineering Education and Educa- tional Leadership and Policy Studies at Virginia Tech. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2017 A Multi-Program Approach to Student Retention and SuccessAbstractPrograms that address the needs of first year engineering students have traditionally beendesigned to create community and facilitate inclusion. Students are more likely to be retainedinto their second year when guided by structures of engagement and support throughpurposefully-designed programs (Soldner, Rowan-Keyon
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incorporating intersectionality into quantitative methodological approaches,” Review of Research in Education, vol. 42, no.1, pp. 72–92, 2018.[23] L. A. Clark and D. Watson, “Constructing validity: Basic issues in objective scale development,” Psychological Assessment, vol. 7, no. 3, pp. 309–319, 1995.[24] A. L. Griffith, “Persistence of women and minorities in STEM field majors: Is it the school that matters?” Economics of Education Review, vol. 29, no. 6, 2010. pp. 911–922, 2010.[25] B. D. Jones, M. C. Paretti, S. F. Hein, and T. W. Knott, “An analysis of motivation constructs with first-year engineering students: Relationships among expectancies, values, achievement, and career plans,” Journal of Engineering
education. In addition, she has completed several graduate-level courses in the Department of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies. Dr. Morrison’s public policy master’s thesis was a research study on diversity policy in the Center for Aviation Studies and whether or not that policy impacted students’ considerations for leaving the academic program. Her expertise is in curriculum de- velopment, especially as it pertains to women and underrepresented minorities in education. Dr. Morrison takes an interdisciplinary approach to research, using both qualitative and quantitative methods that were informed by her background in education and public policy. c American Society for Engineering Education
within science, technology, engineeringand mathematics (STEM). For HBCUs, their success in graduating Black students in STEM washighlighted along with the missed opportunity of advancing their efforts to assist the U. S. goalof staying competitive within the STEM workforce (National Academies of Sciences,Engineering, and Medicine, 2019). For example, scholars found that HBCUs, while onlyaccounting for 3% of all post-secondary institutions in the United States, graduated 17% of allBlack students (Gasman & Nguyen, 2016). Additionally, as of 2019, 14.5% of Black graduateswere from HBCUs even though they made up less than 1% of all ABET-accredited programs(ABET, 2019; Deen, 2019; Fletcher et al., 2023). For Black women, a group representing
have used intersectionality tounderstand the experiences of students of color in higher education, few engineering educationstudies apply an intersectionality framework, particularly for WOC.After a short pilot study, we anticipate the survey results will generate three outcomes. First, thesurvey results will show what intersecting identities most impact the experience of WOC inengineering, and the extent to which these may operate differently for women of different racialethnic groups. Second, interview questions and potential themes will be created by groupingresults into clusters of intersectionality types or exemplars of intersecting identities. Finally, wewill generate strategies to overcome the challenge of the double bind for WOC in
andcomputational methods for structural analysis. A summary of the fatigue and related fracturemechanics content included in some popular Mechanics of Materials and Aerospace Structurestextbooks is included in Table A1 in Appendix A. It can be seen in Table A1 that the coverageof fatigue is cursory in typical Mechanics of Materials texts. Most aerospace structures textsinclude some coverage of fatigue topics, but still at an elementary level.A detailed, quantitative analysis of fatigue, requiring significant experience in techniques ofelasticity and study of the subject of fracture mechanics, is beyond the scope of undergraduatestudents and rightly finds a place among graduate studies in Aerospace Engineering. However,the importance of fatigue in
students compared to their male counterparts. Similar results wereobserved in a four-day engineering summer camp for girls [14], where participants had increasedinterest and understanding of engineering topics after camp completion. On the other hand, amixed-method study [15] on a six-day middle school engineering summer camp showed nostatistically significant change in participants’ intrinsic motivation, interest in engineeringcareers, self-efficacy, and self-determination based on the quantitative data. Nonetheless,qualitative data indicated that camp experience positively impacted participants’ outlook towardengineering and STEM careers and their awareness of STEM career requirements.The Friday Institute of Education S-STEM survey has been used
onstudent perceptions of the activity, which could be useful for instructors interested in expandingtheir engineering curriculum to include skills less traditionally associated with engineering.MethodsThis work involved developing the experiment and carrying out the lesson, as well as recruitingand surveying of participants. Here, we discuss each of these components of our methods in aseparate sub-section.Participant recruitment and data collectionThis study was conducted at Stevens Institute of Technology, in the form of a 2-hour stand-alonelaboratory session facilitated by the authors of this paper. Participants were recruited for thisstudy through announcements to graduate and undergraduate engineering student email lists. Theemail announcement
