to coordinate/facilitate such an expansion, especially as the college’s enrollment andofferings continue to grow.Conclusion and future workUndertakings similar to the ones described in this paper have no doubt taken place at multipleinstitutions over the years. Yet, at least anecdotally, embedding a writing-focused faculty memberand communication-rich activities in an engineering curriculum is still uncommon enough thatmany of the comments from new colleagues at conferences about this work involve some versionof “This is such an important undertaking — I wish we had something similar!” It is a credit toany engineering institution that they would choose to devote funding and resources to enhancingtheir students’ discipline-focused
STEMeducation at the undergraduate level and beyond3,4.The nation of South Africa is also accelerating emphasis upon STEM education and careersamong its K-12 population. During a 46 year period, from 1948 to 1994, apartheid existedwhereby a majority of the nation’s population experienced educational discrimination-mathematics and science were no longer provided within the educational curriculum. Apartheidcategorized each South African citizen into one of four groups; “Whites”, “Indians”, “Coloreds”,and “Blacks”, whereby the privileges and status of each group decreased in alignment with theaforementioned order. Even though South Africa has made great strides since 1994, the legacyof such an extended period of educational discrimination has kept South
particularly focus on what prevents students from being able to integrate and extend the knowledge developed in specific courses in the core curriculum to the more complex, authentic problems and projects they face as professionals. Dr. Koretsky is one of the founding members of the Center for Lifelong STEM Education Research at OSU.Dr. Susan Bobbitt Nolen, University of Washington Susan Bobbitt Nolen is Professor Emerita of Learning Sciences & Human Development at the University of Washington. She earned her PhD in Educational Psychology at Pudue University. Her current research interests focus on student engagement in engineering practices and social interaction during learning activ- ity, and their relationship to
compensate for days when you are unable to attend class. No make-up quizzes willbe given. Quizzes will be closed book with no calculators unless otherwise stated.Final Exam. There will be a final exam on the last day. This will be closed book except for onepage of notes.Project. The project will be a team activity that emphasizes creative engineering design usingpre- calculus math skills. This will culminate in a design competition.Academic Integrity The University’s Code of Academic Integrity will be fully enforced and can be found at [website].Program Evaluation You will be invited to submit an evaluation of the program on the last day. Your feedback is important and all responses are confidential. Schedule of Topics Day
class engineers for the Americas. He is actively involved in the International Division of the American Society for Engineering Education and in the Latin American and Caribbean Consortium of Engineering Institution (LACCEI) as Vice-President for Finance.Dr. Uladzislau Ivashyn, Pennsylvania State University Uladzislau Ivashyn is an Instructor in Engineering at Pennsylvania State University. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2016Developing a learning module to enhance motivation and self-efficacy ofstudents participating in multinational design projectsThe rapid developments in communications along with the global integration of resources aroundthe world are making the creation of global
Equity and Sustainability in Engineering which re-designs and re-centers engineeringeducation around a mission-driven focus on sustainability and the core equity practices thatstudents from underrepresented groups identify as drivers of their success. The Centerreimagines engineering education from the ground up at a new and separate location,implementing an integrated package of best practices in a way that existing infrastructure andinstitutions cannot. It provides a supportive, inclusive community where students learnengineering by working in teams on hands-on multidisciplinary engineering challenges andevery student can develop the competence, confidence, and connections they need to thrive inengineering.In the existing higher education
education [46], [47], [48],[49].To hone in on the importance of adopting autoethnography in an ECE educational context, wepostulate that this method can uncover and emphasize the lived curriculum by BLV students inECE education [50], [51], [52]. In reality, even with extensive prior planning, educators anddisability support officers (DSOs) cannot fully predict the impact of their accessibility measureson the realistic experience of an incoming BLV student to an introductory ECE course. Thisdifference between the educators’, DSOs’, and students’ expectations and experiences gives riseto the aforementioned lived curriculum. We believe that autoethnography can afford educatorsand DSOs a deeper understanding of the reality of being a BLV student in an
