enrollment and retentionrates. To attract the younger generation to machining industry careers, more attention needs to bepaid to incorporating novel training methods that are more appealing and engaging to youngerstudents. Interactive training programs with game-like elements (gamified training programs) arepotentially a viable solution to effectively addressing the shortcomings of traditional trainingmethods.The process of gamification, defined as implementation of game-specific mechanics anddynamics in non-gaming applications [5] has been of interest in machining-related applications,including workforce development. As video games are designed with the goal of providingenjoyment to the user, potential benefits of gamification include enhanced
percentage, many students may choose to transfer toClemson, and the number of students choosing to transfer has been increasing over recent years.The goals of SPECTRA are as follows: (1) to provide scholarship opportunities to low-income students who wish to pursue engineering or computing at Clemson (2) to build cohorts of transfer students to support their transition into Clemson University while also allowing for the ACE fellows program to aid in the training and practice of PhD candidates who wish to pursue careers in academia (3) to assess its progress both internally and externally to assist the transfer students best and improve the programThe ACE Fellows aspect is part of the SPECTRA program. It involves taking
to 2018, the BA/BS degree increased from 735 to 1,529 in 2018. This is anincrease of 108% from the level reached in 2012 [2-4].NYC LSAMP Alliance ActivitiesNYC LSAMP Research Assistantship - The NYC LSAMP Undergraduate Research Programserved as the heart of the NYC Alliance. The program included research experiences on or offCUNY campuses, international research, research enrichment and career development. LSAMPScholars engaged in High Impact activities during their stay in the program. At the end of PhaseV seventy to eighty students participated each semester in the academic year research program.Twenty-five to thirty NYC LSAMP Research Scholars conduct research during the summer atCUNY. On average, twenty NYC LSAMP Research Scholars secure
participants included 8 females, 3 firstgeneration, 6 Pell-eligible, and 1 underrepresented minority.Course descriptionThe PWS offered a one-credit required seminar course per semester for students in years one(2021-2022) and two (2022-2023). The series consisted of lectures and hands-on activities,promoted professional development, and prepared students for real-world projects. (See Tables 1and 2.) Weekly seminars for PWS scholars included speakers from University service offices(such as Financial Aid, tutoring services, Career Resources, etc.) and industrial partners whoaddressed issues, ranging from gender segregation and cultural mismatch of women tonavigating and succeeding in the current engineering culture [21]. Orienting scholars enabledthem
summer of2022, several major airlines in the United States canceled a record number of scheduled flights orran delayed due to the same reason [1]. A unique approach adopted by the airlines to address thischallenge is to look for non-traditional sources such as retired military and veteran rotary wingpilots. This led to a growing shortage of helicopter pilots in the medical transport and offshore oilsupport industries [2]. This challenge also opens new opportunities and career pathways forveterans. Additionally, special training and experience requirements for certificated flightinstructors (CFIs) to be able to provide flight instruction in the Robinson R22 and R44 variantsmake it cost-prohibitive for most military helicopter instructors to
engineering education. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2023 Analyzing the Needs of Engineering Teaching Assistants: Examining Hidden Deficit IdeasIntroductionThe lack of preparation of graduate students for the professoriate has been documented bydifferent scholars [1, 2]. It is well known that graduate education prepares students to pursuedifferent career paths [1], but a large majority of engineering graduate students will followprimarily corporate and industry positions while a small percentage will chase faculty careers[3]. According to Choe and Borrego [3], doctoral international engineering students are morelikely to pursue an academic career. Nonetheless, it
academic, social, and economic support.The expected outcome of the SD-FIRST program is to achieve a sustainable increased retentionand graduation rate, and an increase in emotional intelligence for students participating in theprogram. The initial cohort of SD-FIRST scholars began in the fall 2021 semester, and thedetails of the program as well as initial implementation are included in this paper.Introduction and MotivationThe higher education system can be nebulous – from entrance to graduation, processes involvedwith financial aid, work study, faculty office hours, forming student connections, career fairs,and more can be intimidating for many students. For first-generation students, whose familymembers have no or limited experience with the
