poster session to promote formativefeedback from peers and project advisors [7]. The consortium is unfortunately no longer active.The Comprehensive Assessment of Team Member Effectiveness (CATME) project developshigh-quality assessment tools for teamwork, and eases data collection and analysis through aweb-based interface [8]. It would be beneficial if a consortium similar to TIDEE could be formedto develop ways to assess each ABET student outcome; by involving experts in educationalmeasurement, and by automating the data collection process, such a consortium could makeassessment more valid and less arduous.In this paper, we refer to the Engineering Accreditation Commission of ABET simply as ABET.We work from the premise that the seven ABET
discoveries in the form of progress reports that aresubmitted to the industrial collaborators and federal funding agency sources at the end of eachsemester. The students also learn to use citation software and publish their work in peer-reviewed journals.As researchers, it is important to contribute to the literature on these new advances in arespective field. Conference presentations provide the students with the opportunity of presentingtheir data at various stages of development (preliminary findings, most up-to-date findings, andfuture directions). This allows them to gain constructive criticism from colleagues and polishtheir findings before final documentation. Furthermore, it allows the students to meet otherresearchers and learn the
responsibility to generate and disseminate knowledge with rigor and integrity, but also a responsibility to: o conduct peer review with the highest ethical standards, o diligently protect proprietary information and intellectual property from inappropriate disclosure, o and treat students and colleagues fairly and with respect.” [14]While the natural environment may be of concern to individual engineering researchers,these homocentric codes of engineering ethics are still rooted in the mechanistic thinkingof the 17th century, where reference to non-human animals is largely omitted. There areethical guidelines for research involving animals, but they may warrant reconsideration,given new developments and debates over
perceptions of engineering and to evaluate these programs and activities [3]. The Draw a ScientistTest (DAST) [4] and Draw an Engineer Test (DAET) [5] are two tools that use drawings to assess howstudents see themselves as engineers before they are able to articulate their thoughts in writing. Roboticsis an engineering discipline that suffers from a distinct lack of diversity both in who participates in K12programs and later who enters traditional engineering majors associated with robotics [6]. Recently, softrobotics, the sub-discipline focused on soft material designs for wearable robots, has been used as aplatform to attract more students to robotics with new materials [7], bioinspired designs [8], and human-centered applications [9]–[11]. To
the help of PASCO kits, whichwere all signs of better engagement. More difficult criteria and competition mechanism areneeded in the future to bring more challenges to the project and better distinguish the winningteam. Second, the technical report and poster presentation (both the poster and elevator pitch)were in better quality because (1) the report writing and poster design were broken into multiplerevision cycle with feedback from instructor and peer teams given before the final version due,(2) in-class writing practice improved the report quality, and (3) elevator pitch practice sessionhelped students to prepare for the poster presentation. 80% of students reported themultidisciplinary judge panel during the Poster Expo had a positive
the university, the students take 15 courses including courses in art,cultural diversity, history, literature, mathematics, natural science, philosophy, social sciences, theology,and writing. The students also complete courses to graduate with a B.S. in General Engineering. Inaddition to the liberal arts core courses and engineering courses, all students also participate in a weeklyone-hour reflection seminar that they are enrolled in along with their peers in the same cohort. An aim forthe pedagogy and curriculum in the courses coded as engineering and the reflection seminars is to utilizethe affordances of a liberal arts framing to engineering to provide students opportunities to experience aliberal engineering education more
discussed and resolved, resulting in 100% agreement in coding. Moredetails about the development of the codes is provided in the next section.Development of CodesAfter all 10 of the recorded interviews had been completed, a thematic analysis was conductedthrough multiple views of each video. Throughout the videos, key moments were identified astimes where students were actively engaging with or describing their thinking around the tasks.This meant that times when students were reading the directions or writing their responses on theactivity sheet were not considered key moments. After repeated viewings and analyticaldescriptions of the key moments in videos were compiled, themes were developed. Studentsbroadly engaged with the problems using either
