Undergraduate Engineering Outreach 1MotivationWhen undergraduate engineering students participate in various forms of community outreachthrough an ambassador-style group, the mission is often to promote engineering and engineering-related careers to K-12 students and their families, and increase interest in engineering amonghistorically underserved populations. Yet, the preparation and delivery of outreach activities mayalso impact the undergraduate students. In this Work in Progress paper we present the earlyfindings of a project seeking to identify common practices among university-based, ambassadorprograms, with a view to informing communities of researchers and practitioners. We exploredthree questions [1]: (1) What similarities and differences are
Paper ID #26719Work in Progress - The GPA Trajectories of Engineering StudentsMr. Hassan Ali Al Yagoub, Purdue University-Main Campus, West Lafayette (College of Engineering) Hassan Al Yagoub is a Ph.D. student in Engineering Education at Purdue University. His research in- terests include diversity & inclusion, students’ persistence, advising and mentoring, engineering career pathways, and school-to-work transition of new engineers. He holds a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and a M.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Georgia Institute of Technology. Prior to beginning his doctoral
math, offering Statway and Quantway as alternative developmentalcourse sequences that progress students “to and through” their college mathematicssequence. Statway and Quantway utilize a non-traditional intuitive problem-based andcollaborative learning pedagogy. Statway and Quantway Pathways engage students inthe statistical and quantitative reasoning concepts increasingly seen as more relevant tomany students’ educational and career goals than those in the traditional algebraicsequence (Huang 2018). Although there is nothing completely new under the sun, thisteaching and learning methodology puts several components together in a homogenousclassroom operation. Essentially it's answering that collective student question, “am Iever going to use
Paper ID #25584Work in Progress: Exploring the Attributes of a Prototypical Leader AsViewed by Undergraduate Engineering StudentsProf. Carmen Maria Lilley, University of Illinois, Chicago Dr. Lilley’s research interests in engineering education focus on professional development of engineering students at the undergraduate and graduate level. In particular, she is interested in the nuances of how the intersection of race/ethnicity with gender affects professional development in the area of leadership and the long term career trajectory of an individual. Her other research interests are focused on syntheses of low
careers, research isclear that providing students autonomy in their learning environment fosters collaboration andstudent-driven learning [8]–[10]. After completing their chosen subcomponents, students thencombined their parts in order to create the completed circuit. Attendance is voluntary and is notfactored into students’ grades. The lessons are developed by the Graduate Teaching Assistant(GTA) and are complete with step-by-step instructions. An example circuit is shown in Figure 1.The remaining lessons can be found in an online repository [11].Surveys were distributed to students at the end of the semester. Survey questions were pairedsuch that we could compare students’ assessment of #FunTimesWithTheTA with that of thenormal course. We
science, technology, engineering, and mathematics. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press, 2011.[2] White House, “STEM for all,” 2016 [Online]. Available: https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/blog/2016/02/11/stem-all.[3] B. N. Geisinger and D. R. Raman, “Why they leave: Understanding student attrition from engineering majors,” International Journal of Engineering Education, vol. 29, no. 4, pp. 914-925, 2013.[4] C. Adelman, Women and men of the engineering path: A model for analyses of undergraduate careers. Washington, DC: U.S. Department of Education, 1998.[5] J. Blickenstaff, “Women and science careers: Leaky pipeline or gender filter?” Gender and Education, vol. 17, no. 4, pp. 369-386, 2005
sport (wrestling) as an entry to engage Baltimorestudents both after school and in the summers with sport training, financial literacy, and STEMeducation. It is a non-profit youth development program that combines amateur wrestling withmentoring and academic development. The overarching aim is to enhance personal development,discipline, and sense of self-efficacy along with concrete skills and knowledge in areas relevantfor overall career and life success. The summer STEM (and financial literacy) program drawsprimarily minority male students who are already high school athletes. The program typicallyenrolls 30 students between the ages of 14-18. All participants attend Baltimore City Public HighSchools. The six-week summer program has elements
