background in his future career in veterinary medicine via research and development in this field.Dr. Mostafa Elsaadany, University of Arkansas Dr. Mostafa Elsaadany is a Teaching Assistant Professor in the Department of Biomedical Engineering at the University of Arkansas. Dr. Elsaadany teaches Introduction to Biomedical Engineering, Biomechanical Engineering, Biomolecular Engineering, Senior Design, and Entrepreneurial Bioengineering. He is active in Engineering Education Research, where he studies different mentoring strategies to ensure historically marginalized groups’ academic and professional success. Further, he studies strategies for instilling the entrepreneurial mindset in engineering students and innovative
. Studentsvalue professors who are approachable, accessible, and have practical experience in the field.They appreciate staff who are helpful with administrative matters and technical support.Networking Opportunities. Students often recognize the importance of networking for theirfuture careers. They appreciate opportunities to interact with industry professionals, attendconferences, participate in internships, and engage with alumni.Flexibility and Adaptability. Given the rapidly evolving nature of technology and engineeringfields, students may value a learning environment that fosters adaptability. This could includeexposure to emerging technologies, cross-disciplinary learning, and a curriculum that can adaptto industry shifts.Safety and Compliance
States through a series of vignettes. Thevignettes were meant to capture the experiences during the several transitional points thatinternational women of color often go through, for example, their first experience of studying ata US institution, their entry in the United States, then completion of their degree, deciding to goin academia, industry or other career path, immigration challenges, etc. Those stories will workas a first stepping stone so that those women can be retained within the workforce and mentoredeffectively, and their well being are also taken care of.2. Guiding FrameworkTransnational Feminism [6] is used here to frame the global cultural contexts of internationalwomen’s experiences within the US-based engineering education
success and wellbeing [24, 25].The objective of this study is to explore the supports embedded in the gender-diverse socialnetworks of nonbinary engineering students. Specifically, we ask the question, how arenonbinary engineering students receiving supports from cisgender and transgender altersthat witness and mirror them as nonbinary engineers? We are interested in who supportsnonbinary engineers in their academic careers and how these individuals provide support that isaffirming to nonbinary individuals using a framework we developed for understanding nonbinaryindividuals’ social supports based on two existing frameworks.Conceptual FrameworkWe propose a conceptual framework for exploring the supporting roles of cisgender and trans*alters using
Paper ID #41476Navigating Transformational Resistance: Exploring Humanitarian EngineeringStudents’ Capacities for Addressing Systemic Causes of Infrastructure ServiceDisparitiesMs. Emma Sophie Stine, University of Colorado Boulder Emma Stine is pursuing a Ph.D. in Civil Engineering from the University of Colorado, Boulder, where she is researching student experiences before, during, and after attending a graduate program in humanitarian engineering, focusing on how these experiences influence career goals and outcome expectations. She is interested in how these goals align with social justice movements, including if and how
one standard error increase for thegroup after the Fellowship ended. These results suggest that multidisciplinary undergraduatescience communication fellowships with a cohort model may increase students’ confidence andself-efficacy in research. Other qualitative successes included students continuing theirextracurricular involvement in career-focused work after the program ended. The next step forthis research study is to conduct interviews with the students from prior cohorts to gainadditional insight into the potential broader impact of the program on student’s confidencewithin academia and in preparation for their future profession. We will continue to collect surveydata on future cohorts to grow our data set and get a more comprehensive
Paper ID #47866BOARD #135: The 2TO4 Project - Facilitated Transition from 2-Year to4-Year Electrical and Computer Engineering Studies by Building Student/FacultyNetworks (WIP)Dr. Kenneth A Connor, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Kenneth Connor is Program Officer at the Inclusive Engineering Consortium (IEC), whose mission is to enable MSI ECE programs to produce more and better prepared graduates from groups that have been historically underrepresented in ECE careers. He is also an emeritus professor in the Department of Electrical, Computer, and Systems Engineering (ECSE) at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) where