with the lowest rate of degree earners with adisability was engineering (8.2%) [14]. Additionally, the National Science Foundation [15]reports that disabled scholars receive less funding and had lower employment rates than theirnon-disabled peers, and the National Institute of Health (NIH) [16] found that the percentage ofdisabled people in professional STEM fields grew only 3% (from 6% to 9%) between 1999 and2019, but that the number of people in STEM fields overall increased approximately 79% since1990 [17]. Poignantly, research has also shown that there is a significant disparity betweendisabled STEM students who have dominant identities and those who have what are consideredmultiply-minoritized identities, particularly feminine presenting
and research aresupported by award funding from various organizations. They often are directed to womenwithout considering WOC's unique challenges. For example, ADVANCE is a fund that invests infaculty success by exploring and establishing institution-based support programs and strategiesto enhance the climate and institutional context encountered by faculty women in engineering[10]. These initiatives may warrant a different structure at different institutions, such as minority-serving institutions (MSIs), in keeping with institutional missions and demographics. Specific toMSI, Allen et al. [11] proffered that institutional transformation must assist women faculty inSTEM by providing support to develop writing and research skills, networking
and prevention, medical records, comparative outcomes research, and biomedical sciences. He has successfully published several peer-reviewed articles in biomedical sciences, physical medicine and rehabilitation, modeling and simulation of physiological signals, motion analysis, and engineering.Asad Salem ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2023 Emerging Innovations and Global Challenges on Curriculum Design: Case Study of Teaching Security in Embedded System Design Mohammed Ferdjallah1, Asad Salem2 1 Department of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering
of S&E bachelor’s degrees were awarded to women in 2018—women’srepresentation varies greatly by field and women are still underrepresented in S&E occupations”[1]. While representation of some student populations has seen an increase in the past decades(e.g., Latinx/Hispanic students have seen an increase in share of Science and EngineeringBachelor’s degrees awarded from 8% in 2008 to 12% in 2018 [1]), others have been stagnatingor declining (e.g., Black and African American students changing from 4.7% to 4.3% from 2008to 2018 [1]).Underrepresentation affects students’ ways of experiencing engineering education and practiceand creates unique sets of challenges compared to their majority-representing peers. Experiencessuch as “cold
studentcohort model (for each incoming group of students) and also providing supports to buildcommunity across cohorts as well as including students’ families in their college experiences,our program aimed to increase student satisfaction and academic success. We recruited twocohorts of nine incoming students each across two years, 2019 and 2020; 69% of participantswere from underrepresented racial or minority groups and 33% were women. Each participantwas awarded an annual scholarship and given co-curricular support including peer and facultymentoring, a dedicated cohort space for studying and gathering, monthly co-curricular activities,enhanced tutoring, and summer bridge and orientation programs. Students’ families were alsoincluded in the
should join, and any differences between the two.The research questions that guided this study were: RQ1: How do undergraduate engineering students perceive the amount of time spent engaging in engineering clubs? RQ2: Why are undergraduate engineering students motivated to join engineering clubs? RQ3: What are the perceived benefits of engineering club participation?Students are motivated to join engineering clubs to find community with peers [3], applyknowledge to real-world settings [4], prepare for their careers [5], develop new skills [6], [7],and pursue personal interests [8]. Design clubs (both competition and impact-focused teams)provide additional opportunities to practice the design process [9], manufacture parts
engineering students to work effectively in teams, writing that“because of the increasing complexity and scale of systems-based engineering problems, there isa growing need to pursue collaborations with multidisciplinary teams of experts across multiplefields” [1, pp. 34–35]. ABET has similarly dedicated one of its seven student outcomes toteamwork, wording it as: “An ability to function effectively on a team whose members togetherprovide leadership, create a collaborative and inclusive environment, establish goals, plan tasks,and meet objectives” [2]. Research studies have also repeatedly underlined the importance ofdeveloping engineering students’ abilities to work in teams to meet industry needs [3], [4].As a result, there has been an increased
2003,with many students only graduating after a period of 10 years. On average, the completion ratesfor engineering doctoral programs after 3 to 4 years were just below 20% [3]. Hasbun et al. [4]found that for many students, coursework can be an external motivator as it imposes deadlinesand encourages them to interact with fellow students. Whereas, students perceive the writingphase as the most difficult. Common concerns with this last portion of the doctoral programinclude not having the necessary writing skills to communicate effectively, while beingchallenged to publicly demonstrate competence. Many students also shared concerns regardingtime management, questioning their abilities (personal and academic), isolation, and the expectedtime
