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Paper ID #21746Gatekeepers to Broadening Participation in Engineering: A Qualitative In-vestigation of a Case Site in Virginia (Work in Progress)Mr. Andrew L Gillen, Virginia Tech Andrew Gillen is a doctoral student and graduate research assistant in the Department of Engineering Edu- cation at Virginia Tech. Andrew received his B.S. in Civil Engineering with an environmental engineering concentration from Northeastern University.Dr. Cheryl Carrico P.E., Virginia Tech Cheryl Carrico is a Research faculty member for Virginia Tech. Her current research focus relates to STEM career pathways (K-12 through early career) and
Paper ID #41210Data-Science Perceptions: A Textual Analysis of Reddit Posts from Non-ComputingEngineersMr. Nicolas Leger, Florida International University Nicolas L´eger is currently an engineering and computing education Ph.D. student in the School of Universal Computing, Construction, and Engineering Education (SUCCEED) at Florida International University. He earned a B.S. in Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering from the University of Maryland at College Park in May 2021 and began his Ph.D. studies the following fall semester. His research interests center on numerical and computational methods in STEM education and in
been well received by students and by faculty. There are several notableattributes. Most significant is that the project provides the context for nearly all of the learningobjectives during the first half of the course. Rather than a hodgepodge of many seeminglyunrelated topics, each new topic is introduced when it is needed for the project.Form StudyFor example, isometric sketching is introduced as a tool in visualizing how a house’s geometryaffects the potential energy performance. This exercise also presents an opportunity forintroducing parametric studies as well as using a spreadsheet for analysis. Figure 2 illustrates theproduct of the form study that students do in class while the professor steps through the processon a tablet computer
Stanford (d.school), an initiative lead by Professor David Kelley (co-Founder of IDEO Product Development). He has published in the areas of diagnostic electro-physiology, functional assessment of voluntary movement, human operator information processing, rehabilitation© American Society for Engineering Education, 2006 robotics, design team protocol analysis, design knowledge management, and concurrent engineering. A member of the Stanford faculty since 1976, he taught product design, created the smart product design (mechatronics) curriculum at Stanford, and most recently teaches a graduate course in "Team-Based Design Innovation with Corporate Partners"; a Design Theory and
career mentoring is the key to setting students up for a smoothtransfer experience. The APEX faculty in the School of Engineering have implemented aproactive faculty mentoring initiative aimed at supporting students who may transfer from anumber of our local 2-year colleges. APEX Faculty members visit classes at nearby communitycolleges to connect directly with students. Over the past two years - these visits have taken theform of both on-campus as well as virtual visits via Zoom/Teams. The APEX faculty mentorsprovide an overview of the undergraduate engineering programs, the various student focusedsupport structures, the transfer process, financial aid and scholarships. More importantly, facultyhighlight the benefits of expressing an interest
- sity. She obtained a B.S. in mathematics from Spelman College, a M.S. in industrial engineering from the University of Alabama, and a Ph.D. in Leadership and Policy Studies from Peabody College of Vanderbilt University. Teaching interests relate to the professional development of graduate engineering students and to leadership, policy, and change in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics education. Pri- mary research projects explore the preparation of engineering doctoral students for careers in academia and industry and the development of engineering education assessment tools. She is a NSF Faculty Early Career (CAREER) award winner and is a recipient of a Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and
, manufacturing, safety and health in theworkplace, plant layout and materials handling, and machine design rounded out the offerings.Most of these courses were taught and/or developed by the department’s regular tenure-trackfaculty, but part-time contingent faculty were utilized regularly for some of the more specializedofferings such as welding and metals, PLCs, and safety and health in the workplace.Current ConditionsThe ET program has had healthy enrollment; we regularly graduate 20 to 25 students per year.We get relatively few students who start the program as freshmen, however. A typical incomingfreshman class will have only 4 or 5 members. The program does attract non-traditional part-time students who transfer credits from a 2-year ET degree and
