University of Central Florida, where he has been a full-time faculty member since 1993. He has completed over 325 articles, 50 funded projects as PI or Co-PI, and 56 graduates as Ph.D. dissertation and/or M.S. thesis advisor. He was previously an Associate Engineer at IBM and a Visiting Research Scientist at NASA Ames, in total for four years, and has been a registered Professional Engineer since 1992. He has served ten terms as a Topical Editor or Associate Editor of various IEEE Transactions and in many IEEE/ACM/ASEE conferences including General Co- Chair of GLSVLSI-2023. He has received the Joseph M. Biedenbach Outstanding Engineering Educator Award from IEEE and is a Fellow of AAAS.Harrison N Oonge, University of
tocontinue such efforts on larger scales. Figure 1 illustrates the structure of this collaboration andwhere the application of best practices and scaling up each program fits into the overall projectas it has been an ongoing effort, however future scaling of local intervention programs from eachcampus will be done independently. Figure 1: Urban Stem Collaboratory Flow Chart, highlighting the key components of the tri-campus collaboration. Three separate urban research universities provide individual support interventions for first year engineering students as well as unified support structures that give rise to STEM identity in engineering students.The University of Memphis (UofM) integrated its STEM Ambassador program as a
, and other relevant algorithm bias topics serve as startingpoints for discussions and development of a more formal instructional module on algorithm bias.A more open-ended discussion early on in an instructional module can enable educators andstudents to develop a shared understanding of algorithm bias and its impact on future computerscience professionals. Although discussing what is and is not algorithm bias for students vs.computer science experts (professors and researchers) is foundational, we also suggest that, inaddition to creating a shared working definition, engaging students with ethical considerations(e.g., search engine bias, regulations, community values and practices, and costs) in computerscience assignments and challenges
of Colorado, Boulder Daniel W. Knight is the Program Assessment and Research Associate at Design Center (DC) Colorado in CU’s Department of Mechanical Engineering at the College of Engineering and Applied Science. He holds a B.A. in psychology from Louisiana State University, an M.S. degree in industrial/organizational psychology and a Ph.D. degree in education, both from the University of Tennessee. Dr. Knight’s research interests are in the areas of retention, program evaluation and teamwork practices in engineering educa- tion. His current duties include assessment, team development and education research for DC Colorado’s hands-on initiatives. c American Society for Engineering
TrainingThirty-eight girls were initially deemed able, in terms of both capacity and interest, to participatein the project. They were offered a letter of employment stipulating 2.5 hours per week over tenweeks, for a total of $250. (While 38 girls signed a contract, two were released from the projectafter the first week for failing to submit their assignments.)The YTT members were trained in the basics of qualitative research and practical interviewskills. They were then asked to place themselves in one of four themes called Lightning, Gears,Cubes, or Droplets, respectively, according to their interests: 1. Lightning: How do girls’ feelings about femininity impact decisions they make about their future? (9 members) 2. Gears: How do girls
BaccalaureateAbstractThe California Central Coast Community College Collaborative (C6-LSAMP, C6) is a NationalScience Foundation Louis Stokes Alliances for Minority Participation Bridge to theBaccalaureate grant project (NSF/LSAMP/B2B). C6-LSAMP is an innovative, cross-disciplinary, and multi-institutional collaboration developed by STEM leaders from eightCalifornia community colleges. The C6-LSAMP alliance leverages existing support structuresand best practices across the member institutions to address inequities in STEM outcomes for apopulation of students comprised of the underserved: Hispanic/Latinx and otherunderrepresented minorities (URMs) in rural areas. Within the five counties served by the C6-LSAMP colleges, only 13% of Hispanic/Latinx residents 25
Manufacturing & Mechanical Engineering Technology department at RIT. She serves as the Faculty Associate to the Provost for Women Faculty and is co-PI for RIT’s NSF ADVANCE project. Her research interests include: characterization of biodegradable plastics and environmental consideration in materials selection for production design, the impact of technology paired with active learning pedagogies on student learning, and effective strategies for increasing gender diversity in STEM disciplines.Prof. Maureen S. Valentine, Rochester Institute of Technology (CAST) Maureen Valentine, P.E., has been a faculty member at RIT for more than 23 years. She held the position of Department Chair for the Department of Civil Engineering
