After receiving our purchased mini generator via the postal mail, it was very apparent that the device was meant for water hoses and needed a significant amount of pressure to get the turbine spinning. No matter what faucet was used, the turbine would not spin and could not generate a voltage due to the small hole at the nozzle of theFigure 1: Generator components device. As a result, when 3D parts were
action, the participants and theirrelationships, and the discourses needed for participation as well as any other mediational meansnecessary for performing those actions. To conclude, we present key recurring themes evident inthe early data. Agency is the originating and continuing motivation. It is realized throughconfronting challenging problems, participating in “hands-on” doing in response, and producingtangible outcomes. Through involvement, these women experience community and understandboth failure and commitment as opportunity and necessity, respectively. Finally, they experiencebecoming an engineer.IntroductionIn “Women in Engineering: A Review of the 2014 Literature,” Meiksins et al. [1] echo the“familiar explanations for why there are
obviously not found what in engineering brings them joy [1]. Evenstudents graduating with jobs or who will attend graduate school exhibit some apprehension as towhat the future will bring. No matter what pathway students follow, the question facing bothstudents and faculty is “what skills do engineering students really need for the workplace andlife?” It is the desire of all faculty and universities to insure students are ready for graduationand prepared for that next chapter in life. Engineering programs are partially responsible toprovide the needed skills so that students will be successful upon graduation. This challengedoes require periodic review [2]. Are universities and engineering programs doing enough?With limited time and resources, are
[10,11].The purpose of this study is to unpack the elements that engineering students attribute to theirunderstanding of innovation. In addition, we utilize these understandings to provide a typologyfor educators and researchers interested in identifying how to prepare or teach students to learnabout innovation. More specifically, we ask: 1. What distinct aspects of innovation do engineering students report learning about during substantial innovation project experiences? 2. How do these aspects of innovation map to a typology of innovation understanding among engineering students?Literature ReviewInnovation is a complex phenomenon that has been described in a variety of ways across avariety of contexts [2–4,12–14]. In part, this
(SHPE) conferences.This paper presents both quantitative and qualitative obtained from the 2013-2017 abroadprograms. The quantitative data was collected in the form of pre and post self-assessmentsurveys and institutional retention and transfer data. In the self-assessment surveys, studentsrated their industry skills, civic engagement, global cultural skills, personal and academicgrowth, and engineering skills based on Purdue University’s Engineering Projects in CommunityService (EPICS) Program with a scale of 1 (low) to 10 (high) scale. There was an overallaverage increase from 6.84 to 8.80, resulting in a 28.7% increase in the students’ perceived skillset. The retention and the transfer rates of the abroad students were compared to a
Studies at Kansas State University beginning Fall 2019. Sean’s primary research interests exist at the intersec- tions of organizational communication, new media, gender, and organizing. Within engineering contexts, Sean has examined career issues within the engineering discipline regarding (1) new faculty experiences throughout their on-boarding and (2) educational cultures that impact the professional formation of engi- neers, which was funded by the National Science Foundation. Both projects have been published in the Proceedings of the American Society of Engineering Education. He has also served as a series editor, contributed to trade publications, and facilitated workshops related to higher education
from multi-cultures, in particular Chinese who have played a dominant role in several advanced technologies. Itis not hard to imagine that biased understanding could pollute collaboration and prevent constructivedialogues and consensus to be achieved, a critical step for global trade and technology governance. This paper urges the importance of re-examining and redesign the global engineering ethicseducation in the context of the US-China trade war. We are interested in how do the profession,identity, practices, and ethics of engineering differ or coincide in US and China? Are these 1 differences or similarities intrinsic or evolving
knowledge about engineering, low self-efficacy, not identifying with the engineeringprofession, and poor academic performance. Literature states the attrition of engineering studentshas been connected to factors such as curricular requirements [1], lack of readiness related to studyand survival skills [2], loss of interest or disappointment in the field [3], poor academic and/orcareer advising [4], unapproachable faculty [4], and academic difficulty with mathematics [5].First-generation students are known to lack support from family [6] [9], lack academic preparation[7], have trouble transitioning into both the social and academic college environments [8], andhave greater financial concerns than non-first generation students [8]. URM students from
