scholarships have been founded and developed specifically to improve therepresentation Indigenous people of USA in higher education, such as American Indian Societyand Engineering Society (AISES), Society for the Advancement of Chicanos/Hispanics andNative Americans in Science (SACNAS), National Action Council for Minorities in Engineering(NACME), and the American Indian College Fund. Although all these organizations and theirprograms have provided logistical assistance for Indigenous students in the USA, this populationis still underrepresented throughout STEM education [3], [5], [9], [10].Indigenous researchers and allies knew that issues of accessibility and participation will not workunless people begin to address the lasting effects of settler
, environmental issues, agriculture, energy, biotechnology, and nationalsecurity.10 Therefore, an impetus exists to educate the future work force of scientists andengineers as well as the general public about this emerging field.11Literature indicates a need for the overhaul of the United States science curricula suggestingintegrated science courses with the infusion of engineering is an improved practice.12-14 Thiswould allow students to explore concepts across science and engineering disciplines. Integratedscience and engineering courses unify concepts therefore presenting a more real-world view ofscience in contrast to traditional science courses, which can potentially increase their interest andmotivation to learn. Chemistry, biology, physics
sports with his wife, son, and dog.Dr. David B Knight, Virginia Tech David B. Knight is an Associate Professor and Assistant Department Head of Graduate Programs in the Department of Engineering Education at Virginia Tech. He is also Director of International Engagement in Engineering Education, directs the Rising Sophomore Abroad Program, and is affiliate faculty with the Higher Education Program. His research tends to be at the macro-scale, focused on a systems-level perspective of how engineering education can become more effective, efficient, and inclusive, tends to be data-driven by leveraging large-scale institutional, state, or national data sets, and considers the inter- section between policy and
anthropologists, learning scientists, librarians, designers, and architects.Dr. Kerrie A Douglas, Purdue University at West Lafayette Dr. Douglas is an Assistant Professor in the Purdue School of Engineering Education. Her research is focused on improving methods of assessment in large learning environments to foster high-quality learning opportunities. Additionally, she studies techniques to validate findings from machine-generated educational data.Dr. William ”Bill” C. Oakes, Purdue University at West Lafayette William (Bill) Oakes is the Director of the EPICS Program, a 150th Anniversary Professor, and one of the founding faculty members of the School of Engineering Education at Purdue University. He has held courtesy
effectively reach a greater range oflearners5.22. Many of these teaching interventions and attempts to reform curriculum aim tocreate rich classroom discussions in which teachers concentrate on facilitating scientificconversation rather than providing correct answers6,13 . Successful examples of these sorts ofinteractions often describe provocative debates; however, for the most part, these debates engagejust a small number of students’ ideas. Of course, getting full responses from every student andsteering the students away from simply agreeing with those whom they may feel already knowthe “right” answer would be quite time-consuming. For this reason, we believe a more inclusiveapproach that engages all students’ ideas as they work toward shared
Engineering Education, 2015 Exploring ethical validation as a key consideration in interpretive research qualityAbstractThe engineering education community is adopting an increasingly diverse range of qualitativemethods. This rapid expansion in required methodological expertise has sparked a vibrantdiscourse around ways to foster and articulate research quality in qualitative and mixed-methodsstudies. This paper describes three engineering education scholars’ engagement with a process-oriented framework for interpretive research quality. Set in the context of a collaborative inquiry-based approach to reflecting on and improving research practice, this paper presents fiveinstances when we turned to the framework
engineering students communicate better,become more ethical, and see the task of engineering in a larger cultural context. This is as itshould be, but is it possible that the field of design engineering might lend insight and wisdomback to the humanities? If engineering design principles are so helpful in unraveling themysteries of biology, might they also be useful in the social sciences? These are just some of thequestions being posed in an engineering elective course at Oral Roberts University (ORU),where undergraduate students wrestle with advanced concepts in reverse engineering. A recentarticle in ASEE Prism1 touts the benefits of having engineering students engage in the dissection
of the knowledge, skills, and experience through curricular and co-curricularactivities.Theoretical framework: Bourdieu’s forms of capitalThis paper draws on the conceptual framework of a larger qualitative study which examined thetransition of engineering students from university to the workplace. That study adopted aninteractionist approach, which holds that both individuals and contextual factors influence thetransition process [13, 14, 15]. In this paper, we draw on Bourdieu’s concept of capital. Capital isany resource effective in a given social field which individuals inherit within or beyond the family,accumulate over time, and use to reap social rewards and maintain social class privileges [7, 16].Bourdieu differentiated between
