than 15 years [2-12].Due to the COVID-19 pandemic and related shutdowns and restrictions, many faculty concerns,particularly those associated with online instruction were exacerbated, as faculty had to quicklychange their teaching approaches to remote, online, and other hybrid formats. In response tothese concerns, the AIChE Education Division developed a series of Virtual Communities ofPractice open to all chemical engineering faculty members regardless of career phase, title,tenure status, or other classifications. This paper will highlight the genesis of the AIChEEducation Division’s VCP program and describe its impact on faculty members’ professionaldevelopment during the COVID-19 pandemic.Materials and MethodsCreating a virtual community
encourage them to pursue STEAM careers. One particularly effective approach isthrough hands-on learning and “making,” since children often have a natural affinity fortinkering and learn well through active involvement in meaningful activities [1]. Hands-on,project-based learning has been shown to get more students engaged with STEAM and help themlearn key skills for the future [2]. However, most STEAM education programs target students inupper-middle or high school [3]. Bustamante et. al write, “Since engineering education hastraditionally not been part of the general K–12 education experience (i.e., the beginning ofprimary school (age 5) through the end of secondary school (age 18)), early childhood educatorshave minimal background in engineering
investigating the intersec- tion of education and career path with cultural identity and is developing strategies to inform programming and policies that facilitate recruitment and retention of underrepresented populations in academia. In 2012 Dr. Zurn-Birkhimer was presented with an Outstanding Alumni Award from the Department of Earth, At- mospheric, and Planetary Sciences and in 2019 the College of Science Distinguished Alumni Award at Purdue University. Dr. Zurn-Birkhimer earned her B.S. in Mathematics from the University of Minnesota, and an M.S. and Ph.D. in Atmospheric Science from Purdue University. American c Society for Engineering Education, 2020
experienced in their career. The overall goal is to have teachers and their perceptions as a starting point in anunder-researched phenomenon, and to determine a basis for both, in depth and extensive,research on “troublemakers” including student and/ or parent views on “troublemaking”behavior. Literature ReviewFactors Causing Student Misbehaviors Previous researchers have studied what factors may or lead to students’ troublemakingbehaviors at school or in the classroom. A large-sample study indicated that sex, race, age,peer bonding, students’ trust in school rules, school involvement, and school effort had asignificant impact on student misconduct (Welsh et al., 1999). More specifically, Lee andSondra
Paper ID #29008Work In Progress: Improving student engagement in undergraduatebioinformatics through research contributionsDr. Jessica Dare Kaufman, Endicott College Jessica Kaufman began her engineering career as a chemical engineering major at The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art. After graduation, she worked as a process engineer, primarily in food and pharmaceuticals. Her work in biopharmaceuticals inspired her to earn a doctorate in Biomedical Engineering at Boston University. Since 2008, Jessica has worked at Endicott College and taught a wide range of biotechnology and bioengineering courses. Her
SemesterEngineering CourseIntroductionSpatial visualization skills are linked to success in chemistry, computer science, engineering, andmathematics [1,2]. Studies found that females, independent of racial and ethnic background,consistently lag behind males in measures of spatial skills[3]. Brus et al. found that femalestudents entering an engineering program report less confidence than male students in threecategories: career choice, scientific preparation, and their preparation of using graphical tools[1].The combination of a lack of confidence upon entry into an engineering program and low spatialvisualization skills, in comparison to male peers, may hurt retention efforts in the case of femaleengineering students[1,2]. Studies also found that students
-efficacy describes a student’s beliefs abouthis or her ability to attain educational goals [4]. A systematic review of research examining therelationship between academic self-efficacy and academic performance showed that academicself-efficacy is not only an important predictor of performance among college students, but alsoinfluences emotions about learning [5]. The concept of academic self-efficacy may be particularly consequential to efforts aimedat retaining students within a given area of study. Retention of STEM majors is especiallyimportant in modern American society, as technology-related careers employ millions ofAmericans [6]. Nevertheless, despite the importance and appeal of these fields, retentioncontinues to be a challenge in