communication networks.Carlos Pomalaza-Raez, Indiana University Purdue University, Fort Wayne Carlos Pomalaza-Rez is an Electrical Engineering Professor at Indiana-Purdue University, Indiana, USA, and a Visiting Professor at the University of Oulu, Finland. He received his BSME and BSEE from Universidad Nacional de Ingeniera, Lima, Peru in 1974, and his MS and PhD in Electrical Engineering from Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, in 1977 and 1980, respectively. He has been a Faculty Member of the University of Limerick, Ireland, and of Clarkson University, Potsdam, New York. He has also been a member of the technical staff at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory of the California Institute of Technology.Edwin Chobot, Purdue
faculty member at Oklahoma State University working on terahertz frequencies and engineering educa- tion. While at Oklahoma State, he developed courses in photonics and engineering design. After serving for two and a half years as a program director in engineering education at the National Science Founda- tion, he took a chair position in electrical engineering at Bucknell University. He is currently interested in engineering design education, engineering education policy, and the philosophy of engineering education.Dr. Jennifer Karlin, Minnesota State University, Mankato Jennifer Karlin spent the first half of her career at the South Dakota School of Mines and Technology, where she was a professor of industrial
charter schools easier. As a result, charterschool boards aren’t composed of parents, teachers or community members, thus eliminatingimportant stakeholder input in the decision-making process and operation of the public charterschools.In November, a special session of the Louisiana legislature convened to create Act 35 whichaltered the criteria upon which state authorities could intervene at the local school district level.The new act redefined how school performance was deemed failing or not. The language statedthat an entire school district would be considered “Academically in Crisis” if 30 or more schoolsin the district had a failing rating and/or if 50% or more of the students in the district wereenrolled in failing schools. This new
innovation process itself,which are transforming the respective roles of U.S. industry, research universities, andgovernment in stimulating innovation for economic growth. But substantial changes need to bemade in reshaping graduate professional education for the nation’s engineers and technologists inindustry to reflect these changes in order to improve U.S. competitiveness.As the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), of which the UnitedStates is a member nation, points out: 1 “With the emergence of a knowledge-based society,innovation has become an increasingly important factor in the competitiveness of firms, theprosperity of nations and dynamic world growth. Promoting innovation is now a high priority inmost OECD
materials as an active packaging that extends shelf life of food products.Prof. Farida Tagirovna Shageeva, Kazan National Research Technological University Doctor of Education, Professor of the department of Engineering Education and Psychology, Dean of the Faculty of Additional Education at the Kazan National Research Technological University. Scientific interests: educational technologies, innovations in educational practice. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2017 Research University as a Center of Internationally-Focused Training Innovative-Economy EngineersIntroduction.The Republic of Tatarstan is one of the most stable and fastest growing members of theRussian
Program AccreditationIn the United States, the development of professional accreditation of engineering educationhas been continuously implemented for 80 years. ABET has been committed to optimize andimplement the accreditation process which is regarded as the most efficient and innovativemethod of quality assurance in higher education. By 2013, 3278 programs of 671 collegesand universities in the United States have been accredited, which clearly illustrates that“despite the changes and new trends in education, institutions, faculty, and students in theUnited States see ABET accreditation as the gold standard in technical educationaccreditation, much as they did 80 years ago.”32 Meanwhile, ABET aimed to be moreresponsive to the needs of an
Page 23.1234.4to be learning.Some of the benefits of introducing engineering (in particular engineering design) into themathematics and science curricula are increased interest in STEM subjects and careers in STEMfields. Several studies found an increase in students’ interest in these areas after implementingengineering design into K-12 science and mathematics classes13, 14, 21, 22. There was also anincrease found in students’ interest and attitudes in STEM subjects in studies that involvedcurriculum used as extra curricular programs such as Adventure Engineering19, Engineering isElementary23, and In the Middle of Engineering24.While there is limited data in this area, it has been suggested that the inclusion of engineering inK-12 can lead to
power but elected not to do so. This decision resulted in an incredibly harmful outcome forMathiae, who expressed a great deal of concern for incoming mathematics students who mightshare a similar identity to zir. Ze also mentioned that the decision to leave mathematics had anadverse effect on zirs relationship with zirs family, who strongly desired for Mathiae to pursue aSTEM degree. The culmination of trauma that ensued from this incident exacerbated by theineffective “allyship” displayed by the administration weighed so heavily on Mathiae that zebecame observably upset during our interview.Coping StrategiesNavigating power structures within the STEM institution had an adverse effect on theparticipants’ mental health. In order to cope with