the course, reflection on factors that would encourage ordiscourage students from pursuing their projects, and employment status during and after thecourse. The results of the interviews were assessed through thematic content analysis. Theinterviews suggest that (1) that students do not continue with their projects because they cannottake time away from the paying jobs that are supporting their education, (2) that studentscompleting their junior year do not want to take time away from their senior-year studies, and(3) that students completing their senior year do not want to take the risk of pursuing a startupwhen they could instead obtain a “real” job. Additionally, student startups appear to have beendiscouraged by their expectation in the
how a women’s support group in a computer science and engineeringdepartment can provide support for women in personal growth, social encouragement, andacademic exposure.Studies found that the top four influencing factors for whether or not young women decide topursue a Computer Science degree are: social encouragement, self-perception, academicexposure, and career perception [1]. Social encouragement can come from parents, friends,faculty/staff, or peer. It is a major factor in girls’ decision to explore and pursue career in STEMand computing. A support group provides an excellent vehicle for these factors by offeringworkshops, social events, outreach activities, and mentoring.In 2013, we started a support group WiCSE (Women in Computer
Undergraduate Engineering Outreach 1MotivationWhen undergraduate engineering students participate in various forms of community outreachthrough an ambassador-style group, the mission is often to promote engineering and engineering-related careers to K-12 students and their families, and increase interest in engineering amonghistorically underserved populations. Yet, the preparation and delivery of outreach activities mayalso impact the undergraduate students. In this Work in Progress paper we present the earlyfindings of a project seeking to identify common practices among university-based, ambassadorprograms, with a view to informing communities of researchers and practitioners. We exploredthree questions [1]: (1) What similarities and differences are
and reliability at a possibly lower cost [2, 4].Wireless Sensor Network is an active area of research with various applications. Some of theapplications of WSNs includes homeland security, environmental monitoring, safety, health caresystem, monitoring of space assets for potential and human-made threats in space, ground-basedmonitoring of both land and water, intelligence gathering for defense, precision agriculture, ,civil structure monitoring, urban warfare, weather and climate analysis and prediction, battlefieldmonitoring and surveillance, exploration of the Solar System and beyond, monitoring of seismicacceleration, temperature, wind speed and GPS data [1, 4]. For each application area, there aredifferent technical issues that
force. Above all, we emphasize the power of the individual voice in betterunderstanding the experiences of our students.Introduction and BackgroundConcerns about women’s experiences in both engineering classrooms and engineeringworkplaces have been prominent in the literature in recent decades, particularly because theproportion of women entering and persisting in the field plateaued in the 1990s at approximately20%, well below women’s representation in the population at large [1]. At the undergraduatelevel, research has shown that female students often report lower levels of self-efficacy thanmale students despite equal levels of competency, that female students can experience stereotypethreat, and that, despite some cultural shifts, micro
to support engineering students in reflecting on experience, how to help engineering educators make effective teach- ing decisions, and the application of ideas from complexity science to the challenges of engineering education. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2019 WIP: Practice-Facing Equity Bifocals for University Makerspaces[I’m thinking about... ] Nasir’s work on achieving equity throughdiversity, “successful learning contexts also attend to students’ need fora sense of belonging and identification” through the organization of thepractice itself and the social interactions that occur [1]. How was thiscontext not a place where this student felt he could ask which machine hecould
learning. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2019 WORK IN PROGRESS - The Development of Agency in a High-School Maker Class: Evidence from InterviewsThe Work-in-Progress Paper examines youth self-efficacy, as an aspect of youth agency, in thecontext of participation in maker education activities.There is growing interest in making and the “maker movement” as context for the developmentof both cognitive and affective factors related to engineering. Maker experiences can lead peoplegain interest in design and technology [1] and provide experiences that can foster thedevelopment of adaptive expertise [2]. Another hypothesized benefit of engagement in hands-on,do-it-yourself, or “maker
