Engineering Education at Purdue University. Her research focuses what factors influence diverse students to choose engineering and stay in engineering through their careers and how different experiences within the practice and culture of engineering fos- ter or hinder belongingness and identity development. Dr. Godwin graduated from Clemson University with a B.S. in Chemical Engineering and Ph.D. in Engineering and Science Education. Her research earned her a National Science Foundation CAREER Award focused on characterizing latent diversity, which includes diverse attitudes, mindsets, and approaches to learning, to understand engineering stu- dents’ identity development. She has won several awards for her research
rapidly changing tech that is virtually “disposable”. 6. The faculty promotion and tenure system is not designed to promote curricula experimentation. 7. The difficulty of scaling-up from a successful effort with a small group of students to a larger student body. 8. The university system favors and rewards research, and is designed to train students for graduate schools and research, which overshadows the work to develop quantities of I4.0 skilled workers who will work in industry after an undergraduate degree. 9. University research is often given priority over workforce preparation. 10. Community colleges have to balance college-prep track against skilled-trades tracks, while the need for I4.0
discrimination in Chile remain evident, aswitnessed by international organizations' different world rankings and studies. According toeconomic theory, the current engineering focus continues to be project assessment, often withoutconsidering any social and environmental impact.According to [3], the social crisis in Chile in October 2019 demanded equality and finishedabuses, an apposition of a hierarchical society in which a group has greater power or status. Thisdemand is directly related to the social sustainability indicated by the SDGs. Given this context,there is already an approach to equality for students who participated in this study.METHODOLOGYThis research work evaluates the impact of problem-based learning (PBL) on sustainabilitycriteria for
Massachusetts-Amherst. Dr. Downey focuses on critical qualitative inquiry with a discerning eye toward humanizing and culturally sustaining pedagogies.Idalis Villanueva Alarc´on, University of Florida Dr. Villanueva Alarc´on is an Associate Professor in the Engineering Education Department at the Uni- versity of Florida. Her multiple roles as an engineer, engineering educator, engineering educational re- searcher, and professional development mentor for underrepresented populations has aided her in the design and integration of educational and physiological technologies to research ’best practices’ for stu- dent professional development and training. In addition, she has developed methodologies around hidden
of Alabama ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2024 An Innovation-Themed National Science Foundation S-STEM Grant ProgramTo enhance the competitiveness of the United States on a global scale through the provision ofSTEM graduates equipped with innovative skills, students must be educated in innovationmethodologies. With the support of a grant from the National Science Foundation's Science,Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics Program (S-STEM), researchers at the University ofArkansas are focused on augmenting the number of STEM graduates who possess both trainingand experience in innovation. The program, Closing America’s Innovation Gap throughCollaboration
diversity. Prior to receiving her doctorate at Harvard, Jennifer was a middle school English teacher in the Watts neighborhood of Los Angeles for six years.Dr. Rebecca Hartley, Biology Department, Seattle UniversityDr. Frank J. Shih, Seattle University Dr. Shih teaches junior level required courses and junior/senior electives in materials science, structural mechanics, and mechanical design. His research focuses on applied mechanics and failure issues in composite and other advanced materials used in aerospace and biomedical applications.Joy Crevier, Seattle University Senior Academic Advisor American c Society for Engineering Education, 2021
teaches at the intersection of engineering education, faculty development, and complex systems design. Alexandra completed her graduate degrees in Aerospace Engineering from Georgia Tech (PhD) and Systems Engineering from the University of Virginia (UVa).Dr. Meagan R. Kendall, University of Texas at El Paso An Associate Professor at The University of Texas at El Paso, Dr. Meagan R. Kendall is a founding member of the Department of Engineering Education and Leadership. With a background in both engi- neering education and design thinking, her research focuses on how Latinx students develop identities as engineers and navigate moments of identity interference, student and faculty engineering leadership development
community development. Mr. Melchior has served as the lead evaluation partner for the FIRST robotics programs since 2002 and has conducted more than a dozen studies of FIRST’s national after-school robotics programs. He is currently the co-Principal evaluator on the multi-year longitudinal impact study of FIRST programs.Matthew Hoover, Brandeis University Matthew Hoover is a Senior Research Associate at the Center for Youth and Communities at Brandeis University. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2018Do After-School Robotics Programs Expand the Pipeline into STEM Majors in College? I. IntroductionFor more than a decade