(Tech.) (MERGED) Dr. Wright is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Teaching, Learning, & Curriculum in Drexel University’s School of Education. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2025 “Three strikes, you’re out… actually, that’s four strikes”: Transgressive Teacher and Student Humor in a Pre-College Engineering Classroom George Schafer (they/them), Christopher Wright (he/him) Drexel University School of EducationCoNECD Presentation Page 1 of 22OVERVIEWIntroductionContext of StudyHumor and EquityTheoretical ApproachThemes from AnalysisConclusionCoNECD Presentation Page 2 of 22 CONTEXT OF STUDY
College, where her primary role is to coordinate data collection, interpretation and dissemination to support teaching and learning, planning and decision-makinLeah Mendelson, Harvey Mudd College Leah Mendelson is an Associate Professor of Engineering at Harvey Mudd College.Steven Santana, Harvey Mudd College ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2024 The Impact of Diaries and Reflection on Self-Assessments of Learning in a First-Year Undergraduate Engineering Design CourseAbstractThis work-in-progress (WIP) paper communicates the impact of diary and reflection activities onstudents’ self-assessments of their learning in a first-year, studio-format undergraduateengineering design course
SVSM educational supports that are not currently(or effectively) being offered at the PI’s institution, and potentially are other regional partnerinstitutions:1) an anti-deficit, assets-based military student awareness training for faculty, staff,administration, and non-military students that can be tailored for use within the college ofengineering as well as the university as a whole, and2) a stakeholder-responsive, semester-long engineering orientation-style seminar for militaryand nontraditional students soon after they enroll in the college of engineering.Both the assets-based awareness training and the engineering orientation-style seminar are beingdeveloped in ways (i.e., online resources, remotely accessible, modular curriculum design
independently reifiable processthat just happened to be located somewhere; learning is an integrated part of generative socialpractice in the lived-in world” (Lave & Wenger, 1991, p. 35). However, this promising frameworkfaces challenges in being fully implemented in a formal academic setting. For example, our earlyresults showed the lack of tools that instructors can use to measure the effectiveness of CoP in anacademic setting (Díaz et al., 2022b, Díaz et al., 2023b). CoP-based surveys that were developedin other contexts, like the Community Assessment Toolkit (CAT: Verburg & Andriessen, 2006),were not appropriate to use in graduate engineering students, while other methodologies relyheavily or exclusively on time-consuming qualitative
Curriculum (CxC) program has found that byincluding communication assignments as part of traditional engineering assignments, thetraditional content was not sacrificed by the inclusion of communication assignments, but wasenhanced and facilitated learning at higher levels on Bloom’s taxonomy.5 In the Humanities, ithas long been suggested that a diversity of discourse leads to innovative thinking.6,7 At ourinstitution, we decided that the Encounter Engineering in Europe (E3) program was an excellentplace to include assignments designed to promote creativity, such as open-form essay writing,video creation, and multi-modal travel blogging, as a complement to more traditionalassignments, such as argumentative papers and researched reports, all of which
backgrounds to successfully transfer to and persist in theengineering program at UCI. The designed program targets the population of students who havethe ambition to pursue engineering degrees, but often lack the resources or exposure toengineering opportunities. The program was developed to help combat low persistence rates andlong times to completion within the transfer student population. The goal of the project is toincrease the number of community college students who successfully transfer to an engineeringmajor at a 4-year institution and to improve the transfer student experience in engineering byproviding co-curriculum cohort activities to prepare for STEM careers or graduate studies. Co-curricular activities include a mentoring program as
with the scholarship of teaching and learning, focusing on experiential pedagogies and inclusive assessment. She is the author of the textbook, COVID-19 and Society (2022, Oxford University Press). Katherine holds a Certificate on Curriculum and Pedagogy in Higher Education from the International Program for the Scholarship of Educational Leadership and is a recipient of the 2023 Outstanding Contribution to Teaching Award from the Canadian Sociological Association.Dr. Robyn Newell, University of British Columbia Dr. Robyn Newell is an Assistant Professor of Teaching in the School of Biomedical Engineering at the University of British Columbia. Her teaching initiatives focus on developing experiential, problem
Paper ID #34332Thinking as Argument: A Theoretical Framework for Studying how FacultyArrive at Their Deeply-held Beliefs About Inequity in EngineeringJeremy Grifski, Ohio State University Jeremy Grifski is a Graduate Research Associate in the department of Engineering Education at The Ohio State University. Previously, he completed an undergraduate degree in Computer Engineering at Case Western Reserve University and went on to work for General Electric Transportation as a part of their Edison Engineering Development Program. Recently, Jeremy completed a Master’s in Computer Science and Engineering under Dr. Atiq and is