while institutions publicly endorsed Broader Impact relatedactivities (for example, community engagement), the tenure and promotion policies “did notrecognize such activities” nor was there sufficient funding and infrastructure to support theirBroader Impact activities provided13 (p. 82).Another study sought to examine the attitudes and understandings of Broader Impacts criterion of31 faculty members by looking at NSF Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) awardees,from the Engineering Directorate, at four high research institutions. The CAREER Program is aNational Science Foundation-wide activity that offers the “most prestigious awards in support ofjunior faculty who exemplify the role of teacher-scholars through outstanding research
components within nuclear power plants in the midwest. In her current role, she teaches, mentors, and advises first and second year Ohio State engineering students in their pursuit of a degree and career in engineering. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2017 Engagement in Practice: One Program’s Approach to Creating a Strong NetworkAbstractThe Toy Adaptation Program (TAP) currently has partners in engineering and health, interestedin profit and non-profit work, and who are individuals and organizations. This intricate networkwas developed over the last four years and brings together a variety of stakeholders interested intoy adaptation. Toy adaptation is the
talk.However, studies have shown that most children have limited knowledge regarding engineers,and this lack of knowledge can often persist into adulthood.19-21 Common careers such asfirefighter, nurse, and teacher are prevalent because they are readily recognizable and have jobdescription that have been simplified for children. Engineering on the other hand lacks asimplistic explanation due to its complexity and diversity of foci. Children often associateengineers as someone who operates a train (which is actually a matter of semantics depending onthe region), a person who fixes cars (auto mechanic) or someone in construction, which are alsocommon associations with adults as well.21-23 Parents that perpetuate these beliefs can potentiallypass down
Paper ID #24867Mississippi Coding Academies: A Nontraditional Approach to ComputingEducationDr. Sarah B. Lee, Mississippi State University Sarah Lee joined the faculty at Mississippi State University (MSU) after a 19 year information tech- nology career at FedEx Corporation. As an associate clinical professor and assistant department head in the Computer Science and Engineering Department, she is co-founder and co-director of the Bull- dog Bytes program at MSU that engages K-12 students with computing and provides trans-disciplinary professional development to K-12 teachers in computer science and cybersecurity. She is
engineering program innovation and diverse STEM workforce development. Her recent research focuses on student veterans’ civilian acculturation through higher education.Ms. Rachel Saunders, UNC Charlotte Rachel Saunders is a doctoral candidate at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte in the Coun- selor Education and Supervision Program. Her research focuses primarily on culturally responsive school counseling, college and career readiness, and experiences of student veterans in higher education. She serves as a Research Assistant at UNC Charlotte as part of a Office of Naval Research grant supporting student veterans and engineering curriculum innovation.Dr. Peter Thomas Tkacik, University of North Carolina at Charlotte
, most crucially, an activedesign studio. The course set is taught under the aegis of an established cross-university, cross-disciplinary entity - the Coastal Community Design Collaborative. The overarching objective isto model effective trans-disciplinary collaborative research and design in teaching, learning, andproductivity.Specifically, the research asks: What pedagogic tools, curricular support, and teaching strategiescan foster trans-disciplinary collaboration among students from engineering, architecture, andscience programs? It seeks to evaluate impacts on students’ short- and long-term career interestsand it asks: What shifts in focus and methods are required for faculty toeffectively lead a trans-disciplinary design studio?The most
faculty members at institutions that focus more onresearch output. A study by Feldon et al suggests that teaching professional development canimprove research methodological skills, which can improve research productivity [5]. Facultywho engage in teaching professional development also need less time to prepare for class, andthus, can spend more time on other responsibilities like research.Second, engaging in teaching professional development is linked to adoption of research-basedteaching practices [6]. Future faculty, however, report a lack of structured professionaldevelopment opportunities that prepare them for their future faculty careers [7]. Engineeringdisciplines are ideal spaces and communities of action to engage future faculty in
international students will already befully apprenticed into the target discursive practices of their field. While many students whoenter into U.S. institutions of Higher Education may take a number of academic writing coursesin their undergraduate career by means of an Intensive English Program or other EnglishLanguage Program, many of these courses do not place emphasis on the advanced, technical, andfield-specific writing skills needed to successfully navigate the academic and scholarlyenvironment. Indeed, these courses typically focus on genres of essay writing (e.g., expository,descriptive, narrative, argumentative) instead of scientific, disciplinary genres that are crucial inthe process of developing theses and dissertations as well as in the
