embody a shift in an entrepreneurial mindset, revealing how studentsultimately move forward with what they want to change in themselves and in the world. Theimportance of this shift is underlined by the fact that the next 10 years will bring more than abillion new young people to the global work force and their working lives are estimated to beeven more entrepreneurial than previous generations [5]. Personal characterizations (emotions and motivation) of the modern engineeringstudent have received limited research attention. Regardless of whether a student makesinnovation or entrepreneurial career their primary goal, this paper introduces discussion topreserve a path of sustainable well-being and fairness for men and women entering
career advice and other information needed to becomemore fully integrated into their respective engineering disciplines.As we discuss in this paper, the emphasis on faculty engagement as a determinant of success inengineering is especially crucial for underrepresented racial and ethnic minority students. Weprovide evidence of a population of Black engineering alumni who were able to navigate throughengineering curricula. Among the data obtained from these alumni, we explore the degree towhich support from professors was critical to allowing them to persist in these majors. In thesections that follow, we review extant literature on the topic of faculty support for Black collegestudents including those in engineering, describe our research method
Paper ID #12524Professional Development Training That Makes Project Lead The Way Teach-ers More Knowledgeable and Confident Instructors (Evaluation)Ms. Laura E. LeMire, The Community College of Baltimore County Upon graduation from the University of Maryland, College Park with her masters in geotechnical en- gineering, Laura went to work for Baltimore Gas and Electric where during her career there she was responsible for substation and transmission line construction projects, relocation and installation of BGE facilities for Oriole Park at Camden Yards and for the Light Rail, and for improving service reliability. After
talented pullout program to experience STEM disciplines in a college environment tonot only inform the future mathematics and science classes they have and will have, but also tobegin the discussion on the importance of going to college and follow-on careers, especially inSTEM disciplines. The School of Engineering and Science and Mathematics work together toprovide four distinct one hour blocks of activities and interaction with discussion of how deviceswork (theory). The key focus is engineering and each student group of 25 students see two onehour blocks on engineering (civil and electrical). The students complete a reflection on the day-long experience and the teachers incorporate pictures of the activities the students experiencedinto future
preparation of engineering graduate students for future careers.Mr. Ekembu Kevin Tanyi, Norfolk State University E. Kevin Tanyi started his career in Oldenburg in East Friesland, Germany. There he earned his bachelor degree in engineering physics with a focus in medical physics and finished with honors. During a four- year sabbatical, he worked as a Call Center Agent and finally as a Web-programmer/ designer. Returning to his field, he pursued a Professional Science Master degree in applied physics at Towson University. There he carried out research in the fabrication and characterization (AFM, XRD, and four-point probe resistivity measurements) of colossal magneto resistant perovskite thin films. He also embarked on a
fundamental concept in Civil Engineeringeducation could help attract and retain students. Research has identified helping others andequity as motivating some students to pursue engineering [e.g.,19]. But some students also leaveengineering when they perceive other majors as more supportive of those goals (e.g., [20], [21]).Thus, introducing students to equitable infrastructure in early civil engineering courses mightinspire students to choose and persist in careers in civil engineering.Further, research into career choices has shown a perception by students that STEM fields are inopposition to the goal of helping others, and this has been identified as a possible contributingfactor to underrepresentation of women in these fields [22]. Linking the
Virginia Tech. Prior to joining VT, Dr. Pitterson was a postdoctoral scholar at Oregon State University. She holds a PhD in Engineering Education from Purdue University and othDr. Emily Dringenberg, The Ohio State University Dr. Dringenberg is an Associate Professor in the Department of Engineering Education at Ohio State University. She holds a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering (Kansas State ’08), a M.S. in Industrial Engineering (Purdue ’14) and a Ph.D. in Engineering Education. Her current career purpose is to learn about and reveal beliefs that are widely-held as an implicit result of our socialization within systems of oppression so that she can embolden others to reflect on their assumptions and advance equity