semester GPA and their cumulative graduating GPA. Theuse of grades and GPA as a proxy for academic success have been used widely in a large numberof studies, and this study focuses on documenting how students’ grades fluctuate with time andthe role this play in students’ persistence. We apply Ordinary Least Squares and Ordinal Logisticregressions to a longitudinal database to identify the characteristics of that population. Thispopulation is a subset of the database and included 52,946 engineering students from 14 U.S.universities. In the United States there has been an urge to improve the number of engineeringgraduates in preparedness and numbers for over a decade [1] [2] [3]. Furthermore, the Bureau ofLabor statistics projected increase
data literacy is becoming an increasingly important concern in higher education[1, 2]. For engineers, statistics is probably more aligned with the concept of information literacythan any other course that will be studied. While it may be going too far to say that the entiretyof an introductory statistics course is a vital component to every undergraduate engineeringprogram, it is probably safe to say that certain statistics topics are essential. For engineers,working with data and experimentation are just a fact of life. This fundamental realization,coupled with an opportunity stemming from recent changes to the university’s general educationprogram, has motivated us to begin a process to redesign an introductory statistics course thatresides
Graduation: Helping First-Year Low Income, Rural STEM Students SucceedIntroductionWhile the STEM-based economy has been an enormous economic boon for some parts of theUnited States, other states, especially those more rural and economically beleaguered states, arefalling further behind economically due in part to their inability to meet engineering labordemands. Ranking 49th in college attendance and 45th in per capita Bachelor of Scienceengineering and science degrees [1], Arkansas is an example of one such state struggling to meetits STEM labor needs. However, the state could close this labor gap in part by recruiting previouslyoverlooked students – low-income and rural students. The University of Arkansas’ Path toGraduation (PTG
Project-based learning (PBL), recognized as a high-impact practice [1, 2], is an increasingly commonfeature in US engineering programs, with implementations ranging from first-year experiences throughcapstone design projects. The Buck Institute of Education, whose work focuses mostly on K-12 education,has articulated a set of essential elements of “Gold Standard PBL” [3] that are readily applicable to thehigher education context: 1. Key Knowledge, Understanding, and Skills: Make clear the learning goals for PBL assignments. Often these are a combination of disciplinary knowledge and transferrable skills and abilities. 2. Challenging Problem or Question: Engage students with a driving problem or question with a suitable level of
at institution #1, targeted for first time in college (FTIC) freshman (F-LEARN)[1]. With the success of this program, the model was implemented at institution #2 and #3, and amodified version was created for transfer students (T-LEARN) who have received theirAssociate degree and are enrolling in a STEM major at a four-year institution. The LEARN®program has three main pillars: 1) Academics/Research, which consists of a two-course, team-taught introduction to research sequence, where the first course focuses on matching students toresearch faculty mentors and preparing students to successfully participate in research, and thesecond course builds upon the research skills foundation from the introductory course to furtherdevelop a research
Work-in-Progress: A Web-Based Tool to Assess Computational ThinkingAbstractWhen President Obama unveiled his plan to give all students in America the opportunity to learncomputer science [1], discussions about Computational Thinking (CT) began in earnest in manyorganizations across a wide range of disciplines. However, Jeannette Wing stated the importanceof CT for everyone a decade earlier in her landmark essay [2]. Since then, several people andorganizations have posted their own definition of CT, which presents a challenge in being able toassess CT understanding and awareness in people. In an effort to build consensus on how to bestassess CT, the authors have developed a web-based tool that will enable CT experts globally
projectinterventions and the creation or adoption of quantitative instruments. This exploratory studyemploys case study methodology. Case study methodology is appropriate for this research studywhere a contemporary problem is investigated through several sources of data [1]. The specificcase study approach for this research project includes multiple or collective case studies giventhat the researchers have selected several cases of adult learners as a way to examine issues ofmotivation, determination, self-control, and grit among adult learners who are pursuing apostsecondary STEM certificate or degree. Case studies “may be particularistic (focused on aparticular phenomenon, situation or event), descriptive (providing as an end result a thick richdescription
identification of students likely to complete a graduate degree, we sought tochange our process and the way we evaluate students for admission. For this, we changed theapplication and review process to include an assessment of applicants’ non-cognitive variablesbased on Sedlacek’s work and the Fisk-Vanderbilt MS-PhD Bridge Program admissions model[1-3]. In 2016, our Materials Science and Engineering (MSE) Department piloted theincorporation of these changes. Consequently, MSE increased the enrollment of women andunderrepresented minority students by 19% and 57%, respectively and we will be evaluating theimpact of the changes on performance metrics and completion rates over time. Ahead of thisapplication cycle, we have made changes to the applications of
