Paper ID #26926Linking Mind-set to CreativityDr. George D. Ricco, University Of Indianapolis George D. Ricco is an assistant professor of engineering and first-year engineering coordinator at the University of Indianapolis. He focuses his work between teaching the first two years of introductory en- gineering and engineering design and research in student progression. Previously, he was a special title series assistant professor in electrical engineering at the University of Kentucky, and the KEEN Program Coordinator at Gonzaga University in the School of Engineering and Applied Science. He completed his doctorate in
Paper ID #25835Teaching Undergraduate Engineering Students Gratitude, Meaning, and Mind-fulnessMs. Julianna S. Ge, Purdue University, West Lafayette Julianna Ge is a Ph.D. student in the School of Engineering Education at Purdue University. At Purdue, she created and currently teaches a novel course for undergraduate engineering students to explore the intersections of wellbeing, leadership, diversity and inclusion. As an NSF Graduate Research Fellow, her research interests intersect the fields of engineering education, positive psychology, and human de- velopment to understand diversity, inclusion, and success for
Paper ID #25750”Maybe If I Put My Mind To It”: 5th Graders’ Receptivity to Pursuing En-gineering Careers (Fundamental)Ms. Karen Miel, Tufts University Karen Miel is a PhD student in STEM Education at Tufts University. Karen served as the Director of Research and Innovation at the science center CuriOdyssey and the Education Director of the Palo Alto Junior Museum and Zoo after teaching elementary and middle school. Her research focuses on elementary students’ reasoning and decision-making in collaborative engineering design.Dr. Merredith D. Portsmore, Tufts University Dr. Merredith Portsmore is the Director for Tufts Center
mathematics (STEM) education. In addition, his work aims to show how STEM can make contributions to everyday anti-racism in schools, with specific attention to engineering and computer science. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2019 Mind the Mindstorms: Technocultures of Engineering Education in Three U.S. Elementary SchoolsIntroductionThe LEGO Group’s proprietary educational robotics kit, LEGO Mindstorms, has been includedin numerous engineering education studies. An advanced search for “LEGO Mindstorms” in theAmerican Society for Engineering Education archives reveals over 400 hits found within“document content.” The amount of research that uses or at least mentions
Paper ID #25325Impact of Student Mindfulness Facets on Engineering Education Outcomes:An Initial ExplorationDr. Tomas Estrada, Elizabethtown College Dr. Tomas Estrada is an Associate Professor in the Department of Engineering and Physics at Elizabeth- town College, in Elizabethtown, PA. He received his B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Universidad de Costa Rica in 2002 and his M.S. and Ph.D. (both in Electrical Engineering) from the University of Notre Dame in 2005 and 2009, respectively. His research interests include control systems, engineering education, technology-related entrepreneurship, and sustainable engineering
Paper ID #27547Integrating Mind, Hand, and Heart: How Students Are Transformed byHands-On Designing and MakingEric Reynolds Brubaker, Stanford University Eric is a Ph.D. Candidate in Mechanical Engineering at Stanford University and NSF Graduate Research Fellow conducting multidisciplinary research in global product development and experiential learning. He served two years as a teaching assistant in Stanford’s Product Realization Lab. From 2010 to 2016, he worked extensively in Zambia while growing programs and teaching courses at MIT D-Lab. Previously, he was an engineer at Battelle Memorial Institute, researcher at
Paper ID #27100How Analogies Fit in a Framework for Supporting the Entrepreneurial Mind-set in an Electric Circuits CourseDr. Heath Joseph LeBlanc, Ohio Northern University Heath J. LeBlanc is an Associate Professor in the Electrical & Computer Engineering and Computer Sci- ence Department at Ohio Northern University. He received his MS and PhD degrees in Electrical Engi- neering from Vanderbilt University in 2010 and 2012, respectively, and graduated summa cum laude with his BS in Electrical Engineering from Louisiana State University in 2007. His research interests include cooperative control of networked multi-agent
Paper ID #25275Middle School Teacher Professional Development in Creating a NGSS-plus-5E Robotics Curriculum (Fundamental)Dr. Shramana Ghosh, NYU Tandon School of Engineering Shramana Ghosh received her Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from University of California, Irvine in 2017, her Masters in Industrial Engineering from Texas A&M University in 2013, and her Bachelors in Manufacturing Processes and Automation Engineering from University of Delhi in 2011. She is currently working as a postdoctoral associate at the Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Department, NYU Tandon School of Engineering, NY, USA. In this
Paper ID #24891Work in Progress: Bridging the gap between accommodations letters andemerging classroom practicesDr. Alisha L. Sarang-Sieminski, Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering Alisha Sarang-Sieminski is an Associate Professor of bioengineering and the director of SCOPE at Olin College of Engineering. Their work focuses on low-tech design to maximize mobility and amplifying under-represented voices within engineering.Adva WaranyuwatEmily Ferrier, Franklin W. Olin College of EngineeringDr. Alison Wood , Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering Dr. Wood is a distinguished researcher in the fields of both water and
Paper ID #26707Engineering Identity across the Mechanical Engineering MajorDr. Kathleen E. Cook, Seattle University Kathleen Cook, Ph.D. is an Associate Professor in and Chair of the Psychology Department at Seattle University. Dr. Cook received her doctorate in Social and Personality Psychology from the University of Washington, with a minor in quantitative methods and emphases in cognitive and educational psychology. Her research has included classroom learning, person perception, identity, and health perceptions.Dr. Yen-Lin Han, Seattle University Yen-Lin Han is an Assistant Professor in the department of Mechanical