Artificial Intelligence (AI). Her career in higher education began at Howard University as the first Black female fac- ulty member in the Department of Computer Science. Her professional experience also includes Winthrop University, The Aerospace Corporation, and IBM. She is a graduate of Johnson C. Smith University (B.S., ’00) and North Carolina State University (M.S., ’02; Ph.D., ’05), becoming the first Black woman to earn a Ph.D. in computer science at the university and 2019 Computer Science Hall of Fame Inductee.Shaundra Bryant Daily, Duke University Shaundra B. Daily is a professor of practice in Electrical and Computer Engineering & Computer Sci- ence at Duke University and Levitan Faculty Fellow, Special
, persistence, and career trajectories; engineering writing and communication; and methodological development. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2023Capturing attrition decisions in engineering graduate students using longitudinal SMS dataKeywords: Attrition, longitudinal study, SMS (Short Message Service), time series dataAbstractThis research paper reports results from a longitudinal Short Message Service (SMS) text messagesurvey study that captured attrition decisions from engineering graduate students who decided toleave their Ph.D. program or change degree objectives from Ph.D. to M.S. (Master’s-leveldeparture). While past research has investigated doctoral attrition across disciplines to
student retention. They found that academicsupport and career counseling can have a big impact on self-efficacy and retention. Xu [10]found that academic integration (participation in organized academic activities with peers,working with students outside class, interacting with faculty outside class concerningcoursework) was one of the strongest indicators of student retention in STEM majors.Zimmerman [11] found that students with high levels of self-efficacy work harder, participate inclass, persist longer, and have fewer negative reactions when they encounter difficulties in theirmajor. Lent and Hackett [12] found that self-efficacy has a positive impact on the educational aswell as career choices among these students.Disciplinary IdentityGee
and Education from American University in 2016 and his BA in International Affairs from the University of Colorado, Boulder in 2006.Ms. Rebecca Z. Kenemuth, University of Maryland, College Park Rebecca Kenemuth is the Assistant Director of Recruitment and Outreach for the Women in Engineering Program at the University of Maryland. She holds an M.A. in Counseling and Personnel Services from the University of Maryland and is passionate about empowering girls and women to pursue careers in STEM-related fields.Dr. Elizabeth Kurban, University of Maryland, College Park Elizabeth Kurban serves as the Assistant Director of Retention for the Women in Engineering Program at the University of Maryland Clark School of
useful, compared to what they see and think when it's a male and a white male technology.”It should be noted that one of the participants did not report encountering exclusionary orharmful day to day practices in academia and entrepreneurial spaces. Dr. S explained how shebenefitted intellectually and career-wise from being situated in environments that recognized theimportance of diversity. She commented, “There are things that were different from when I came from my PhD, like I said, is that it was a much more diverse and highly interdisciplinary environment. So, I had to just develop new skills, especially in terms of how to work with people and people with different personalities, much larger groups.”This
c Society for Engineering Education, 2021 Paper ID #33313retention and career readiness, as well as (c) students’ ethical reasoning and technology use, with a par-ticular focus on STEM students. Most of Dr. Long’s research has focused on the academic and socialexperiences of Black and Latinx groups as well as student-athletes in STEM fields. He helped to leadresearch, funded by the NCAA Innovations in Research and Practice Grant, to improve the well-being ofthe student-athlete through support of their career readiness. He also helped to secure funding from NSF(award # 2024973) to examine the potential benefit of using critical narratives
rather than using them toward an associate’s degree. [16]Additionally, the NSB reported that “In 2013, recent female S&E bachelor’s and master’s degreerecipients were more likely than their male counterparts to have attended a community college.”[16]The focus of PVWIS on local community college women in STEM directly supports broadeningparticipation efforts. According to Costello, “Scientists and policymakers point to thecommunity college as a critical link in the educational pathway to STEM careers for women andstudents who are low-income, minority, or the first in their families to enter college. This linkmust be bolstered if community colleges are to provide opportunities in STEM fields for largenumbers of these students.” [5] Snyder and