. Ciston, on the other hand, first assisted in engineeringeducation data collection as a graduate student volunteer. Her training consisted of readingliterature work, then specific training and role-playing for an experimental protocol on observingengineering group dynamics, and finally collecting study data. Early in her faculty career, shetrained with Mike Hollis, who has a background in anthropology and engineering education, inqualitative research methods including the use of grounded theory. She has been applying thesemethodologies to the study of adult students since 2010, and has been conducting student focusgroups aimed at curriculum assessment since 2010.Think-aloud protocolsIn a think-aloud protocol, a study participant is given a
in students’ work and whether such socialaspects can be learned within the timeframe of a course. A predominant focus on technicalaspects in teaching and learning engineering [2], [17], combined with cultural stereotypes of whocan become an engineer, leave many at the margins of solutions rather than at the center of them[18], [19]. Less attention has been given to incorporating into the curriculum the myriad ofsocietal factors that influence engineering processes and products. Our research suggests thatengineers will consider the lived experiences of people and their communities in their work whenthey become aware of the role of broader societal issues in engineering, thereby opening uppossibilities for better and more equitable solutions
, and engineering education. He received the 2015 Presidential Award for Excellence in Science, Mathematics, and Engineering Mentoring.Prof. Said Fariabi, San Antonio College Chair of Mathematics, Architecture, physics and Engineering at San Antonio College.Mrs. Simona Dana Dimitriu, Northside ISD Simona D. Dimitriu practiced engineering since 1981 for 20 years and following a graduate degree in education started teaching science since 2007 and math since 2002. She has been involved in numerous initiatives to integrate engineering in science and math education and combine education research with education practice.Mrs. Lisa Marie Baker, Northside ISD Lisa Baker is honored to be the principal of Communications Arts
Relating Sociocultural Identities to What Students Perceive asValuable to their Professional and Learning Efficacy When Engaging in Virtual Engineering LabsAbstractVirtual, online, and digital learning tools can be used to provide equity in access to STEMknowledge. These tools also serve as the building blocks for personalized learning platforms. Theassessment instrument, Student Perceived Value of an Engineering Laboratory (SPVEL) wasdeveloped to ascertain the impact and efficacy of virtual and in-person engineering laboratories in21st-century undergraduate curriculum. SPVEL addresses an emerging need for assessingengineering labs that take place in a myriad of environments in higher education, i.e., in-person,virtual, and
mentors.Students reported that the cohort seemed to work well together or “function as one” despite a largeage gap between participants. There was a wide range of different types of groups formed; somewere more cooperative throughout the duration of the program, some worked better as a collectionof individuals who contacted each other only when questions came up. No participant reportedbeing unhappy in their cohort and only had compliments for their groupmates.Participants also praised the seminar portion of the program, especially that which emphasizedsocial obligation and community outreach efforts, as it is an important part of the field that rarelygets talked about in the core curriculum classes. The sense of community awareness and socialskills was
instruction. She is involved in the University of Manitoba Faculty of Engineering’s curriculum improve- ment process.Dr. Marcia R Friesen P.Eng., University of ManitobaProf. Sandra Ingram, University of Manitoba Sandra Ingram, Ph.D., is a SSHRC award-winning scholar and Associate professor in Design Engineer- ing, Associate Chair (NSERC Design Engineering) and adjunct professor in Biosystems Engineering at the University of Manitoba in Winnipeg, Canada. Dr. Ingram is responsible for teaching the technical communication course in the faculty as well as an integrated approach to communications in the Biosys- tems Engineering department. Her research interests include professional skills in engineering, interna- tionally
curriculum. Third, it discusses the interview results and learning outcomes. The casestudy of “intellectual property right”, a deeply controversial topic in the US-China tradenegotiation is chosen to open up the ontological inquires toward global engineering ethics.Finally, the paper reflects on the question of ethical diversity in engineering education andexplain why we argue that global classroom could be an effective method for understanding theconstruction of differences, bridging cross-cultural barriers and overcoming biases in the era ofUS-China trade war.Engineering Ethics Education in the US and China Engineering ethics is a widely taught subject in the US university engineering school.Since 2000, the U.S. Accreditation Board for
