-thermal characterization as well as the design of learner-centered experiential curriculum. She is currently working to develop an inclusion-centered first-year design program in hands on design and problem-based learning to better support students as they enter the engineering fields. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2024 Fostering Inclusivity and Engagement while Learning by Doing: A New Paradigm in Engineering Education based on Student-Designed, Student-Taught CoursesIntroductionWhat if students were the teachers? Inspired by the skill-building workshops organized by ourundergraduate science and engineering clubs and our Sustainability Minor’s
Paper ID #37793An Approach to Understanding Problem Solving Using Multiple SolutionMethodsMr. Hao Li, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Hao Li is currently a PhD student studying Mechanical Engineering at MIT. He earned his Bachelor’s degree from Rice University.Dr. Anette Hosoi, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Anette (Peko) Hosoi is Associate Dean of Engineering and the Neil and Jane Pappalardo Professor of Me- chanical Engineering, at MIT. She received her PhD in Physics from the University of Chicago and went on to become an NSF Postdoctoral Fellow in the MIT Department of Mathematics and at the Courant
various stages of their careers, and found thatwhen URMs leave the engineering field for a non-engineering career, they not only face less biasand discrimination, but also feel as if they are more positively impacting the world. We suggestsome methods for retaining URMs in engineering by leveraging interdisciplinary studies to offerbetter identity coherence by incorporating complex, impactful problem solving into their fields.All participants, especially URMs, expressed interest in the following methods of introducinginterdisciplinary aspects to engineering: (1) promoting interdisciplinary internships andintracollegiate research, (2) a revised first-year curriculum to introduce meaningfulinterdisciplinary-based projects, and (3) facilitation of
Paper ID #44337Team Dynamics in Student Engineering Design Teams: Correlations to WomenRetention and Careers in Mechanical and Motorsport ProfessionsBrigid McCormack, University at Buffalo, The State University of New York Brigid McCormack, University at Buffalo, The State University of New York Brigid McCormack is an undergraduate student studying Mechanical Engineering at the University at Buffalo.Dr. Jessica E S Swenson, University at Buffalo, The State University of New York Jessica Swenson is an Assistant Professor at the University at Buffalo. She was awarded her doctorate and masters from Tufts University in mechanical
Research Grants 24K06133 and the Shibaura Institute of Technology Grants for Educational Reform and Research Activity in the AY2024. Her current main research interests are: 1) how including humanities courses in an engineering education curriculum can help students to gain flexibility, and an appreciation of equity, and a greater richness of ideas; and 2) systematic issues impacting the effectiveness of engineering education, specifically in the context of project-based learnings for the engineering education. Below are her recent presentations at international conferences: ASEE 2023, WERA 2023, 2022, 2019, APAIE 2023, 2022, IIAI DSIR 2021, 2020. She obtained the Multidisciplinary Engineering Division’s Best Diversity
Paper ID #41600What No One Tells the (Future) Assistant Professor: Uncovering HiddenCurriculum for FacultyDr. Rachel Louis Kajfez, The Ohio State University Dr. Rachel Louis Kajfez is an Associate Professor in the Department of Engineering Education at The Ohio State University. She earned her B.S. and M.S. degrees in Civil Engineering from Ohio State and earned her Ph.D. in Engineering Education from Virginia Tech. Her research interests focus on the intersection between motivation and identity, first-year engineering programs, mixed methods research, and innovative approaches to teaching. She is the principal investigator
diverse set of practical and conceptual skills.Modeling has become an increasingly important skill due to the rise of computation, which nowlies at the heart of quantitative analysis in science and engineering. As described by Coleman &Steele [5], recent advances in computing have the promise to reduce costly physicalexperimentation through computational modeling. Computational approaches have beenthoroughly adopted in sectors such as aerospace design [6].However, the teaching of modeling in undergraduate engineering is fraught. As noted byDowney [7], “Some students learn (modeling) skills implicitly, but in most schools they are nottaught explicitly, and students get little practice”. Gainsburg [8] has characterized the teaching ofmodeling
Developing KSAs in Engineering Capstone Students (WIP) This work-in-progress research analyzes undergraduate outcomes after participation in anengineering design capstone course. In this context, knowledge, skills, and abilities (KSAs) areintegrated within a competency-based educational (CBE) [1] model with an emphasis onformative assessment and feedback throughout the semester. Mirroring work in industry, thecourse also incorporates elements of new-product design (e.g., pre-work, definition, iterations)[2]. The course provides authentic learning through community and industry partnerships forteams of mixed-major engineering students (e.g., electrical, mechanical), exemplifying integratedlearning experiences [3] in pursuit of real-world
