between gender and/or ethno-racial identity and the stereotype ofengineering as a field appropriate for white males can impede the development of STEM identities amongwomen and minorities. With the increasing importance of innovation, students who pursue engineering graduate degreesoften seek to build skills in conducting research (Brown and Linden, 2008). The social psychologicalconstruct of identity has emerged as a relatively new metric for assessing graduate student retention andsuccess. Studies suggest that graduate students’ identities correlate with their competency levels as wellas their professional and academic motivation (Alexander, 2011; Silver, Garver, and Watkins, 2011;Virgil, 2016). Importantly however, the literature
best answer their research question, hypothesis, orpurpose of the study [1]. A mixed methods research methodology that a researcher may select isQ methodology. Q methodology is a social science research methodology focused onsystematically studying subjectivity utilizing both qualitative and quantitative researchtechniques [2]–[6]. While Q methodology has had limited use in engineering education research,it has been used in studies regarding the career paths of engineering education doctoral graduates[7], competencies for nanotechnology [8] and IT [9], curriculum design for information systems[10], construction engineering technology program assessment [11], and undergraduateengineering students’ out-of-class activities [12]. However, Q
has served as PI/Co-PI on multiple educational projects sponsored by NSF programs including NSF S-STEM, NSF GK-12, and NSF TUES.Dr. Jianyu ”Jane” Dong, California State University, Los Angeles Jianyu Dong is a professor in electrical and computer engineering and currently serves as the Associate Dean for the College of Engineering, Computer Science, and Technology at Cal State LA. Her area of expertise is video compression/communication, multimedia networks, QoS, etc. With a strong passion in Engineering Education, she has been engaged in multiple funded projects and initiatives to increase the participation and success of students from undeserved, low-income communities in engineering areas.matthew jackson PhD
participation for women.MethodsThis work presented here is part of a larger mixed-methods study, employing an exploratorysequential study design: first, qualitative data were collected and analyzed, which then informedthe development of a survey to collect quantitative data [5].Qualitative Interview AnalysisAs part of the qualitative study [4], fifteen interviews were conducted with female students,prompting them to reflect on their team project in their first-year engineering course and discusswhat contributed to their satisfaction, or dissatisfaction, with their team experience. Studentswere asked to describe their team project; discuss which tasks they performed in the project andwhether there were any tasks they wished they did more or less of; and
, their education, and their profession, and how experiences uniquely affectunderrepresented or marginalized students. Researchers have suggested that culture is especiallyimportant for women to persist in a field [23], [30]. A culture of “Engineering with Engineers”could result in graduates who not only are prepared technically and professionally with apractical, realistic understanding of what it is to be an engineer, but who also identify with andare committed to the engineering profession. Hence, results of the study are hoped to lead to aclearer understanding of the changes that promote engineering identities, particularly in women,and how such identities affect students’ sense of belonging in a program and their persistence inthe major.It
Paper ID #28898Building Early Elementary Teacher Confidence in Teaching ComputerScience Through a Low-Cost, Scalable Research-Practitioner CollaborationJustin Lee Clough, University of Southern California Justin L. Clough is a PhD student at the University of Southern California studying Mechanical Engineer- ing; his advisor is Assad A. Oberai. He received his Bachelors of Science from the Milwaukee School of Engineering and Masters of Engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, both in Mechanical Engineering. He holds a DOD:SMART scholarship and works closely with the AFRL/RQHV teams at Wright-Patterson
?”; and coping and help-seeking behaviors (six questions), for example, “What resourcesand support are there on campus or in your department for students who are stressed?”.Participants were asked to describe any interactions with other students and faculty regardingmental health issues and to share any other additional information about engineering-relatedstress. The interview protocol was developed from the results of a quantitative surveyadministered at the same institution in the fall of 2017, which included metrics of stress, anxiety,depression, inclusion, and engineering identity, as well as an open-ended response opportunityfor participants to share additional thoughts [8]. The interview was piloted with three participantsexternal to the