CASE STUDIES FOR Too Black to be Woman and Too Much Woman to be a Man: Best Practices from Black Women Persisting through Doctoral Engineering and Computing Programs Case Study #1: Black EyesHow does your race impact your experience in your doctoral program?My race impacting my experience in this department is huge because not only am Ithe only Black PhD candidate in Computer Science in the history of this school,there’s only been five other black students who have graduated from thisdepartment. Knowing this makes me think more about the school and why it beenso difficult for the staff here to recruit other students like me. I know they exist, soit's strange for me to sit here and know that I'm the
technologydesigns. As with the engineering education researchers, both groups see a dearth of intentionalefforts to change dominant discourses in the rhetoric and practice of technology cultures, andwere working to establish alternative spaces, practices, and cultures to counteract the dominantframe. A lesson for engineering education researchers to take from this recurring narrative thatsurfaced in interviews, might be to celebrate collectivist instincts, the need and desire forcommunity, and to revisit the passion that brought them to the field of engineering education inthe first place. Further, as the discipline and its researchers establish their own dominantdiscourses and practices, we should be mindful not to lose the connection to doing what
read andreflected on the co-operative inquiry method before and was keen to explore the inquiry domain:experiences of ESL students in the engineering education discipline. Then, the initiatorresearcher called for collaborators who were likely to share the keenness of the topic. After the collaborators responded to the initiator’s call, the initiator talked to eachindividual separately and discussed the goal in mind and asked for their insights and feedback.The first meeting was then scheduled and all the researchers participated. We talked about theindividual’s interest in this topic, the detail of what this co-operative inquiry is in terms ofdefining the phases of experiencing and reflecting and the procedures for conducting the
Category Summary Example responses responses 12 Surprised that • “I found it interesting that technical writing was engineering is not only mentioned as an important skill. When I think about math, but about engineering it would never come to mind” communication and • “That writing was an important skill in becoming writing skills are also a Civil Engineer. I had always thought that important engineering had nothing to do with writing” • “Communication and writing stills are as important as
Paper ID #27412Investigating Children with Autism’s Engagement in Engineering Practices:Problem Scoping (Fundamental)Ms. Hoda Ehsan, Purdue University-Main Campus, West Lafayette (College of Engineering) Hoda is a Ph.D. student in the School of Engineering Education, Purdue. She received her B.S. in me- chanical engineering in Iran, and obtained her M.S. in Childhood Education and New York teaching certification from City College of New York (CUNY-CCNY). She is now a graduate research assistant on STEM+C project. Her research interests include designing informal setting for engineering learning, and promoting engineering
considerations etc. are always present. One solution for these conflicts has always been suppressions through violence. Someone is going to be severely hurt by the innovation and development in the weaponry technologies. The example above might be extreme. Another good example is the e-waste issue we had talked about in the beginning of this semester. People in the first world are always attracted to more advanced electronics. But the technological development in the electronic industry driven by this consumerism will lead to more e-waste that has to been dealt with by the third country. The decision-making process based only on opinions from scientists and engineers seemed a little single-minded and lacked a flavor of humanity
Paper ID #26852Board 85: Engineering Prosocial Engagement in Electrical & Computer En-gineeringDr. Brock J. LaMeres, Montana State University Dr. Brock J. LaMeres is a Professor in the Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering at Mon- tana State University (MSU) and the Director of the Montana Engineering Education Research Center (MEERC). LaMeres is also the Boeing Professor at MSU where he is responsible for initiatives to im- prove the professional skills of engineering graduates. LaMeres teaches and conducts research in the area of computer engineering. LaMeres is currently studying the effectiveness of
college: Creating conditions that matter”. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 2005.. [3] S. A. Ambrose, M. W. Bridges, M. DiPietro, M. C. Lovett, & M.K. Norman, “How Learning Works: Seven Research-Based Principles for Smart Teaching,” San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 2010. [4] National Research Council, “Discipline-Based Education Research: Understanding and Improving Learning in Undergraduate Science and Engineering.” Washington, DC: The National Academies Press, 2012. [5] Bransford, J.D., Brown, A.L., & Cocking, R.R. (Eds). “How People Learn. Brain, Mind, Experience and School.” Washington DC: National Academy Press, 2008. [6] N. Kober, “Reaching Students
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again as different majors to form multidisciplinaryteams and work on industry-sponsored projects; the Global Multidisciplinary Design Project(GMDP) extends the boundaries of capstone design projects to involve internationalcollaborations; liberal arts courses broaden students’ horizon beyond engineering fields and helpstudents to think about engineering problems from different perspectives. The JI offers minors innon-engineering fields including entrepreneurship, data science, and computer science, toprovide concentrated studies in the non-engineering fields. Through the engineering curricula,our goal is to train effective engineers with interdisciplinary experience, technical knowledge,innovative minds, a deep understanding of professional
