madesubstantial changes to the state’s curriculum and high school graduation requirements since itwas passed by the state legislature in 2013. HB5 came into effect in Fall 2016 and has threemajor components: 1) A core set of courses each student must complete for a total of 22 credits; 2) The requirement that each graduating eighth grader select one of five Endorsements (listed below), which are broad categories of career related courses; and 3) A Distinguished Level of Achievement for outstanding performance within the chosen endorsement. The five endorsements are: 1) STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics
. The proprietarynature of the assessment and distortion effects due to the number of items8 detract from generalacceptance of the results. However, as a pragmatic tool for discussing differences betweenindividuals that are not apparent by observation, the assessment is effective for the program. Knowledge obtained from the personality assessments like the MBTI can provideindividuals with greater insight into their energy sources, information gathering, decision-makingand personal lifestyle6. Information from the MBTI provides individuals with a betterunderstanding about general areas of life, or careers, in which they are more likely to beinterested, motivated and successful12. For instance, McCaulley13 asserts individuals are
Engineering Students Select a MajorAbstractThis evidence-based practice paper evaluates a set of resources to help first-year engineeringstudents choose their major among four fields. Choosing a major can be a daunting task for first-year college students, especially if the choices span fields with which students have littleexperience. In order to provide first-year engineering students time to discern, a set of resourcesand course activities were designed to assist students in this decision-making process. Theeducational theory that serves as a framework for this study is social cognitive career theory,developed by Lent, Brown, and Hackett in 1994. In particular, resources, activities, andexperiences in the introduction to engineering course were
), mechanics (SOLIDWORKS, machine shop use, and biomechanical testing),biomaterials and tissue engineering (literature research, biosafety, aseptic technique, optics andmaterial interactions) as well as other professional design skills. Despite being a relatively newcourse, we have seen overwhelming success related to student outcome performance in design bystudents since the implementation of this course verses its client-based counterpart. In addition,self-reported survey data from students upon completion of BME 201 felt this course waseffective at improving their skills and their abilities to meet student outcomes. Finally, studentsalso felt that this course was effective at influencing their academic and future career goals.I
genes that affect the immune system across age. I also work as a graduate assistant for both Maryland’s PROMISE AGEP and the Campus-Wide Career-Life Balance Initiative at the University of Maryland Bal- timore County. For my graduate assistantship, responsibilities that I have include, but are not limited to: organizing and staffing professional development workshops, conducting qualitative analysis on career- life balance events, archiving attendees demographics for each event, maintaining and updating websites, and presenting our work and findings at conferences. My main website is: amandalo.weebly.comMs. Erika T. Aparaka, University of Maryland College Park Erika Aparaka is a Ph.D. candidate at the University of
faculty to use student-centered learning strategies and whether this varied by gender (Ross et al., 2016).Outside of these four categories, we found purposes that may not have directly aligned with thembut asked important diversity questions. For example, understanding why women leave theengineering workforce (VanAntwerp & Wilson, 2015), how to improve the experiences oftransfer students from community colleges into 4-year institutions (Pieri et al., 2015), andstrategies for dual-career couples searching for employment in academia (Ciston et al., 2015). 4.4. Publication DemographicsThe overwhelming majority of publications in our sample studied demographics via two maingroups: gender-based groups and racial and ethnic minorities. Other
schools. Seeding Labs [6] and TReND [7] provide refurbishedlab equipment to research universities in developing countries as well as run an in-persontraining program for technicians using the equipment.While most engineering education innovation in developing communities address the primary,introductory secondary and advanced university levels, there are few efforts focused on theadvanced secondary and introductory university levels, where engineering students are at acritical point for developing essential career skills.PurposeWe developed and implemented open-source curricula for enrichment programs at the advancedsecondary school and introductory university levels in Rwanda. Our purpose can be broken upinto three parts: 1. Identify
