research associate at the Korean Institute of Science and Technology, Carbon Composite Materials Research Center. American c Society for Engineering Education, 2021 Examining the Impact of Interpersonal Interactions on Course-Level Persistence Intentions Among Online Undergraduate Engineering StudentsAbstractThis research paper examines the influence of interpersonal interactions on the course-levelpersistence intentions of online undergraduate engineering students. Online learning is increasingin enrollment and importance in engineering education. Online courses also continue to confrontissues with comparatively higher course dropout levels than face-to-face courses. This
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associated with the Collegeof Engineering and the College of Science. This investment has helped faculty by providingresources for travel, joint publications, reciprocal visits to teach and offer guest lectures, andprovide access to Virginia Tech facilities to the HBCUs/MSIs faculty as well as exposingstudents to increased research and education opportunities at both institutions.We initiated a study with the motivation of developing strategies to evaluate the outcomes of theresearch collaborations resulting from this seed funding program that focuses on the process-oriented illustration of inter-institutional collaboration and explores the nature/quality of thecollaborations (Jalali et al. 2019). The study’s focus was then shifted and narrowed to
Engineering Sustainable Systems Program. He is Chief Science Officer of Fusion Coolant Systems. Professor Skerlos has gained national recognition and press for his research and teaching in the fields of technology policy and sustainable design. He has co-founded two successful start-up companies (Accuri Cytometers and Fusion Coolant Systems), co-founded BLUElab, served as Director of the Graduate Pro- gram in Mechanical Engineering (2009-2012), and served as associate and guest editor for four different academic journals. His Ph.D. students in the Environmental and Sustainable Technologies Laboratory have addressed sus- tainability challenges in the fields of systems design, technology selection, manufacturing, and water
. She received undergraduate and graduate degrees in mechanical engineering from Duke and NC State, respectively. Her research interests include engineering education and precision manufacturing. American c Society for Engineering Education, 2021 Use of Personas in Rating Scholarship ApplicationsIntroductionThis evidence-based practice paper introduces a method for creating subjective, holistic rubricsbased on the human-centered design concept of personas. It can be difficult to align assessmentmetrics with subjective artifacts, especially when the goal of the artifact itself is subjective. Thefaculty team who collaborated on an NSF S-STEM project faced
Paper ID #33060Collaborative Learning in an Online-only Design for ManufacturabilityCourseMiss Taylor Tucker, University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign Taylor Tucker graduated from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign with a Bachelor’s degree in engineering mechanics. She is interested in engineering design and lends her technical background to her research with the Collaborative Learning Lab, exploring how to improve ill-structured tasks for engineering students in order to promote collaborative problem solving and provide experience relevant to authentic work in industry. She also writes for the Department
peers, students wouldexperience less peer support, this research question sought to explore whether this was indeedthe case. If students report less peer support in remote settings, we can likely attribute suchreductions, in whole or in part, to the reduced opportunities for peer-to-peer interactions. If,however, students report more peer support, no differences in peer support, or inconsistent levelsof support between the two settings, then we must look at other possible causes to explain thesedifferences. One potentially important influence on perceptions of peer support could be a shiftin student expectations. In the process of adjusting to remote learning, students’ expectations forthe type and amount of peer support they might receive may
seminarseries for the fall 2021 semester, which will be offered under liberal arts, engineering, andagricultural/consumer sciences rubrics to bring together graduate students around weekly topicsof interest to the Working Group faculty members. Working through the Illinois Global Institute,a home department was identified to coordinate concurrent sections of the seminar in each ofthree colleges of the university, and Working Group members obtained course approvals tocreate concurrently meeting sections of the seminar. Using this process, no one college or schoolis the seminar host, eliminating a sense of primacy among student registrants. Working Groupfaculty will take turns lining up topics and presenters in a mini-roundtable fashion for theseminar