thinkingand other General Education objectives addressed in the course. Following the completion of thecourse materials, a curricular course proposal was submitted to UFS and underwent consultationprocedures. Ultimately, the proposal was approved by UFS in April 2018 and the course wasoffered to students for the first time in the fall of the same year.Throughout the course, students had access to a variety of fluid apparatus and were encouragedto experiment with creating novel flows. Each image produced by the students was required to beaccompanied by a write-up, which some of the art students found surprising. The student workwas then evaluated for both artistic and scientific merit, with an emphasis on developing anappreciation for the beauty of
inindustry.The Peer Mentors (Peer Mentoring is discussed later in this paper) are invaluable in providingfeedback from the students on how the first-year classes are going, as viewed from the studentperspective.One additional adjustment in our Program was to expand our two introductory courses,Introduction to Data Science and Role of Data Science in Today’s World, from one- and two-credit hour courses, respectively, to three-credit hours each. They were originally designed thatway but were reduced to fit in another course whose content has been folded into other courses.This has resulted in minor changes to the first two years of the 8-semester plan. At the sametime, this change has allowed us to expand the Introduction and Role courses to the
research productivity (e.g., papers published). However, weacknowledge that excellent undergraduate research experiences often lead to peer-reviewed publicationsand help faculty career progression.In partnership with the Kern Entrepreneurial Engineering Network (KEEN), a workshop has been held forfour summers to help faculty integrate the entrepreneurial mindset (EM) into their work with researchstudents. We are interested in exploring the impact of this work on participation and sharing our findingswith the broader engineering community.Research questions: 1. How can faculty use an EM to adjust their approach to research activities and student mentoring? 2. What structures/practices from the workshop help faculty adjust their approach to
influenceneurodivergent students’ sense that they need to work harder and longer than other students.Several participants mentioned experiencing imposter syndrome, which may be described as thefeeling that one is a fraud despite one’s accomplishments [47]. And even though many graduatestudents may experience imposter syndrome at some point in their career, these feelings likelyplace a heavy burden on neurodivergent graduate students who may feel pressure to hide theirchallenges to prove that they belong in academia. As Ó Meadhbh Murray et al. [47] write,“Students expend time and energy doing emotional work to navigate imposter feelings withmarginalized students experiencing more persistent and intense imposter feelings than their moreprivileged peers, often in
postsecondary campuses, instructional development programs are typically offered by theteaching and learning centres of universities and colleges. These campus-wide programs, alongwith engineering-specific programs, are usually available to faculty members and graduatestudents in engineering. Possible structures of these programs can be workshops, courses, andseminar series; consulting, mentoring, and partnering arrangements’ learning communities; andteaching certification programs [6]. Other professional development activities for teachingimprovement include reading literature, or writing an article or chapter on teaching, learning orassessment, and attending an engineering education conference [7]. These efforts were found tobe positively related to
draw upon theirLinguistic, Familial, and Social Capitals more readily when compared to non-First-Generationstudents (see Table 5). The understanding and belief that First-Generation students possessunique cultural resources to their peers are evident in many other additional studies [Verdin &Godwin, 2015] and our survey results suggest these differences are emergent in the Linguisticand Familial capitals they possess and leverage.First-Generation students readily draw upon their Linguistic Capital assets as it relates to having(and sensing importance) to speak or write about engineering in more than one language (ItemsB and H). Moreover, First-Generation students tend to agree that it is necessary to speak or writeabout engineering in more
research interests and ac- tivities center on gaining a better understanding of the process-structure-property-performance relations of structural materials through advanced multiscale theoretical framework and integrated computational and experimental methods. To date, Dr. Liu has published nearly 250 peer reviewed publications, includ- ing more than 130 peer reviewed journal articles, and received 2 patents. He has been the PI and co-PI for over 40 research projects funded by NSF, DOD, DOE, NASA, FAA, Louisiana Board of Regents, and industry with a total amount over $15.5M. Dr. Liu has served on review panels for many NSF, DOD, NASA, and DOE programs. Dr. Liu received the Junior Faculty Researcher of the Year of the
