Paper ID #27578A Mixed Methods Analysis of Motivation Factors in Senior Capstone DesignCoursesElisabeth Kames, Florida Institute of Technology Elisabeth Kames is a graduate student working on her Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering at Florida Institute of Technology. Her research focuses on the impact of motivation on performance and persistence in mechanical engineering design courses under the guidance of Dr. Beshoy Morkos. She also serves as a graduate student advisor to senior design teams within the mechanical engineering department. Elisabeth is a member of ASME, ASEE, Tau Beta Pi Engineering Honor Society and Pi Tau
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strengths might be a viable option to foster an increase instudent engineering identity.AcknowledgmentsThis study was funded by the National Science Foundation Award # 1744006. The authors aregrateful to the help provided by the following research students at Angelo State University: JesseLee, Maria Ochoa, Austin Poole, Nicholas Manrique and Timmons (TJ) Spies.References[1] M. Cooley (1989). "Human-centered Systems." Designing Human-centred Technology, 133–143. Springer.[2] M. Garbuio, & M. Dressel (2019). 6 Building Blocks of Successful Innovation: HowEntrepreneurial Leaders Design Innovative Futures. Routledge.[3] P. Polak (2008). Out of Poverty: What Works When Traditional Methods Fail. Berrett-Koehler Publishers, Inc.[4] B. Amadei (2014
complex engineering design projects. Her scholarship is grounded in notions of learning as a social process, influenced by complexity theories, sociocultural theories, sociolinguistics, and the learning sciences.Ms. Kate FisherProf. Zachary Holman, Arizona State UniversityMathew D. Evans, Arizona State University Mathew D Evans is currently a doctoral candidate at the Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College at Arizona State University c American Society for Engineering Education, 2019 Fostering Belonging through an Undergraduate Summer Internship: A Community of Practice model for engineering research educationIn the 21st century, it is not sufficient for engineering students to acquire good
postsecondary design courses starting in 2015. The findings highlightedthe limitations of postsecondary course content due to time constraints, prompting a focus ondeveloping a yearlong college preparatory secondary HE education program for fourth-yearstudents. Implementing this, observational data and feedback were collected from three cohortsof fourth-year secondary students before and after graduation. This data collection spanned afour-year period between 2019 and 2023 [17]. The aim was to discern which knowledgecomponents and learning practices of their yearlong secondary HE program significantlycontributed to their success at the postsecondary level. The findings revealed that students whoreceive comprehensive instruction and practice across a
’ engagement with co-curricular and extracurricular activities [41]. • Examining how instructional innovations or educational interventions could enhance student engagement. This research area involves intervention studies that include student engagement as an outcome. It constituted the largest research area within the ASEE conference papers that included “student engagement” in their titles, as revealed in our literature search on the PEER repository in January 2024. As an example, one study reported the contribution of a hands-on design experience to first-year engineering students’ increased engagement with engineering studies [2]. This research area can overlap with the second one that examines the
protocol following a critical incident approach [31]. Senior faculty included those atthe Professor rank and Associate Professor rank for a minimum of two years. Junior facultyincluded those at the Assistant Professor rank and Associate Professor rank for less than twoyears. Participants were recruited from the top twenty largest US doctoral-granting engineeringschools, as determined by the 2021 American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE)Engineering by the Numbers report [32]. The research team contacted the heads/chairs ofengineering departments within each of these twenty institutions with a request to share a studyinvitation and screening survey link with their engineering faculty. The screening survey wasdesigned to take approximately 10
of ABET, and is currently Secretary/Treasurer of the ABET Foundation Board of Directors. She has also served as a program evaluator for J.D. pro- grams for the ABA, for universities’ regional accreditation for SACSCOC, and for Business Schools for AACSB. She also has served as the Chair of the ECE division of ASEE, the President of the Education Society of IEEE, and the chair of the Women in Engineering of IEEE. She served as the Treasurer and a Board of Directors member for WEPAN.Dr. Christine A. Stanley, Texas A&M University Christine A. Stanley is professor of higher education, holder of the Ruth Harrington Endowed Chair, and vice president and associate provost for diversity emerita in the College of
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Engineering students.Second, the Penn State College of Engineering strives to meet the national benchmark fordiversity in Engineering set by the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) byawarding baccalaureate Engineering degrees to at least 130 African American and Hispanicstudents annually. In 2013, Penn State awarded 74 baccalaureate Engineering degrees to raciallyunderrepresented students. Therefore, our long-term goal is to achieve a net gain of at least 56Engineering degrees to racially underrepresented undergraduates. If we can improve our junior-year retention for University Park racially underrepresented Engineering students from 43% to63% (net gain of 86 students, from Table 1: 429 x .63) and our junior-year retention forAbington
several years focusing on team dynamics for first-year students and also works as a research assistant in the Daly Design and Engineering Education Research Group working on design science based research in senior-level engineering design courses. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2019 Student Designers’ Interactions with Users in Capstone Design Projects: A Comparison Across TeamsAbstractUsers play an important role in engineering design projects, from providing the basis for userrequirements to defining how designs will be used in practice. However, student designers oftenstruggle when interacting with users to elicit requirements or solicit design feedback. This
an intersectional lens, we gain deeper insight into engineering studentpopulations that may reveal potential opportunities and barriers to educational resources and experiencesthat are an important part of preparation for an engineering career.Background and Motivation Promoting social mobility is an emerging outcome of interest for higher education – both in thepopular media and from ranking such as U.S. News, which in 2018 added social mobility measures to itsBest Colleges and Universities methodology (https://www.usnews.com/best-colleges/rankings/national-universities/social-mobility). CollegeNET also introduced a Social Mobility Index for colleges in 2019(https://www.socialmobilityindex.org/). In order to promote social mobility
