, gender rolesare separated, and potential career choices have been identified for individuals based on thesecultural influences [8],[9],[10]. One example, is the concern in Muslim majority countries aboutthe work environment that women will take part in and the restrictive codes for women’s behavior[9], [13]. And although there are no strict rules prohibiting women from working outside, Muslimwomen and their families typically prefer an indoor job environment versus outdoor [11], [15]. A study from Siann & Clark [11] found that parents and daughters in Muslim countriesbelieved women must be educated because they cannot work in hard labor. For Muslim women,majoring in CS gives them the opportunity to work from home without the need to
classroom so that teachers can inspire their students to envisionengineering as an attractive and important academic and career opportunity, and to fill thedesperately needed talent gap in the high tech economy of today and tomorrow.This paper will briefly discuss the organization of this program including Application andRecruiting, Program Structure and Activities and Teacher Research Project. This paper willfocus on the Program Assessment. Some lessons we learn while running the program will be alsoprovided.Recruitment and ApplicationIn order to advertise the program, flyers with information about the program and a link to thewebsite were e-mailed to the superintendents of schools districts in metro-Detroit area in earlyJanuary. A link to the
biomedical engineer turned chemical engineer, Diane has developed a unique perspective when it comes to utilizing a broad set of tools in both her research and classroom. She aspires to share her enthusiasm for biology and engineering through teaching and mentoring in the next stage of her career as faculty.Dr. Conrad M Zapanta, Carnegie Mellon University Conrad M. Zapanta is the Associate Department Head of Undergraduate Education and a Teaching Pro- fessor in the Department of Biomedical Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, PA. Dr. Zapanta received his Ph.D. in Bioengineering from the Pennsylvania State University in University Park, PA, and his B.S. in Mechanical Engineering (with an option in
Paper ID #25264Broadening Participation in Engineering through a Research Center-basedMentoring Program (Research)Dr. Eduardo Santillan-Jimenez, University of Kentucky Dr. Eduardo Santillan-Jimenez is the director of a mentoring program based at the University of Ken- tucky Center for Applied Energy Research (UK CAER) – and funded by the Broadening Participation in Engineering program of the National Science Foundation – designed to increase the number of African Americans, Hispanics and Native Americans graduating with engineering degrees and pursuing academic careers. Originally from Mexico, Dr. Santillan-Jimenez joined
surgery after attending MSOP program𝛽0123 Percentage MSOP alumnae who are 57% 67% [8] “Very Interested” in pursuing orthopaedic surgery a priori the program 𝛼323 Percentage POP alumnae who matriculate 93% 93% [8] to 4-year college and major in STEM 𝛽323 Percentage POP alumnae who intend to 56% 56% [8] attend medical school 𝛾323 Percentage POP alumnae who are “Very 23% 13% [8] Interested” in pursuing careers in orthopaedic surgery We used our mathematical model (see Equations 1-4) to conduct two unique simulationsaddressing critical issues
various lifelonglearning skills shown in Table 2. The lifelong learning skills were adapted from lifelong learningcharacteristics defined by Candy et al.15 and Knapper and Cropley.16 The learning outcomeswere asked three times: 1. Rate the following based on how well the students were PREPARED prior to starting MDC: 2. Rate the following based on the IMPORTANCE to completing MDC: 3. Rate the following based on the CONTRIBUTION of the MDC program to meet the following learning outcomes:The lifelong learning characteristics were only asked once in the survey; to rate them based onthe importance to a student’s academic and professional career. Table 1: Learning Outcomes of the MDC Program
Engineering and others have assertedthe need for exposing K-12 students to engineering to help them develop 21st century skills,improve science and mathematics achievement, develop technological literacy, and inspire andprepare students to pursue careers in engineering4–6. This has resulted in the rapid growth of K-12 engineering curricula like Project Lead The Way, the International Technology andEngineering Education Association’s Engineering byDesign, and extracurricular programs likeFIRST Robotics.Many of these engineering initiatives included significant programming components. Roboticscompetitions typically involve varying degrees of programming to control the robots and allowthem to operate autonomously, while many K-12 engineering curricula
topics such as low impact development and carbon sequestration, and is active in the sustainability education community. Dr. Haselbach is a licensed professional engineer and a LEED AP (BD+C). Prior to her academic career she founded an engineering consulting company in the New York – Connecticut area. Her degrees include a BS in Civil and Environmental Engineering from Cornell, an MS in Chemical Engineering from UC Berkeley, and a PhD in Environmental Engineering from the Uni- versity of Connecticut. She is currently an Associate Professor in Civil and Environmental Engineering at Washington State University, an Associate Director of the USDOT Tier 1 UTC: Center for Environ- mentally Sustainable Transportation
