to choose from. Students who have yet to decide on a major areadvised to complete the “major exploration” project where they meet faculty, connect with peermentors, and interview an industry member (often an alumni). On the other hand, studentswishing to learn more about the connection of social justice to engineering are encouraged tojoin a discussion group focused on a book or podcast (examples of past book selections includeInvisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men by Caroline Criado Perez and ToxicCommunities: Environmental Racism, Industrial Pollution, and Residential Mobility by DorcetaTaylor).Table 2: ENGR 101 Course Assignment Categories Course Assignment Categories Examples Reflections/Discussions
. Historically, amajor deterrent for women considering STEM has been lower levels of math self-assessment [8],though recent studies suggest that this is becoming less important for persistence [12], [13]. Forinstance, researchers found that students’ have broadened their perception of the skills required inCS [13] with more awareness of the non-technical or “soft” skills, such as reliability and teamwork,that are sought by employers [29]. This shift suggests a need to explore how students perceive thefield of ML/AI and highlights the importance of studying other factors contributing to persistence.Professional role confidence, comprised of expertise confidence and career-fit confidence, is thedegree to which a person feels confident in their competence
Paper ID #38656WIP: Institutional Agents’ Awareness and Perceptions of MilitaryStudents in Undergraduate Engineering Programs at Public Institutions inthe Western United StatesHannah Wilkinson, Utah State University Hannah Wilkinson is a graduate student in Engineering Education at Utah State University. She received a B.S. in Chemical Engineering in from the University of Utah.Dr. Angela Minichiello P.E., Utah State University Angela Minichiello is a US Army veteran, a registered professional mechanical engineer, and an associate professor in the Department of Engineering Education at Utah State University. Her research
professors who are teaching mathematicallyintensive engineering subjects are seeking effective pedagogical approaches to motivate students [15].2.2 Current Approaches for Motivating Engineering StudentsKEEN is a US nationwide network of more than 30 undergraduate engineering programs that are committedto the mission of graduating engineers with an entrepreneurial mindset (curiosity, connections, and creatingvalue-3Cs) so they can create personal, economic, and societal value through a lifetime of meaningful work[16][17].KEEN has organized numerous workshops/seminars to teach engineering faculty members fundamentalpedagogical techniques of Entrepreneurial Minded Learning (EML), Active/cooperative Learning (ACL),and Problem/project-based learning (PBL
belongingwithin the school and the profession. One metric of the success of this outcome is to evaluatestudent retention within CEE. Historically, approximately 50% of the students who matriculate asfirst-year students in CEE end up changing their major before graduation. For this cohort of 60students who took Exploring CEE in fall 2022, only five have changed their major. While this isstill early since this cohort has completed the course, this is still a decrease rate of attrition from asimilar point in previous years. In addition, their personal reflections at the end of each moduleallowed the students to articulate how the course and the associated activities were impacting thebeginning of their academic journey. Even those students who did change
University of Cambridge and was Visiting Fellow at Harvard University to explore design education in interdisciplinary fields. Before joining King’s, she conducted academic research and teaching in the UK, US and China. She worked as a faculty member at Cambridge Judge Business School as well as practiced leadership as Assistant Dean at Tongji University and Director of Design Research Group at Aston University. Wei was founding director of several interdisciplinary degree programmes such as MSci Design, Enterprise and Innovation, the first degree programme of its kind in the UK to teach Engineering, Design and Business to trigger students’ creativity and entrepreneurship for solving real-world problems. She has won
incubating international programming, virtual engagements, intra-institutional grants,research projects, faculty and staff exchanges, and international recruitment graduate;demonstrated increasing inclusion; evidence of the enhanced reputation of the College.The inclusion of this outcome in the university and college’s strategic plans further highlightedthe expectation to make global awareness and competency a priority and an attainable outcome.Methods and ModulesThis pre-departure course for undergraduate students majoring in a college of engineering at alarge land-grant university prepares students for participation in a global engagement experience(e.g., study abroad or international research program) by introducing global competencies suchas