, engineering stu- dent career pathways, and engagement of engineering faculty in engineering education research. She was awarded a CAREER award from the National Science Foundation for her research on undergraduate mental health in engineering programs. Before joining UIUC she completed a post-doctoral fellowship at Sanofi Oncology in Cambridge, MA. She earned a bachelor’s degree in biological engineering from Cornell University and a Ph.D. in biomedical engineering from the University of Virginia.Dr. Gary Lichtenstein, Arizona State University Gary Lichtenstein, Ed.D., Director of Program Effectiveness for the Entrepreneurial Mindset initiative at the Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering at Arizona State University. He is
Paper ID #32451Entering Research Online: Developing a Virtual Course to SupportExperiential Education for Undergraduate Research AssistantsMs. Candyce Hill, Michigan State University Candyce is an academic advisor in the College of Engineering at Michigan State University (MSU). She holds a Master of Arts in Student Affairs Administration from MSU and a Bachelor’s degree in History and Judaic Studies from the University of Michigan (U of M). Before coming to MSU, Candyce worked as a teacher in Tulsa, Oklahoma and then as a career adviser at U of M.Dr. Katy Luchini-Colbry, Michigan State University Katy Luchini-Colbry is the
analyzeswhich career readiness competencies employers value most in their new college hires [3].Employers rank each competency as more than essential, essential, or somewhat essential in thesurvey. In the Job Outlook 2019 Survey, employers ranked critical thinking, oral and writtencommunication, teamwork and collaboration skills, and professionalism/work ethic as more thanessential competencies in new hires [3]. While the training in this project did not address thecritical thinking competency, it addressed the other top three skills cited in the NACE survey:oral and written communication, teamwork and collaboration skills, and professionalism/workethic.Recognizing that we had two groups from distinctly different disciplines that shared a
Society for Engineering Education, 2021ABSTRACTThe session will report on the success of the last four years of implementing a collaborative DOEproject between two state colleges and a Hispanic Serving Institution (HSI) university with acombined 140,000+ undergraduate students. The session will also report the revision of aSystemic, Evidenced-Based, and Student-Centered (SE-SC) framework as initially designed in theDOE project. The original SE-SC framework aims to maximize the number of academically-talented, Hispanic students who complete their AS degrees at State Colleges and transfer to a 4-year institution to complete their B.S. degree and are career-ready to enter engineering andcomputer science (ECS). The revised SE-SC framework addresses
Paper ID #30167The Missing Third: The Vital Role of Two-Year Colleges in ShrinkingEngineering Education DesertsDr. 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 engineering and held the Pietz professorship for entrepreneurship and economic development. She is now a professor of integrated engineering at Minnesota State Uni- versity, Mankato, where she is helping build the Bell Engineering program, and the managing partner of Kaizen Academic.Dr. L. Eric James, Iron Range
sustainability. ● ● ● ● ● ● 3https://studentaffairs.lehigh.edu/content/prelusion This is a clip from our website describing the Lehigh preLUsion experience. Here we see a group of preLUsion mentors and it reads “Can’t wait to get your Lehigh career started? Be a part of preLUsion!” A few key points are that 1. This is a pre-orientation, 3
Paper ID #34872Your Views Can Be My Views: Understanding Differences in Paradigms Heldby Traditionally Marginalized Students in EngineeringQualla Jo Ketchum, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State UniversityDr. Marie C. Paretti, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University Marie C. Paretti is a Professor of Engineering Education at Virginia Tech, where she directs 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
., friends, family members who work as engineers) of information about engineeringpractices, because such experiences can provide opportunities for students to try on theseidentities. If most of their course-based experiences are passive, or highly constrained problemsets, they won’t have this opportunity. In contrast, opportunities to make design decisions cansupport professional engineering identity [37].Identity development is socially negotiated [27-29], meaning students benefit from working withothers on authentic and meaningful tasks and from being part of a social community of engineers[38]. It also means that engineering identity is contextualized by students’ perceptions ofengineering careers and their potential contributions as engineers