competence on theseparticipants. This paper reports on the camp activities, describes the survey results as well asanecdotal observations, and analyzes outcomes from the survey and the overall program. © American Society for Engineering Education, 2024 2024 ASEE Southeast Section ConferenceBackgroundSTEMTank was inspired by the Shark Tank television show. The camp, curriculum, genesis, andgoals are described in detail elsewhere [8]. In summary, STEMTank challenges participants todesign, build, and test an engineered prototype that addresses or solves an open-ended, real-world(often community-based) technical problem. College student mentors from SF and UF supporthigh school participants, evoking
Paper ID #23942Promoting the STEM Pipeline and Enhancing STEM Career Awareness ThroughParticipation in Authentic Research Activities (RTP, Diversity)Dr. Bugrahan Yalvac, Texas A&M University Bugrahan Yalvac is an associate professor of science and engineering education in the Department of Teaching, Learning, and Culture at Texas A&M University, College Station. He received his Ph.D. in science education at the Pennsylvania State University in 2005. Prior to his current position, he worked as a learning scientist for the VaNTH Engineering Research Center at Northwestern University for three years. Yalvac’s
innovations into courses (Peer Instruction, Project-based learning), is responsible for TA training (preparing next generation faculty), serves as faculty advisor to student or- ganizations, hears cases of academic misconduct as a member of the Academic Integrity Review Board, and is committed to fostering a supportive environment for diverse students at UCSD by serving on the faculty advisory board for the IDEA Student Center. Her research is focused on engagement strategies for large classrooms and the development of K-16 curriculum in earthquake engineering. Page 26.1668.1 c American
Paper ID #38906Research Data Sharing in Engineering: A Report on Faculty Practices andPreferences Prior to the Tri-Agency PolicyMs. Sarah Parker, University of British Columbia, Vancouver Sarah Parker is an engineering librarian at the University of British Columbia where she also received her MLIS in 2014. She regularly promotes and contributes to open scholarship activities at UBC and incorporates her interest in open science and using open resources into her teaching. In addition to her liaison role, she aids in graduate student programming for UBC’s Research Commons and co-teaches the Science and Technology Information
´enez is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Engineering Education (EED) and an affiliate faculty to the Department of Chemical Engineering at the University of Florida. Her research focuses on understanding the role of engineering communities while enacting their agency in participatory and transformational change. She is particularly interested in broadening the participation of minoritized communities by studying the role of professional development in shaping organizational cultures. As an education practitioner, she also looks at evidence-based practices to incorporate social responsibility skills and collaborative and inclusive teams into the curriculum. Dr. Rivera-Jim´enez graduated from the University
among students toward the subject matter [9].Undergraduate education faces substantial challenges, notably observed in expansive universitylecture classes [10, 11]. These challenges stem from increasing class sizes that make itprogressively arduous for college instructors to motivate students for class preparation andparticipation in discussions. To address this issue, integrating student-led group lecture deliveriesinto the curriculum has been proposed as a potential solution in this study. The importance ofstudent engagement, especially within group interactions, is instrumental in cultivating essentialskills crucial for academic success and holistic development [10]. This emphasis on activestudent involvement spurred further investigation
an undergraduate student at Utah State University. She is pursuing a bachelor’s degree in Civil Engineering with a minor in geology. Her research interests include determining spatial ability patterns in engineering students and testing spatial ability in underrepresented populations.Dr. Wade H. Goodridge, Utah State University Wade Goodridge is a tenured Associate Professor in the Department of Engineering Education at Utah State University. His research lies in spatial thinking and ability, curriculum development, and professional development in K-16 engineering teaching. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2024Work in Progress: Assessing the Reliability of the Tactile Mental
puta lot of effort in reducing the dropout rate of part-time engineering students, particularly focusingon dropout that occurs during the freshmen year. With this objective in mind and knowing that thestudents’ experience with the first calculus course is an important variable that may lead a studentto abandon his career plan, we decided to implement active learning methodologies [6] to teachthat course to part-time students. As [7] states, active learning methodologies may directlyinfluence social integration and indirectly affect the student’s dropout decision.In this paper, we introduce what we call Guided-Lecture Team Based Learning (GL-TBL), whichis a learning methodology whose core relies on the well-known Team Based Learning (TBL