construction careers, this factor has notbeen studied in any depth in the Chilean context. Thus, it is important to examine the factors thatfacilitate a more detailed understanding of the sense of belonging of women in the nationalconstruction industry. Furthermore, there are not many studies exploring the experiences ofwomen at different stages of their career in CE to see how their perceptions of sense ofbelonging changes as they graduate from the program and incorporate in the field ofconstruction.This research analyzes the perspectives of women related to a construction engineering program,as students, alumni working in the field, and faculty in a construction program, regarding theirsense of belonging. We categorize their experiences and their
, especially in a quantitative way, is near impossible without astrong collaboration with key faculty at the institution. In future, we hope to develop these typesof collaborations in order to have this type of result to share with the wider community. For now,we rely on our own experience and qualitative student and faculty feedback to guide ourinitiatives.ConclusionIt’s clear from both the literature and our own experience in industry at Ansys that the industry-academia gap is an ongoing issue for new graduates. Extracurricular activities, such asinvolvement in student team competitions, have been highlighted as a way to reduce this gap andhelp students gain the skills they need to start their careers. At Ansys, we look to supportacademia in a wide
for the camp in early April, with 18 names on the waiting list. This waiting listserved us in the event another camper needed to pull out due to after registration conflicts.Organization and Camp Leadership This camp was developed with the coordinated help of Penn State AE graduate students, faculty,and staff, and was organized by the department’s outreach specialist, whose purpose was to increase K-12interest and understanding of AE. For our experience, the outreach specialist acted as the camp’s director,organizing all aspects of the project and was the point person for communication to families, training forcamp employees, and following all university regulations when working with youth. The outreach specialistcreated an oversight
Associate Professor in the Department of Engineering Education at Virginia Tech. Homero is the leader of the Engineering Competencies, Learning, and Inclusive Practices for Success (ECLIPS) Lab where he leads a team focused on doing research on contemporary, cultur- ally relevant, and inclusive pedagogical practices, emotions in engineering, competency development, and understanding the experiences of traditionally marginalized engineering students from an asset-based perspective. Homero’s goal is to develop engineering education practices that value the capital that tra- ditionally marginalized students, bring into the field, and to train graduate students and faculty members with the tool to promote effective and
online synchronous mode, studentallowed to join only online. HyFlex course provides flexible opportunities to participate in-person,online synchronous and online asynchronous simultaneously. As long as student demographics of higher education continue to change, the challenges toaccommodate diverse learners also will exits. HyFlex course provides opportunities to servediverse group of students by combining different modalities rather than creating separate sections 2[2]. Diane Wright [3] performed a case study on adult and career education course. In this studyauthor found adult learners needs flexible learning environment to balance work, study, personallife and other commitment. HyFlex
beach.Ms. Connie Syharat, University of Connecticut Constance M. Syharat is a Ph.D. student and Research Assistant at the University of Connecticut as a part of two neurodiversity-centered NSF-funded projects, Revolutionizing Engineering Departments (NSF:RED) ”Beyond Accommodation: Leveraging Neurodiversity for Engineering Innovation” and In- novations in Graduate Education (NSF:IGE) Encouraging the Participation of Neurodiverse Students in STEM Graduate Programs to Radically Enhance the Creativity of the Professional Workforce”. In her time at the University of Connecticut she has also has served as Program Assistant for an summer pro- gram in engineering for middle school students with ADHD. Previously, she spent
Academic Program, a living-learning community where students learned about and practice sustainability. Bielefeldt is a licensed P.E. Professor Bielefeldt’s research interests in engineering education include service-learning, sustainable engineering, social responsibility, ethics, and diversity. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2023 Integration of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Topics into a First-Year Introduction to Civil Engineering CourseAbstractThis paper presents an example of how diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) topics have beenintegrated into an Introduction to Civil Engineering course for first-year (FY) students. DEIissues were integrated into the
almost to me, deciding to become a faculty member, which would be terrible. But at the same time, I do think I would develop technical skills in a postdoc that I did not develop as a graduate student. I wish I had never even applied… because I think that would be much like, I think just like holistically as a person, that would be a lot better. I think it would be physically healthier, mentally better. Like I think that I would be in a very, I feel like I'd be in a much more positive spot in my life if I had spent the last five years working in industry, doing a career, um, that kind of thing.This last mode of smoothing captures the emotional impact of