support students to understand thenature of engineering and engineering thinking (Moore et al., 2014). For example, teachers canmake explicit connections to the engineering profession to help students see themselves asengineers (Capobianco et al., 2011) and also help students develop more accurate conceptions ofengineering (Ganesh & Schnittka, 2014). Teachers can help students situate specific activities ortasks within the larger context of the project or the engineering endeavor. This kind of epistemicsupport can influence students’ views of who can be engineers (Pantoya, Aguirre-Munoz, &Hunt, 2015), potentially lead to improved learning outcomes (Lindsay et al., 2008), and helpstudents persist in engineering courses (Arastoopour et al
Senior Lecturer at Illinois Institute of Technology and involved in research in service learning, assessment processes and interventions aimed at improving learning objective attainment. Prior to his University as- signments he was the Founder and CEO of The EDI Group, Ltd. and The EDI Group Canada, Ltd, independent professional services companies specializing in B2B electronic commerce and electronic data interchange. The EDI Group companies conducted market research, offered educational seminars and conferences and published The Journal of Electronic Commerce. He was also a Vice President at the First National Bank of Chicago, where he founded and managed the bank’s market leading professional Cash Management
a rising sophomore majoring in the Cognitive Neuroscience track of Philosophy-Neuroscience- Page 24.962.12 Psychology (PNP) at Washington University in St. Louis. My educational goals were tofinish my undergraduate degree in 2016 and enter into a graduate school for SocialWork. My career goals were to become a psychologist and/or counselor. My experiencesat AFIT this summer provided an opportunity to improve my technical and researchskills, work effectively with a team of research professionals, and develop my abilities incommunicating with subjects both in person and via phone. What I learned in this projectis that to be a woman in STEM
, andliteracy.CT and engineering require thinking and decision-making.Parents expressed that many of the CT activities in the exhibit they engaged in with theirchildren required them to think and make decisions. For example, a parent asserted, “It is logicalthinking” (P2). This parent further suggested, “You have to start from the beginning with an endin mind. It requires step-by-step thinking” (P2). Another parent claimed, “It is like solvingcomplex problems” (P3), connecting it to the exhibit activities where they had to figure out themost effective way to deliver medicine to the animals. Likewise, another coupled CT activitieswith problem-solving and decision-making, the parent stated, “I think of it as problem-solving,like different pieces to the
-0550608,2014.[20] L. R. Lattuca, P. T. Terenzini, and B. J. Harper, 2020 Vision: Progress in preparing theengineer of the future, 2014. https://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/handle/2027.42/107462?show=full[21] B. W. Asiu, C. M. Antons, and M. L. Fultz, “Undergraduate perceptions of surveyparticipation: Improving response rates and validity,” Annual Meeting of the Association ofInstitutional Research, 1998.[22] P. Handwerk, C. Carson, and K. Blackwell, “On-line versus paper-and-pencil surveying ofstudents: A case study,” Association of Institutional Research Conference, 2000.AppendixesAppendix A: Final Alumni Survey ContentAppendix B: Final Professional Connections Survey ContentAppendix A: Final Alumni Survey ContentStart of Block: IntroQ1 ELIGIBILITY:This
chemical engineering courses for a few years in his home country, Iran, and first-year engineering courses for several semesters at Virginia Tech. He has provided service and leadership in different capacities at Lehigh University and Virginia Tech.Dr. Christian Matheis, Guilford College I serve as a visiting assistant professor of Community and Justice Studies in the Department of Justice and Policy Studies at Guilford College in Greensboro, NC. My research and teaching specializations bridge theoretical, empirical, and practical subjects informed by social and political philosophy, ethics, public policy, and direct-action organizing. In particular, my work emphasizes how both philosophy of liberation and practical
, and the National Science Foundation underawards #1504634, #1502564, and #1503834. Our team gratefully acknowledges the abovefunding support, as well as the contributions from dedicated faculty and students; Dr. AmruthKumar, Dr. Anthony Bucci, Paul Burton, Stephen Kozakoff, and Himank Vats.References [1] D. Parsons and P. Haden, “Parson’s programming puzzles: A fun and effective learning tool for first programming courses,” in Proceedings of the 8th Australasian Conference on Computing Education - Volume 52, ser. ACE ’06. Darlinghurst, Australia, Australia: Australian Computer Society, Inc., 2006, pp. 157–163. [2] “Hot Potatoes home page,” https://hotpot.uvic.ca/, accessed: 2019-02-03. [3] P. Ihantola and V. Karavirta, “Two-dimensional
certified educators in support of effective contentdelivery, we increase capabilities of summer programs to provide program models that are viablefor replication or scalability of student interventions.Specific questions addressed in this report ask: 1. Do summer Science, Technology, Education, and Math (STEM) engagement activities increase student interest in STEM? 2. Did participating teachers gain knowledge, build critical instructional skills, and increase self-confidence in motivating students in STEM? 3. Did participating students gain STEM knowledge and become excited about moving forward in the STEM education and career pipeline
. 1995 Apr 1;84(2):129–32.11. Farrell S. Hands On Experimental Error! Improving Students’ Understanding Of Error Analysis. In: Proceedings of the 2006 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition [Internet]. Chicago, Illinois; 2006. Available from: https://peer.asee.org/24412. Belu RG, Carr E, Ciobanescu Husanu IN, Mauk MG. A New Approach in Teaching “Measurement Laboratory” Courses Based on TRIZ. In: Proceedings of the 2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition [Internet]. Vancouver, BC, Canada; 2011. Available from: https://peer.asee.org/1735813. Smith N. Teaching Engineering Reasoning Using A Beam Deflection Lab. In: Proceedings of the 2010 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition [Internet]. Louisville, KY; 2010