college students (FGCS) face considerable obstacles to college success,including a lack of role models in the family, a lack of familial mentoring and support, a lack offamiliarity with the college climate, and, generally, lower socioeconomic status [1-6]. They tendto be less academically prepared for college, and English is not their native language for a higherproportion than of continuing-generation college students (CGCS) [3]. However, in many ways,recent research suggests that FGCS are very similar to CGCS. They respond to the same factorsencouraging college persistence and success [7-8], and often demonstrate considerable “grit” inpursuing their undergraduate careers (9), a factor instrumental in undergraduate achievement.Indeed, Boone and
first-generationcollege students [9, 10].The CAMP-YES program design is based on the attributes described above, which are known topromote academic success, especially for under-represented groups. CAMP-YES is a S-STEMprogram funded by the National Science Foundation with a goal of preparing academicallyjjjjtalented, financially needy students to successfully transition to the workforce, graduate school,or create/work at a startup company. This diverse, cohort-based program has 124 junior andsenior STEM students (48% First Generation, 28% Women, 39% Hispanic, and 11% AfricanAmerican). CAMP-YES students choose from three career preparation pathways (Internship,Research, or Entrepreneurship Path) to explore their professional interests and make
senior year of undergraduate programs, first year, andsecond year of graduate programs.The NSF GRFP written research proposals are valuable documents for engineering educationresearchers who study the ways in which graduate engineering socialize into the roles,expectations, and norms of their academic research disciplines. Because the fellowship programis open to only early-career graduate students, the written statements capture the languagepatterns and characteristics of students transitioning from being consumers of knowledge (at theundergraduate level) to producers of knowledge as graduate students. As part of a larger researchinitiative studying engineering writing and argumentation patterns of winners of the NSF GRFP,in this study, we seek
among the STEM disciplines and achieve deep understanding. Her work focuses on defining STEM integration and investigating its power for student learning. Tamara Moore received an NSF Early CAREER award in 2010 and a Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE) in 2012. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2016 Saving Pelicans: A STEM Integration Unit (CurriculumExchange) TargetGradeLevel:5-8 EngrTEAMSEngineering to Transform the Education of Analysis, Measurement, & Science Authors and Contact: S. Selcen Guzey Tamara J. Moore
. They are prompted to relate any obstacles they have faced. Many studentsdescribe family situations that have seriously impeded their academic career. They are alsoexpected to explain how the scholarship will help financially. If they have an off-campus job,they are to show that the scholarship will reduce their workload. In an informal survey of MESAstudents, the Director found that many students typically work 20 hours per week forapproximately $10/hour.The call for applications goes out in April. Information is provided to the students through theSTARSS website, the MESA/TRiO SSS STEM programs, and announcements by STEM facultyin classes. Students are to arrange for a letter of recommendation for a STEM faculty member bymid-May. The
concern or question expressed on pre-experience survey was: how can successfulwomen achieve work/life balance and have success in both family and career? Other commonconcerns expressed by participants on the pre-program surveys included: overcoming feelings of“inadequacy” or the imposter syndrome;1 how to speak up when silenced, interrupted, orignored; and how to negotiate for what participants need to be successful.The qualitative responses, both on the pre-program survey and from observations of discussionin the first session, suggest a deeper motivation for participating: many participants feel isolatedin their work. For the participants in this project, the presence of a structured and facilitatedprogram offered certain advantages over less
authored/co-authored over a hundred technical papers and reports during his career in private industry, government and academia. His current research interests are nearshore wave transformations, coastal structures, tsunami inundation, hurricane surges, high performance computing, and engineering education. Page 26.73.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2015 A New Coastal Engineering Graduate ProgramAbstractA Master of Science degree in Engineering with a Coastal Engineering concentration has beenapproved, students enrolled and several graduates are scheduled for