-Meyer is a pre-college science and engineering educator at Illinois State University.Dr. Jin Ho Jo Dr. Jin Ho Jo is an Associate Professor of Technology at Illinois State University, teaching in the Renew- able Energy program. Dr. Jo is the program coordinator and also leads the Sustainable Energy Research Group at ISU. Dr. Jo is an honors graduate of PuMaria Luisa Zamudio ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2023 An After-school STEM Program with a Novel Equitable and Inclusive Structure (Work in Progress, Diversity)Abstract An interdisciplinary team of faculty, staff, and students at Illinois State University ispartnering with the Chicago Public Schools district
having sites connected to each other.” Additionally, the backboneconceptualization is strengthened due to the NF role being built into his local site structure. AtGreg’s site, local site leadership expects the NF to attend leadership meetings and conveyinformation between the NF team and the site. However, this can also play out in the oppositeway, where the backbone conceptualization is weakened by the local site contexts.Arpita is a graduate student located at a site that is currently going through a period of transitionafter a faculty lead left their position and a new faculty lead has stepped into the role. Thisexcerpt comes after an exchange between CT and Arpita in which she strategized about how thenew faculty member lead could be brought
topic.We explore the mechanism of GPS spoofing and categorize different technologies. For eachcategory, we have summaries that present an overview of the attacks in each category. We believeour contributions can affect the development of this topic and more exploration will be made withour work.Figure 3 GPS spoofing attacks and detection on UAV 3. Students’ reflections about the REU program We conducted a survey with the REU students by the end of the first summer, to know theimpacts of the REU on their research and career goals. All students took the survey. We highlightedsome survey questions and the results are summarized as follows: Question 1: How certain are you that you will pursue a graduate degree? 0-100%, - 0% means you are
students during theirinterpretation and practice. Since the purpose of this study is to explore and gain an in-depthdescription to understand as much as possible about how faculty teaching technical contentinclude social impacts and social justice perspectives into their courses a well-bounded andcollective case study approach was chosen [42].Study Design and MethodologyRQ: How do engineering faculty incorporate social impacts into their technical courses?Setting and recruitmentMany faculty members teach engineering science courses each with their own uniqueperspectives and curricula. It was essential for this project that faculty were selected who had afoundational understanding of sociotechnical integration as outlined in this paper. It was
skills that are needed to make lasting connections after graduating college.The program cultivates a sense of belonging to international members who may not have theirfamilies close to home for support. The program has been deemed highly beneficial forinternational students due to the fact that it enhances the network for individuals to discover newemployment opportunities. After graduation, program graduates can potentially benefit fromthese relationships by obtaining a highly desired employment position or by receiving anoutstanding recommendation from various industry CEO’s who have a first-hand demonstrationof the student’s real-world experience and professional demeanor.Introduction Middle Tennessee State University’s Human Exploration
in undergraduate students.Implications: Implications of this study relate to (1) the need to provide students withprofessional skills, such as project management and teamwork, in addition to research skills tohelp them cultivate self-regulated abilities and (2) methods for facilitating undergraduateresearch.Keywords: undergraduate research, self-regulated learning, project management, scrum,mentoring1. IntroductionUndergraduate research is often described as the exploration of a specific research topic by anundergraduate student - on their own or in collaboration with faculty members or other students -to make an original contribution to the discipline. It is a recent concept in the academiccommunity, with roots in the nineteenth and
that helps students select their best fit specialization in a specific category which represents the goal of this paper. 2. ChatGPT is an AI tool that helps to answer many questions. We used it to generate the answer for our question, “, “How does ChatGPT help students to select their BS Engineering program that most fits their abilities.” Its partial answer, included in ChatGPT section above, is, “… student's abilities should be assessed via the academic and standardized test scores, recommendation letters and the overall academic record. It is recommended to consult with their academic advisor, career counselor or other experts on the field to make final decisions.” This answer supports our designed