Paper ID #31299You had me at ”undergraduate research”: how one institution achievedincredible results in the first year of a formal program to placefreshmen (and sophomores) in research labs, while helping students chipaway at the cost of collegeSusan Elaine Benzel, Colorado State University Susan E. Benzel, PMP Scott Scholars Program Coordinator Walter Scott, Jr. College of Engineering Colorado State University Susan earned her Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering from Colorado State University, and after a 30-year career in high-tech working for Hewlett Packard (HP)/Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE), she
of Mechanical Engineering at Tufts University.Dr. Kristen B Wendell, Tufts University Kristen Wendell is Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Adjunct Associate Professor of Education at Tufts University. Her research efforts at at the Center for Engineering Education and Out- reach focus on supporting discourse and design practices during K-12, teacher education, and college- level engineering learning experiences, and increasing access to engineering in the elementary school ex- perience, especially in under-resourced schools. In 2016 she was a recipient of the U.S. Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE). https://engineering.tufts.edu/me/people/faculty/kristen
., M.A.Sc.) and Mechanical Engineering from the University of Windsor (Ph.D.). She began a career in automotive research as a product development engineer at the University of Windsor/Chrysler Canada Automotive Research and Development Centre (ARDC). In 2005, Dr. Johrendt joined the University of Windsor as an Experiential Learning Specialist, focusing on teaching and educational research in hands-on learning and cooperative education as it relates to undergraduate engineering. She currently heads the WINONE Office for First- Year Engineering with a focus on supporting first-year undergraduate students as well as recruiting and outreach activities for the Faculty of Engineering. American
the Vir- ginia Tech Engineering Communications Center (VTECC). Her research focuses on communication in engineering design, interdisciplinary communication and collaboration, design education, and gender in engineering. She was awarded a CAREER grant from the National Science Foundation to study expert teaching in capstone design courses, and is co-PI on numerous NSF grants exploring communication, design, and identity in engineering. Drawing on theories of situated learning and identity development, her work includes studies on the teaching and learning of communication, effective teaching practices in design education, the effects of differing design pedagogies on retention and motivation, the dynamics of
others.Dr. Cara Margherio, University of Washington Cara Margherio is the Assistant Director of the UW Center for Evaluation & Research for STEM Equity (CERSE). Cara manages the evaluation of several NSF- and NIH-funded projects, primarily working with national professional development programs for early-career academics from groups underrepresented in STEM. Her research is grounded in critical race and feminist theories, and her research interests include community cultural wealth, counterspaces, intersectionality, and institutional change.Kerice Doten-Snitker, University of Washington Ms. Doten-Snitker is a Graduate Research Assistant at the University of Washington’s Center for Evalu- ation and Research for STEM
as work in teams to apply mathematical concepts to hands-on engineering projects. ● “Math ‘til you drop” sessions (MTUDs) which are mandatory all-day study sessions twice a quarter where students gather to practice problems and study with their peers before midterms or finals. 2 (2) Personal and professional developmentIn addition to math and science coursework, STARS students are required to take courses thatprovide them with research-informed best practices for developing study and learning skills; helpthem navigate university resources; offer career and professional development; and enhancemetacognitive skills such as
queer students. We spent summer2017 interviewing these people, including three administrators from the Dean of StudentsOffice, one Associate Dean of First-Year Programs, two from the Office of MulticulturalAffairs, one from Career Services, two from Student Counseling Services, one fromResidence Life, and two faculty. We also interviewed two transgender students who haddone a junior-year research project on support for transgender students, and one non-identifying student who was responsible for bringing a queer poet to campus for BlackHistory Month. During the months of August-December 2017 we continued ourinterviews, reaching 2 LGBTQ alumni. We will continue interviewing LGBTQengineering majors and alumni during spring 2018.Focus group: We
for college-wide diversity that includes having representatives from the Office ofAdmission involved, the two-week Summer Bridge experience, and GoldShirt curriculum.Components of the Summer Bridge program include fall course placement, orientation tocollege life, learning technical skills, creating shared core values, interdependent learning andcreating close friendships. The academic performance of the first cohort of EngineeringGoldShirt students was very good with a median grade point average of 3.44 at the end of theirfirst year. Student feedback was also gathered and presented as related to three goals: (1)increasing engineering student interest and knowledge of an engineering career; (2) building asense of community among GoldShirt