the average sentiment is shown on the map.A few sample tweets of this dataset are shared below and Table 7 in the appendix sectioncontains selected tweet examples representing all sub-research questions.- ‘I´m extremely impressed with my OSU senior who works extremely hard at staying on top of his studies, priorities and challenges himself to excel in his future engineering career!’- ‘We have to work on kids emotional health and troubleshooting more with them. They hate distance learning but I think is our lack of embracing this as a system than it actually being horrible. I have successfully taught and learned for 20 years.’- ‘I´m not an economics major but I am a civil engineer. The EPA has strict measures for water
higher edu- cation leader, Dr. Oates joined WPI from the National Science Foundation, where she had been serving as deputy director of the Division of Undergraduate Education. At the NSF, Karen managed a budget of over $380 million and a staff of more than 35 charged with supporting innovative programs to strengthen undergraduate and graduate education and helped revitalize American entrepreneurship and competitive- ness. As the inaugural Dean of Arts and Sciences, Karen brings a variety of perspectives on faculty development, career and executive counseling, leading change and setting a collaborative culture as well as service learning and business-higher education partnerships. Among the honors she has received are
career-sustaining competencies at higher-order cognition, and mostimportantly, meta-competencies that will help students prepare to lead innovation by developingessential self-directed learning, career development, and lifelong learning competencies [6] thatinclude various aspects of learning management skills, e.g., information, learning, attitude,thinking, and collaboration. 2 The curriculum aiming at career sustaining competencies called for enhancing theexperiential learning by bringing in requirements from the world of engineering practice, namely,team organization, concept generation, and critical analysis of the design process. As we
males and four females) were conducted to collect the bulk of the data forthe qualitative analysis. This data was supplemented with three observations and the collectionand inspection of artifacts. Key findings include evidence that extracurricular projects serve as anespecially impactful engagement activity for engineering students. Such projects also areeffective tools for increasing self-efficacy and motivation, especially among women, and serveas a particularly valuable career preparation experience. Additionally, the organic design-buildprocess students engage in outside the structure of a classroom parallels with Kolb’s model ofexperiential learning, suggesting a particularly suitable method for educating engineers in thedesign process
Feminist Research in Engineering Education (FREE, formerly RIFE, group), whose diverse projects and group members are described at feministengineering.org. She received a CAREER award in 2010 and a PECASE award in 2012 for her project researching the stories of undergraduate engineering women and men of color and white women. She received ASEE-ERM’s best paper award for her CAREER research, and the Denice Denton Emerging Leader award from the Anita Borg Institute, both in 2013. She helped found, fund, and grow the PEER Collaborative, a peer mentoring group of early career and re- cently tenured faculty and research staff primarily evaluated based on their engineering education research productivity. She can be contacted
-graduate employment or graduate schoolplacement was a direct result of their pursuit of the sustainability designation, a trend that hascontinued to the present time. Below are some quotes, older and more recent, from the studentsurveys. (Note that all student quotes in this paper are shared with students’ permission.)J. H. (2017 graduate) said, “I will be beginning my post-graduation career as an entry-level engineer [at a company that designs high-performing buildings with a focus on energy efficiency] in Seattle, WA, a job that came as a direct result of the sustainability designation. When I interviewed for this position, I was told that there were over 100 applicants for one position, and they were looking for
Initiative. She has more than 20 years of STEM program evaluation experience. She received her Ph.D. in Continuing Teacher Education from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and holds an M.A in Applied Mathematics from the University of Southern California and an M.S. in Real and Complex Analysis from the University of Bucharest, Romania. She received a CORE Early Career Fulbright U.S. scholar award for the proposal Investigations of Quality Criteria in STEM (Science Technology Engineering and Mathematics) Teacher Education and a YWCA leadership award for STEM education.Dr. Joshua Rovey, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Dr. Rovey is a Professor of Aerospace Engineering with background and expertise in
-in-college students become acclimated with the university setting and community priorto the start of their academic career. Students take non-credit courses in subjects that arehistorically challenging and required for first-year students, such as calculus, chemistry, andengineering fundamentals. Throughout the program, students also participate in informationalseminars presented by various offices on campus to understand the range of opportunities andresources available to them. In light of participation occurring prior to the official start of thesemester, the purpose of this paper is to explore the role of this program in shaping theexpectations that participating students have of the undergraduate engineering program. Toaddress this