. A replica of the spacecraft now sits in the National Air and Space Museum. Pines’s current research focuses on structural dynamics, including structural health monitoring and prognosis, smart sensors, and adaptive, morphing and biologically-inspired structures, as well as the guidance, navigation, and control of aerospace vehi- cles. He is a fellow of the Institute of Physics, the American Society of Mechanical Engineers and the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, and has received an NSF CAREER Award. Pines received a B.S. in mechanical engineering from the University of California, Berkeley. He earned M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in mechanical engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
gravitational force of Dark Matter. Eachengineering department (system) has its own black hole where all of the elements of thedepartment process in orbit, as shown in Figure 3.2. The department chair, senior and juniorfaculty, staff, students, courses, new and mature research programs, federally research centersare all in orbit around the departmental black hole. Figure 3.2 also illustrates a damaged researchprogram and a struggling student and junior faculty member. This is a crowded orbit. In closeorbit to the black hole are the department chair and senior and ‘star’ faculty who, during thecourse of their careers, have developed enough momentum and skill to withstand thegravitational forces and opposing forces in this orbit and to assist others in
contributed to the training and development of faculty in developing and evaluating various engineering curriculum and courses at UPRM, applying the outcome-based educational framework. She has also incorporated theories on social cognitive career choices and student attrition mitigation to investigate the effectiveness of institutional interventions in increasing the retention and academic success of talented engineering students from economically disadvantaged families. She’s also involved in a project that explores the relationship between the institutional policies at UPRM and faculty and graduate students’ motivation to create good relationships between advisors and advisees.Dr. Christopher Papadopoulos, University of
engineering.Anna Glushko Evans, Kansas State University Graduate student at Kansas State University ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2023 A Qualitative Study of Undergraduate Women in Engineering Project TeamsAbstractOne intervention thought to foster women’s interest in engineering is introducing girls to STEMor engineering activities. The argument for this is that an increase in interest early in their liveswill lead to more women pursuing a career in engineering. The focus of our research is womenwho are thriving as undergraduate student leaders in engineering project teams. We employ amulti-case study method that involves a sequence of semi-structured interviews. This paperspeaks to the findings
Engineers (SHPE). She is a multifaceted servant leader, equity advocate, and researcher with experience across the non-profit, public, and private sectors. Upon completion of her Bachelor of Arts degree in International Development Studies at UCLA, she began a successful career in banking and finance at Bank of America, Merrill Lynch. Driven to pursue a career in public service, she completed her MPA at California State Polytechnic University, Pomona, and MBA at Cornell Tech. She was a leadership fellow in the Southern California Leadership Network’s Leadership LA program and recently completed her Diversity and Inclusion Certificate from eCornell. Currently, she is completing her doctoral studies at the USC Price
%) 12 (54.5%) 34 (54.0%) Agree 18 (43.9%) 10 (45.5%) 28 (44.4%) Disagree 1 (2.4%) - 1 (1.6%) Strongly Disagree - - - Total 41 22 63Table 10. I continue to enjoy teaching and I am glad that I chose it as a career path. Level of Agreement Engineering & Science Combined Total Technology Strongly Agree 19 (46.3%) 12 (54.5%) 31 (49.2%) Agree 18 (43.9
computing and included sample questions such as asking to what extent studentsagree that “I’m certain I can understand the ideas taught in computing courses.” These itemswere modified from the Motivated Strategies for Learning Questionnaire [39]. We adapted theitems to specifically ask students about their beliefs related to computing and used the same 5-point Likert scale (strongly disagree to strongly agree) as Matthews [40].Intent to Persist: Items for this construct measured students’ intent to persist, interest in computerscience careers, and perceived relevance of computer science to future/future time and content.These items asked students to what extent they were interested in taking more computer scienceclasses, interested in computer