ways of generating, distributing and re-using water resources;Manufacturing systems aimed at supporting the manufacturing sector of the nation throughresearch activities in the fields of mechatronics, control systems and appropriate technologydevelopments; and Sustainable mining practices with risk and safety management andenvironmental issues as a focus area for research activities in the mining sector (John, 2014).Another challenge in expanding Namibia’s STEM capacity is the lack of university staff withpost-graduate credentials in the country, with fewer than 200 having a PhD (Jauhiaiene andHooli, 2017). The impact of this was something the author witnessed firsthand while hosted bythe Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering (DCEE
careerchoice: A partial least squares analysis. Research and Practice in Technology EnhancedLearning, 19, 25-. https://doi.org/10.58459/rptel.2024.19025[6] Pelch, M. (2018). Gendered differences in academic emotions and their implications forstudent success in STEM. International Journal of STEM Education, 5(1).https://doi.org/10.1186/s40594-018-0130-7[7] Canaan, S., & Mouganie, P. (2023). The Impact of Advisor Gender on Female Students’STEM Enrollment and Persistence. The Journal of Human Resources, 58(2), 593–632.https://doi.org/10.3368/jhr.58.4.0320-10796R2[8] Same researches, reference left anonymous for now.[9] M. W. Kier, M. R. Blanchard, J. W. Osborne, and J. L. Albert, “The Development of theSTEM Career Interest Survey (STEM-CIS
community development [3-12] with federal support(NSF IUSE Exploration and Design Tier for Engaged Student Learning & Institution andCommunity Transformation). Through examination and refinement, researchers developed theCommunity-Engaged Educational Ecosystem Model (C-EEEM, pronounced ‘seam’) [1, 4, 13].The C-EEEM pilot contributed to our understanding of how to build learning environments thatsupport 1) improvements in student motivation and retention in STEM; 2) changes in placeattachment for participants; and 3) community impacts from project implementation. [4-6, 13,14]. Through support of an NSF IUSE Development and Implementation Tier grant, the C-EEEMis now in its second year for replication in two cities, Youngstown, Ohio and
as not alwaysattentive to queries. Such a disparity in experience and support may dissuade female studentsfrom pursuing an engineering profession after graduation, given the crucial opportunityinternships provide for students to learn and practice key skills for their future employment [57]. The findings of this study also suggest that the role of female supervisors in the civilengineering workplace is critical for Asian women to share their concerns about difficulties andaspire to be like them. This study found that female supervisors were particularly helpful fordeveloping career interests. Previous research suggests that in order to be inspired by a rolemodel, one must be able to identify one's future self with that role model [33
ofalumni noted that a required survey-course, such as 2601 Fundamentals of EnvironmentalEngineering, is specifically designed to cover a broad cross-section of the field, andtherefore many of the alumni noted that it is difficult for such a course to be viewed as“relevant” or “practical” because the content of a required survey course lacks thespecificity to achieve relevance or practicality. And finally, a number of alumni notedthat sophomores have difficulty viewing “teachers as peers”, and therefore, the one-on-one experience of research was significantly more powerful in promoting mutual respectamong students and the author. In summary, all ten alumni agreed with the statement, “atwo-step process, including blended, flipped, mastery for an
and efforts to make School climatemore inclusive [11]. Administering the climate survey annually to all undergraduates will allowboth cross-sectional and longitudinal analyses, supporting a tracking of the impacts of specificchanges to School-wide practices.Research in Organizational Change -Using a design-based implementation research (DBIR) approach implementation “problems” and“successes” provide important information for redesign and elaboration decisions [12]-[13]. Ourongoing analyses are currently being used to inform design decisions. The Studio 2.0 progressdescribed above provides a good example of this. Based on observations of student engagementduring the early versions of studio tasks, a group of faculty began meeting to develop
especially as related to normal and perturbed (slipping) gait. Dr. Moyer earned a BS in mechanical engineering from Carnegie Mellon in 1993, a MS in mechanical engineering from the University of Pittsburgh in 1996, and a PhD in Bioengineering from the University of Pittsburgh in 2006. Brian teaches courses in computer programming for engineers, design, measurements, and dynamics. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2016 Collaborative Efforts to Encourage Entrepreneurial Mindset Brian E. Moyer, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Mechanical Engineering Raymond B. Wrabley, PhD, Professor of Political Science and Chair, Division of Social Sciences
CommonGuidelines for Education Research and Development[3] to generate research questions,hypotheses, a literature search, and mechanisms to gather prior evidence supporting the problemstatement, intellectual merit and broader impacts. Emphasis is placed on gaining a broaderperspective of the state of the art in research practice, and the importance of forming keypartnerships to discover and advance knowledge. The RSA also includes identification ofinternal data sources for evidence gathering to establish baseline data and help measure researchoutcomes and impacts.With a well-defined research concept, the college is ready to approach an NSF Program Officer(PO), discuss the fit to the PO's NSF program, and gain other valuable feedback. If the NSF POagrees