careers. Morerecently, researchers and educators have recognized the flaw in their teaching methodologiesand—as indicated by the growing number of studies regarding social/cultural aspects in STEMeducation—have taken strides towards integrating social trends and student culture in hopes ofenhancing student interest and motivation (hence why 20 of the 119 studies included in ourreview directly consider either social or cultural trends as means for enhancing interest). Theirresearch was often driven by the question: How do everyday moments—experienced acrosssettings, pursuits, social groups, and time—result in scientific learning, expertise development,and personal identification (Bricker & Bell, 2013)? In terms of conforming to the
posed aboutstudent interests. Furthermore, the type of examples used can stress characteristics about thecontent not typically addressed by existing quiz banks. For example, highlighting how thematerial contributes to the overall public welfare of society, or how the field that uses thismaterial serves others, can change the perception that a student might have about a discipline.This is especially important when trying to increase diversity in a field such as engineering as ithas been shown that women and first-generation college students tend to choose careers that aremore other-oriented5, and engineering is commonly not perceived as such. Thus, adaptivelearning has the potential to have a much broader impact on education and
American Institute of Chemical Engineers Nanoscale Science and Engineering Forum’s Young Investigator Award (2012), the Presidential Early Career Award for Sci- entists and Engineers (2010), and a National Science Foundation CAREER Award (2009). Her Auburn University awards include the Excellence in Faculty Outreach (2015), an Auburn University Alumni Pro- fessorship (2014), the Auburn Engineering Alumni Council Awards for Senior (2013) and Junior (2009) Faculty Research, the Faculty Women of Distinction Award (2012), and the Mark A. Spencer Creative Mentorship Award (2011). Dr. Davis is the past chair of Auburn’s Women in Science and Engineering Steering Committee (WISE) and the faculty liaison to the College of
the framework might help explain some conflicting results within the engineeringretention literature.Theoretical Framework Many of the studies on engineering retention are framed through the lens of collegeretention. Although there is value in that perspective, this study was framed in expectancy valuetheory26, a theory used in the college major and career choice literature27,28 . Expectancy valuetheory, a motivational theory, attempts to explain individuals’ choice of behavior based on theirexpectation of success and the value they place on the task or outcome of the task. The behaviorcan be related to the decision to work on a task, whether or not to persist at a task, or the amountof effort to invest in a task28. Atkinson, who was
Competence, Engineering and TabooTo fill this gap in engineering education of culturally and contextually relevant research, there isa need for a new social justice literacy in engineering.5 Yet, this is not the case when looking atthe professionalization of the engineering career: “In this point, the professional associationrecognises the need for engineers to play a broader social and environmental role. Yet theemphasis on technical competencies sends a powerful message to engineering educators,highlighting the primacy of technical knowledge in a crowded curriculum”.6 The need for thisnew literacy to highlight how one might gauge a sense of social responsibility has beenformalized through two metrics. The metrics of assessment are twofold: first
, scholarship recipients during the first semester. This course also providesthe students with professionalism skill training, career development and guidance for success inSTEM careers. Transfer-GEMS’ ultimate goal is to increase the number of transfer studentsgraduating from CEFNS with STEM majors and decrease their time (number of semesters) tograduation.In Fall 2014, 349 STEM transfer students entered CEFNS out of 2,782 new transfers to NAU. Ofthese, 26 in some way joined the Transfer-GEMS program. Fifty-seven students switched intoCEFNS during the year, for a total CEFNS transfer population for the 2014-2015 school year.This is the first cohort of three total that will be supported by the current grant, with 14scholarships to be awarded in each of
engineering were earned by foreign students. 7 There are even fewerstudents that pursue graduate studies in STEM fields from historically underrepresented groups.For example, the National Science Foundation reports that an estimated 50% of Asian Americanor Asian students planned to major in a STEM field compared to 36% of African Americanstudents in the year 2012.7 An undergraduate academic career in STEM is the first step necessaryto pursuing a graduate degree in a STEM discipline. In one year of gathered national data, theNational Science Foundation discovered that approximately 50, 396 White, non-Hispanicstudents are enrolled in a graduate program in engineering compared to that of approximately4,172 Black students, 5,218 Hispanic students, and
