broad, science-based context. For example, the textbook beginswith the Big Bang, then spends three full chapters on the formation and evolution of theuniverse, the formation of our solar system and planet Earth, and the origin and evolution ofearly forms of life. The textbook will be extensively supplemented with additional material andguest lectures from various engineering faculty. In addition to engineering materials, broadtopics like power, water, and navigation will be considered. Student assessment will includedebates, group research projects, and oral presentations, as well as exams.Designed with engineering students in mind, the classes seek to establish patterns of thinkingaround complex issues and to provide meaningful case studies
advisor who takes a special interest in helping a student develop into asuccessful professional. Mentoring is a professional as well as a personal relationship. It is with this spiritin mind, mentoring is compared among some of the US and Puerto Rican engineering schools of similarsizes.Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Puerto Rico at Mayagüez (UPRM), Puerto RicoThe department has about twenty full-time faculty members and one is currently on a leave of absence.During the preparation for an ABET (Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology) visit, the needfor undergraduate student mentoring was felt. The department has a full-time student counselor;however, there happened to be cases where some specific technical
to consider and design with ethical, equity, andsocial justice implications in mind. Further, there is still a general lack of diversity ofstakeholder parameters in early engineering design classes. Introduction to systems engineeringcourses lack integration of current thinking on community engagement ethics and that absencecan be seen across the systems engineering curriculum, as well. We ask: How do we createlearning opportunities/engineering interventions that are technically sound, and also prioritizecommunity voice, cultural appropriateness, and contextual efficacy? In this paper, we reviewthree methods of stakeholder analysis taught in system engineering courses and identify whereand how one can integrate community voices through a
Paper ID #33391A Virtual Internship ExperienceMr. Rodney Boehm, Texas A&M University College of Engineering Rodney Boehm is the Director of Engineering Entrepreneurship and an Associate Professor of Practice in the Texas A&M University College of Engineering. He has broad industry experiences, including over 35 years in all aspects of the telecommunications industry (sales, marketing, manufacturing, business de- velopment, and technical design), the creation of a telecommunications standard (SONET - Synchronous Optical Network) for the fiber optics industry that is still in use internationally over 30 years
Paper ID #21474Tenure as a Closed System: Subconscious Behavioral Characteristics of Co-ercion, Groupthink, Bias and Inherent DiscriminationDr. Mitchell L. Springer PMP, SPHR, SHRM-SCP, Purdue University, West Lafayette (College of Engineering) Dr. Mitchell L. Springer PMP, SPHR, SHRM-SCP Dr. Springer currently serves as an Executive Director for Purdue University’s Polytechnic Institute lo- cated in West Lafayette, Indiana. He has over 35 years of theoretical and Defense industry-based practical experience from four disciplines: Software Engineering, Systems Engineering, Program Management and Human Resources. Dr
peers.Five FG engineering students with high quantitative belongingness were selected for aninterview. A semi-structured interview protocol based in interpretive phenomenological analysiswas used to elucidate the students’ experiences that fostered belongingness. Separate themesfrom each student were created from coding and then overarching themes unified a sharedexperience.The following overarching themes were prevalent among the participants: similarity toclassmates, recognition as an engineer by peers, limited questioning of belongingness, andbelongingness is a state of mind. The results depict that elements of engineering identity play apart in making students feel they belong (e.g., recognition), but in some cases, belongingness isdistinct from
was determined that the research would initially pilotthree separate surveys: (1) a survey targeting engineering deans and department chairs to identifythe names of individuals at their institution who teach students about ethics; (2) a surveytargeting faculty who teach engineering students about ethics via courses; and (3) a surveytargeting faculty who mentor co-curricular activities in engineering.The surveys were each developed using Qualtrics survey software and by keeping in mind bestpractices of usability, reliability, and validity.4,35 After development of the survey instruments,recruiting emails, consent statements, and follow-up interview questions, the information wassubmitted for approval to the University of Colorado Boulder (U3