engineeringprofessionals, women will need to engage and persist in engineering educational pathways. Thepurpose of this pilot qualitative case study was to examine the educational pathways andexperiences of three undergraduate women who are on track to graduate during the 2019-2020academic year a large, public university located in the southeast region of the United States. Byusing social cognitive career theory, the pilot study examined how and why three womenauthored their engineering identities through their secondary and post-secondary educationalexperiences to gain insight on their pursuit and attainment of an engineering degree and toinform a larger case study. Three themes, congruent with social cognitive career theory emergedfrom the data: eagerness to
Paper ID #29045Impact of mentor-mentee fit in preparing undergraduate STEM students toteach engineering technology for elementary studentsDr. Lei Xie, TEXAS STATE UNIVERSITY Dr. Lei Xie is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Organization, Workforce, and Leadership Studies at Texas State University.Dr. Malini Natarajarathinam, Texas A&M University Dr. Malini Natarajarathinam joined the faculty of Industrial Distribution Program at Texas A&M Univer- sity in 2007. Natarajarathinam received her Ph.D. in Supply Chain Management from The University of Alabama. She received her Bachelor of Engineering (Major
University, Justin’s dissertation research focuses on the study of Intersectionality Theory and the intersectionality of socioeconomic inequality in engineering education, use of critical quantitative methodology and narrative inquiry to understand the complex stories of engineering students from traditionally minoritized backgrounds, and the pursuit of a socioeconomically just engineering education.Mr. Matthew Scheidt, Purdue University at West Lafayette Matthew Scheidt is a Ph.D. student in Engineering Education at Purdue University. He graduated from Purdue University with a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering, The Ohio State University with a M.S. in Me- chanical Engineering with a focus in Ultrasonic Additive
study skills, how touse university student services, and how to become holistically involved at the university. Summer Scholars was established to (1) promote the holistic development of enteringengineering students, (2) develop a sense of community before their first semester of university,(3) introduce students to the academic rigor of a highly ranked four-year institution, (4) fosterunderstanding of successful campus involvement, and (5) provide students with co-curricularexperiences to develop their identity as an engineer. The primary objective of this study was tounderstand the effect of Summer Scholars on student long-term GPA patterns, retention, pathwaychanges, and sense of belonging.BackgroundUnderrepresented Students in
improving the culture and environment of undergraduate education experience for all students, particularly those from underrepresented groups.Mrs. Risa D Hartman, The University of Texas at Austin, NASCENT Center Risa Hartman oversees multiple Education and Outreach programs at the University of Texas at Austin. Her roles include: Staff Education and Outreach Director for the Center for Dynamics and Control of Materials, a Materials Research Science and Engineering Center (MRSEC) and as the Pre-college Ed- ucation Director for the NASCENT Engineering Research Center focused on nanomanufacturing. She manages programs in the areas of graduate student traineeship and career development, undergraduate research, Research
efforts have significantly more training for science education and, practices in quantitative methods, 86-99.anecdotally, we have observed that imbues a science-oriented lens whereby the distinctions and[14] Pleasants, J. & Olson, J.K. (2019) "Refining an Instrument and Studying Elementary Teachers’ Understanding of the Scope of Engineering," Journal of Pre-College Engineering Education Research (J-PEER): 9(2).[15] Pleasants, J., Olson, J. K., & De La Cruz, I. (2020). Accuracy of Elementary Teachers’ Representations of the Projects and Processes of Engineering: Results of a Professional Development Program. Journal of Science Teacher Education, 1-22.[16] Stemler, S. E. (2004). A comparison of consensus
the engineering college.While aspects of university-specific environments could be considered, what has been reportedin literature in various studies is that high school preparation and ranking is a factor which canhave a large impact on retention through the first year of college up to and through graduation[1-3] [4]. Such results have encompassed STEM students [1-3]; business students [3]; emphasison underrepresented minority (URM) students[4].; and more [2, 3].For example, a team out of University of North Texas (UNT), tracked cohorts of studentsthrough a seven-year continuum, in their three largest “majors”– STEM, Business, andEducation – to discern the number of students dropping out of the university, switching majors,and/or graduating