not appear to weigh it as an absolute sine qua non for a favorable tenure decision.Another takeaway is that many schools may still be evolving their criteria, as several suggest thatthere are no specific written guidelines, and yet a predominant culture of what constitutessufficient scholarly productivity exists.Herewith their comments:Schools not requiring grant activity: 1) I typically can give up to ~$25K in start up funding (from Academic Affairs), and can also help acquire specialized equipment that is necessary for their research that does not count against their start up (from School of Engineering funds). . . Grant writing is strongly encouraged, but not required for us. . . For tenure, they must be excellent
was as good(87.8%), if not better, than other students (77.6%). However, under-represented minorities(65.4%) and first-generation students (64.7%) did not fare as well. A number of studies havedemonstrated that first generation students, in particular, face some unique challenges [2]–[5].These students can lack the cultural capital their continuing peers have including the skills andknowledge to build social networks with their academic peers and the ability to tap institutionresources.These observations have encouraged us to consider implementing changes to our freshman levelcourses that can support the development of social networking skills and encourage theidentification and use of resources such as faculty and graduate teaching assistant
throughout our state’s counties. Weestablished a relationship with 4-H youth development, specifically curriculum developers andSTEM specialists, to start sharing existing lesson plans and resources with their agents and clubs.For example, we became very involved with an energy-based summer program that had beenrunning for over twenty-five years, even to the point of traveling the state during 2021 to take thesummer program to different counties. We also started working with 4-H to write grants, andwere awarded a grant from the Office of Naval Research for workforce development thatexpands existing outreach programs to Western TN.This grant is one of several grants, both internal and external, that we received after we started towork synergistically
higher education, have explicitlyshown how Asian American students differ from their peers, engineering education researchshould continue to follow this trend. When Asian Americans are disaggregated by subgroups, wesee differences in outcomes of classroom engagement [6], which could help educators addresscultural differences in the classroom. Future research should continue to include and highlightdifferences between various ethnic groups in engineering rather than assume Asian American asa singular group which most of the articles we found do.The vast majority of the 138 papers that appeared in the initial search results did not meet at leasttwo of the inclusion/exclusion criteria, despite the term “Asian American students” in eithertheir
limited number of Graduate Research Assistantships, International Research Programs, Peer Mentoring, Professional Development Institute, Weekly Research Presentations, Global CUNY Conference. Ongoing Program Components - Collaborative Infrastructure, Institutionalized Workshop Instruction in Gatekeeper courses, Research AssistantshipsWhile in Phase I, the Learning Centers formed the hub of the activities for the NYC LSAMPproviding tutoring in STEM courses and workshops for the restructured gatekeeper courses, theACs did not require a STEM background and were full time positions at each campus. Initiallyfocused on the operation of the STEM Learning Centers across the LSAMP in Phase I (1992-1997), the role was institutionalized and changed to
LSAMP Scholars were also allowed to participatein BTD activities and are encouraged to apply directly to doctoral programs nationally and tocompete for Graduate Research fellowships. BTD scholars also act as peer mentors and rolemodels to undergraduate NYC LSAMP Scholars. Workshops on science and engineeringpresentations, writing workshops, the transition to graduate school, and survival skills ingraduate school are conducted by NYC LSAMP doctoral students and BTD Scholars. BTDScholars come from a variety of disciplines, have graduated from ten BA/BS degree grantingunits of CUNY, with five graduating from non-CUNY schools.Table 1. Bridge to the Doctorate Program Activity Bridge Scholar Activity Description 1
requirement of full-time status (12+ credits in fall/spring) became problematic for students whoneeded fewer than 12 credits in their last semester to graduate. Other students had scheduling challenges(e.g., 15 credits in one semester but 11 in the other), that threatened their eligibility. In Flit-GAP, after thefirst semester, the requirement for full-time status is interpreted to allow for these cases in which studentsare making progress toward graduation but cannot register for 12 credits in a particular semester .Common Program ActivitiesFlit-GAP provides positive, peer group cohorts for junior, senior, and eventually graduate-level students.Student development and support activities combine social and educational events to help these
Paper ID #38213Focus Study of Collaborative Online International Learning (COIL)Engineering ProjectsMs. Meredith Blumthal, University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign Meredith Blumthal has been in the field of international education for 15 years. As the Director for In- ternational Programs in Engineering (IPENG) at the University of Illinois, she leads the study abroad initiatives and programming for the college. Ms. Blumthal’s team includes three study abroad advisors, a receptionist and peer advisors. Together the IPENG office provides study abroad advising, expertise, inter- national exchanges, and cultural