cogently present to senior managers and team members --- was adifferentiating skill even for entry-level engineers.Feedback was sought from sophomores in the first cohort both through anonymous online surveys andthrough face-to-face discussions. They responded that what they liked most about NEET was that theywere becoming part of a professional community; this feedback though welcome, was somewhatunexpected as NEET had not been designed with that goal in mind. Sophomores appreciated the project-centric approach and the interactions NEET was starting to develop with industry.Though it is far too early to come to meaningful conclusions for the medium to longer term, the initialresponse is encouraging. Over 5% of the Class of 2020 engineering
Paper ID #24992Engineering a New Reality: Using virtual reality to cultivate inclusive mind-sets among engineering facultyClaudio Vignola, Arizona State Univ. Poly Claudio is a Bachelor and Master Engineering student at Arizona State University that enjoys human interaction and it is currently interested in having an impact on culture and society. He considers himself a practical aesthete since he has a major appreciation for arts and beauty but he also values the usefulness of things. Claudio aims for his work to be meaningful and he is passionate about having an impact on other people lives. He is currently working at
"I enjoy giving back to the Extracurriculars experiences in extracurricular 11.11% community." activitiesWhile many students attributed their experiences with poor mental health to engineering, somestudents described resources and practices they were pursuing to improve their mental health:“Developed an anxiety disorder after starting college, currently taking steps to help (seeing aprofessional, practicing mindfulness/wellbeing).”. Other positive experiences listed by studentsincluded department resources (buildings, budget, etc.), good advising, faith, mindfulness, andmeditation.DiscussionThe overall goal of the project is to
life together. I want to have a good job, and I want to have a good education to insure that that job is never challenged. So that is a big pushing force for this. (Jim) Voices of gay men as student veterans in engineering education Challenge of being gay in the military• [Don’t ask/don’t tell policy] was a big problem… in the Navy, as far as taking a stance of asking people about their personal lives because they wanted to maintain healthy minds because of suicide rates being so high and things like that. Well, that becomes a problem when you have a don’t ask/don’t tell policy, and you’re asking me about my relationship problems. Now, I can’t even tell you information about that because my
Paper ID #26311Board 121: Development of a Create-a-Lego-Engineer Activity to ExamineStudents’ Engineering IdentityDr. Kelli Paul, Indiana University Dr. Kelli Paul is a postdoctoral researcher in science education at Indiana University. She received her Ph.D. in Educational Psychology specializing in Inquiry Methodology from Indiana University in 2006. She managed a consulting business for 10 years working on evaluations that focused primarily in the areas of education and STEM for middle and high school students, especially women and minority students. Her research interests include student engagement and interest in STEM
Paper ID #27821How was your internship? Stories about the engineering internship experi-ence from five female engineering studentsAmy Huynh, University of California, Irvine Amy Huynh is a mechanical and aerospace engineering major at the University of California, Irvine. She is interested in better understanding and supporting the experiences of female engineers in the classroom and in industry. She is involved in senior design projects for the CanSat and Design/Build/Fly competi- tions.Prof. Natascha Trellinger Buswell, University of California, Irvine Natascha Trellinger Buswell is an assistant professor of teaching in
Paper ID #24665Smartness in Engineering Culture: An Interdisciplinary DialogueDr. Emily Dringenberg, Ohio State University Dr. Dringenberg is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Engineering Education at Ohio State Uni- versity. She holds a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering (Kansas State ’08), a M.S. in Industrial Engineering (Purdue ’14) and a Ph.D. in Engineering Education (Purdue ’15). Her team, Beliefs in Engineering Re- search Group (BERG) utilizes qualitative methods to explore beliefs in engineering. Her research has an overarching goal of leveraging engineering education research to shift the culture of
EngineeringSimilar to theatre practitioners that use different techniques and tools to approach different theatreproduction, engineers perform a similar analysis to figure out the best practice for each system.This is also closely tied to the importance of keeping the main stakeholder in mind whendeveloping a system. In theatre it is seen when the director and everyone else involved in theproduction work towards doing justice to the playwright’s vision. In engineering it is seen whenengineers work towards trying to please the stakeholder’s vision.This course aimed at teaching the students multidisciplinary teamwork and leadership skills.Theatre practitioners, as do engineers, work closely with individuals that come from differentbackgrounds, that speak
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achieve specific objectives. Discourse analysis revealed peer responses characterizedas either socially supportive or socially unsupported and demonstrated that students typicallyrelied on supportive social responses to resolve the uncertainties they encountered as theyengaged in the task. This paper focuses on exploring student perceptions of collaborativeengineering design experience and the ways in which they collaborate as they complete a novelengineering design task.The hope of curricular interventions is that, through engineering experiences, students willdevelop habits of mind than will enable them to apply the Engineering Design Process (EDP) tosolve engineering problems [2]. However, as much of the research on students use of the