alongside faculty mentors. Claudine has also co-facilitated multiple Conversations about Race and Ethnicity (C.A.R.E.) Circles and C.A.R.E. Speaks through the Office of Multicultural Affairs (OMA) to undergraduate students across the SU colleges and departments including RAs in an effort to impact demonstrative change in diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility on campus. Claudine is a licensed Social Worker (LMSW). She graduated from Hunter College of the City University of New York (CUNY) with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Psychology and a minor in Communications, and later went on to pursue a Master’s degree in Social Work from Fordham University. Claudine began her social work career in the field of child
rated application materials for a laboratory manager position. Thematerials had been randomly assigned either a male name or a female name and were otherwiseidentical. The faculty (both male and female) rated the male candidates significantly morecompetent and hirable than the identical female candidates. The faculty assigned higher salariesto the male applicants than to the female applicants. Males were given a 14% increase in meansalary over the females. The faculty also offered less career mentoring to the female candidatethan the male candidate. Interestingly, the gender, scientific field, age, and tenure status of thefaculty were not significant in these results. The observed gender bias seems to be pervasiveamong all faculty.It was found
owing to the nature of theevent, also biased toward people who held a higher than average interest toward engineeringcareers to start with.In the application form, the applicants were asked to answer an open question “Do you thinkthat more women are needed in the field of technology? Justify your answer.” Answerswere submitted as open-ended text and varied from a couple of words to paragraphs withseveral hundred words. Written answers were analyzed by qualitative content analysisfollowing the ideas of theory-directed coding in the Atlas.ti software.The event website introduced the aim of the event as follows:At the Shaking up Tech event, universities want to offer a diverse understanding oftechnology as a discipline and career choice. The aim
persistent concern forsupporting in-service K-12 teachers to develop and embed rigorous engineering instruction intotheir practice [9]-[12]. Furthermore, there is a critical need for more role models for all students,especially underrepresented minorities (URM) and those in high-need school districts, in STEMeducation and career fields [13]. While teachers can help fulfill these roles for students in STEM,more attention is needed on professional development supports for teachers and leaders in STEMeducation and teacher education [13].To address these needs and the increased focus on engineering integration, this research studyexamines the supports provided by one professional development program that served K-12teachers in their development as STEM
the Enhancement of Teaching and Learning (CETL) and three years as a faculty member at Olin College of Engineering in Massachusetts. Alexandra’s research aims to amplify the voices and work of students, educators, and Minority-Serving Institutions (MSIs) overall and support continued educational innovation within engineering at these in- stitutions. Specifically, she focuses on (1) educational and professional development of graduate students and faculty, (2) critical transitions in education and career pathways, and (3) design as central to educa- tional and global change.Dr. Jay Phillip Jefferson, Florida International University I am currently a Postdoc within SUCCEED at Florida International University. My
and alumniperceptions might differ. Although we will also be using student surveys and focus groups in thisproject, we decided to start with program alumni as we feel they are uniquely well-positioned todiscuss their learning experience in the program with a juxtaposition to their career and graduateschool experience, and speak to the relevance of the program’s teaching and learning approachesbeyond the program itself. Comparing faculty perceptions with alumni perceptions is key indistinguishing between the intended and the enacted curriculum [19], [20].To engage in this research, we sought previous research on comparing instructor and alumniperspectives. Interestingly, despite an extensive literature review, the majority of studies focuson
education, choosing and engineering, and determining their career goals.According to Eccles and Wigfield’s categories, it is a theory focused on the reasons forengagement[9]. SDT asserts that actions are motivated by the desire to fulfill three basic humanneeds: competence, autonomy, and relatedness [10]. Competence is the knowledge and skills onemust possess to succeed and feel effective in dealing with the environment. Perceivedcompetence is often compared to self-efficacy, which is a person’s beliefs about their capabilitiesto produce designated levels of performance that exercise influence over events that affect theirlives [11]. Competence is built through providing optimal challenges, promoting task feedback,and freedom from demanding