[8].For those students who have interest, are accepted, and enrolled, the graduation rate of UnitedStates engineering students has remained steady for decades. Of all students who enroll asengineering majors approximately 50% will graduate, with a disproportionately high attritionrate for women and minorities [9].Understanding and addressing student success factors is a critical element to supporting diverseand thriving engineering graduates. Among the main factors [9] found for students leavingengineering were classroom and academic climate, self-efficacy and self-confidence, and raceand gender issues. Academic success is not solely based on abilities and aptitudes; it is alsoinfluenced by sense of belonging in the academic environment [10
studied ina variety of fields [5], bringing together a wide range of perspectives from scholars across variousdisciplines to examine the challenges and opportunities for diversifying STEM fields [6], [7]. Inparticular, Shivers-McNair et al. [8] implemented a community-driven framework for supportingtechnology innovation with marginalized communities and explored how a community-basedmentorship can guide innovative technology design through intersectional technofeministperspectives. It is increasingly noted that diverse and inclusive scientific teams can amplifyinnovation, productivity, and impact [3], [4]. Despite these increases, STEM women faculty arestill underrepresented [1], [2], and they often advance slower than male faculty into
student outcomes of the program“Sustainability Across Sectors-Sweden.” Fig. 1 depicts a logic model for the program, highlighting the connections betweenprogram elements and desired outcomes. The rationale includes engineering workplace needs forglobal perspectives, and environmental engineering Body of Knowledge requirements. Inputsinclude engineering faculty, staff and undergraduates, best practices for short-term study abroad,and partnerships in various Swedish sectors. Activities consist of technical visits of full-scalesystems in Sweden, quantitative comparisons of engineering approaches in Sweden and the U.S.,and cultural and social interaction in Sweden. The impacts of the program include enhancedprofessional skills, additional
- ular emphasis on engineering identities and literacies among English Learners and bilingual students. Her research has been published in journals such as Theory into Practice, Action in Teacher Education, and Journal of Hispanic Higher Education. She earned her Ph.D. in Reading/Writing/Literacy from the University of Pennsylvania and has been a faculty member at UTEP since 2008.Helena Mucino, University of Texas at El Paso Helena Muci˜no is a Ph.D. student in the Teaching, Learning, and Culture program at the University of Texas at El Paso (UTEP). She holds a master’s degree in Musical Education Research from the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM). She is currently working as a Research Assistant for an
that participants were screened in an attempt to work withfaculty who may feel overwhelmed or believe they could be performing more optimally. Thework was also similar in that the PI followed up with participants over the term of the project tohelp participants keep the training in mind.McKenna, Johnson, Yoder, Guerra and Pimmel [2] evaluated the efficacy of virtual facultydevelopment. Their work also assumed that faculty development works best when it is timedistributed and since travel to a meeting is prohibitive in terms of time and money theyimplemented a virtual format for faculty development. The development focus was on creatingand maintaining communities of practice for the adoption of research based teaching practices.The work being
Paper ID #21065How to Make Engineering Statistics More Appealing to Millennial StudentsDr. Robert G. Batson P.E., University of Alabama Bob Batson is a professor of construction engineering at The University of Alabama. His Ph.D. train- ing was in operations research, and he has developed expertise in applied statistics over the past thirty years. He currently teaches the required courses in project management, safety engineering, engineering management, and engineering statistics within the undergraduate programs of the Civil, Construction, and Environmental Engineering Department, and graduate courses in operations
GroupsWhen asked about the main impacts of their grassroots engineering practices, all the threeextension centers described in this work (Soltec, ITCP/Unicamp, Pegadas, and Alter-Nativas)agree that students’ formation is (much) better served than the supported groups themselves. Thisusually does not mean that there was no impact or change on the assisted groups’ reality. Instead,it seems to indicate that what might last longer to these groups or their members are not the(socio-)technical solutions co-constructed, but things like the abilities they developed throughoutthe supporting process.Actually, it is not unusual for a GE team to support an enterprise, either a waste pickercooperative, a company recovered by workers or a Landless Rural Worker