workplace adjustment for engineers and the corresponding influence on job satisfaction and intentions to persist. Rohini’s other interests include faculty development and engineering pathways of graduating engineers.Dr. Samantha Ruth Brunhaver, Arizona State University, Polytechnic campus Samantha Brunhaver is an Assistant Professor of Engineering in the Fulton Schools of Engineering Poly- technic School. Dr. Brunhaver recently joined Arizona State after completing her M.S. and Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering at Stanford University. She also has a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Northeastern University. Dr. Brunhaver’s research examines the career decision-making and professional identity formation of engineering
GHAHARI3,4* 1 Center for Education Integrating Science, Mathematics, and Computing, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, 30332; 2 Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Purdue University, West Lafayette, 47906; 3 Department of Engineering Education, Purdue University, West Lafayette, 47906; *4 Lyles School of Civil Engineering, Purdue University, West Lafayette, 47906ABSTRACTEngineering graduate programs in the United States are usually diverse. Students with differentnationalities, races, ethnicities, genders, and religions work and collaborate with each other inclasses, labs, and research projects. Graduate education often is called a transformative experience,in which students
RLC on StudentsThe three tenets of the situated learning framework served as the theoretical lens to understandexperiences of novice learners within the DMLC. This pilot study revealed that students found theexperience positive for all three tenets of situated learning. Social interaction among studentsrevealed evidence of intrapersonal conflict. We need to study reasons for conflict as well asstrategies students use to overcome them. Additional research is needed to evaluate students overa period of a year, so that we can understand how students’ perception of context, socialinteraction, and authentic learning change over time. Identifying challenges along with benefitsare important for the design of improved RLCs in the future. Future
20 declines to participate, we will fill with a similar schoolthat meets the same selection criteria. Figure 2. Map of Institutions Targeted for RDI participation.The diversity of partner institutions – large land-grant universities, major private institutions,minority-serving institutions, all located across the USA - provides a broad range of uniqueperspectives and experiences that can be shared and modeled. In the fourth year, we will develop a network of institutions hosting RDI interventionsand ‘train-the-trainer’ sessions with the initial collaborating institutions. Throughout the first fouryears of the project, our team will research doctoral students’ transition into graduate schoolbased on the nationwide RDI
Paper ID #33176Student Recognition, Use, and Understanding of Engineering for OnePlanet Competencies and Outcomes in Project-based LearningJames Larson, Arizona State University James Larson is a graduate of Arizona State University, Polytechnic Campus. The general engineer- ing program in The Polytechnic School takes a project-based pedagogical approach when designing the curriculum. James has previously researched influences for this program design in examinations of the Maker Movement. Previous contributions to ASEE on this subject include conference papers, ”Sup- porting K-12 Student Self-Direction with a Maker Family
students in different fieldswill have different levels of wellbeing as well as perceptions of stress, competition, andachievement. This relationship is hypothesized because they would be socialized in differentcharacteristics that are deemed particular to their fields. In this exploration, we first use largegroups to identify any specific differentiation of engineering compared against the other twolarge categories considered. However, future work will involve the exploration of differencesbetween engineering and specific majors individually.MethodsDataWe used data from the Healthy Minds Study (HMS), a web-based survey administered throughthe Healthy Minds Network for Research on Adolescent and Young Adult Mental Health(HMN). The initiative was
engineering techniques. His recent research focuses on the effect of high-impact practices on engineering and computer science undergraduate student outcomes around academic success and persistence.Dr. Candis S. Claiborn, Washington State University Professor Emeritus Candis Claiborn has been at Washington State University since 1991. In 2016, she returned to faculty after serving for 10 years as Dean of the Voiland College of Engineering and Archi- tecture at WSU. Prior to that, she served as interim dean and as associate dean for research and graduate programs. Dr. Claiborn received her PhD in chemical engineering from North Carolina State University in 1991. Her research interests are in engineering education
Paper ID #33752The PEERSIST Project: Promoting Engineering Persistence Through Peer-ledStudy GroupsMs. Thien Ngoc Y Ta, Arizona State University Thien Ta is a doctoral student of Engineering Education Systems and Design at Arizona State University. She obtained her B.S., and M.S. in Mechanical Engineering. She has taught for Cao Thang technical college for seven years in Vietnam. She is currently a graduate research associate for the Entrepreneurial Mindset initiative at the Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering at Arizona State University. Her doctoral research focuses on Entrepreneurship Education and Innovation in