Paper ID #19767Making Meaning through Art-Integrated EngineeringDr. Kerry Dixon, Ohio State University Kerry Dixon is a specialist in interdisciplinary education, with particular focus on integrating visual art into science, technology, engineering and math. Formerly a member of the curatorial staff at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Kerry has also directed two education nonprofit organizations. As director of those organizations, she partnered with The Ohio State University on the creation of a national model for preparing future secondary teachers with a specialization in urban education. In that role, she
together. They decided upon relevant field trips andguest speakers in order to provide context to inform SABES.The community-based aspect of SABES was crucial for establishing in the minds of students,teachers, parents, and community members that STEM skills are relevant for their communitynow and in the future. Instead of being an academic exercise, each student engineering designproject was a practical attempt to envision the potential benefits to the community.For example, one school maintained a school garden. The fourth grade students decided to workon a composting project that would repurpose waste from the cafeteria. The students researchedcomposting, learned about composting from a guest speaker and field trip, and tested methods
allowed for themes to emerge from the data in a ‘bottom-up’ inductive approach. When approaching the interviews inductively, themes were drawn fromthe data without a theoretical reference in mind, similar to grounded theory research methods.8Therefore, we sought to find descriptions related to our participants’ perceptions of women inengineering without using existing general theories for women in engineering. Thesedescriptions were then formed into general themes that captured the essence of our participants’perceptions of being a woman in engineering. Nelson interpreted the interviews with knowledgeof the engineering culture, whereas Shapcott, who is pursuing a Ph.D. in educational psychology,framed it with a gendered motivational lens
factors. The primary motivation being toallow students to pursue more diverse and relevant fields of knowledge; this includes moreflexibility within course requirements, as well as offering more availability in degree emphases.Incorporating experiential learning was also given acute attention; constructing courses with anincrease in hands-on learning, creating class curriculum focused on instilling propercommunication and presentation skills, and merging previously taught subjects to better assiststudent understanding. With these initiatives in mind, the department began formulating areformed mechanical engineering curriculum based off review of peer institutions andeducational literature. Faculty, as well as student and industrial advisory
Paper ID #23133Design Thinking in Engineering Course DesignDr. Nicholas D. Fila, Iowa State University Nicholas D. Fila is a postdoctoral research associate in Electrical and Computer Engineering and Industrial Design at Iowa State University. He earned a B.S. in Electrical Engineering and a M.S. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and a Ph.D. in Engineering Education from Purdue University. His current research interests include innovation, empathy, design thinking, instructional design heuristics.Dr. Seda McKIlligan, Iowa State University Dr. McKilligan’s
Paper ID #34988Teaching Social Justice to Engineering StudentsDr. Dianne Grayce Hendricks, University of Washington Dr. Dianne Hendricks is a Lecturer in the Department of Human Centered Design & Engineering and the Director of the Engineering Communication Program at the University of Washington. She designs and teaches courses involving universal design, technical communication, ethics, and diversity, equity and inclusion. She co-founded HuskyADAPT (Accessible Design and Play Technology), where she mentors UW students in design for local needs experts with disabilities. She also leads STEM outreach activities for
simply because of the different majors, it was so interesting seeing how all our minds worked together to accomplish.• This program was awesome. I was able to truly see the real problems the world as a whole is facing now. I also understand now that there must be so much more involvement in the sustainable background to get things moving the way they are supposed to in order to have a safe and healthy environment for the future.Capstone Project for Engineering Technology StudentsThe work described in this paper was meant to be the capstone project for EngineeringTechnology students. Currently, the capstone course is being offered as a three credit hour courseand thus the project must be completed in a full semester’s timeframe
Paper ID #13724Academic Maker Spaces and Engineering DesignDr. Vincent Wilczynski, Yale University Vincent Wilczynski is the Deputy Dean of the Yale School of Engineering and Applied Science and the James S. Tyler Director of the Yale Center for Engineering Innovation & Design. As the Deputy Dean, he helps plan and implement all academic initiatives at the School. In addition, he manages the School’s teaching and research resources and facilities. As the James S. Tyler Director of the Center for Engineer- ing Innovation & Design he leads the School’s efforts to promote collaboration, creativity, design and