). Throughout her engineering career, she has tried to integrate global engineering into her work. Most recently, she spent the final year of her PhD at the University of Cape Town, integrating her benchtop cardiovascular research into computational models. In 2018-2019, she spent a year living and working in Tanzania, in East Africa through the Fulbright US Scholar program, teaching and conducting clinical research. Now at UD, her scholarship work includes embedding global engineering opportunities into the engineering curriculum through study abroad programs, new courses, serving as an advisor for UD’s Engineers Without Borders, and hosting global design workshops. ©American Society for Engineering
STEM field. Based off of retention rate of female STEM students that graduate their engineering program. Career:X number of mentees participate in STEM related coop/job/upper- level courses. Set up meeting between 3 Mentor and Mentee Participation mentors and mentees to have casual meetings to discuss possible career paths in STEM. Survey. Hold social events to introduce women in STEM majors to one another and create comradery and friendships 4 Mentor & Mentee Satisfaction
STEM to make it the new norm. She 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
, the experience becomes an extended interview, from the companyperspective, where they are able to gain more insight into a potential hire than can be gleaned froma resume or typical short on-campus interview. The approach also has the benefit of still allowingthe partner company to potentially directly contact a student of interest for a formal interview thatcan lead to a full-time internship, co-op experience, or a full-time position upon degree completion.The target audience for this course is primarily students in their sophomore year of engineeringand beyond due to the baseline technical experience that the students have achieved at that pointin their academic career having experienced at least one year of college and completing at
informal learning environments. His recent projects include de- veloping and evaluating STEM-related programs, curriculums, and activities for children and their fami- lies, and conducting research on museum educators and their professional development.Ms. Yessenia Argudo, New York Hall of Science Yessenia holds a master of public health in community health education from CUNY School of Public Health and Public Policy. She has worked in various areas within public health including respectful maternal care, sexual and reproductive health, nutrition and global health. Her belief that ”knowledge is power” has fueled her career choices and led her to join NYSCI as a research and development assistant. She will be
, Teacher A developed curriculum materialsfocused on career pathways related to the field of neurotechnologies. For one of his lesson plans,Teacher A developed career biographies of CNT faculty, students, and staff across differentdisciplines represented in neurotechnology. Two of these biographies featured neuroethicsfaculty members and one featured a postdoctoral researcher from the neuroethics research group.The strategies described in this section demonstrate how teachers participating in the RETprogram had access to multiple professional learning opportunities centered on neuroethics. Inaddition, teachers designed curriculum materials that embedded neuroethics topics andpedagogical strategies for ethics education in the science classroom
including building tangible artifacts, design work, impacting society,fundamental technical knowledge, creativity, real-life application, problem-solving, andteamwork. The findings demonstrate diverse practices that drew different students to pursueengineering as a major and a career. This work can contribute to our understanding of howengineering courses can recognize and provide development opportunities for a wide variety ofengineering practices, ultimately supporting students in achieving their goals as engineers.Introduction & MotivationEngineering practice leverages a variety of technical and social knowledge and skills. However,engineering coursework tends to emphasize technical knowledge and skills required to practiceengineering work
many are enrolled in the school’s Humanitarian Engineering undergraduateminors. In contrast, Petroleum Engineering Seminar is a required course for petroleumengineering students that teaches CSR themes as part of its broader focus on professionaldevelopment. Both courses are almost exclusively taken by graduating seniors. For the purposesof this paper, we analyze one semester of data. In Fall 2017 the Seminar course was taught by aprofessor who held both a PhD in petroleum engineering and a JD and was appointed to thePetroleum Engineering Department. The course was grounded in project-based learning instudent groups, with a focus on practical application to student careers. The second author helpeddevelop the course activities and assignments
autoethnographies on female faculty in academia are limited [2, 11]. This researchgathered autoethnographic stories from three female faculty members in engineering, the authorsof this paper, who had also experienced gender bias in their teaching. This was then organizedinto a ”collective autoethnography”. The analysis and writing-up of the project were alsocompleted by the authors. According to Ellis’s autoethnographic principles [8], stories are centralto this paper. The literature presented and the emotions evoked after the stories are told is all doneto change the understanding of what it means to be a female instructor in the engineeringclassroom.The three authors of this paper are early-career faculty in small teaching-focused institutions.Two of the