. Futures and fractures in higher education. New York: Palgrave MacMillan, 2019.[32] S. Jaschik, “Grade Inflation, Higher and Higher,” Inside Higher Ed, March 29, 2016. Retrieved from https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2016/03/29/survey-finds-grade- inflation-continues-rise-four-year-colleges-not-community-college[33] C. Smith, “The Influence of hierarchy and layout geometry in the design of learning spaces.” Journal of Learning Spaces, vol. 6, no. 3, pp. 59-67, 2017.[34] D. Riley, “Mindsets in Engineering,” in Engineering and Social Justice. Synthesis Lectures
several professional organizations including the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE) and American Society of Chemical Engineering Education (ASEE) where she adopts and contributes to innovative pedagogical methods aimed at improving student learning and retention.Martin A. Watkins, University of New Mexico Martin A. Watkins is a PhD student in Educational Linguistics at the University of New Mexico. He earned his BA degrees in Deaf Studies (ASL/English Interpretation) and Linguistics from California State University, Northridge, and his MA degree in Linguistics from Gallaudet University. His research em- ploys critical ethnography and discourse analysis to investigate language ideologies and language plan
design thinking. His areas of research include engineering design thinking, adult learning cognition, engineering education professional development and technical training. He has extensive international experience working on technical training and engineering educaton projects funded by the Asian Development Bank, World Bank, and U.S. Department of Labor, USAID. Countries where he has worked include Armenia, Bangladesh, Bulgaria, China, Macedonia, Poland, Romania, and Thailand. In addition, he teaches undergraduate and graduate courses for the Department of Engineering Education at Utah State University. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2019 Factors Influencing the
Director of Science Education at the University of Delaware’s Professional Development Center for Educators. In her role, Amy works collaboratively with K-12 sci- ence and engineering teachers to develop and implement standards-based curricula and assessments. She also provides mentoring and coaching and co-teaching support to K-12 teachers across the entire tra- jectory of the profession. Her research focuses on teacher education, classroom assessment, and P-16 environmental and engineering education.Prof. Andrew Novocin, University of DelawareDr. James Atlas, University of Delaware c American Society for Engineering Education, 2019 FLC E2T: A Faculty Learning Community on Effective (and
recently served as Associate Vice Provost for Graduate Education.Prof. David Beach, Stanford University c American Society for Engineering Education, 2019 Integrating Mind, Hand and Heart: How Students Are Transformed by Hands-On Designing and MakingAbstractHands-on education — the integration of mind and hands — is often believed to transform the way thatstudents think and learn. How and how much are students changed by hands-on education, and by whatmechanisms do such transformations occur? This exploratory study considers 75 students in a 10-weekengineering design and manufacturing course where, in many cases, students design and build a physicalproduct for the first time
access issues for underrepresented/minority and low income students, community college pathways, policy, organizational and systems structures, and assessment and evaluation in higher education contexts. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2019 Dilemmas in Co-Curricular Support: A Theoretical and Pragmatic Exploration of Current Practice and Future Challenges in Engineering Education Abstract Colleges of engineering seeking to promote equity, diversity, and inclusion often do sothrough co-curricular support, scholarships, and supplemental instruction. To date, substantialeducation research has focused on
engineer at A. W. Chesterton, Boston Scientific, and Procter & Gamble. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2019 “I wish I could do more”: A qualitative meta-analysis of early career engineers’ perceptions of agency in their workplaces AbstractEngineering students graduate from their programs with a broad range of skills that are set byprofessional societies, industry recommendations, and other stakeholders in student success. Butwhen those engineers enter their jobs, how are those skills utilized and nurtured by theorganizations they enter? The purpose of this paper is to present a cross-sectional, secondaryqualitative analysis of research
challenges. This constructivist framework provides PSTs andUESs a collaborative space in which to co-construct innovative engineering challenges forupper-elementary students. Specifically, this paper focuses on Ed+gineering’s implementation intwo education courses and two engineering courses during Spring 2019: Collaboration 1, duringPSTs’ and UESs’ first courses in education and engineering, respectively, and Collaboration 2,during an elementary science methods course and a fluid mechanics course near the end ofeducation and engineering students’ respective programs.Research Questions 1. How did PSTs’ Ed+gineering experiences influence their engineering and science knowledge? 2. How did PSTs’ and UESs’ Ed+gineering experiences influence
Paper ID #41703Rapid Ethnographic Assessment of Workshops on Transdisciplinary InterculturalCompetence, Community Engaged Practice, and Mixed Research MethodsAri Sherris, Texas A&M University, Kingsville Ari is an Associate Professor of Bilingual Education at Texas A&M University-Kingsville. During the 2015-16 academic year, he was a J. William Fulbright Scholar at the University of Education, Winneba, Ghana. During June 2019, Ari was a distinguished guest researcher at the University of South Africa. He holds a PhD in Second Language Development, an MA in Applied Linguistics, and a BA in the Humanities. He is
Learning Objectives based Education Material Design and Development. Dr. Acharya is a co-author of ”Discrete Mathematics Applications for Information Systems Professionals” and ”Case Studies in Software Verification & Validation”. He is a member of Nepal Engineering Association (NEA) and is also a member of American Society of Engineering Education (ASEE) and Association of Computing Machinery (ACM). Dr. Acharya was the Principal Investigator of the 2007 HP grant for Higher Education at RMU through which he incorporated tablet PC based learning exercises in his classes. He was also the Principal Investigator of the 2013 National Science Foundation (NSF) grant for developing course modules through an industry