as part of a dual level(undergraduate and graduate) elective course on science diplomacy.IntroductionScience diplomacy – the triune approach of: 1) scientists acting as diplomats; 2)diplomats facilitating scientific collaboration; and 3) cultural diplomacy via scientificgatherings and international exchange – is both a long-standing and a recently re-emergedaspect of international relations [1]. For example, the first Ambassador of the UnitedStates was inventor-scientist Benjamin Franklin, and the first Secretary of State wasfarmer-scientist Thomas Jefferson. More recently, in 1961, Article 3 of the ViennaConvention on Diplomatic Relations was written to highlight that, “the functions of adiplomatic mission consist, inter alia, in
of the field and its innovations[18]. One network analysis study ofcommunity and collaboration, for example, revealed a lack of diffusion across the engineeringeducation research (EER) community, and the network analysis illustrated the shape of thediscipline’s network. The authors then used the analysis to locate disciplinary pockets as well asareas and topics of interests. In this article, we follow scholars outside the field to take morenarrow approach[20]: rather than explore a network to discover themes or locate topics ofinterest, we instead interrogate one particular topic, intersectionality, to understand the way thefield has used the term, the way it has gathered around particular key texts, and the citationaltendencies that support
underrepresentation of minoritizedwomen, including African American or Black, Hispanic or Latina/Latinx, and Native Americanor American Indian women. Therefore, the computing education research community (CER)have explored pedagogies to improve computing students' learning outcomes based on existinglearning theories. Few studies have reviewed pedagogies in the context of social constructivism.Social constructivism is a learning theory defined as the collaborative co-construction ofknowledge. Social constructivist pedagogies have enhanced learning outcomes for minoritizedwomen in other STEM fields, but their effects have not been studied extensively in CER. Wereference intersectionality theory to guide our search around gender/race/ethnicity, critique
enhance analytical abilities and promote problem-solving skills usingmultiple levels of abstraction [15]. Institutes define the CT according to unique goals and standards, meaning no unifiedCT definitions exist among researchers. For example, the International Society for Technologyin Education (ISTE) defines CT as a systematic approach for solving problems in computersciences and other subject areas and careers [16]. According to the K–12 Computer ScienceFramework, CT is closely related to computer sciences, specifically the capabilities ofcomputers for solving various problems using algorithms. The framework includes corepractices for promoting the computing culture, collaborating using computing, definingcomputational problems
researcher], and [our social scientist] come into play because I think [the faculty are] going to be more receptive to reaching out to them, talking to them, and also summarizing what students are thinking through the focus group meetings and they can bring back what the students are overwhelmingly saying. This approach is not working for the majority of the students and maybe that presents a strong enough reason to change.Similarly, a social scientist at another institution said of their teammates: [They] are not small actors in having created an environment where people felt like they could contribute and do interesting things. They're understated heroes in that regard. They're trusted
of Connecticut as a part of the NSF Revolutionizing Engineering Departments (NSF-RED) project, ”Beyond Accommodation: Leveraging Neurodiversity for Engineering Innovation”. In her time at the University of Connecticut she has also worked as a Research Assistant for NSF CAREER project ”Promoting Engineering Innovation Through Increased Neurodiversity by Encouraging the Participation of Students with ADHD” and has served as Program Assistant for the related summer program for middle school students with ADHD. Prior to join- ing the University of Connecticut, she spent eight years as a public school teacher in Connecticut, where she maintained a focus on providing a varied learning environment and differentiated
outstand- ing publication awards from the American Educational Research Association for her journal articles. All of Dr. Borrego’s degrees are in Materials Science and Engineering. Her M.S. and Ph.D. are from Stanford University, and her B.S. is from University of Wisconsin-Madison.Patricia Clayton, University of Texas at AustinGabriella P. Sugerman, University of Texas at Austin Gabriella Sugerman is a queer, white, female graduate student in biomedical engineering at The University of Texas at Austin. In addition to her research in biomechanics, she is focused on expanding participation in difficult dialogues around equity and inclusion within engineering higher education.Cassandra Prince, LGBTQ+ STEM Issues and Advocacy