the National Academies, the IM STEM program identified spacesfor institutions to serve as the hub of inclusive mentoring, not only for academic spaces on campus, butspaces away from campus where students and recent graduates enter the engineering profession.RationaleAs the student population enrolled higher education institutions continues to diversify, a deepunderstanding and widespread adoption of inclusive mentoring practices that promote student success isneeded. The purpose of the IM STEM is to expand, elevate, and influence conversations about effectivementoring among communities of STEM faculty, graduate students, and government and industryprofessionals committed to developing a strong, diversified STEM workforce. The potential impact
Resources at the University of Texas in Austin. Dr. Reible holds a Ph.D. in Chemical Engi- neering from the California Institute of Technology, and is a Board Certified Environmental Engineer, a Professional Engineer (Louisiana), and was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2005 for the ”development of widely used approaches for the management of contaminated sediments”. His research is focused on the fate, transport, and management of contaminants in the environment and the sustainable management of water resources.Dr. Chongzheng Na, Texas Tech University Chongzheng Na is an associate professor at Texas Tech University. He graduated from Tsinghua Uni- versity (B.E.), Pennsylvania State University (M.S
let aloneteacher empathy.In engineering education, though the concept of empathy is implicitly present in engineeringthrough human-centered design and user design [19], active use of empathy as a skill to connectwith customers is not commonplace in engineering “as these terms traditionally do not mesh withthe dominant image of engineering” [20, p. 2]. Much of the research on empathy and its relatedterminology [20] is focused on teaching empathy to students and how students become moreempathetic [21]–[23]. For example, Walther et al. [21] introduced empathy modules in anundergraduate mechanical course to practice empathy as a skill and provided results of thesensitive nature and complexity of teaching empathy.While most of the research in
incorporating UDL into library instruction by sharing their experience offeeling of being overwhelmed when trying to add multiple elements of UDL into theirinstruction. They recommend a slow approach of practicing one new technique or strategy at atime and that practitioners collaborate with colleagues with similar interests; communities ofpractice are helpful for instructors new to UDL to find support and encouragement as well asideas for ways to utilize the UDL framework [54], [87]. Additionally, research about UDL anddisability continually offer insights on how to improve and evolve recommended UDL practices,making it important for practitioners to regularly learn more and consider how to best support allstudents. This requires sustained dedication
Paper ID #12399The Role of Radio-Controlled Model Airplanes in the Education of AerospaceEngineersDr. Kathy Schmidt Jackson, Pennsylvania State University, University Park Kathy Jackson is a Senior Research Associate at Pennsylvania State University’s Schreyer Institute for Teaching Excellence. In this position, she promotes Penn State’s commitment to enriching teaching and learning. Dr. Jackson works in all aspects of education including faculty development, instructional design, engineering education, learner support, and evaluation.Dr. Mark D. Maughmer, Pennsylvania State University, University Park Dr. Maughmer
women will not pursue careers in STEM unless they had women mentorship during theirundergraduate and graduate experience [3]. The need to diversify engineering faculty to create aholistic “global engineer”, is best highlighted in the book Educating the Engineer of 2020 thatwas published in 2005: Student demographics, with greater diversity from the perspective of academic preparation, career aspirations, and ethnic background that require approaches to learning, teaching, and research designed intentionally to respect (and celebrate) this diversity [9].Based on the literature, when discussing the addition of women to faculty, the course designschanged to include interdisciplinary work and mentorship [3
about professional development activities.Working with peers from different engineering disciplines on a community-based design projectseems to be the best part of SEECS professional growth activities.Question 2: In your opinion and through your experience, what SEECS experience(activities/events) contributed the most to your personal growth. Please feel free to share anyexamples.Figure 4: Word cloud of the alumni responses for the question about personal growth activities.Interactions with peers from different backgrounds and bonding with peers at social events suchas end of semester dinners are the experiences’ alumni viewed has had most impact on theirpersonal growth.Question 3: What would be your suggestion to improve SEECS experience? What
exclusively on the United Nations SustainableDevelopment Goals (UN SDGs) and each project’s ability to achieve two goals. Students wereasked to write briefly on what the SDGs are, then choose one direct and one indirect UN SDG toincorporate into their proposed engineering design project. 1 Sustainability was first introducedwithin the context of the UN SDGs. These goals were presented as a way of incorporatingsustainability into the design projects. Each student had to identify at least one direct and oneindirect goal for their design and then the team worked together to identify the best direct andindirect goals to focus on as they developed their proposed designs. The UN SDGs helped thestudents gain an understanding of the impact engineering