. Interconnectivity, Frictional Behavior, Macro, Micro, Nano………. Regulatory ISO – ASTM – FDA Substantial equivalence Accepted Protocols for testing and verification and validation So where is the journey taking us?Disruptive Technologies Present An Exceptional Opportunity for Collaboration Translational and Applied Research opportunities Interdepartmental and Multi-disciplinary collaborative teaching and research opportunities Educational Support to prepare graduates for a career with emphasis in Additive Manufacturing Additive Manufacturing processes Mechanical Engineering (Machine Design )– Computer Aided Design, Finite Element Analysis and other modeling Biomechanics
-Workforce ContinuumGoal: Provide a systems view of the career pathways and related decision making of those currently working as engineers and those holding engineering degrees in the United States.Potential Implications For: Broadening the value proposition for engineering NATIONAL ACADEMY OF ENGINEERINGThe Engineering Workforce NATIONAL ACADEMY OF ENGINEERING Professional Societies Engagement in UG Engineering EducationGoal: Understand the scope and nature of societies’ UG educational activities and encourage collaboration. (Dean G. Washington on the planning cmte.)• Workshop held Jan 26-27 (Dean Pines keynote)• Five regional meetings in the spring• Proceedings to be published in summer 2017
Corporate Partner University 4. Establish and Implement 1. University assets partnering strategy • Research and development capabilities • Developing the team • What differentiates your campus? • Faculty/Students • Company Representatives • Career Services, etc.Overview of discussion (1) Building partnerships (2) Navigating partnerships: Information and RelationshipsInformation Management is huge! Understanding the company and fit with your campus, current engagements
Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists & Engineers Enterprise Research (PECASE) recognizes and honors extraordinary achievements of Programs young professionals at the outset of their independent research Laboratory Research careers in S&T Programs • The Vannevar Bush Faculty Fellowship Program (VBFF) provides extensive, long-term financial support to distinguished university faculty and staff scientists and engineers to conduct unclassified, basic research on topics of interest to DoD
program is being conducted, additional assessments may involve determining what typeof instruction is used, how frequently it is conducted, or at what point the trainee must completethe program in their career. Evaluations beyond this may focus on how well the program actuallyworks or if it is effective in eliciting behavior change2. A common evaluation of effectiveness isto determine how trainees react to the training experience, the content of the program, or theinstructor delivery1,3,5. It is difficult and rare to evaluate how well ethics training actuallydevelops a trainee’s ethical reasoning or behavior change1. However, evaluating trainingprograms can help provide useful information which can be used to help make decisions aboutthe training
successfully recruited a group of mathematics, science, and special educators,and engaged them in professional development they find valuable. The Teacher Efficacy andAttitudes toward STEM (T-STEM) survey revealed that professional development successfullyincreased participating teachers’ confidence to teach engineering design, their confidence thatthey can influence their students’ STEM performance, and their knowledge of STEM careers, aswell as the amount they expect to utilize technology and instructional approaches aligned withSTEM best educational practices.Diagnostic Teacher Assessments in Mathematics and Science (DTAMS) for middle schoolshowed that participating teachers initially did poorly outside of their content area focus. Closerinspection
learning experiences to support teachers’ ability to promote mathematical reasoning in middle and high school classrooms. Dr. Lesseig served as principal investigator on an NSF MSP grant designed to support middle grades teachers in implementing STEM Design Challenges. WIP: Infusing Empathy into Engineering Design: Supporting Under- Represented Student Interest and Sense of BelongingnessIntroduction to the Work-in-Progress StudyHow can we utilize our research knowledge to impact our methodology as educators and changethe perceptions of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) and who belongsin STEM careers? Some states have adopted the New Generation Science Standards (NGSS) fork-12 public schools
Stanford, Dr. Lynch received his B.E. in Civil and Environmental Engineering from the Cooper Union in New York City. His current research interests are in the areas of wireless cyber-physical systems, cyberinfrastructure tools for management of structural monitoring data, and nanoengineered thin film sensors for damage detection and structural health monitoring. Dr. Lynch has been awarded the 2005 ONR Young Investigator Award, 2009 NSF CAREER Award, 2009 Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE), 2012 ASCE EMI Leonardo da Vinci Award and 2014 ASCE Huber Award.Katherine A. Flanigan, University of Michigan c American Society for Engineering Education, 2017 Using