increase in production of overseas engineers. Adaptiveexpertise is a skill set that would support students’ preparation for the complex problem solvingenvironments of the real-world. The display of adaptive expertise has been said to "ultimatelylead to students' depth of knowledge and habits of mind that lead to success in their career andenable them to be innovators in the field" [2]. For this reason, it is important for educators andscholars to explore how we can better prepare our students to showcase adaptive expertise. It isequally important to assess the effectiveness of our attempts at facilitating this development.Think-a-louds, [3] interviews [1], and self-report surveys [4] [1] [5][6] [7] have all been used tomeasure adaptive expertise
onassessing the impact of telling the stories, by the storytellers who recorded for the podcast. In thefuture, we may assess the impact on listeners.Table 1. Survey questions for pre- and post-experience surveys. Pre-experience survey questions: 1. Think for a second about what makes you, you. Fill in the following blank with the first five things to come to mind. 2. The rest of this survey will refer to STEM professionals. STEM stands for Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math. You should think about yourself as a professional in your primary major. As a STEM professional, you could be a Scientist, Biologist, Chemist, Civil Engineer, Mechanical Engineer, Computer Scientist, etc. Do you agree or disagree
inengineering.In this work-in-progress paper, we describe a design-based research project that explores howstudents adopt positive learning behaviors and dispositions through a course, because positivelearning behaviors and dispositions have been shown to increase persistence through challengesand setbacks4.We have designed a course titled Engineering the Mind as an eight-week, second-half semestercourse that is offered for one semester-hour of credit. We plan to pilot this course in Spring 2017to prepare for the Fall 2017 offering.BackgroundDesign-Based ResearchDesign-based research (DBR) is a research paradigm that attempts to bridge laboratory studieswith complex, instructional intervention studies5. DBR is described as “theoretically-framed,empirical
Paper ID #38355Fostering Educational Equity in EngineeringMiss Katrina Marie RobertsonHadi Ali, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University Hadi Ali is an Assistant Professor of Aerospace Engineering at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University. He studies the influence of the future of work on curricular innovation, with a focus on exploring the relationships between and among adaptability, risk taking and value making. In an effort to characterize engineering education as an (eco)system, his approach integrates analytical methods of data science to address changes in systems and society. More broadly, he is interested in
Paper ID #13318Social Justice in Control Systems EngineeringDr. Kathryn Johnson, Colorado School of Mines Kathryn Johnson is an Associate Professor at the Colorado School of Mines in the Department of Elec- trical Engineering and Computer Science and is Jointly Appointed at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory’s National Wind Technology Center. In the fall 2011, she was a visiting researcher at Aal- borg University in Denmark, where she collaborated on wind turbine control research and experienced Aalborg’s Problem-Based Learning method. She has researched wind turbine control systems since 2002, with numerous
struggling with college. 1. How did this student come to choose engineering? Who or what influenced them to make this choice? In high school Abby really liked math. However, she had a dream to go to medical school one day, and engineering seemed like a perfect way to combine these two passions. As someone who was pre-med, Abby thought chemical engineering would provide insight into the solutions that doctors end up prescribing to their patients, and that it would give her opportunities outside medicine if she ever changed her mind. Abby also had a cousin who got her bachelor’s degree in biomedical engineering and then went off to become a doctor. Abby always thought that it was
analysis for a pilotof the SUCCESS survey (Studying Underlying Characteristics for Computing and EngineeringStudent Success). This survey was developed to measure underlying factors that may influencestudent success including personality, community, grit, thriving, identity, mindset, motivation,perceptions of faculty caring, stress, gratitude, self-control, mindfulness, and belongingness. Wemeasure these underlying factors because each engineering and computing student admitted to auniversity has clear potential for academic and personal success in their undergraduatecurriculum from admissions criteria, however, while some thrive academically, others flounder.In this project, we ask, “Why is it that highly credentialed and previously successful