throughgraduate students. Team members may have participated in VIP for one semester or up to threeor more semesters. The VIP model enables tiered mentoring, from faculty to graduate students,graduate students to undergraduates, and more senior to newer students [1]. The goals of UofM’sVIP program are to: (1) help build a more inclusive research culture; and (2) help students buildSTEM identity, as well as self-efficacy, mindset, and intentions to stay in engineering. The firstgoal is based on research about the positive impact of active learning and mentoring forrecruiting and retaining women and other historically excluded groups in STEM [2]. The secondgoal builds on previous work on mentoring and community building on STEM Identity, whileextending
', Business Journal for Entrepreneurs, 2015 (2015).6 Entrepreneurship Education, 'A Guide for Educators', European Commission–DG Enterprise & Industry, Brussels (2013).7 Wendy EF Torrance, 'Entrepreneurial Campuses: Action, Impact, and Lessons Learned from the Kauffman Campuses Initiative', Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation Research Paper (2013).8 Lara Hulsey, Linda Rosenberg, and Benita Kim, 'Seeding Entrepreneurship across Campus: Early Implementation Experiences of the Kauffman Campuses Initiative', Available at SSRN 981057 (2006).9 Alberta Charney, and Gary D Libecap, Impact of Entrepreneurship Education (Kauffman Center for Entrepreneurial Leadership Kansas City, MO, 2000).10 Kwabena Nkansah
- zona State University. His research interests are in the modeling and analysis of manufacturing systems; computer simulation; statistical design of experiments; and sustainable production systems. His profes- sional mission is to inspire others to improve systems through simulation modeling and analysis, applied operations research, and applied statistics.Dr. George Saltsman, Lamar University Dr. George Saltsman is Research Associate Professor in the Center for Doctoral Studies in Educational Leadership and currently serves as the Director of Center for Educational Innovation and Digital Learning at Lamar University. Dr. Saltsman assists UNESCO as a mobile learning policy advisor and co-chair of the Information
. Given the historical and persistent underrepresentation of minority groups in theengineering workforce, our work presents a timely effort to understand better and include thecareer attitudes of the emerging engineering workforce. We investigate how the concept of anengineering career is shaped for minority engineering students from a Hispanic-servinginstitution to further understanding on how career opportunities in government-funded labs areperceived by a group of Black and Latinx engineering student researchers experiencing the jobsearch and post-graduation planning process. For context, our study is a smaller portion of thePRE-CCAP (Partnership for Research and Education Consortium in Ceramics and Polymers)project. The consortium consists of
and a local school district, Hammond Central Schools, C3Ghas successfully constructed two pop-up/temporary traffic gardens [19]. Through these efforts,research group has now formed to better understand traffic gardens in rural contexts, resulting ina collaborative proposal to NSF RITEL by Clarkson University and YYYY University alongwith the Hammond Central School District [20]. As far as impact, for the community, this quotefrom a recent press release is probably the best way to explain: “The Hammond Central School district is grateful for the partnership with the Health Initiative and Clarkson University over the past year,” said Lauren Morley, Superintendent of Hammond Central School District “The collaboration between Clarkson
Microsoft [30] found that 72% of girls and young women say that it isimportant for them to have a job that directly helps the world, and over 90% describe themselvesas creative. Working on socially relevant problems is important to a range of minoritized STEMstudents including women and students of color, which has been shown by research includingstudies linking students’ personal values to their STEM trajectories [31].Effectively emphasizing creativity through engineering making has been shown to broadenparticipation when best practices of inclusion are observed [32]. Strong examples ofmakerspaces successfully broadening participation and feelings of belonging include some inacademic settings [33] and other spaces outside the academy [34]. There
the way inclusion is culti- vated in engineering through the implementation of novel technologies and methodologies in engineering education. Intrigued by the intersections of engineering education, mental health and social justice, Dr. Coley’s primary research interest focuses on virtual reality as a tool for developing empathetic and in- clusive mindsets among engineering faculty. She is also interested in hidden populations in engineering education and innovation for more inclusive pedagogies.Katreena Thomas, Arizona State University, Polytechnic campus Katreena Thomas is a graduate student at Arizona State University in the Engineering Education Systems and Design Doctoral program. She is a member of the