(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
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
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
among early career graduates in engineering and taking appropriate steps tosupport continued persistence in the field. Identification of these patterns is also helpful fordesigning a quantitative study that can point to the significance of gender differences in a largerpopulation.IntroductionWhat motivates men compared to women can be studied from a variety of different perspectives.Looking at the autonomy with which both men and women make choices in early career isespecially useful because developing autonomy is a central goal of an undergraduate education1and autonomy plays an important role in predicting stability within a field or career. The higherthe degree of autonomy on which an individual bases important life and career choices
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
education for student growth and societal advances. While directing the Micro Medical Device Engineering Research Labo- ratory (M.D. – ERL), she has managed, as PI or co-PI, ˜$13 million, yielding 93 research graduates*, a patent, and >100 publications [*12 PhDs (64% women, 18%UR)]. Her favorite quote is by Ray Mc- Dermott, ”Culture is not a past cause to a current self. Culture is the current challenge to possible future selves.”Sonia Goltz, Michigan Tech Sonia Goltz earned her PhD in industrial/organizational psychology at Purdue University and is the Mickus Endowed Faculty Fellow of Business Impact in the College of Business at Michigan Tech, where she has served as Co-PI on two NSF ADVANCE grants.andrew storer
these attitudes similar to or different from the majority of engineeringstudents? These questions led to the development of a pilot study with first year students at theUniversity of Colorado Boulder. The next section provides information that grounds the study inpublished literature, which is followed by the research methods, results, and discussion.BackgroundThe Environmental Engineering Body of Knowledge (BOK) discusses the skills and attributesrequired for environmental engineers to be successful and productive professional engineers whoare best equipped to benefit society.12 Sustainability and global issues are specified as outcomes,and interdisciplinary interactions are also discussed in the context of teamwork. These sameoutcomes are
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, Computing, and Applied Sciences at Clemson University. His work focuses on how technology supports knowledge building and transfer in a range of learning environments. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2024 Examining the motivations and experiences of transfer students participating in an undergraduate research courseAbstractIn this paper, we use both quantitative and qualitative methods to examine transfer student’s in ascholarship program to better understand their university experiences and what drives them tosucceed. The Student Pathways in Engineering and Computing for Transfers (SPECTRA)program is an NSF S-STEM (Award#1834081) that aims to aid students in their transfer fromtwo
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selecting one classification over another, and the impact that decision can haveon their research and the populations being researched. They highlight the importance of askingparticipants to choose how they prefer to identify. Hence, we considered that this study cancontinue this conversation by providing an overview of how engineering students identify andreflect on the use of the different terminology.MethodsAs the purpose of this work is to explore the perspectives of engineering students that identify ashaving Latin American origin, regarding the ways in which they identify themselves and howothers seek to label them, this pilot study analyzed both quantitative and qualitative data toimplement the beginnings of a case study. A pilot study
Institute of Medicine, Expanding Underrepresented Minority Participation: America's Science and Technology Talent at the Crossroads. Washington, D.C.: The National Academies Press, 2011.[2] B. M. Ferdman. (2013, 1 December 2015). Diversity at work: the practice of inclusion in diverse organizations.[3] Cech, E. A., & Waidzunas, T. J. (2011). Navigating the heteronormativity of engineering: The experiences of lesbian, gay, and bisexual students. Engineering Studies, 3(1), 1-24.[4] Cech, E. A., & Rothwell, W. R. (2018). LGBTQ Inequality in Engineering Education. Journal of Engineering Education, 107(4), 583-610.[5] Patridge, E. V., Barthelemy, R. S., & Rankin, S. R. (2014). Factors impacting the academic
byextensive field testing, materials design, and a research program, of which this study is a part.The curriculum units foster opportunities for middle-school children in OST settings to becomeengineers and solve problems that are identified as “personally meaningful and globallyrelevant” [20]. Each unit has been developed to include fourteen Curricular Design Principles forInclusivity [21], identified through previous research studies to support student learning, in fouroverarching categories: Set learning in a real-world context, present design challenges that areauthentic to engineering practice, scaffold student work, and demonstrate that everyone canengineer. The Curricular Design Principles are detailed under Findings in Table 3. There
communication, identity, design, and organizational ethics.Mr. Sean M Eddington, Brian Lamb School of Communication - Purdue Sean Eddington is a doctoral student in the Brian Lamb School of Communication studying organizational communication. He earned his B.A. in History from Purdue University, and his M.S. from Northwest Missouri State University. Sean’s research interests exist at the intersections of organizational communi- cation, online organizing, resilience, and gender. He has researched new engineering faculty experiences throughout their on-boarding process, and has been published in 2015 Proceedings of the American Soci- ety for Engineering Education along with his research team. Eddington has also served as a