professor in the Department of Biomedical and Chemical Engineering and the Director of Chemical Engineering Graduate Program. Dr. Ren received an Early Career Translational Research Award in Biomedical Engineering from the Wallace H. Coulter Foundation in 2009 and a NSF CAREER award in 2011. He was named the College Technology Educator of the Year by the Technology Alliance of Central New York in 2010. Dr. Ren is also a recipient of the Faculty Excellence Award from the School of Engineering and Computer Science at Syracuse University. Dr. Ren currently has 44 journal publications with over 2000 citations (h-index 24), 7 issued/pending patents and research supports from NSF, EPA, Wallace H. Coulter Foundation, Alfred
. Finally, at the end of thepresentation specific examples of biased actions were explicitly addressed. For example, thedean said that biased activities such as racist or sexist jokes were not tolerated in the College ofEngineering. Directly following the presentation, the CIVE 102 instructor indicated that sheliked the content and thought it was very relevant.Panel of Professional Engineers. Around mid-semester we hosted a panel of engineers in bothclasses. The panels informed students about engineering practice and hopefully provided somerole models to the students. In putting the panels together we attempted to represent at leastsome racial and gender diversity as well as diversity in engineering career paths within thepractical constraints
also share their plan for the future research.IntroductionThe primary goal of engineering programs is to prepare the engineering students for theirprofessional careers in the global setting 1. Ideally, the educators should teach in a well-managed,student-centered environment with reasonably structured framework. They should stressfundamental knowledge, equip the students with solid skills and expose them to cutting-edgetechnologies 2. It has been found that obtaining practical knowledge from college is morebeneficial to the students’ professional career than mastering any new technology 3. An effectivelearning environment should help the students enhance their ability to solve practical problems 2.Globalization of the engineering enterprise
Paper ID #12320Improving engineering student preparedness, persistence, and diversity throughconative understandingDr. Elizabeth A Adams, Chandler Gilbert Community College Residential Engineering Faculty at Chandler-Gilbert Community College.Claire Louise Antaya Dancz, Arizona State University Ph.D. Candidate in Sustainable Engineering at Arizona State UniversityProf. Amy E. Landis, Arizona State University Dr. Landis joined ASU in January 2012 as an Associate Professor in the School of Sustainable Engi- neering and the Built Environment. She began her career as an Assistant Professor at the University of Pittsburgh, after
Paper ID #12096Differences in Ethical Decision making between experts and novices: A Com-parative StudyMs. Madhumitha Ramachandran, University of Oklahoma Madhumitha Ramachandran received her Bachelor of Technology in Bioengineering in May 2012 from SASTRA University, India. She is currently a M.S. candidate in the School of Industrial and Systems Engineering at The University of Oklahoma. Madhumitha is always excited about school and looks to other motivated students to share her learning with them. Looking forward for a career in academia, she developed an interest for engineering education. Her recent research on
26.595.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2015 Emerging Technology in the Construction Industry: Perceptions from Construction Industry ProfessionalsabstractAlthough historically the construction industry has been a slow adopter of technology, in recentyears the technology available to increase productivity and thus profit margins has seen rapidadoption and advancement. As these advances have taken hold the need for students to beexposed to this technology, to better prepare them for their careers has arisen. Projectmanagement, estimating and building information modeling (BIM) technologies are nowcommonly found in construction higher education. However, as technology in the
Paper ID #13608Integrated Construction Laboratory - Lessons LearnedDr. John Tingerthal, Northern Arizona University John Tingerthal joined the Construction Management faculty at Northern Arizona University in 2007. His engineering career spans a variety of design and forensic engineering experiences. He spent the first eight years of his career performing structural consulting engineering in Chicago. He earned his Doctorate in Education and is currently the Associate Chair of the Civil Engineering, Construction Management and Environmental Engineering Department. His academic interests lie in the field of discipline-based
