larger quantitative studies examining engineeringor technology programs specifically. In one study on retention of engineering students afterfreshman year, several pre-existing factors were evaluated quantitatively to understand if theyhad any statistical impact on engineering student success [41]. This study used a multi-universitydatabase which contained information on 87,176 students from 9 universities to predictgraduation using six variables (ethnicity, gender, high school GPA, SAT Math score, SATVerbal score and citizenship status). The results of this analysis revealed that high school GPA,gender, ethnicity, quantitative SAT scores, verbal SAT scores, and citizenship were eachsignificant predictors of graduation although different models
Educational Leadership and Policy Studies from the University of Kansas, her M.S. in Student Affairs in Higher Education from Colorado State University, and her B.A. in Economics from Washington State University. Sylvia’s research centers on the educational attainment and schooling experiences of Mexican descent youth in the mid-20th cen- tury, higher education student success, and the principal-counselor pre-service professional relationship. She teaches foundations, research, and supervised practice courses in the Educational Leadership MA Programs and the Leadership, Research, and Policy Ph.D. Program. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2017 A Symbiotic Solution
student studying Industrial and Systems Engineering at The Ohio State University. In addition to working on undergraduate research in the Department of Engineering Education she is an Undergraduate Teaching Assistant for the Fundamentals of Engineering program for first-year engineering students.Amy Kramer P.E., Ohio State University Amy Kramer is a graduate student and research associate at The Ohio State University in the Engineering Education Department. She earned a B.S. and M.S. in Civil Engineering from The Ohio State Univer- sity in 2010 and 2013, respectively. Most recently she worked as a structural engineering consultant in Columbus, OH where she specialized in the design of reinforced concrete and steel
Education, vol. 110, no. 1, pp. 19–43, 2021, doi: 10.1002/jee.20377.[28] K. Moore, N. R. Johnson, F. Sánchez, and W. R. Hargrove, “The Politics of Citation Practices in Engineering Education: A Citation Analysis of Intersectionality,” presented at the 2021 American Society of Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition, 2021.Appendix A Rubric Item Notes What population(s), institutions, or organizations are analyzed through the article? What identity markers are explored? Are the above identity markers privileged? Historically oppressed? How and who is credited when describing intersectionality? How is the history of the concept studied? Is intersectionality given a cursory
reducing bias and enhancing academic integrity. The systemwas piloted in undergraduate chemical engineering courses, providing initial evidence of itsviability. Through a comprehensive analysis comparing student outcomes under traditional andanonymous grading methods, the study seeks to empirically validate the effectiveness ofanonymous grading in improving student performance and psychological well-being,contributing to the development of more equitable educational practices.IntroductionAcademic evaluation has traditionally been dominated by exams and quizzes. While widelyused, these conventional approaches have come under scrutiny for their potential to perpetuateimplicit biases. Among these, the halo and horn effects [1][2] stand out, where an
work should be built. Appropriating the turtle in 1 It is important to note, this is the first CS course, since UC Berkeley has been tracking student course data, thathas ever achieved that feat.the LOGO programming environment gave children a way to think about the principles ofcomputation and the practice of programming.Design of an Inclusive CS0 CourseAt UC Berkeley, there are two separate ways a students can get a CS degree. They can either get aBachelor of Arts (B.A.) through the College of Letters and Sciences (L&S), or get a Bachelor ofScience (B.Sc.) through the College of Engineering. The major difference between the two tracksis that students who get the B.A. get to take breadth requirements that gives them exposure tomore
& sciences plusprofessions undergraduate degree majors and high graduate coexistence [34]. The undergraduateprofile is full-time, more selective, and lower transfer-in. The demographics of the enrolledstudents at the campus overall (2018) were: 44.3% female and 55.7% male; 65.9% White, 11.4%Hispanic/Latinx, 9.0% International, 7.8% Asian, 2.5% African-American, 1.6% AmericanIndian / Alaska Native, 0.6% Native Hawaiian / Pacific Islander, and 1.2% unknown; 16.9% firstgeneration; about 16% of the undergraduate students were awarded Pell grants.The study includes three cohorts of students enrolled in a pilot engineering math course in fall2017, 2018, and 2019. These students encompass all of the different engineering majors at theinstitution