translation, butother projects have utilized students with no experience speaking Chinese. In one project,students traveled to China at the beginning of the semester to assess client needs by interviewingworkers, and on two projects, students did the bulk of the research, modeling, analysis, andprototyping at UD, but then traveled to the company location in Suzhou, China, to implement thesolution. In the case of students traveling to China, all expenses were covered by the industrypartner.Finding the right talent for employment at industry partners in China is especially challenging.During UDCI’s first year, a company information session and career fair was organized to bringtogether some of UDCI’s industry and education partners. About 150 students
include gender in engineering education research, interdisciplinarity, peer review, engineers’ epistemologies, and global engineering education. Page 26.626.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2015 Engineering Faculty Members’ Discussing the Role of University Policy in Addressing UnderrepresentationIntroductionDespite over thirty years of research and outreach to recruit and retain female engineeringstudents, women remain significantly underrepresented in engineering.1 While a large amount ofliterature has been generated on gender inequalities in faculty careers, no
curriculum to support students in math-based careers at the community college level for nearly 20 years. She has been Co-PI and PI on NSF grants that seek to increase the numbers of professionals in STEM with focused recruitments on the underrepresented minority populations. Page 26.949.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2015 Increasing Success and Retention in Engineering and other STEM FieldsIntroductionThe two prominent and related needs for solutions to climate change and more STEM andengineering majors, brought about the Science, Technology
large gains over pre-vious curricula 39 . Jara found that students in Automatics and Robotics at the Universityof Alicante significantly improved their efficacy and performance following a “learning bydoing” approach using a remote robotic laboratory called RobUALab 42 . Cannon positivelyreviewed a University of Minnesota robotics day camp for middle school youth designed toinspire minorities and women to pursue careers in STEM through hands-on learning 24 . Thiswork aims to provide additional support for these findings. This work is based on the hypothesis that in addition to engagement, the proposed ap-proach will also positively affect students’ academic success by boosting self-efficacy, theperceived ability to complete a task and reach
- Page 26.1156.2year college bottleneck courses within three weeks. Each team is required to prepare a poster,presentation, and report. Exposing undergraduate students to research projects early in theiracademic career has been demonstrated, with strong evidence of success, to improve student-persistence. The survey data from the first year SRP also supports this approach. 3. First Year SRPSRP is an integral part of the MERIT program. This activity was offered for the first time duringsummer 2014 to TAMU-K students in their freshman or sophomore year who had activelyparticipated in the EMT program and to community college students from South Texas. The totalnumber of students participated in 2014 summer was 24, which exceeded the proposed
the University of Colorado Boulder. Jacob researches brain-machine interfaces, neural prosthetic devices, and engineering education.Mr. Brian Huang, Sparkfun Electronics Brian Huang is an Education Engineer for SparkFun Electronics, a cutting edge open-source hardware and electronics education company. Brian started his career in engineering with wireless transport tech- nologies for ADC Telecommunications in Minneapolis, MN. While working at ADC, Brian volunteered at the Science Museum of Minnesota and quickly discovered a passion for teaching and working with students - especially in an environment that fostered and supported the ”wow” factor associated with in- quiry and discovery. In 2007, Brian left the world
group,percentage of female and underrepresented minority participants (URM), and number ofparticipants (N). The values in parentheses indicate the percentage of those groups inthe general college of engineering population. Some organization names were changed topreserve anonymity of the institution.Team Purpose Females URM N (23%) (7%) (12%)SHLab Sustainable, human centered 48% 10% 170 designSociety of Women Stimulate women to achieve full 96% 5% 202Engineers (SWE) potential in careers as engineers (14
because Making is being championed by educational leaders across the country – aswell as the White House and President Obama himself – as a catalyst for developing interest andunderstanding in STEM. Indeed, if Making is to be acknowledged as a prominent pathway toscience and engineering careers, then it is increasingly problematic for it to be yet anothercontext in which the persistent underrepresentation of women and people of color tends to bereified – despite, of course, the fact that all communities and cultures have been engaged indesign and generative practices throughout history and circumstance.In seeking to contribute to the knowledge base about how to better engage underrepresentedgroups – and in particular, people of color – in Making