response to identification of these systemic issues, in 2001 the National Science Foundationlaunched Institutional Transformation grants as a new initiative in the ADVANCE program.Research planning grants and career advancement grants supporting individual women werephased out, and greater emphasis was placed on systemic change within academic institutions[33]. From a review of 37 ADVANCE institutional transformation initiatives from 2001 to 2008,Morimoto and coauthors argued that creating equity in gendered organizations must go wellbeyond articulating policy, beyond attending to the needs of individuals, and beyond workingtoward balanced gender composition among the ranks of faculty, all of which they characterizedas surface-level work [5]. In
to succeed in a specific domain likeengineering [25]. Students who have reduced self-efficacy or do not exude confidence to otherscan also find themselves with more limited opportunities to productively work with others,which leads to a snowball effect and reduces confidence even further over the course of theundergraduate career. Low self-efficacy has been positively and significantly correlated to pooracademic performance and low persistence in a wide range of subjects and disciplines [26].Consistent feelings of being discouraged in a course are not simply about being in a bad mood,but instead are a handicap that, if not addressed, can carry over into other courses and into thestudent’s early career. As young professionals, these
225,500 graduate STEM degrees were awarded in the U.S.; 181,000 being masterdegrees and 44,500 were doctoral degrees [1], [2], [3] . According to the National ScienceFoundation (NSF) [4], URM graduate students only earned about 9% of the overall doctoraldegrees awarded in 2015 and about 13% of undergraduate degrees. This evidence suggests thatSTEM doctoral programs in the U.S. are severely deficient in representation from students ofdifferent racial and ethnic groups. This is a disturbing historical and contemporary trend thatuniversities should pay close attention because of the implications on America’s ability tocompete on a global level with nation states succeeding at preparing individuals for careers inSTEM fields.The participation of URM
host of valueswas described by the participants. These values were categorized as: career attainment; personalgrowth; mental health and wellness; purpose, responsibility, and obligation; agency and identityforming; and belonging and acceptance.Table 3: A summary of the different counterspaces and the categories they fall under Counterspaces Identity Professional Familial Wellbeing Black Graduate Engineering Student Society (BGESS) ● ● Black Greek Letter Organization (BGLO) ● ● Black Graduate Student Association (BGSA) ● Black Student Association (BSA
, especiallyin the area of career and technical education (CTE) or other science, technology, engineering,and mathematics courses such as Computer Aided Design (CAD) that normally have hands-on orlaboratory learning were not simple to convert to a virtual environment [3]. During the initialmove to remote instruction, these courses were challenged with providing access to high-endequipment or computing resources requiring high-speed internet, and they no longer couldbenefit from in-person, close-up demonstrations of proper technique or the opportunity forteachers to ascertain students’ proficiency of the material in real time [4]. There were concernsthat some students might not be receiving quality instruction in these courses, which wouldnegatively
has been honored by the American Society of Engineering Education with several teaching awards such as the 2004 National Outstanding Teaching Medal and the 2005 Quinn Award for experiential learning.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 Mexico. Rocio’s current efforts focus on engineering faculty and graduate student development, with particular emphasis on the adoption of evidence-based instructional practices.Ms
perceived needs from their future degree programs and careers. The variability of studentperceived needs itself leads to difficulty for instructors seeking to motivate and engage allstudents working toward learning objectives of the course, but it is further complicated by theprior knowledge of students. As varied as their expectations are, their levels of experiencerelating to the various learning outcomes of the course are equally diverse. Some students havecollege-level credit in programming, experience with robotics summer camps, or extensivebuilding/construction experience, while many other students had no opportunity to participate inthese kinds of activities. Working toward the goal of increasing retention and success ofengineering students