situated in the Engineering for US All (e4usa): A National Pilot Programfor High School Engineering Course and Database program, a new pre-college engineeringinitiative funded in 2018 by the National Science Foundation. The program aims to demystifyengineering for all high school students as an avenue to engineering literacy and a means ofenhancing potential engineering pathways [17]. The e4usa course was intentionally designed tobe inclusive by providing engineering design experiences relating to student fields of interest inlocal and global contexts. The course objectives are broken down into four major threads andwoven through seven units. The four threads include: a) discovery of the discipline ofengineering and engineering identity, b
scale.unit operations lab. Figure 2b shows the new teaching environment, which we will designate asMIL for the maker/innovation lab (known to our students as the Meldrum Innovation Lab).UOL has been used for our unit ops laboratory and senior capstone labs for decades, and is likelysimilar to many unit ops chemical engineering laboratories across the country. It contains onelarge lab area which houses pilot-scale pieces of unit ops equipment. The space also includes acollection of smaller satellite laboratories: a wet lab, analytical lab, biochemical engineering lab,and reactor laboratory. Just down the hall from this space was a small room housing our 3Dprinters. The design course that is the test course for this paper was shoehorned into this
concept maps from the pre-classactivities or create new ones, allowing the instructors to evaluate knowledge gained and/orperception changes.Research Approach and ParticipantsIn the fall of 2020, two of the authors incorporated the newly-created module on the Impacts ofCOVID-19 on Transportation Systems and Stakeholders in their classes. The students involvedin this study included 11 students (2 undergraduate seniors and nine graduate master’s students)from Southern Methodist University (SMU), a medium-sized private research university. Bothundergraduate students were enrolled in the bachelor of science program in civil andenvironmental engineering. Master's degree students were enrolled in various degree programs,including the master of science
Dina Verd´ın is an Engineering Education graduate student at Purdue University. She completed her under- graduate degree in Industrial and Systems Engineering at San Jos´e State University. Her research interest focuses on the first-generation college student population, which includes changing the perspective of this population from a deficit base approach to an asset base approach.Hank Boone, University of Nevada - Reno Hank Boone is a Graduate Research Assistant and Masters Student at the University of Nevada, Reno. His research focuses on First Generation engineering college students’ engineering identity, belonging- ness, and how they perceive their college experience.He is also on a National Science Foundation
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: Specialization vs. Standardization in the Factory Model of Engineering EducationAbstractThis research paper employs data from the study of a novel next-tier broadening participationaccess program to illustrate the challenge of maintaining awareness and understanding of ourstudents as individuals within institutional systems of assessment and record-keeping that treatall students as the same in the interests of standardization. These standardized practices areintended to aid in the production of high numbers of engineering graduates—not unlike a factorythat takes in raw materials in the form of students and outputs finished goods in the shape ofengineering graduates. This factory model of engineering education, like any high
through their careers and how different experiences within the practice and culture of engineering foster or hinder belongingness and identity development. Dr. Godwin graduated from Clemson University with a B.S. in Chemical Engineering and Ph.D. in Engineering and Science Education. Her research earned her a National Science Foundation CAREER Award focused on characterizing latent diversity, which includes diverse attitudes, mindsets, and approaches to learning, to understand engineering students’ identity devel- opment. She is the recipient of a 2014 American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) Educational Research and Methods Division Apprentice Faculty Grant. She has also been recognized for the synergy of
how team dynamics affect undergraduate women’s confidence levels in engineering.Dr. Malinda S. Zarske, University of Colorado, Boulder Malinda Zarske is a faculty member with the Engineering Plus program at the University of Colorado Boulder. She teaches undergraduate product design and core courses through Engineering Plus as well as STEM education courses for pre-service teachers through the CU Teach Engineering program. Her primary research interests include the impacts of project-based service-learning on student identity - es- pecially women and nontraditional demographic groups in engineering - as well as pathways and retention to and through K-12 and undergraduate engineering, teacher education, and