Mathematics. The campus is fortunate to be well represented with women in thesciences and engineering; professors from all disciplines serve as facilitators for the group.Background:There are initiatives on other campuses and with other groups to increase the involvement andretention of women in the sciences and engineering, including OXIDE (Open ChemistryCollaborative in Diversity Equity), a diversity equity initiative cofounded by the NationalScience Foundation, the National Institutes of Health, and the Department of Energy 3. Inaddition to OXIDE, other initiatives aimed at addressing the gender gap include the NSFADVANCE grants to increase the participation and advancement of women in academic scienceand engineering careers, and COACh, a
aninternational competition with over 400,000 participents3 is a good example of an organizationthat has worked to interest K-12 students of all sexes in robotics. Many teams are part ofextracorricular activites offered by their middle and high schools. There is evidence in the literature that participation in extracurricular activities and campscan impact student’s career and college major choice 4-7. However, few papers show whether thebenefits of participation extend to performance and retention once the student has started college.This study is focused on students who in high school participated in extracurricular activities orcamps related to science, computer science, math or engineering (including robotics).Specifically, this study
HBCUs. Theseresearchers leading this effort are from various HBCUs and aim to investigate individual factors,environmental factors, institutional practices, procedures, and policies that may adversely affectstudent success. This work-in-progress discusses preliminary findings from one selected HBCU.To inform the present research study’s efforts and development, the researchers thoroughlydiscussed areas of concern and observed trends, both nationally and at their respectiveinstitutions, to arrive at key research thrust areas for investigation: (1) institutional climate, (2)cultural intersectionality, and (3) STEM career trajectory. Research across each of these areaswill be guided by the conceptual framework model for the college experience as
discipline-based panels to evaluateACE credit recommendations for application to UNC or NCCCS programs. In October 2016,these faculty representatives met and attended a presentation from a team of ACE staff andreviewers, who explained the ACE review and recommendation process. Faculty and staff fromsix career fields (Criminal Justice, Allied Health, Business, English, Computer Science, andForeign Languages) then met in breakout sessions facilitated by the ACE team to experimentwith interpreting JST and ACE recommendation exhibits. Session participants discussed ACEcredit recommendations for their specific career field, noted common themes, identifiedquestions and potential barriers to awarding credit, and attempted to apply the creditrecommendations
educational opportunities todevelop soft skills and enhance student transitions into professional roles upon graduation.Institutions and industry stakeholders are aggressively searching for cost-effective strategies thatwill strengthen students’ soft skills, while equipping them with the disciplinary expertisenecessary for their transition to professional roles after graduation. The incorporation of softskills assignments and projects in CM curricula is now a common practice in many accreditedCM programs. Furthermore, Career Offices at institutions also contribute to the development ofthese soft skills by offering training, coaching, and other professional development resources.Review of LiteratureConstruction industry employers are searching for CM
English. In my five years at the GCC, I have enjoyed helping STEM and humanities students learn to convey their innovative ideas more effectively. I have also taught First Year Writing and graduate level engineering courses on language and genre foundations for diverse types of writing. My research interests focus on deconstructing rhetorical moves in both written and visual communication to help demystify expert writing practices for students.Kevin G. Monahan, Carnegie Mellon University Kevin joined Carnegie Mellon University in July 2013 as the Associate Dean of Student Affairs for Career and Professional Development. In this role, Kevin leads the career center’s efforts in providing leading career development and
a Program Director at the National Science Foundation, on the board of the American Society for Engineering Education, and as an associate dean and director of interdisciplinary graduate programs. Her research awards include U.S. Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE), a National Science Foundation CAREER award, and two outstanding publication awards from the American Educational Research Association for her journal articles. Dr. Borrego is Deputy Editor for Journal of Engineering Education. All of Dr. Borrego’s degrees are in Materials Science and Engineering. Her M.S. and Ph.D. are from Stanford University, and her B.S. is from University of Wisconsin-Madison.Dr. Meagan R. Kendall
. Lucas, C.J. and J. Murry, John W., New Faculty: A Practical Guide for Academic Beginners. Third ed. 2011, New York, NY: Palgrave Macmillan.2. Reis, R.M., Tomorrow's Professor: Preparing for Careers in Science and Engineering. Electronic ed. 1997: Wiley-Interscience-IEEE.3. Wankat, P.C. and F.S. Oreovicz, Teaching engineering. 2015, West Lafayette, Indiana: Purdue University Press.4. Whicker, M.L., J.J. Kronenfeld, and R.A. Strickland, Getting tenure. Survival skills for scholars. 1993, Newbury Park: Sage Publications.5. Seldin, P., J.E. Miller, and C.A. Seldin, The Teaching Portfolio: A Practical Guide to Improved Performance and Promotion/Tenure Decisions. Fourth ed. 2010, San Francisco, CA: Jossey