skills that are transferable in their decisions to enter into graduate studies or the professional worldDr. Luis Rodolfo Garcia Carrillo, New Mexico State University Luis Rodolfo GARCIA CARRILLO received the PhD. degree in Control Systems from the University of Technology of Compi`egne, France. He was a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Center of Control, Dynamical systems and Computation at UC Santa Barbara, USA. He currently holds an Assistant Professor position with the Klipsch School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at New Mexico State University, USA. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2023 Latinx Engineering Students Surviving the Odds to Accomplish
, collaborate, and learn how to make decisions as a group tosuccessfully develop a solution to the problem they are working on.Capstone OverviewUpon approaching graduation, the undergraduate program at Northeastern University requires a 2-semester Senior Capstone Design (‘Capstone’) sequence as part of its accredited engineering degreeprogram. It contributes to all categories of the new ABET assessment standards [13]. Four-or five-person teams are formed to tackle projects proposed by faculty, industry sponsors, or communitypartners (the ‘clients’/sponsors). The teams are supervised by individual faculty members (advisors),all overseen by a Capstone coordinator or a partnership of co-coordinators.Capstone 1. During Capstone 1, teams more thoroughly
Paper ID #40551Innovations in Remote Teaching of Engineering Design TeamsProf. Soyoung Kang, University of Washington Soyoung Kang (she/her) is an assistant teaching professor and Clary Family Foundation early career pro- fessor in the mechanical engineering department at the University of Washington (UW). She is also the executive director of the Engineering Innovation in Health (EIH) program that partners teams of multidis- ciplinary undergraduate and graduate students with health professionals to develop technical solutions to pressing health challenges. Dr. Kang works closely with faculty from across the UW to foster
number of opportunities andassociated identity development [48]. Whether it was caused by social pressure to take on high-value careers or to tend to family [22], the job market, need for money and documentation [37],or discrimination towards displaced people [60], displaced students were disadvantaged by thelack of opportunities they faced with uncertain career plans [73][74]. In addition, this instabilityand lack of ability to choose freely from all pathways available translated into displaced studentsreporting high levels of anxiety, depression, and PTSD, amongst other mental health issues[34][39][73][75][76]. The lack of control over choices associated with building a career as adisplaced person revealed the limitations on students’ decision
. She was previously a member of the student support staff for the Virginia Tech Center for the Enhancement of Engineering Diversity where she served as an instructor for the first-year professional development seminar and as co- ordinator for the summer bridge program. Her research interests include equity in engineering education, middle-years of engineering, and engineering student support.Mrs. Janice Leshay Hall, Florida International University Janice is a postdoctoral researcher at Virginia Tech. Her research centers on diversity equity and inclusion with a focus on broadening the participation of historically underrepresented groups in the engineering workforce. Specifically, she examines theArtre Reginald
the camp’s agendato give students the information directly so that they feel empowered to speak with their teachersand guidance counselors themselves about course choices. Each day, camp attendees learned a few engineering fundamentals through an engagingpresentation by the University of Texas at Austin (UT Austin) faculty and students, then sawthese concepts come to life through guided hands-on activities. In collaboration with the UTAustin Youth Engagement Center, we were able to increase the participation of students whoidentify with groups that have been historically excluded from engineering. Two camps were run(one in Houston and one in Austin) in collaboration with Project Explore in Houston independentschool district (ISD), and
institutionalsupport provided to Black graduate students in STEM and the impact of those (or the lack of those)on the students.Each member of our research team was involved in data collection and/or data analysis activities.Along with the faculty leads, our team includes four doctoral researchers and one post-doctoralscholar. Among them are two Black women, one Latinx researcher, and two Women of Color.One of the graduate student researchers is studying counseling psychology, one getting theirdegree in linguistics, and the others are in engineering education. Within our team, one of ourgraduate researchers holds the same professional and racial identity as the co-constructors (i.e., aBlack doctoral student in a STEM program). All other members of our team
STEM gateway course design strategies, which integrate the evidence-based pedagogies, the student engagement, interaction, collaboration, and assessment, arepresented. The findings of this study will inform instructors and administrators on how to designeffective and engaging online STEM courses at HBCUs. © American Society for Engineering Education, 2023Related WorkEvidence-Based PedagogiesTeaching is an art of encouraging students to become active learners and awakening theirenthusiasm to explore and absorb new knowledge and skills. On the other hand, learning is adynamic process in which both the teacher and students should actively participate, exchangeviews, and ask/answer questions in an engaging atmosphere [7