, MindWare Technologies Craig Morin is the Engineering Manager at MindWare Technologies in Gahanna, Ohio where he has worked since 2008. He received a BS in Electrical and Computer Engineering and a MS in Biomedical Engineering at The Ohio State University in Columbus, Ohio. Prior to his current role, he was a Design Engineer with MindWare Technologies and a Graduate Teaching Associate with the Fundamentals of Engineering for Honors program at The Ohio State University. Beyond product design with an emphasis on electrical hardware, his interests include home automation, 3D printing, and ceramics.Andrew Phillips, Ohio State University Andrew H. Phillips is an Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) student at The Ohio
desired success; and developing mutual trustto jointly cross the mentorship cultural bridge in a transformational mentorship process.Holistically, the paper explores how mentorship empowers participants for further success and growth onboth professional and personal levels, inside and outside of higher education. An extensive discussion ofresearch evidence on the barriers minority students face in graduate school, challenges majority facultyface in cross-racial and gender mentorships, and suggestions on how to address the identified barriers,make this exploration applicable for any faculty or graduate students who desire to maximize theopportunities from relational mentorship. Topic Index: Cultural bridge, relational mentorship, menteeship
StructureUpon completion of this course, students will be able to: ● Explain the role of engineering in society, articulating the importance of a mindset that values diverse perspectives and experiences, and ensures equitable access and participation in all aspects of engineering education, design and practice. ● Apply design thinking principles and decision-making skills to evaluate personal, academic, and professional interests; make decisions; and create a planned academic path in the College of Engineering. ● Describe different career opportunities associated with a variety of the engineering disciplines offered within the College of Engineering. ● Begin to develop an engineering identity by identifying personal
opportunities to explore the world with my hands – doing and makingthings. That opportunity shaped who I am as a person and opened to me many avenues ofendeavor in the STEM fields. Even though there is much more advanced technology availabletoday, today’s students do not seem to have as many chances to tinker with and touch it andexperience what earlier generations where able to in the technology arenas of the day. Pointingand clicking just doesn’t do it! Hopefully this particular pendulum of popular culture, the“maker” culture, embodied by the Internet of Things concept, is swinging back towards an erawhen the abstraction of STEM concepts by a young person’s mind starts with making and doingthings with readily available, inexpensive technology and of
fitting pre-engineering degree. An apparentbenefit of either option discussed above is that Colleges and Schools of Engineering would beable to devote more of their resources to graduate engineering programs leaving freshman andsophomore level engineering classes to ET programs.A 2-year Template for ECE and ECET ProgramsBased on our experience, on conversations with other faculty members, and on an examinationof a representative sample of online degree plans at various Institutions, we present in thissection a generic 2-year template for students declaring ECE and ECET majors. The samplegroup of online plans that was examined is:Purdue University BSCmpE Virginia Tech BSEEUT Austin Computer Engineering University of
methods to enhance the learning processes of undergraduate engineering students.Angela Minichiello (Assistant Professor) Angela (Angie) Minichiello, Ph.D., P. E., is an Assistant Professor of Engineering Education and Adjunct Faculty in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at Utah State University. Her research employs asset-based frameworks to improve access, participation, and inclusivity across all levels of engineering education. Angie engages with qualitative, mixed-method, and multi-method approaches to better understand student experience for the ultimate purpose of strengthening and diversifying the engineering workforce. Her most recent work explores the effects of mobile educational technology, online learning
scholarly and systematic innovation in engineering education: Ensuring U.S. Engineering has the right people with the right talent for a global society. 2009: Washington, D.C.7. Hixson, C., et al., The Rising Engineering Education Faculty Experience (REEFE): Preparing Junior Colleagues, in 2015 ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition. 2015: Seattle, WA.8. McCord, R., et al., Graduate Student and Faculty Member: An Exploration of Career and Personal Decisions, in 121st ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition. 2014: Indianapolis, IN.9. Hixson, C., et al., Teaching with the Innovation Canvas: A tool for value-driven, integrated design education. 2014: 2014 ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition
goals, and have graduated at a high rate; however, there is nomechanism to allow students to explore majors in engineering. Therefore, there needed to be amechanism, which would allow students to explore engineering, while still gaining experience inengineering. The structure of the institution in question did not permit for a first-year course to be Page 24.47.3taught with the rigor implemented at other institutions. Furthermore, the course was nottransferrable to many of the departments. Therefore a 0.5 credit hour course was designed toprovide rigor and to give students an experience with the engineering design process. The coursewas
, but certain aspects have been built and implemented. Allengineering students are automatically added to the platform; whether they actively participate ornot is up to the individual. Students who choose to participate log in with their universitycredentials and answer a survey that helps personalize tips, email messages, etc. They are thenprovided with the list of competencies and asked to list their top three to these three questions: ● What areas are most exciting to you personally? ● What areas might be most important for your career? ● What are your most important areas for growth?After those questions, students select up to three competencies to focus on (they can changethese at any time if they wish). By selecting three
in any department at the school. The IEDepartment is leading an effort to ensure that all of its graduates have an internationalexperience.Discussion amongst the IE faculty at Pitt regarding implementing the international requirementhas been ongoing for well over two years. We wanted to go beyond simply requiring students totake international or global coursework. We believe that the best way to ensure that ourgraduates are prepared for the global market, have a basic understanding of global and culturalissues, and can utilize this understanding in an engineering context is to require an internationaltravel experience. However, there were clearly some serious issues and obstacles to considerbefore proceeding with such a requirement.A survey
students about thebenefits of acquiring industrial experience, and its relevance to their future careers asfaculty members, and becoming engineering educators. Encourage them to get intouch with industry, have a connection with someone on the inside, and plan to getinvolved with the practice when they do graduate. This notion of reaching out toindustry at an early stage is foreign to the halls of the engineering academy in theRegion, and likely to meet cultural resistance. Nonetheless, if we are pragmatic anddesire to do a better job in equipping our students with the “tools of the trade” thenwe need to alert our graduate students( the future engineering teachers) to the need ofdeveloping proper and enduring connections with industries in their
theincreased financial stability allowed students to explore their academic and career interests, studymore individually and in study-groups, and devote themselves to their engineering education byregularly meeting with faculty and staff outside the classroom.Scholarships offset rising gas prices for commuters and allow other students to live close tocampus. Students worked fewer hours (often 10 to 20 hours a week) compared to working full-time in community college. Students spent this additional time on campus and pursuedinternships and career opportunities in their field of study. In effect, S-STEM scholarshipsenabled students to treat their engineering education as a job, rather than having to work outsideof school to pay for their education.Our
equitablesystem, it is important that sufficient weight be allocated to practical experience (pastand present), and also, to begin a change in cultural norms that have favored researchover teaching for decades.ii) Second, initiating and supporting efforts to educate graduate students about thebenefits of acquiring industrial experience, and its relevance to their future careers asfaculty members, and becoming engineering educators. Encourage them to get intouch with industry, have a connection with someone on the inside, and plan to getinvolved with the practice when they do graduate. This notion of reaching out toindustry at an early stage is foreign to the halls of the engineering academy in theRegion, and likely to meet cultural resistance
Higher Edu- cation, University of Nebraska, and the Susan Thompson Buffett Foundation to implement an ecology of validation model at a large scale to promote student success. At UNL, Deepak mentors the AgFutures first-year living-learning community in leadership, service, and civic engagement. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2023 Community building through technology in a biological systems engineering courseConference: American Society for Engineering EducationDivision: Biological and Agricultural Engineering Division (BAE)Tags: Community-building, student-centered strategies, technologyPaper interests: Undergraduates, Graduate, Faculty