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complete the physics requirements for most engineering majors.22. I am confident that taking math courses will help me to keep my career options open.23. I am confident that I can cope with friends’ disapproval of my chosen major.24. I am confident that a degree in engineering will allow me to get a job where I can use my talents and creativity.25. I am confident that I can cope with being the only person of my race/ethnicity in a class.26. I am confident that I can persist in engineering during the current academic year.27. I am confident that I can approach a faculty or staff member to get assistance with academic problems.28. I am confident that I can adjust to a new campus environment.29. I am confident that a degree in engineering will
variable impact on each of the writers of this study. We have suppliedpositionality statements for each member of the research team to add context to this work and tobe transparent in how we approach these concepts [25]. Author 1: I am a queer, White woman raised by upper middle-class parents in a suburb ofa mid-sized Southeastern city. I attended a mid-size public high school that was mildly diversein terms of race and socio-economic status. I attended the same large, research-focused, publicland-grant university as my parents and sister to study biomedical engineering. Due to the focusof this project on African American females in engineering, my identities are important to note,since I am the primary analyst of this data. Because my role in
materials science and technical drawing courses at Colombian universities for four years. His current research interests involve teaching identity development of graduate and undergraduate students, and additional focuses are the improvement of teaching practices and the development and assessment of teaching skills at the graduate level.Amena Shermadou, Purdue University Amena Shermadou is a Visiting Assistant Professor in the School of Engineering Education at Purdue University. Her research agenda focuses on exploring hidden curriculum through the lens of Muslim experiences in engineering. She earned her PhD in Engineering Education at The Ohio State University. Prior to her PhD, Amena received her B.S. and M.S. in
, University at Buffalo, The State University of New York Jessica Swenson is an Assistant Professor at the University at Buffalo. She was awarded her doctorate and masters from Tufts University in mechanical engineering and STEM education respectively, and completed postdoctoral work at the University of Michigan. Her research work aims to improve the learning experience for undergraduate students by examining conceptual knowledge gains, affect, identity development, engineering judgment, and problem solving. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2024 Using an Autoethnographic Approach to Examine the Student Experience Solving an Open-Ended Statics ProblemAbstractThis research paper
and diverse demographic, it is the ideal place to research ImpostorSyndrome and address students' perceived sense of belonging in the engineering discipline andindustry.Research MethodologyThe primary research methodology employed in this study is a qualitative interview study. Whilea quantitative approach may hold value for future studies, the focus here lies on a qualitativeinvestigation akin to the recent studies conducted in the RED program. Given the emphasis onstudents' perceptions, a qualitative interview approach was deemed more suitable for effectivelycommunicating the study's objectives and obtaining nuanced results. Nonetheless, somequestions from previous studies will be adapted for a new interview format, specificallyregarding
, ILAbstractThe learning enhancement brought on by hands-on experience is a well-established principle.For most engineering classes, laboratory (lab) experiments make an integral part of thecurriculum. In engineering education, we place a lot of significance on student participation inthe labs, but we seldom make students part of the curriculum and lab development. Throughactive involvement in lab development, students gain higher levels of learning andunderstanding. It is also well established that a good lab design involves open-ended design toprovide sufficient challenge to students for them to achieve cognitive learning and practicalskills. Our student-developed labs provide open-ended design opportunities to promptquestioning and higher-level
-year engineering students’ readiness for engineering coursework, according to instructors who teach first- and second-year engineering courses?MethodsWe use an exploratory qualitative approach to answer this research question. In this study, weimplemented semi-structured interviews with two faculty members who teach first- and second-year engineering students. This study is intended to pilot our interview protocols and overallresearch approach. Future work will include more participants and more refined data collectionand analysis.Participants and SettingThe participants in this study were faculty members at a large, public, land-grant university inthe mid-west who teach required courses in the first two years of mechanical