and facilities, theseprograms consume a significant amount of institutional resources for relative small groups ofstudents (SELECT typically have fewer than 20 members). The impact on recruitingengineering students from under-represented populations (URP) potentially extends to issueswith future career opportunities as well. (We use URP to refer to both female students andstudents from racial/ethnic minority populations.) Industry sponsors willingly pay for theprivilege of recruiting graduates from these teams, apparently because they believe that SELECToffer educational and professional advantages. The question of whether URP students have equalopportunity to participate in SELECT is therefore also one of whether URP students receiveequal
emotional intelligence, disciplineand self- awareness to successfullyserve in a mentorship role. Infollowing terms, the Paul PeckScholars progressed through coursesfocused on organizational behavior, Figure 1- Course Sequencecommunication, management, andresearch opportunities. Thecoordinators have also worked with the Steinbright Career Development Center (Steinbright) tocreate specialized leadership-driven internship experiences for the Scholars. Steinbright preparesstudents for their co-op search, and provides professional development opportunities for studentsthroughout their college careers. See Figure 1.Program Outcomes
c American Society for Engineering Education, 2015 Tricks of the Trade: Developing Research Funding AbstractBuilding a research group is an important determinant of career success. Maintaining acadre of students and assistants depends upon many factors, but perhaps none is soimportant as funding. Raising money takes time, a fact often bemoaned by professionalsacross the spectrum, from educators to politicians to missionaries. This paper presentsadvice from faculty who have been very successful in obtaining funding, including somewho have served for a time as NSF program officers. They advise that it’s important toserve on review panels to learn how the system works. Find out what each
over 30 students. The MCE/WISE programs arefree programs, offered by PSU Erie, designed for minority or female students from theErie area in the summer before their senior year in high school. This program offers Page 26.1670.2students the opportunity to explore their options in higher education and examinepossible career paths. Along with STEM related field trips, in-depth workshops, andexperiences, the students take a free 6-week college course.In our workshop, the high school students not only had a chance to build an automatedwheeled car and a grasping robotic arm, but also observed that changing controllerparameters in MATLAB/Simulink resulted in
Paper ID #14073Open-source Hardware – Microcontrollers and Physics Education - Integrat-ing DIY Sensors and Data Acquisition with ArduinoMr. Brian Huang, SparkFun Electronics Brian Huang is an Education Engineer for SparkFun Electronics, a cutting edge open-source hardware and electronics education company. Brian started his career in engineering with wireless transport tech- nologies for ADC Telecommunications in Minneapolis, MN. While working at ADC, Brian volunteered at the Science Museum of Minnesota and quickly discovered a passion for teaching and working with students - especially in an environment that fostered and
how a society raises itschildren is not the ultimate expression of societal bias.Student views on prospects of women’s success in the professional world also demonstratedunconscious bias One student wrote that, “[One] reason that a woman would have a hard time Page 26.1255.4getting [into] and progressing through an engineering or computer science career is thatsometimes men have too much pride. There are men who would not tolerate knowing that awoman could do a better job.” Another gave as his reason for few women in engineering asrelated fields as, “...women usually draws [sic] maximum benefits from their employers. Ifemployers do not want
. She began her career as an Assistant Professor at the University of Pittsburgh, after having obtained her PhD in 2007 from the University of Illinois at Chicago under the supervision of Dr. Thomas L. Theis. She has developed a research program in sustainable engineering of bioproducts. Her research ranges from design of systems based on industrial ecology and byproduct synergies, life cycle and sustainability assessments of biopolymers and biofuels, and design and analy- sis of sustainable solutions for healthcare. Since 2007, she has lead seven federal research projects and collaborated on many more, totaling over $7M in research, with over $12M in collaborative research. At ASU, Dr. Landis continues to grow her
undergraduate or graduate education that influenced your view of the engineering profession. Describe post-collegiate experiences that have influenced your view. What has been your career path after graduation?Interviews followed a semi-structured format where interviewers were allowed to ask follow-upquestions to allow for more elaborate responses. Interviews lasted from 30 to 60 minutes andwere performed by one of two researchers over the phone, on Skype, or in person depending onthe preference of the interviewee. Interviews were transcribed verbatim using voice recognitionsoftware, then edited to match the conversation exactly in Microsoft Word. All intervieweeswere given a pseudonym using typical methods23. As the first round of interviews