populations as well as many technical and non-technicalextracurricular opportunities. The survey will be sent to all undergraduate engineering studentsclassified as sophomores or juniors in the semester of the initial survey administration. The surveywas piloted with a group of undergraduate and graduate engineering students at this university infall 2019 and early spring 2020. The initial survey administration was conducted in spring 2020.Survey Measures. The survey will capture the types and extent of student involvement in variouscategories of extracurricular activities [25]–[27]. Students will select their involvements from alist of types of involvement (e.g., ambassador program, engineering/technical/design, professionalsociety, identity-based
experiences, new types of pressures may impact both students and their families. Toidentify some of the pressures that should be anticipated when introducing a new program, thisexploratory case study focused on the hopes, concerns, and fears of the first cohort of studentsenrolled in the first semester of a pilot program at the Purdue Polytechnic Institute – a new multi-disciplinary, hands-on, competency-based program. Since students do not act in isolation,additional considerations are given to expectations and concerns of their parents, and facultyresponse to those concerns. Students and parents were surveyed, and in-depth interviews wereconducted with both students and faculty. Qualitative and quantitative analyses found that whilethe majority of
classroombelonging, but the more factors evident the greater the likelihood that a student would experiencethe feeling of classroom belonging.5.5 LimitationsThis study suffers from many of the drawbacks of pilot work. The sample size was small,meaning that effect sizes had to be quite large to register as statistically significant. This can beremedied through expansion to a broader base of students and additional institutions. Thesestudents were from only a handful of majors (mostly mechanical and civil engineering) andresults might differ significantly through inclusion of other majors.The engineering identity measure (EI) is new and adapted from Godwin et al.’s (2016)definitional work and has not been qualified as a valid and reliable measurement scale
particular, the preparatory physics class that is part of the Engineering GoldShirtProgram first-semester curriculum was studied using a practice-research-practice model to drivechange. Multiple factors were used to assess and evaluate the course for continuousimprovement; these include the quantitative performance of students on a nationally normedtest, student qualitative and quantitative feedback from course evaluations, subsequent courseoutcome results, and student focus group and interview feedback. Engineering GoldShirtProgram students engineering identity formation during Summer Bridge was investigated byKnight et. al (2013). Creation of a Pre-Calculus for Engineers course was described by Ennis et.al. (2013) and then “calculus readiness” and
Paper ID #18835Designing a Course for Peer Educators in Undergraduate Engineering De-sign CoursesMs. Gina Marie Quan, University of Maryland, College Park Gina Quan is a doctoral candidate in Physics Education Research at the University of Maryland, College Park. She graduated in 2012 with a B.A. in Physics from the University of California, Berkeley. Her research interests include understanding community and identity formation, unpacking students’ relation- ships to design, and cultivating institutional change. Ms. Quan is also a founding member of the Access Network, a research-practice community dedicated to
climate survey included the climate scale with 50 items for 9 constructs anddemographic items to capture the respondents’ complex social identities. During summer and fall2023, we collected our first pilot study data of 287 doctoral engineering students from 28institutions in the U.S. The exploratory factor analysis (EFA) with the data from 287 engineeringdoctoral students revealed the latent factor structure of the climate scale for eight constructsindicated by 39 items. Internal consistency was good. Based on the EFA results, we planned torevise the items and add new items for the second round of data collection for the second pilotstudy in Year 2. Results from studies using the finalized survey are expected to guide specific policies
) has thehighest impact to students’ grade outcomes, retention and graduation rates, as well as their senseof connection, belonging and positive experience in their first year. This complete research paperexamines the quantitative and qualitative impact of intentionally creating small,registration-based cohorts of students to regularly attend SI sessions, implemented at ouruniversity in a first year engineering course in fall 2020. Our results indicate that (as in othersemesters), students who attended SI sessions had statistically significant higher course GPAsthan those who did not attend, but an added benefit was that almost 40% of students in the courseregularly attended SI this fall, compared to previous fall semesters where only 12-22
caring that includes both comfortwith faculty and empathetic faculty understanding from the same author.Discrimination (25 items)Discrimination is an active process that influences belonging in engineering (McGee, 2020). Toaccount for this potential, we adapted and included five items across five different identity-axes(race/ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, (dis)ability, and socioeconomic status) from Bahnsonet al.’s (2022) work on discrimination in engineering graduate student experiences.Comfort and Team Inclusion (19 items)We believe feelings of discrimination and differences in belonging are also seen through students’comfort and inclusion on their team. As such, we included items based on these topics. Like othersabove, these scales