introduces students to the notion of inclusion and equity inengineering and has them reflect on the importance of these elements to their development, bothas students and professional engineers. By building awareness of inclusion, equity, andprofessionalism early in students’ academic career, the authors aim to create more inclusive andequitable learning environments that lead to a more diverse engineering student body andultimately, engineering workforce, by increasing student sense of belonging. This paper includesa detailed description of the orientation session, a summary of student feedback, and a discussionon how the orientation has been adapted for online participation.Introduction & BackgroundImpact of Freshman Orientation
transitions in education and career pathways, and (3) design as central to educa- tional and global change. American c Society for Engineering Education, 2021 Mechanical engineering students’ perceptions of design skills throughout a Senior Design course sequenceAbstractEngineering design requires high-level, interdisciplinary, collaborative problem-solving skills tosuccessfully solve complex and dynamic challenges. For this reason, engineering design courseshave served as a platform for educators to provide students with skills and experiences to facethe global challenges they will encounter in their careers. This study examines
of the Year in 1982. Dr. Slaughter, a licensed professional engineer, began his career as an electronics engineer at General Dynamics and, later, served for 15 years at the U.S. Navy Electronics Laboratory in San Diego, where he became head of the Information Systems Technol- ogy Department. He has also been director of the Applied Physics Laboratory and professor of electrical engineering at the University of Washington, Academic Vice President and Provost at Washington State University, the Irving R. Melbo Professor of Leadership in Education at the University of Southern Cal- ifornia and, until his return to USC in January 2010, president and CEO of the National Action Council for Minorities in Engineering, Inc
Paper ID #11925The Four-Phase Interest Development in Engineering SurveyJoseph E Michaelis, University of Wisconsin - Madison Joseph E Michaelis is a Ph.D. student in Educational Psychology in the Learning Sciences area at the University of Wisconsin - Madison. His research involves studying interest in STEM education, focusing on the impact of learning environments, feedback, and influence of social constructs and identities. This research includes developing inclusive learning environments that promote interest in pursuing STEM fields as a career to a broad range of students.Prof. Mitchell Nathan, University of Wisconsin
underserved, community-based organizationsAbstractIn 2011, the Scientist for Tomorrow (SfT) initiative was created after receiving a grant fromthe National Science Foundation’s Informal Science Education program. The SfT initiative isdesigned to utilize a science-based curriculum to provide urban youth in Chicago withinformation and skills related to science, technology, engineering, arts and mathematics(STEAM) careers and foster positive attitudes toward STEAM subjects and related careers.This grant financially sustained SfT and allowed it to serve 15 out-of-school-timeorganizations for two years. Today, the SfT initiative is in its sixth year, serving more than 40out-of-school time organizations, 600 middle school student and 150 parents per
goals that primarily drive engineering education [1, 2] are 1) improving student-learning experience and 2) preparing the students for a successful future career. Recent researchon effective engineering education [1, 2] suggests multiple approaches for student success in theclassroom and beyond. These learning approaches focus on the engagement of students in theclassroom and outside by creating a teachable moment using inductive learning [3, 4, 5], activelearning via in-class activities [6, 7], experiential learning [8, 9, 10], visual learning [2, 11], andproject-based learning [12, 13], to name a few. All the proposed learning approaches augmentthe traditional learning methods. A common factor among all these approaches is studentinvolvement
, presentation, and business skills; and inspire their students, through examples of real-world applications, to pursue careers in STEM and create technology ventures.3. Assess program activities and disseminate outcomes.As elaborated below, PBL, engineering research, and entrepreneurship and industry experiencesare purposefully integrated in this PD program so that educators can link classroom teaching andlearning in STEM disciplines with real-world STEM practices.To develop a technically literate workforce, educators must not only teach STEM knowledge butalso address students’ question: “Why do I need to know this?” Engagement of industry in PD canallow teachers to inform students about job opportunities based on their own experiences. Such