preconceptions. This is particularly relevantwhen considered alongside Newcombe [8] who highlights these factors as beinginfluential in the selection of STEM career paths. A study by Britner and Pajares[9] examining the beliefs of middle school students relative to science furtheremphasizes the influence of self-efficacy, one's belief in one's ability to succeed inspecific situations, in terms of performance but also self-direction. This suggeststhat positive outcomes resulting from completion of the spatial skills intervention,previously observed with University student cohorts, have the potential toincrease STEM career path selection by females who have completed theintervention at the pre-college level. While the next round of the current study
Ebony O. McGee is an Assistant Professor of Diversity and Urban Schooling at Vanderbilt University’s Peabody College and a member of Scientific Careers Research and Development Group at Northwestern University. She received her Ph.D. in Mathematics Education from the University of Illinois at Chicago; and she was a National Academy of Education/Spencer Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow and a National Science Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow. As a former electrical engineer, she is concerned with sci- ence, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) learning and participation among historically marginalized students of color. Her research focuses on the role of racialized experiences and biases in STEM educational and
2016, a new interdisciplinary Energy Science and Engineering master anddoctoral graduate major degree program called the “energy course” was created withapproximately 140 faculty from 6 departments and approximately 100 students. To graduatefrom the master or doctoral energy course, students must complete energy theory, discipline-based and career oriented coursework, and prepare a research-based thesis. In this paper, bothenergy programs will be introduced, discussed and summarized based upon a best practices pointof view.Energy EducationEnergy and in particular renewable energy education and degree programs in higher educationhave been growing over the last two decades with the green economy1. For example, the Univ.California Berkeley’s
,technology, engineering, and math (STEM). The STEP program provides teacher trainingand curricula on Plug-in Electric Vehicles (PEVs), Smart Grid, and careers in science,engineering, and technology as it relates to the automotive and the supportinginfrastructure. The program has had an impact on over 1,500 students and teachers in therespective state since its inception. STEP’s curriculum is a STEM based program thatincludes problem-solving, critical thinking and inquiry-based learning with relevance toreal world issues. STEP includes a hands-on component, which includes a 1/10 scalemodel PEV as students learn about battery technologies, powertrain, chassis design andother related topics.The STEP competition gives students a relevant learning
Maura Borrego is Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Curriculum & Instruction at the University of Texas at Austin. She previously served as a Program Director at the National Science Foundation, on the board of the American Society for Engineering Education, and as an associate dean and director of interdisciplinary graduate programs. Her research awards include U.S. Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE), a National Science Foundation CAREER award, and two outstanding publication awards from the American Educational Research Association for her journal articles. Dr. Borrego is Deputy Editor for Journal of Engineering Education. All of Dr. Borrego’s degrees are in
, Oklahoma and then as a career adviser at U of M.Dr. Katy Luchini-Colbry, Michigan State University Katy Luchini-Colbry is the Director for Graduate Initiatives at the College of Engineering at Michigan State University, where she completed degrees in political theory and computer science. A recipient of a NSF Graduate Research Fellowship, she earned Ph.D. and M.S.E. in computer science and engineering from the University of Michigan. She has published dozens of peer-reviewed works related to her interests in educational technology and enhancing undergraduate education through hands-on learning. Luchini- Colbry is also the Director of the Engineering Futures Program of Tau Beta Pi, the Engineering Honor Society, which
. Progression in career (N2) D. How do you want to check if a candidate for this position possesses such skills, knowledge and competencies?Participants concurred that all candidates should be expected to demonstrate their knowledgeand skills during an interview and by teaching a class/seminar, as well as in the CV. 1. Interview – ask about state-of-the-art in their field; ask to explain the main concepts of the subject; check if they are prepared for an interview in Academia; provide case or real university life situations (N8). 2. CV - achievements; how many years at their last place; career progression (N7). 3. Teaching a seminar (N5). 4. Teaching statement (N2). 5. Evidence of