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Paper ID #38826Attracting Black Students to Undergraduate Engineering Programs: A RapidReview for Broadening ParticipationMicaha Dean Hughes, North Carolina State University, Raleigh Micaha Dean Hughes is a doctoral student in the Educational Psychology program in the Teacher Educa- tion and Learning Sciences department at North Carolina State University. Her research interests include community-engaged approaches to educational equity and access in STEM education, college recruitment and K-12 outreach practices for minoritized groups in STEM, mathematical identity development for rural adolescents and young adults, and
] conceptualized experiential learning in engineeringeducation as self-school-community. It draws connections between students’ lives and needs(self), how they experience engineering curriculum and instruction (school), and the impacts ofgeneral well-being and contextual environmental factors (e.g., community) [7]. Thisinterdependence between engineers, knowledge, and the community creates an opportunity for avariety of approaches to produce successful outcomes. Higher education institutions and facultycan tailor experiential, community-based learning practices to their specific contexts. Forinstance, these concepts could comprise one unit of study, one course, or even an overall themewithin a program. Faculty instructors innovate through combining
, M.S. in Childhood Education from City University of New York, and B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Bahonar University in Iran. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2023 Work in Progress: A Survey of Artificial Intelligence Educational Resources for Pre-College EducationAbstractArtificial Intelligence (AI) has emerged as the next imperative topic in pre-college education.Given the rapid integration of AI in K-12 education, examining the resources and curriculacurrently available for teaching AI is vital. Therefore, this exploratory study conducted aliterature review to survey AI resources developed for K-12 education and how the resourcesenabled students to explore AI ideas
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pandemic on students’readiness for engineering, we discovered that engineering faculty had different perceptions – anddifferent opinions of their own perceptions – based on experience level. This paper explores thisphenomenon, addressing the following research question: How are faculty perceptions of theirundergraduate students before, during, and after the COVID-19 pandemic impacted by theirexperience level?MethodsWe used an exploratory qualitative approach to answer this research question. In this study, weimplemented semi-structured interviews with six faculty members who teach required courses inthe first two years of the engineering curriculum at a large, public, land-grant, research-intensiveuniversity in the mid-west. Participants were
toperform student data analytics work to answer questions about academic and career pathways oftheir own students. The results from this work will inform student advising, studentprogramming, and curriculum renewal.Implications for StudentsA number of recommendations to high schools, postsecondary institutions and employers havebeen documented elsewhere [4]. Taking a student-focused approach, our literature review mainlytargets at high school students and undergraduate engineering students while they navigate theireducational and career pathways. Below are summaries of some practical implications for thesestudents, based on the findings in this paper.The literature we have reviewed suggests the following for high school students
Paper ID #43400WIP: Using Games and Robotics to Teach Computer Programming in HighSchool STEM Classes: A Collective Case StudyLeslie Anna Brown, Utah State University Leslie Brown is an Engineering Education Master’s student at Utah State University. Her thesis focuses on training high school STEM teachers to implement engineering curriculum into their classrooms.Dr. Marissa A Tsugawa, Utah State University Marissa Tsugawa is an assistant professor at Utah State University who leverages mixed-methods research to explore neurodiversity and identity and motivation in engineering. They completed their Ph.D. in Engineering
, career goals, and awareness of diversity, equity,and inclusion underscore the potential of this approach in fostering a supportive communitywithin academic departments. With its scalability, minimal resource commitment, andencouraging results, this intervention provides a promising avenue for other departments to adoptour approach to address challenges related to student comfort and retention within their majors.Acknowledgments: This work is funded by the Health, Equity, and Wellness committee of theBiomedical Engineering department; the Undergraduate Research Center TAF23-01 grant; andthe Provost’s Undergraduate Fellowship grant PF23-42 at UC Davis. The authors would like tothank Eileen Panguito, Megan Villasenor, Dr. Marc Facciotti, Dr. Steven