better understanding of therelationship between CSE, beliefs about creativity, and the lived experiences of undergraduatewomen engineering majors will lead to strategies for educational reform that will benefit allstudents, increase pathways for female students into the engineering major, and contribute to thesuccess of women engineering. Methodology and Instrument A sequential explanatory mixed methods design was used for this study [30]. This two-phase methodology was best suited to this research because synthesis of the quantitative surveywith the themes discovered from the qualitative data analysis lead to answers to the researchquestions. In this sequential explanatory design, the quantitative survey
to empirically understand how engineering students and educators learn. He is currently the chair of the Research in Engineering Education Network (REEN) and an associate ed- itor for the Journal of Engineering Education (JEE). Prior to joining ASU he was a graduate student research assistant at the Tufts’ Center for Engineering Education and Outreach.Dr. Kenneth Reid, University of Indianapolis Kenneth Reid is the Associate Dean and Director of the R.B. Annis School of Engineering at the Uni- versity of Indianapolis and an affiliate Associate Professor in Engineering Education at Virginia Tech. American c Society for Engineering Education, 2021
onintroducing students to engineering, the focus of such interventions and studies has shifted toconstructs that researchers believe will be better predictors of students choosing to pursueengineering as a college major and/or career (Hynes et al., 2017). Those include identity,perceptions of engineering, attitudes and beliefs toward engineering, self-efficacy in engineering,and interest in engineering. One factor that has been consistently cited among those conductingresearch and evaluation of such programs is students’ perceptions, attitudes, and beliefs towardengineering (Hynes et al., 2017). There have been mixed results with respect to the extent towhich in-school and out-of-school engineering programs are able to increase students’perceptions
Paper ID #33951Understanding Gen Z’s Declining Engagement with WE@RIT, a Woman inEngineering ProgramMs. Kathrine Ehrlich-Scheffer, Rochester Institute of Technology (COE) Kathy has served as Director of Women in Engineering at RIT (WE@RIT) since 2015, and brings a rich array of life experiences to the position. After graduating with a bachelor’s degree in Public Affairs from a women’s college where she learned first-hand the value of a female-centric support network, Kathy made her way to Silicon Valley. There she studied CMOS Mask Layout Design which eventually led her to a position in IT for a semiconductor IP start-up
-engineering fields. Research on Engineering LLCshas focused primarily on student engagement. Two studies to examine performance and retentionfound that LLCs had little effect on first-semester grades but increased first-year retention inengineering by 2 to 12%. Unfortunately, one of these studies did not control for differences inincoming student characteristics, and another used a comparison group that differed little fromthe LLC group, possibly causing them to understate the LLC’s true effects. To improve ourunderstanding, this paper examines performance and retention in the inaugural EngineeringLLCs at a small, private non-profit, regional university in the northeastern United States.Results indicate that 82% of the Engineering LLC participants
responses from a range of computer science students from first year tograduate students. It should be mentioned that our study is not intended to be a completeformal quantitative investigation. Validation of the results with larger studies may berequired.The total number of raw data responses from all three institutions was 815. After cleaning theraw data to remove responses without signed consent, the total number of responses was 782.The full set of questions that were asked is included in Appendix A.Opinions of the respondents regarding the questions on search engine results and algorithm biaswere recorded in the form of a 7-point Likert scale ranging from “Strongly disagree” to“Strongly agree”. A sampling issue with the respondents was that
from a UK professor ii) ENGAGE: Everyday Examples in Engineering - NSF funded resourceMotivation is necessary but not sufficient for engagement [3]. Engagement, or a student’sactive involvement in a task or activity, is important because (among other things) it is linked toretention and graduation rates [4]. Luckily for us, of the 11 engagement indicators used by theNSSE study [4], many of them can be addressed but supporting the 3 antecedents of motivationabove. Others, including effective teaching practices (e.g. clearly explaining learning objectives,using examples to explain difficult points) are addressed in other guides in this series.Cited References[1] R. M. Ryan and E. L. Deci, “Intrinsic and Extrinsic
. p116-139, 2011.[24] M. Froschl, B. Sprung, C. Fancsali, and M. Groome, “Furthering Girls’ Math Identity Report on Convening and Follow-up Activities.”[25] M. Syed, B. K. Goza, M. M. Chemers, and E. L. Zurbriggen, “Individual Differences in Preferences for Matched-Ethnic Mentors Among High-Achieving Ethnically Diverse Adolescents in STEM,” Child Dev., vol. 83, no. 3, pp. 896–910, May 2012.[26] S. Zirkel, “Is There A Place for Me? Role Models and Academic Identity among White Students and Students of Color,” Teach. Coll. Rec., vol. 104, no. 2, pp. 357–376, 2002.[27] B. M. Capobianco, B. F. French, and H. A. Diefes-Du, “Engineering Identity Development Among Pre-Adolescent Learners,” J. Eng. Educ., vol. 101