at the college of engineering, computer science and technology (ECST).Prof. Paul S Nerenberg, California State University, Los Angeles Dr. Paul S. Nerenberg is currently an Assistant Professor of Physics and Biology at California State University, Los Angeles. He received his PhD in Physics from MIT and has a strong interest in improving the quality of introductory physics education, particularly for students who enter college with little or no previous physics coursework.Ni Li, Northwestern Polytechnial University Ni Li, Ph.D., was an Assistant Professor of the Department of Mechanical Engineering at California State University, Los Angeles. Now, she is working in the school of Aeronautics at Northwestern
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Institute of Medicine, Expanding Underrepresented Minority Participation: America's Science and Technology Talent at the Crossroads. Washington, D.C.: The National Academies Press, 2011.[2] B. M. Ferdman. (2013, 1 December 2015). Diversity at work: the practice of inclusion in diverse organizations.[3] Cech, E. A., & Waidzunas, T. J. (2011). Navigating the heteronormativity of engineering: The experiences of lesbian, gay, and bisexual students. Engineering Studies, 3(1), 1-24.[4] Cech, E. A., & Rothwell, W. R. (2018). LGBTQ Inequality in Engineering Education. Journal of Engineering Education, 107(4), 583-610.[5] Patridge, E. V., Barthelemy, R. S., & Rankin, S. R. (2014). Factors impacting the academic
populations as well as many technical and non-technicalextracurricular opportunities. The survey will be sent to all undergraduate engineering studentsclassified as sophomores or juniors in the semester of the initial survey administration. The surveywas piloted with a group of undergraduate and graduate engineering students at this university infall 2019 and early spring 2020. The initial survey administration was conducted in spring 2020.Survey Measures. The survey will capture the types and extent of student involvement in variouscategories of extracurricular activities [25]–[27]. Students will select their involvements from alist of types of involvement (e.g., ambassador program, engineering/technical/design, professionalsociety, identity-based
scale.unit operations lab. Figure 2b shows the new teaching environment, which we will designate asMIL for the maker/innovation lab (known to our students as the Meldrum Innovation Lab).UOL has been used for our unit ops laboratory and senior capstone labs for decades, and is likelysimilar to many unit ops chemical engineering laboratories across the country. It contains onelarge lab area which houses pilot-scale pieces of unit ops equipment. The space also includes acollection of smaller satellite laboratories: a wet lab, analytical lab, biochemical engineering lab,and reactor laboratory. Just down the hall from this space was a small room housing our 3Dprinters. The design course that is the test course for this paper was shoehorned into this
placement scores of Group 1 unexpectedly decreased, which pose a new and interesting research question on the value of motivation that will be further studied and discussed separately. Group 1 and 3 are excluded from the analysis of the Engineering Summer Bridge results. ALEKS Math Semester(s) of No. of Students GPA Math SAT Fall 2019 Placement recommended Placement Pre- Pre- Post
) development,” Education Sciences, vol. 8, no. 4, 2008. 7. J. Lave and E. Wenger, Situated Learning: Legitimate Peripheral Participation, Cambridge University Press, 1991. 8. S. R. McKay, L. Millay, E. Allison, E. Byerssmall, M. C. Wittmann, M. Flores, J. Frattini, B. Kumpa, C. A. Lambert, E. A. Pandiscio, and M. K. Smith, “Investing in Teachers’ Leadership Capacity: A Model from STEM Education,” Maine Policy Review, pp. 54 – 63, 2018. 9. G. V. Caprara, C. Barbaranelli, P. Steca, and P. S. Malone, “Teachers' self-efficacy beliefs as determinants of job satisfaction and students' academic achievement: A study at the school level,” Journal of School Psychology, vol. 44, no. 6, pp. 473 – 490, 2006. 10. D
girls who alsohad a passion for engineering. Meeting the other Ambassadors in video discussions in early falland then being at the SWE Conference a short time later boosted her confidence in herself assomeone who could be an engineer. One of her peers gained confidence at the SWE Conferenceas well. She was bolstered by meeting female college students majoring in Engineering andfemale adult professionals working in Engineering at SWE. As she described it, she came to seeher future self in them. “I've gotten more excited about just my identity as an engineer.”One Ambassador described gaining confidence because she was taking on the role of teachingand guiding other girls in learning about engineering. She felt motivated because she knew
to Inform First-Year Bowman, T. A. Seifert, G. C. Wolniak, E. T. Advising Practices and Policies at Northwestern Pascarella, and P. T. Terenzini, “How college University's McCormick School of Engineering,” affects students: 21st century evidence that higher Paper presented at 2017 ASEE Annual Conference education works”, Vol. 3, 2016. & Exposition, Columbus, Ohio, June 2017, https://peer.asee.org/29143[2] L. D. Patton, S. R. Harper, and J. Harris, “Using critical race theory to (re)interpret widely studied