beach.Ms. Connie Syharat, University of Connecticut Constance M. Syharat is a Ph.D. student and Research Assistant at the University of Connecticut as a part of two neurodiversity-centered NSF-funded projects, Revolutionizing Engineering Departments (NSF:RED) ”Beyond Accommodation: Leveraging Neurodiversity for Engineering Innovation” and In- novations in Graduate Education (NSF:IGE) Encouraging the Participation of Neurodiverse Students in STEM Graduate Programs to Radically Enhance the Creativity of the Professional Workforce”. In her time at the University of Connecticut she has also has served as Program Assistant for an summer pro- gram in engineering for middle school students with ADHD. Previously, she spent
originalproject/cohort design. Thus, the remainder of the 2018-19 academic year was used for planningand program development purposes.The Urban STEM Collaboratory project goals are to: 1. Increase at each institution the recruitment, retention, student success, and graduation rates of academically talented and financially needy undergraduate mathematical sciences and engineering majors; 2. Implement ambitious but feasible strategies contributing to student academic success, development of STEM identity, and workforce readiness; 3. Implement mechanisms to ensure substantial student participation in project activities through a special badge system, incentivizing participation; 4. Implement activities for mathematics and
areprepared to learn science principles from a new learning resource.In what follows, we present the design and analysis of a preliminary study with 76 sixth-graderson the impact of tinkering for learning. In a research design blending both informal and formallearning, students participated in one of two tinkering activities on a museum field trip, MarbleMachines or Wind Tubes, for approximately 45 minutes. Back at school, two weeks later, bothgroups had the opportunity to learn from a 20-minute instructional video, which containedsegments that explained scientific concepts relevant to both activities. We seek to answer thequestion of whether a relatively short experience with tinkering prepares students to better learnscience content from an
-305. 11. Sanchez, K., Magana, A. J., Sederberg, D., Richards, G., Jones, G., & Tan, H. (2013). Investigating the Impact of Visuohaptic Simulations for Conceptual Understanding in Electricity and Magnetism. Paper presented at the 120th ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, Atlanta, GA. 12. Moyer-Packenham, P. S., Salkind, G. W., Bolyard, J., & Suh, J. M. (2013). Effective choices and practices: Knowledgeable and experienced teachers' uses of manipulatives to teach mathematics. Online Journal of Education Research, 2(2), 18-3313. Olympiou, G., & Zacharia, Z. C. (2012). Blending physical and virtual manipulatives: An effort to improve students' conceptual understanding through science laboratory
formal research methods, we believein the importance of the timely dissemination of these observations to the engineering educationcommunity to inform future activities in this area. To maintain objectivity, the informationpresented includes only observations that are shared by the entire organizing team and programmentors.Background - Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) ProgramThe REU program was the first formalized attempt to expose students to engineering educationin a strength-based setting. The specialized program combined a ten-week traditional summerREU research experience with close mentorship, specially designed seminars, workshops, androundtable discussions to address the strengths and needs of participants. Due to the type
. Page 26.1241.5Evolved Practices & Impact on Innovation:Reality can turn around the best of intentions. The program described above was soon modifiedwhen finding engineering instructors for the different TCUs proved to be problematic. One TCUhad an instructor identified before funding was awarded and is still part of the program. Anotherfound instructor within three weeks of funding and he participated 3 years in a number of coursesbut was caught up in some administrative changes and moved on. However, that same TCUfound a backup instructor and then a second backup instructor to help. The third TCU tookseveral months to find an instructor and he remained at the institution for one year and was luredaway by a national engineering firm in the
current director for the Center for Engineering Education Research (CEER) which examines innovative and effective engineering education practices as well as classroom technologies that advance learning and teaching in engineering. He is also working on National Science Foundation (NSF) funded projects exploring engineering design thinking. His areas of research include engineering design thinking, adult learning cognition, engineering education professional development and technical training. He has extensive international experience working on technical training and engineering educaton projects funded by the Asian Development Bank, World Bank, and U.S. Department of Labor, USAID. Countries where he has worked include
University of Rhode Island with research work done at Rhode Island Hospital. Previously, he was an assistant di- rector at Massachusetts General Hospital (a teaching affiliate of Harvard Medical School) in Boston. He has also held faculty appointments in Illinois, Miami and Singapore. At NTU in Singapore, he was the founding director of the BME Research Center and the founding head of the Bioengineering division. He was the Principal Investigator for several Biomedical Engineering projects. He also worked in R&D at Coulter Electronics in Miami and in hospital design and operations management at Bechtel for healthcare megaprojects. He has served in the National Medical Research Council in Singapore. His research in