—orbelieves, as we do—that all of the EOP competencies are important for students toexperience by the time they graduate, it behooves us to think about how to deliver thesecompetencies across a curriculum.The engineering curriculum in which this study occurred is designed to provide at least onePjBL class each semester. We envision a delivery of different subsets of the EOP frameworkcompetencies across the project-spine to ensure meaningful engagement is achieved for allcompetencies. This approach allows for at least two synergistic pedagogical and researchopportunities: 1) emphasizing a different subset of EOP competencies in different PjBLcourses allows students to see the interdependencies between those competencies in moredepth; and 2) spreading
student interest and attitudes [17]. Interest in engineering has also been shown toincrease with outreach [18]. Additional work has shown that students participating in anengineering camp were more likely than control students to take STEM courses in high school[19].STEM identity describes the extent to which an individual sees themselves as a “science person”,“math person”, etc. [20]. STEM identity has also been linked to youth enrolling inpost-secondary STEM education [21]. Fit or belonging is also believed to be a factor in gendergaps in STEM enrolment, where explanations based on abilities, interest, and self-efficacy fallshort [22].While we list a number of possible constructs above, it is unclear which one(s) (such as STEMidentity and self
model as a theoretical basis todevelop the Engineering Professional Responsibility Assessment (EPRA) survey. A modifiedEPRA survey was used in this study, aimed at measuring social responsibility in veteran andfirst-year students at Kansas State University. The current pilot survey for this research projectcontains three components: Likert-scale questions to measure dimensions of PSRDM,demographics, and previous job attributes (military occupational specialty code) for the veterans.The original EPRA survey [16] outlines the twelve steps described by the PSRDM, which arebroken into three paths: social awareness, professional development, and combined socialawareness and professional development. The EPRA survey contains 65, (primarily Likert
women's abilities) aswell as institutional policies and practices. Studies have shown that a chilly climate can have anegative impact on cognitive development and can also influence women’s desire to stay andpersist within a science, technology, engineering, or math (STEM) field. At The Ohio StateUniversity College of Engineering (COE), women are currently 20% of the overallundergraduate student population within the College.Improving women’s retention in engineering fields requires a multifaceted approach. Both directsupport for women, along with the development of allies, are crucial to promoting a long-lasting,positive climate for women studying in this field. Allies for Women Engineers (AWE) at TheOhio State University is a pilot cohort of 11
table.There are some differences between the learning outcomes of the ME and ECE capstone courses,which have the potential to create minor challenges for an exhibit-driven project such asElectronic ARTrium. Because real-world mechanical engineering often involves very physicallylarge and expensive creations, such as centrifuges for pilot training, ME students at Georgia Techare not required to build prototypes for their capstone projects and are generally discouragedfrom doing so, but rather a “proof-of-concept design” is considered sufficient, as indicated inOutcome 4. On the other hand, EE and CmpE capstone students are expected to build prototypes,since a wide range of real-world ECE creations are practical to build as prototypes in the contextof
joining ASU he was a graduate student research assistant at the Tufts’ Center for Engineering Ed- ucation and Outreach. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2019 Work in Progress: Exploring ‘Ways of Thinking’ of Interdisciplinary CollaboratorsAbstractCalls have been made for novel ways of thinking about engineering education research. Buildingon an earlier qualitative inquiry, this work in progress study examined the number and nature offactors underlying the constructs of futures, values, systems, and strategic thinking within thecontext of interdisciplinary engineering education research. Exploratory factor analysis of surveydata (n =111) supported a correlated
Affecting the Future Career Pathway Decisions of Lower-income Computing Students1. IntroductionWithin research on broadening participation in computing, the experience and perspectives ofundergraduate students have been important elements of exploration. As undergraduate studentsare experts of their own experience, conducting research that focuses on understanding theirperspective can help those who organize programmatic efforts to respond to student needs andconcerns. This paper emerges from the context of a specific National Science Foundation (NSF)-funded Scholarships in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (S-STEM) program.As with all S-STEM programs, Florida Information Technology Graduation