students (which isvaluable), nor faculty-student relationships (which is also valuable), but also amongstfaculty as an essential component of post Covid education.In the past ten years, this single online, pre-engineering collaborative accounts for theequivalent of over 2% of Native American engineering students annually graduating witha bachelor’s degree in engineering [9], accomplished through building trust andcommunity. Throughout the program's tenure, student-student relationships, student-instructor relationships, and instructor-instructor relationships were all intentionallyfostered through the structure of the collaborative. The students are very capable andthe program supports their efforts through a culturally-appropriate emphasis
]. Research-based teaching practices. (RBTPs)encompass a long list of instructional practices that have been shown through research to be effectivein improving student achievement, engagement and persistence in STEM fields. These RBTPs include“the use of cooperative learning; problem-based learning; peer-led team learning; process-oriented,guided inquiry learning; and project-based learning over lecture-based teaching” [15]. Endeavors tofind solutions to complex societal problems often require collaboration between industry andacademia. This can be further formalized and integrated into the engineering classroom to providenew ideas for industry, incubate entrepreneurial interests in students, and provide a guaranteedpathway to an engineering career
divisions.1. IntroductionThe IDEA Engineering Student Center at the University of California San Diego’s Jacobs Schoolof Engineering was established in 2010 to focus on engineering student diversity and inclusioninitiatives following a series of racially charged incidents affecting our campus’ Black students.IDEA is an acronym that stands for Inclusion, Diversity, Excellence, and Achievement. From itsinception, the IDEA Center aimed to focus on 1) outreach, 2) recruitment and yield, 3) academicsuccess and enrichment, and 4) retention and graduation for underrepresented minority (URM)students.The 2020-2021 academic year was pivotal for the IDEA Center for several reasons. First, it wasthe Center’s 10 year anniversary and the beginning of a strategic
Paper ID #32564WIP: Engaging Software Engineering Students in Synchronous andAsynchronous On-line CourseDr. Bruce R. Maxim, University of Michigan - Dearborn Bruce R. Maxim has worked as a software engineer, project manager, professor, author, and consultant for more than forty years. His research interests include software engineering, human computer interaction, game design, social media, artificial intelligence, and computer science education. Dr. Maxim is Professor of Computer and Information Science at the University of Michigan—Dearborn and the Nattu Natarajan Professor of Engineering. He established the GAME Lab in
characteristics of students that persist in the Loyola University Chicago Engineering program from the Class of 2022 and 2023? • To what extent and in what ways does a curricular emphasis on active learning promote student engagement and persistence among engineering students, particularly women?Based on the research literature, we hypothesized that students enrolled in the Loyola UniversityChicago engineering program would have a higher level of persistence than students in otherEngineering programs. Also, we hypothesized that engagement would be more critical forwomen than men for persisting in the Engineering program. 5DesignParticipants
with the WFU Program for Leadership and Character and many colleagues across the university. With inclusion being a core value, she is proud that the WFU Engineering team represents 60% female engineering faculty and 40% female students, plus 20% of students from ethnic minority groups. Her areas of expertise include engineering identity, complex problem solving across cognitive and non-cognitive domains, recruitment and retention, PBL, engineering design, learning through ser- vice, character education in engineering contexts, etc. She also conducts research in cardiovascular fluid mechanics and sustainable energy technologies. Prior to joining Wake Forest University, Olga served as a Program Director at the
., Computational Methods in Structural Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering, digitalversion, 1-11.Bocchini, P., Frangopol, D., Ummenhofer, T., and Zinke, T. (2013). Resilience and Sustainability of the CivilInfrastructure: Towards a Unified Approach. J. Infrastruct. Syst., 10.1061/(ASCE)IS.1943-555X.0000177 (Jul. 1, 2013).Booth, K., Cooper, D., Karandjeff, K., Large, M., Pellegrin, N., Purnell, R., Rodriguez-Kiino, D., Schiorring, E., &Willett, T. (2013). Using Student Voices to Redefine Success: What Community College Students Say Institutions,Instructors and Others Can Do to Help Them Succeed. Berkeley, CA: The Research and Planning Group for CaliforniaCommunity Colleges (The RP Group).Brewer, M.L., van Kessel, G., Sanderson, B., Naumann, F., Lane, M