based approach that incorporates more traditional content knowledge and theory with a variety of hands-on applications4, 5 • Diversity Obstacle: assumptions of a prior familiarity and expertise with programming, robotics, machining, tool usage, etc. Strategy: start all students off at “ground zero” and emphasize collaborative peer support networks vs. competition4, 5 • Diversity Obstacle: failure to paint a broad picture of employment and career opportunities in engineering Strategy: offer a general engineering degree inside a traditionally liberal arts institution that requires all students to complete a broad common core7, 8 and emphasizes content integration across disciplines6
undergraduate programs 2, 5, 6, less is known about the processes surrounding studenttransitions into graduate programs 1, 7, 8. Engineering graduate degrees are becoming increasinglyimportant for professional and career development, and so understanding how individuals acclimate tograduate school environments is a critical first step in improving the overall process and ensuringcompetent graduates who are ready to effectively engage in professional practice.Thus, this paper describes a framework for the development, and implementation of a pilot summerbridge for students from underrepresented populations as they transition into a graduate program. Theoutcomes from this pilot and the impact on the students are also assessed and presented here
staff, gaps in communication, or simple human error. Sometimes these issues are not welldocumented in the published literature.The 2013 offering of the course had some first year “teething troubles” because the studentsfound it hard to find the motivation to devote time to the non-technical issues, which theyperceived as being less valuable for their future careers. This 2013 student survey commentregarding the course objectives is typical of the some of the feelings evident: “If the courseaimed to waste my time it certainly succeeded”. Some comments from student evaluations werequite positive, however (particularly regarding the failure case study project), and the course wasjudged to have more or less achieved its intended purpose. That said
Disciplines. San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass, 1990. 3. Reference omitted for purposes of blind review 4. R.B. Landis, Studying Engineering: A Roadmap to a Rewarding Career. Los Angeles, CA: Discovery Press, 2007. 5. ALEKS – McGraw-Hill, https://www.aleks.com/.
, achievement, and persistence in student-centered courses.Prof. Mark James Fisher, Northwestern University Mark teaches product development and entrepreneurial classes at Northwestern University in addition to consulting to a variety of medical device companies and global health non-profits in the US and interna- tionally. He has thirty plus years of product development experience in industry and in consulting. Mark has a particular interest in developing curricula focussed on providing students with both the engineering and non-engineering skills required to be successful in careers in industry and in applied research. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2018 Work in Progress
Arbor) and her Ph.D. (2015) in Bioengineering from the University of Pennsylvania. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2018 Effective Use of Engineering Standards in Biomedical EngineeringIntroductionThe use of engineering standards is an important skill for biomedical engineering (BME)students to succeed in their post-baccalaureate careers in the engineering profession [1].Engineering standards provide a framework for establishing and defining design constraints,working within regulatory and policy guidelines, and for developing and implementingappropriate design verification and validation methods [2,3]. Across BME departments there is astrong emphasis on the use of standards in Capstone or
students’ college experience and potentially their future careers. To introduce students to some campus activities available to them, instructors presented slides prepared by student organizations. The students were then assigned to choose two campus activities to attend before the second midterm and complete four reflection questions. The presentations only highlighted engineering related student groups, but students were allowed to go to any campus activity for the assignment.The initial data sets collected for the pilot study included tutoring attendance from theengineering tutoring room, grade distributions on the first midterm, student enrollment lists fromENGR 101 (fall semester only) and ENGR 102 (spring semester only), and
. Although this is a preliminarystudy, we hope to continue increasing the involvement within the program as the Council furtherdevelops the community of GC Scholars at XXXXX. For continuation of this study, we areinterested in tracking the effect of the student council on the outcome and development of GCScholars in the following key areas: the quantity and quality of applicants to the Program,engagement from Scholars in GC-specific activities, and post-graduation pursuit of careers in theGrand Challenges. Beginning in fall 2020, we will track these areas in order to monitor the effectof the student council on the success within the Program.Although this is a qualitative study as opposed to an analysis across GCSPs at multipleuniversities, the