Science Foundation, his research was highlighted the American Society of Engineering Education’s Prism Magazine. He received a CAREER Award in 2016 to study the significance of neurodiversity in developing a creative engineering workforce.Miss Alexandra Hain, University of Connecticut Alexandra Hain is a PhD student at the University of Connecticut studying structural engineering. She received her Bachelor of Science in Civil Engineering in 2015 from the University of Connecticut. She has an interest in engineering education and served as the program manager for the REU Site: Research Experience in Cyber and Civil Infrastructure Security for Students with ADHD: Fostering Innovation during summer 2016
to connect to moreacademic support (2); (3); (4). By providing a physical environment for students in engineeringmajors to live, our program has historically allowed students to make academic and socialconnections early in their college career, which better supports their persistence. In recent years,students in the Engineering Leadership Community have taken multiple classes in the samesections together, including a one-credit academic success course and their introductoryengineering lab. This method uses Tinto’s learning community model, helping students to makeconnections between courses with their peers (1).The additional elements of service-learning and project-based learning have brought theresidents of the Engineering Leadership
learning experiences in their Master’s program using two open-ended questions.Participants cited that their work experiences supported their technical skill development, andalso their professional skill development, which participants believed contributed positively totheir ability to work in groups in school. Participants who were in industry the longest alsoindicated that their work experiences helped them to think critically about coursework in termsof best benefits for their career needs and interests.Introduction and BackgroundFor the purposes of this study, work experience is defined as time spent at a job in theparticipant’s field, whether paid or unpaid. This can also include internships or co-op workexperience. Educational experience is
,of one of their ACES service projects. ACES students also earn a Leadership Minor where theypractice leadership as “taking responsibility for our communities, and making them betterthrough public action” as described by that program. Under the supervision of the PI’s, theACES cohort completes community engagement projects each year that allow them to applytheir STEM knowledge and their leadership skills. The cohort’s weekly meetings give time formentoring programs, career development opportunities, and supervised project work.In order to meet our objectives the proposed program is based on well-established methods (seeFigure 1 for implementation schedule): Scholarships make college accessible and allow more time for educational
involved in undergraduate place and what an ARCE’s career path can of your University organizations related to look like. experience so far. ARCE. Summarize the topical areas ARCEs work Describe which ARCE Describe your favorite in, providing some details on each of the student organizations are classes. sub-areas of ARCE. available at the institution. Describe the
Paper ID #18594University Makerspaces: Characteristics and Impact on Student Success inEngineering and Engineering Technology EducationMiss Alexandra Longo, American Society for Engineering Education Alexandra (Alex) Longo currently serves as Program Manager of Education and Career Development at ASEE, where she leads the Online Learning initiative, manages externally funded programs and projects, and assists with stakeholder workshop development and implementation. Alex works closely with the ASEE Diversity Committee and the NSF-funded project NSF-funded project Promoting LGBTQ Equality in STEM. Prior to working at ASEE
Engineering Education, 2017 Implementing Design Thinking into Summer Camp Experience for High School Women in Materials EngineeringAbstractAlthough women make up a significant portion of the college educated population, there remainsa sizable gap between the number of men and women pursuing degrees and careers in science,technology, engineering and math (STEM) fields. The gender gap begins at middle school andwidens considerably in later high school years. One major factor for this gap is the lack ofbelonging women can feel towards engineering. As one approach to developing and improvingthis sense of belonging, we focused on improving students’ comprehension of engineering topicsduring a weeklong materials science and
strengths include qualitative and mixed methods research study design and implementation. She is/was PI/Co-PI on 10 funded research projects including a CAREER grant. She has won several Virginia Tech awards including a Dean’s Award for Outstanding New Faculty. Her research expertise includes using motivation and related frameworks to study student engagement in learning, recruitment and retention in engineering programs and careers, faculty teaching practices and intersections of motivation and learning strategies.Dr. Gwen Lee-Thomas, Quality Measures LLC Dr. Gwen Lee-Thomas is the CEO of Quality Measures, LLC, a Virginia-based consulting firm special- izing in program and project evaluation, team-building, and capacity