peer leader. These topicsbecome the basis for the formation of new practice groups. Each group then designs theirapproach to investigating the topic and plans for ways to present this new information. Thepurpose of the final project is to share the knowledge they have researched or generated withothers in the course support community as a whole (Community of Practice).Training our peer leaders to model self-directed learning approaches in their sessions is the firststep toward supporting students as they transition into college and develop skills in reflecting onchallenges and adapting to improve success. We have intentionally designed our peer leadertraining course to immerse new leaders in a self-directed learning environment, by allowing
that the skills in both fields overlap. A good artist and a goodengineer need to have confidence in their abilities in creative problem solving. Structuring thecamp with a theme of art allows students more opportunities to feel like they belong in the field. The sculpture area at WSU provided hands-on practices in three-dimensional art includingsculpture and jewelry/small metals as part of our contribution to the camp. Most often theworkshops applied the welding skills students learned from the engineering lessons to createexperimental sculptural forms in metal with an emphasis on being playful, creative and havingfun. However, the most notable project with the strongest impact and depth in learningprofessional art and design issues was
. Her current research interests include transient photovoltaic inverter modeling, micro-grid design, monitoring of advanced composite designs, and pedagogical methods and strategies. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2023 Student perceptions of online learning effectiveness during the COVID-19 quarantineAbstract - Limited studies exist examining the effect of the initial COVID-19 quarantineon engineering education, and those available tend to be limited to a single engineeringdiscipline. This paper examines student perceptions of the learning experience in theemergency situation presented by the COVID-19 pandemic across four engineeringdisciplines. Student
. Thetrip to Peru was designed to provide the students with a global scholarly and humanitarianexperience. Other impacts of the trip were the acquisition of cultural and social capital thatcannot be accomplished through non-experiential activities [13]. The trip included a project inLima, daily tours to museums in this city, national research labs, and a final trip to MachuPicchu, the Lost City of the Incas in Cuzco.Project: A Sustainable Approach for Informal Settlements or Asentamientos Humanos in PeruEducational research has demonstrated that a rich learning environment plays an important rolein improving learning achievements and also attitudes toward studies and research [26]. Thistype of environment can be implemented through project-based
Aaron S. (2012) Flip Your Classroom: Reach Every Student in Every Class Every Day, Eugene: International Society for Technology in Education, 2012. Print.[17]. Corporation for Public Broadcasting. (2004). Television goes to school: The impact of video on student learning in formal education[18]. Acharya, S., Manohar, P. A., & Wu, P. (2016). Using Case Study Videos to Effectively Teach Software Development Best Practices (pp. 230-235). The 20th World Multi- Conference on Systemics, Cybernetics, and Informatics (WMSCI) Conference, Orlando, FL, Organized by International Institute of Informatics and Systemics (IIIS).[19]. Bonwell, C. C., & Eison, J. A. (1991). Active Learning; Creating Excitement in the
(provided by NSF and an industry partner) to produce graduates with intrapreneurshipcompetencies. A total of 68 scholars in four cohorts were admitted to TIP. Scholars, hiringmanagers, and mentors were surveyed on topics to reveal the efficacy of the program. Bothqualitative and quantitative data were collected. This paper presents data on the growth inintrapreneurship competencies for each of the cohorts of students, data on mentoring practicesthat were integral to the TIP experience, as well as student and mentor perception data on thebenefits of the program.introductionThis paper examines the outcomes of a National Science Foundation sponsored Scholarships inSTEM (S-STEM) program. This S-STEM program (TIP) was designed to produceintrapreneurial
thatresearch with a faculty member in an area of interest or engaging in a long-term project, as wellas major specific internships provided the best support for students [22]. These were the types ofopportunities that were built into the Rising Scholar Program. Consequently, the research team designed a program that channeled the selected studentsinto significant levels of contact with professional personnel at the university. Students weretaught how to acquire and nurture mentors. They were required to participate in workingexperiences in a faculty member’s laboratory and develop their own research project, inconjunction with a faculty member. The RS pathway during their time at the university is shownin Figure 1. Reporting on the program’s