Paper ID #36953GIFTS: Framing Understanding Implicit Bias as a Professional Skill toFirst-Year StudentsDr. Jeffrey W. Fergus P.E., Auburn University Jeffrey W. Fergus received his B.S. in Metallurgical Engineering from the University of Illinois in 1985 and Ph.D. in Materials Science and Engineering from the University of Pennsylvania in 1990. After a postdoctoral appointment at the University of Notre Dame he joined the Materials Engineering program at Auburn University in 1992. He is currently the Associate Dean for Undergraduate Studies and Program Assessment in the Samuel Ginn College of Engineering.Jessica Bowers
abilities. Because artistic and engineering skills are often seen asdistinct, challenging students who do not identify as artistic or creative to begin flexing theircreative muscles can be rather difficult. For classes that require creative thought, it becomesimperative for students to first, realize that creative practices and artistic endeavors are possibleand even necessary to be successful in engineering and are not just for aesthetic appeal. Second,students may not view creativity as a trait that can be enhanced so it can be necessary to redefinecreativity in students’ minds such that it is regarded as malleable something that can be learned.The concept may be difficult for students to grasp fully and can result in a more
-granting, Title IV-eligible institutions for higher education, and they enroll approximately30 percent of all undergraduates in the United States [1]. However, in 2018, only 3 percent of allfederal obligations for science and engineering research and development provided to institutionsof higher education was distributed to MSIs. Two agencies that tend to provide most of theresearch funding, the National Institute for Health (NIH) and the National Science Foundation(NSF), awarded 2 percent and 6 percent of their research funding to MSIs in 2018 [2]. Federalfunding agencies, such as the NSF, have recognized the need to diversify their fundingportfolios to increase the engagement of under-participating institutions, including MSIs. Withthis in mind
Paper ID #20895Engineering Co-op Interns as Partners in First-Year Student Engagement,Mentoring, and Course DevelopmentDr. Geoff Rideout, Memorial University of Newfoundland Geoff Rideout received his B.Eng. (Mechanical) from Memorial University of Newfoundland in 1993. After working in the manufacturing and building systems consulting industries, he earned his M.A.Sc. in Mechanical Engineering from Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario and his Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Michigan. He has lectured at the University of Michigan and at the Humber Institute for Advanced Technology and Applied
course load, studentsmainly used words associated with feeling scared. Meanwhile, the interpersonal contexts ofengineering, which vary across students, such as academic peers, professors, and women inSTEM, evoke a wide variety of emotions within and across students, with words emerging acrossthe emotion categories of angry, confident, happy, loved, and scared. The most salient emotiongroups that emerged during our interviews across contexts were confident, happy, and scared.Our results indicate that navigating engineering is inherently emotional across a variety ofstudents and in a variety of contexts. With that in mind, one recommendation we have formaking student support more responsive is anticipating and responding to the emotional needs
. As a result, it is hoped that the students will determine an effective collaborative learningapproach that informs each others’ areas of interest regarding international developmentsustainability, while building a knowledge base for better understanding the interrelationshipsamong these disciplines to evaluate long-term interactions between an engineered infrastructureand a recipient community.We emphasize that this course is not design-based, such as an Engineering Capstone project, nordoes it teach technical design. Instead, it focuses engineering minds on the non-engineeringinfluences that must be considered to produce a successful, sustainable engineering design for arecipient outside the designers’ own sociocultural experience.Course
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, metal machining, and design for manufacturing ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2023 WIP: A Correlation Analysis of Engagement of First-Generation College Students in EngineeringIntroductionIn the college environment, students engage in a variety of educational activities. They askquestions in class, have discussions with peers and faculty, study in their preferred way, and doall of these with the goal of a degree in mind. These types of engagement, along with manyothers, are key components of students’ education.Previous research on first-generation college students shows that first-generation students acrossall majors engage less than their peers and perceive the college