: 1) Development of a solution based on a well-specified theory of action appropriateto a well-defined end user; 2) Creation of measures to assess the implementation of thesolution(s); 3) Collection of data on the feasibility of implementing the solution(s) in typicaldelivery settings by intended users; and 4) Conducting a pilot study to examine the promise ofgenerating the intended outcomes [22].Theory of ActionHuman capital theory is a theory of investment in human capital, or the abilities and skills,acquired through investment in education and training, of any individual, that enhance potentialincome earning [23]. Human capital models examine how students make cost–benefit analysesand subsequent decisions on whether to attend and persist
engineering settings.MethodsThis study analyzes student survey data using statistical methods in a quantitative researchdesign. Students in seven, large undergraduate engineering courses representing four differentengineering majors self-reported demographic information and emotional engagement as part ofa larger study that explored different factors which may inform student engagement inengineering classrooms.ParticipantsThe sample population in this study consisted of 781 undergraduate engineering studentsrecruited in the last two weeks of the term. Self-reported ethnicity included Asian (47%), Black(3.5%), Hispanic (3.5%), White (41%), Pacific-Islander (less than 1%), Native American (lessthan 1%), and Other (3%). 24% of the sample were female, 75
theprogram level, i.e., outcomes expected at graduation time, and others at the course level, i.e.,outcomes expected at the time of clearing a course. Unfortunately, still, the terminology can beconflicting here with some acronyms having more than one usage and different terms being usedfor the same idea. We introduce the main terms next. • Program Learning Outcomes (PLOs)—Program learning outcomes are statements that de- scribe what the knowledge, skills and attitudes students should have at the time of graduation from an engineering program. PLOs are discipline agnostic. These are also referred to as Graduate Attributes (GA) (see Table VI for the Washington Accord’s recommended GAs). The term PLO also has synonyms
; Neville, 2015). Other scales have been written to capture theexperiences of only one intersectional group such as Keum et al. (2018) who designed theGendered Racial Microaggression Scale for Asian American Women (GRMSAAW). Oneexception to this approach of examining only one or two intersectional identities was Torres-Harding et al. (2012) who included several racial and ethnic identities in the design in the RacialMicroaggression Scale (RMS). None of these previous scales have been designed to capturemicroaggression experiences among engineering undergraduate students across severalintersectional identities. This study proposes the creation of a novel Engineering GenderedRacial Microaggression Scale (EGRMS) to capture the unique experiences and
system as a whole—is going to be necessary for making sustainableand significant impacts on human health going forward [1,4,10-11].The application of multi-scale systems bioengineering approaches to biomedical researchrequires knowledge of human physiology/pathology, in addition to quantitative skills in mathand engineering [4,12-14]. More importantly, however, it requires the ability to integrate thesesubjects in a meaningful way [15]. Within both the biotechnology sector and in academia, thedemand for graduates who possess expertise in the generation of high-throughput data—as wellas the modeling skills needed to analyze/predict pathological states and identify viabletherapies—has increased dramatically [2,4,16].In terms of STEM pipeline
the second set of interviews will focus on cultural adjustments(for Moroccan participants), member-checking, and clarification. We also piloted interviewswith existing Moroccan students from older cohorts. We examined existing survey instrumentssuch as [20], [21] to develop our interview protocol. For example, using the survey in theBlumenfeld study as a guide, we are asking expectancy-value specific questions such as: “Doyou feel that you are giving up anything by choosing the engineering path?” For an affirmativeanswer, the follow-up question is: “What things could you be doing instead?” For a negativeresponse, the follow-up question is “Perhaps giving up time spent on your hobbies? Or timespent with family?”[20].ConclusionThis research
system models, whichare the core skills that engineers and scientists develop. The Mobile Studio I/O Board, a personalelectronic instrument, was used as the technology to support the ECP. It is a portable,inexpensive, but highly useful hardware platform, which recreated a classroom or laboratoryenvironment e.g. at home. When coupled with the Mobile Studio Desktop software, the systemduplicated a large amount of the hardware often used to teach electrical engineering, computerengineering, physics and K-12 technology-oriented courses.There was a lot of refinement of the project through pilot studies and subsequent results showedthat the use of personal electronic instruments increases the level of student engagement andmotivation [2], [3]. Prior