practice in a variety of career paths. (p. 15) Consistent with the Joint Task Force on Computing Curricula, the Accreditation Boardfor Engineering and Technology (ABET)10 also highlighted the following skills required acrossengineering and technology programs along with technical skills: effective communication;functioning on multidisciplinary teams; problem solving; understanding the impact of solutionsin global, economic, environmental, and social contexts; and lifelong learning. In a recent mixed-method study, Caskurlu, Exter, & Ashby (2016) 11 found that computing professionals fromvarious industries believe that problem solving, critical thinking, lifelong learning, teamwork,and interpersonal skills are as important as technical and
. This goal is achieved throughengaging engineering students in design exercises and experiences throughout their academicundergraduate careers. The CASCADE project provides student support in an innovativeconfiguration of cascaded peer-mentoring. This program exposes freshman students to theengineering design process with vertically aligned design experiences through the sophomore andjunior years. Cascading vertically, undergraduate seniors mentor juniors, juniors mentorsophomores, and sophomores mentor freshmen. The objectives of the CASCADE project are to:1) infuse concepts of the design process across all four levels of the engineering undergraduatecurriculum (i.e., freshman through senior), 2) increase first-year, second-year, and third
refers to an educationalsystem that equips the learners with entrepreneurial abilities via the development of entrepreneurialawareness, entrepreneurial thinking, and entrepreneurial skillsets, of which the objective is to makestudents in colleges and universities behave like entrepreneurs and to equip them with the knowledge,skills, and personalities needed for their future careers through cultivating entrepreneurial mind,attaining entrepreneurial knowledge, and experiencing the entrepreneurial process (Zhang, 2007; Liu,2008).[6][7] Bae et al (2014) & Tingey et al. (2016) argue that entrepreneurship education is aboutdeveloping entrepreneurial attitudes and skills, with the purpose of increasing motivation forunder-resourced groups to
, stakeholder analyses, mass balance,sewage treatment, material properties and selection, sewage properties and conveyance,statics and stress, filtration and chemical precipitation) while playing the roles ofengineers, industrialists, elected officials, workers, scientists, public health officials,inventors, and city residents. In this course we introduce the entrepreneurial mindset to apopulation of students who may not think they are interested in the subject. Our role-playing game (RPG)-based approach is intended to attract students to entrepreneurialthinking and to introduce them to STEM-humanities integrative study, project-basedlearning, and other disciplinary content they may not have considered important to theirengineering careers. Near the
important factor in persistence to degree completion. For example, somestudies report that the diversity gap in STEM participation may be attributed more to perceptionsand beliefs than to academic preparation or achievement levels [1-5]. To the extent that suchperceptions and beliefs form an inaccurate (or “negative”) vision of a future engineering career,curricular approaches that aim to form a more “positive” vision may be warranted. Theseapproaches can be pedagogical, such as collaborative and project-based learning [6-8], content-based by aiming (for example) to expose the positive contributions of engineering to society [9-12], or both. All other things being equal, curricular features than can foster among students amore positive
and in academia for 3 years.Dr. Christy Bozic, University of Colorado, Boulder Christy Bozic Is the Stephen M. Dunn Professor of Engineering Management and Faculty Director of the Undergraduate Program at the University of Colorado Boulder. She holds a Ph.D. in Curriculum and Instruction, an M.B.A. in Marketing, and a Bachelors degree in Industrial Engineering Technology. Dr. Bozic builds upon her extensive industry experience to develop undergraduate curriculum to better prepare undergraduate engineers for careers in business and engineering management.Seth Murray, University of Colorado, Boulder Seth is an engineer and entrepreneur. He specializes in small business development, mechanical design and manufacturing
institution], my entire week was spent either in class or studying/doing homework. I had no idea how unprepared I was for the workload of engineering at [receiving institution].Other students suggested that faculty at their sending institution could provide more support,while others felt that career advising would have helped them prepare to transfer. A smallnumber of students also suggested creating a community of likely transfer students so that theycould walk through the process together.Differences Between Vertical and Lateral Transfer Students. The biggest difference betweenvertical and lateral transfer students’ responses to this question is that lateral transfers were morelikely to leave the question blank – about one third of them