Innovative Intervention to Infuse Diversity and Inclusion in a Statics CourseAbstractEngineering educators strive to prepare their students for success in the engineering workforce.Increasingly, many career paths will require engineering graduates to work in multidisciplinaryteams with individuals possessing a diversity of skill sets, backgrounds, and identities. Therefore,it is important not only for future engineers to have the opportunity to work in teams as students,but also to have specific instruction that teaches them about teamwork skills and the valuediversity and inclusion bring to engineering practice. Furthermore, it is important that thisinstruction occurs throughout their engineering coursework, giving
Engineering Education, 2024 Exploring the Relationships between Artistic Creativity and Innovation Attitudes in Engineering StudentsAbstractThis research explored potential relationships between the innovation self-efficacy (ISE) ofengineering students and their artistic creativity and life experiences revealed on an ice-breakerassignment. In a community-building assignment, students were directed to introduce themselvesthrough cartoon monster drawings that communicated various personal attributes (such as thenumber of languages they speak, and the number of states visited). Previous research has foundthat multicultural experiences can shape feelings of self-efficacy concerning innovation andcreativity. This pilot study was
. In future studies, a more qualitative researchapproach will be taken to complement the quantitative data in an effort to identify those criticalprogrammatic elements that impact URM students’ interest and self-efficacy in engineering ininformal learning environments. Moreover, we aim to explore the longitudinal impact of this typeof program on students’ decisions to pursue engineering studies. Moving forward, there are plansto use the knowledge gained from this study to update and package the lesson plans and activitiesdeveloped in the design course for broader implementation in other STEM-related programs.References1. PCAST. 2012. Engage to excel: producing one million additional college graduates with degrees in science, technology
Computing Diversity Conference, Crystal City, VA, April 2018.[19] B. A. Pedersen, R. A. Hensel, S. A. Raisa, R. A. Atadero, A. A. Casper, R. R. DeLyser, C. D. Griffin, S. T. Leutenegger, M. L. Morris, C. Paguyo, J. Paul, S. Park, K. E. Rambo-Hernandez, and B. N. Roszelle, “Leveraging changes in engineering and computer science curricula to engender inclusive professional identities in students,” in Proceedings of the 2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference, July 2021.[20] C. Finelli and M. Kendall-Brown, “Using an interactive theater sketch to improve students’ perceptions about and ability to function on diverse teams,” in Proceedings of the 2009 Annual ASEE Conference and Exposition, Austin, TX, June 2009.[21] M. Kaplan, C. E. Cook
intothe characteristics of the population. These elements contribute to individuals’ backgroundfactors and influence what might be included or omitted in the pilot survey. For instance, gender-based differences may lead male students to report a greater perceived capacity to complete anundergraduate engineering program compared to their female counterparts [13]. Consequently,both the pilot study and the ensuing questionnaire should incorporate inquiries aboutdemographic information and other pertinent details related to background factors andpersonality variables, ensuring a comprehensive understanding of the surveyed population.Questionnaire DevelopmentAfter formulating a pilot survey, a comprehensive questionnaire can be constructed to delve
the language is only a meansto social gains with very little interest in the culture or the community of people who speak thelanguage. On the contrary, the integrative orientation implies a personal involvement or desireto connect with the community that speaks the language, get access to its culture or evenbecome a member of the group. The former distinction is not supposed to be taken as amutually exclusive dichotomy since there is an element of instrumentality in the integrativeorientation [21] [22]. The remaining sections of this paper will present a study on language attitudes amongundergraduate students enrolled in an engineering public university. Before moving on to thenext section, a brief synthesis of the discussion up to this
questions: 1) Do engineering students who self-characterize as neurodiverse have different: innovation self-efficacy, innovation interests, or innovative work? 2) Do these innovation attitudes differ at the end of the semester among students who participated in an open-ended activity that may impact innovation attitudes?MethodsThe study was conducted under a protocol approved by the local Institutional Review Board(IRB) for Human Subjects Research (Protocol #21-0473). This pilot study was conducted withina single engineering Water Chemistry course taught at the University of Colorado Boulder in theFall of 2022. The course is required for students majoring in environmental engineering and istypically taken in the junior year
community models. Research in Higher Education, 44(5), 581-613.[17] Astin, A. W. & Sax, L. J. (1998). How Undergraduates are Affected by Service Participation. Journal of College Student Development, 39 (3): 251-263.[18] Khorbotly, S., & Al-Olimat, K. (2010, October). Engineering student-design competition teams: Capstone or extracurricular? Paper presented at the Frontiers in Education Conference (FIE), 2010 IEEE, Washington D.C.[19] Gregerman, S. R., Hathaway, R. S., & Nagda, B. A. (2002). The relationship of undergraduate research participation to graduate and professional education pursuit: An empirical study. Journal of College Student Development, 43(5), 614 - 631.[20] Di Lorenzo-Aiss, J