Illinois.Wright College’s student success rates measured by completion have been strong and improvingrelative to other national urban community colleges, but are below state and national averages.In 2015 the college piloted a selective guaranteed admission program, Engineering Pathways (EP),to one of the nation’s top engineering schools (The Grainger College of Engineering at theUniversity of Illinois Urbana Champaign, UIUC). Initial results for the small first-year cohort werevery positive: 89% transfer rate and all students who transferred to UIUC graduated. Theprogram’s initial success rested on a) cohort model with a small number of students and strongcontrols; b) co-branding that attracted local students interested in pursuing engineering at UIUCwho
. In developing the intervention activities, the investigative team consideredbest practices from a large body of literature on improving the retention and graduation rates ofunderrepresented minority students in STEM to address the following research question:Research Question. Does peer-led team learning through recitation labs in engineering coursesincrease students’ mathematics confidence, mathematics efficacy, engineering identity, andpersistence in engineering pathways?The team constructed the activities based on studies that highlighted the need for active andcollaborative learning environments to engage underrepresented minorities, specifically femalestudents, in engineering fields. These activities had high indicators for support to
, Research Design: Qualitative, Quantitative, and Mixed Methods Approaches. SAGE Publications, 2013.[45] J. Osborne, Best practices in quantitative methods. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage, 2008.[46] C. Charyton and J. A. Merrill, “Assessing general creativity and creative engineering design in first year engineering students,” J. Eng. Educ., vol. 98, no. 2, pp. 145–156, 2009.[47] S. Dewulf and C. Baillie, Case: Creativity in Art, Science and Engineering : how to Foster Creativity. Great Britain Department for Education and Employment, 1999.[48] K. Kazerounian and S. Foley, “Barriers to Creativity in Engineering Education: A Study of Instructors and Students Perceptions,” J. Mech. Des., vol. 129, no. 7, pp. 761–768, Feb. 2007.[49] W. B
college inEthiopia. In those capacities, and their experiences as instructors, researchers, and departmentheads, they had an opportunity to learn about some challenges women in Ethiopia face inuniversities, especially in engineering.The two Black men research team members also have a sister who studied engineering(bachelor’s degree) and is pursuing a master’s degree in engineering. As siblings, who have closecontact with their sister to support her in her academic pursuit, they learned some of the struggleswomen in Ethiopia might face in higher education, especially in engineering departments.Further, both men know they haven't experienced the many challenges women students gothrough in engineering in Ethiopia. While some of their identities
Paper ID #21724Validity Evidence for the SUCCESS Survey: Measuring Non-Cognitive andAffective Traits of Engineering and Computing StudentsMr. Matthew Scheidt, Purdue University, West Lafayette Matthew Scheidt is a Ph.D. student in Engineering Education at Purdue University. He graduated from Purdue University with a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering, and The Ohio State University with a M.S. in Mechanical Engineering with a focus in Ultrasonic Additive Manufacturing. Matt is currently part of Dr. Allison Godwin’s STRIDE (Shaping Transformative Research on Identity and Diversity in Engineering) research group at Purdue.Dr
methodologicalinsights on how to examine the research questions addressed in this proposal. We will build on these initialfindings to create surveys, revise interview protocols, collect larger-scale quantitative and qualitative data,design an intervention, and assess the effectiveness of the intervention. ReferencesAmerican Society for Engineering Education. (2019). Longitudinal retention and time-to-graduation report [Data file]. http://www.asee.orgAndres, L., & Carpenter, S. (1997). Today's higher education students: Issues of admission, retention, transfer, and attrition in relation to changing student demographics. Centre for Policy Studies in Education, University of British
well understood that financial aid and academic supports are a large part ofthe retention equation, this study examines the impact of exposure to engineering math asa cognitive support on two successive years of freshmen that matriculated in Fall 2014and Fall 2015. This paper suggests that math remediation is critical, but must be done inan institutional context that successfully leverages student determination to succeed.The traditional faculty-led argument that “we are admitting poorly prepared students”could no longer serve as an explanatory factor, as the university’s undergraduate programadmissions had become increasingly competitive, and were generally more productiveyielding graduates. In the College of Engineering, SAT scores had