between the extroverts and introverts. In addition, it givesevery student a purpose and provides accountability to their group to be in attendance.Every phase of the problem-solving path, from initially understanding what the problemis to the termination of the task by presenting its solution to the rest of the class involvesutilizing writing and oral skills to make it a well-rounded educational endeavor.Stepping back from the details of implementation to compare the Carnegie pathway tothe traditional way, consider figure 1 and figure 2 below: Figure 1To clarify the red entries in figure 1; Introductory Algebra would be the actual name ofthe Elementary Algebra directly above it while Pre-Algebra is the initial course and is aterm by itself
recipient of School of Engineering Education Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching and the 2018 College of Engineering Exceptional Early Career Teaching Award. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2019 WIP: An Intersectional Conceptual Framework for Understanding How to Measure Socioeconomic Inequality in Engineering EducationIntroductionSince the late 2000s, there has been a surge of research that focuses on the effect of socioeconomicdisadvantage in the American engineering education context [1]–[8]. Through these studies,authors have continued to uncover more about the experiences of socioeconomicallydisadvantaged students in engineering education
both the classrooms of U.S. schools and the general workforce is needed tounderstand why this is occurring and what pedagogies can be added, removed, or enhanced toslow the rapid decline of underrepresented students in engineering. The object of this research isto discover pathways of engineering undergraduate students in their first two years in order tobetter understand their engineering identity and the relationship to graduation. Assessment of theengineering identity and mindset during the sophomore year will be done to both understand thegrowing diverse student body and to suggest changes in student and faculty engagement andinstructional activities. In this project, the authors will: (1) identify biases formed by studentswhen they choose
island.Constitution of the ASEE-UPRM:The ASEE-UPRM is a student organization that has served, since its establishment in 2016, as thepremier multidisciplinary society for individuals and organizations committed to advancingexcellence in all aspects of Engineering and Technology education (vision).1 Our mission is toadvance innovation, excellence, and access at all levels of education for the engineeringprofession.1 When initially founded, our chapter only had 15 members from all engineeringdisciplines. By 2017, the chapter increased its membership to 72 students and for the year, 2018,we already have reached 116 members, all of them are undergraduate engineering students. Thisrepresents an increase of 131% and 47%, respectively. Out of those 116 members, 60
continuous improvement processesWIP: Engaging engineering teaching staff in continuous improvement processes1. Introduction To demonstrate that future engineers have the skills to succeed in the workplace,many schools have implemented centralized assessment frameworks to collect evidence ofoutcome attainment [1]. However, it is still unknown whether or not the collection ofevidence facilitates the improvement of teaching and learning [2]. Although researchersagree that both outcome assessment tasks and curriculum discussions are key practices ofcontinuous improvement [3], institutions fail at integrating them as part of teachingpractices [3], [5]. This Work-In-Progress (WIP) paper presents a methodological
the NSF website (https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch). The database search waslimited to two specific programs within the Division of Engineering Education and Centers thatstated a required collaboration with a social scientist. Listservs created within these programswere also used to reach other researchers who may not be listed on the NSF site.A total population of 310 researchers resulted from these processes. Possible participants wereremoved due to a lack of available email information (n=12). Five participants were alsocommon across both programs. The final potential sample of 293 researchers were contactedwith 130 responses received (44.4% response rate). Multiple responses (n=19) were removedfollowing data collection because: 1) role on
engineering undergraduate studentsdevelop the knowledge, skills, and attitudes necessary to work across cultural boundaries and toeffectively adapt, integrate, and communicate in new environments. With this comes the need foreducators to begin to develop educational systems and practices that help students cross theseboundaries [1, 2]. There is a growing recognition of the importance to implement and engage students in highereducation in purposeful environments (i.e. study abroad, service experiences, domestic activities)that would allow them to develop global perspectives and cross-cultural skills to help themeffectively adapt to the diverse world market [3, 4, 5, 6, 7]. There exist various instruments andscales that aim to measure global