general and first-generation SVEs in particular. Forexample, because many of these students overcame initial obstacles in higher education, theycould be a potential pool of effective mentors, both to other student veterans and to first-generation students.Women Student VeteransA paper on women student veterans will be presented in the Military and Veterans Division forthe ASEE 2018 Annual Conference.15 A graduate student at Clemson University is leading thiseffort.Preliminary Interview Findings on Women Student VeteransFrom: R. C. Atkinson, C., Mobley, C. E. Brawner, S. M. Lord, J. B. Main, and M. M. Camacho,“I Never Played the “Girl Card”: Experiences and Identity Intersections of Women StudentVeterans in Engineering,” Proceedings of the 2018
Paper ID #37272An Analysis of Low-Scoring Blind and Low-Vision Individuals’ SelectedAnswers on a Tactile Spatial Ability InstrumentDaniel Kane, Utah State University Daniel Kane is a graduate student at Utah State University pursuing a PhD in Engineering Education with a concurrent master’s degree in Civil Engineering. His research interests focus around the study of spatial ability with an emphasis on identifying patterns of spatial strategies and measuring spatial ability in blind and low vision populations.Dr. Natalie L. Shaheen Dr. Natalie L. Shaheen is an assistant professor of blind education at Illinois State
find work and buildprofessional identities. By presenting alumni’s multiple perspectives and diverse life paths,Vision Venture can help engineering students have more informed expectations about life aftergraduation and understand more vividly the flexible and wide range of options open to them withtheir engineering degree.[32] found a disheartening decrease in engineering students’ engagement with public welfareduring the course of their studies, attributed it to “three underlying ideological pillars:depoliticization, the technical/social dualism, and meritocracy,” and used quantitative measuresto make a strong case for these connections. However, the concept of the future self can add aqualitative dimension to this data. For instance, even
(9% to 15%) and were enrolled in lessadvanced math classes than their counterparts [26]. Latinx students and other racial minoritizedgroups (e.g., students who are Black, Native American) remain underrepresented in engineering[27] and have lower persistence and graduation rates [28].Previous studies on ME OnlineIn 2018, a brief survey was administered to 340 mechanical engineering students at Cal PolyPomona as part of a pilot study to investigate the impact of ME Online [1]. The vast majority ofstudents felt the video library made a positive impact on their education and helped their gradesin at least one course. However, the survey did not explore the socio-emotional impact of thevideo library on students nor obtain specific recommendations
engineering-based integrated STEM. Compulsorycoursework driven by a teacher’s need to address specific academic standards in science andassociated with grades for students is likely to create a different environment for studentinteractions than elective, non-graded, informal experiences. In addition, existing studies oftenuse quantitative analyses to investigate associations between motivation, context, andengagement [28]. With small group work ubiquitous with STEM, the affordances and limitationsof small group activities must be considered.This study addresses the gap in the literature to explore the following research questions: 1) What differences, if any, are seen in the engineering practices middle school girls and boys display during
with industry, providing students with hands-onexperience in this specialized field, but not in an international environment [4], [9], [21] .This study focuses specifically on a subset of the 2023 IRiKA cohort, examining how theirinvolvement in microelectronics research abroad contributed to developing their globalengineering competencies. This study seeks to explore the intricate processes through which globalcompetencies are developed among engineering students at both undergraduate and graduate levelswho possess varying levels of research experience in microelectronics. Through the lens of threeresearch questions, the study examines the influence of the International Research Initiative inKnowledge and Academia (IRiKA) on the global
project as there are fewdiscipline-specific studies of student veterans. We are considering the NASPA conference as avenue for future dissemination of project findings to a group of professionals (student affairsadministrators) who have extensive contact with student veterans.We have also begun developing the interview protocol for conducting individual studentinterviews. A similar qualification survey will be used for these interviews as was used for thefocus groups. Three pilot interviews have been conducted at USD and transcribed. We will usethe findings from our focus groups to further develop the final student interview protocol.Significant resultsFrom FIE15 PaperActive military and student veterans navigate engineering education in ways
career attainment, problematizing traditional notions of academic achievement and what is mean to be successful yet marginalized, and STEM identity and identity development in high-achieving students of color. She is currently the PI on two studies funded by NSF, the first of which investigates the causes behind why African Americans remain one of the most underrepresented racial groups in engineering faculty positions. The second study is working toward the design of a holistic racial and gender attentive mentoring program for engineering PhD students of color. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2017 Development of a national survey focusing on the relationships between race