atotal of 6 access points. They trained the hospital staff and 9 medical students on their work andpersonal computers. Basic computer training sessions covered word processing, spreadsheets,PowerPoint, file management, e-mail communication, and typing. Improving typing skills was aspecific goal for many of the hospital staff, which inspired the weServe students to install typingtutor software on all of the 18 computers located in the hospital.Access to Internet-based educational resources was sporadic due to the limited reach of thenationally established electric grid infrastructure, as well as a lack of locally wired connectionsto Cloud-based services. Approximately 20 gigabytes of digital educational content was acquiredto allow staff and
this way common perceptions about engineering can be identified and differencesdetermined so that misconceptions and stereotypes about engineering as a career may begin to beaddressed for all groups of students.ParticipantsTwelve Engineering Fellows worked in collaborative pairings with 12 elementary teachers at 4school sites to co-developed and co-teach science lessons to students in grades 3-5. Each Fellowworked with a single teacher for a semester and then rotated to another teachers’ classroom, witheach of the twelve teachers working with two Fellows consecutively over the course of an entireacademic year. All 4 of the project schools were located in urban school districts. The schoolsrepresented a diverse student population. Two of the
such an important invention, which can be classified as a turning point in steamtechnology, a design/build project was conducted at the U.S. Naval Academy to construct anoperating and instrumented, scale Newcomen steam engine model.This article describes the design process and modeling efforts already conducted, as well as to beconducted over the course of this project. As of the date of this writing, all calculations andvalues are theoretical, but as the design comes together, the values and calculations will berefined and collected through testing and analysis of the operational model Newcomen engine.This paper explains the steps taken in the design process leading up to where the project standscurrently, as well as the steps that will be
written, the page grows inlength. Because the essays on the page are organized chronologically, a learner who is editinglater essays must scroll past earlier graded essays, perhaps stopping to inspect the grading of theprevious essay before moving on to edit the next one due.The Reflective Learner also provides two other forms of support for the learning essay activity.First, there is an extensive collection of help documents covering issues such as why the essaysare important, how the essays are graded, and hints for effectively using the Reflective Learner.The second form of support is the essay library. Essays from previous quarters have beenentered into the environment and indexed along several dimensions including design phase,central issue
represented five initial partnering institutions andincluded IAs from both colleges of engineering and veteran resource offices. SVSM participantsincluded one White male, Air Force National Guard Servicemember studying mechanicalengineering and one Bi-racial Asian female, Army National Guard Servicemember studying civilengineering. Initial data and developing findings from both sets up participants are described in apaper published in the ASEE 2022 Annual Conference proceedings [17].2.2 Year 2 Brief SummaryIn Year 2 (Jul 2022-Jul 2023), the PI and graduate researcher worked with two undergraduatestudent researchers on project work over the course of 10 weeks in the summer of 2022 throughan NSF funded Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU
: two, three-unit lecture courses and three, one-unitlabs. Forty-student lecture courses meet for one hour, three times a week. Each lab meets once aweek for three hours with twenty students per lab.Only three of the nine responding CSU engineering deans affirmed that their respective collegesgive equal weight and recognition during the RPT process to Boyer’s four types of scholarship.Four colleges unequivocally stated “no” to this question, with one dean further specifying thatthey “expect journal and/or selective conference proceedings in standard research.” Incomparison, the AAHE question of "What degree of influence do issues have on the finaldecision by faculty committees to recommend or deny tenure and promotion?" reveals the topthree
. Theresearch design and draft measure were approved by the site university’s Institutional ReviewBoard before data collection began. A sample of N = 624 undergraduate, engineering degree-seeking students completed the survey. Descriptions of the sample are published [15].Descriptions of the development of the 81-item measure of engineering stress culture have alsobeen described previously [14], [15]. We used the R statistical programming language assoftware for all analyses [16]. An understanding of the survey items or goals of the survey is nota prerequisite for understanding how the different EFA procedures yield different results.However, it may improve a reader’s understanding to see the methods in more detail. AppendixA provides a subset of the
43 42 29 Physical sciences 39 38 32 Engineering & Tech 20 25 24 Computer & info science 19 31 20 All STEM 36 33 34 I cite just two other examples of programs to improve gender diversity in USinstitutions of higher learning. Carnegie Mellon University has taken aggressive steps toimprove its female/male admission ratio from about 1/3 in 2010 to near-parity in 2018,as shown in Figure 4 [17]. Harvard University also has had some success with itsWiSTEM mentorship program [18]. Of course, admitting more women is a necessarystep, but it isn’t sufficient. Providing an inclusive
success or happiness. Not all women want careers. Not all women want children. Not all women want both. I would never advocate that we should all have the same objectives. Many people are not interested in acquiring power, not because they lack ambition, but because they are living their lives as they desire. Some of the most important contributions to our world are made by caring for one person at a time. We each have to chart our own unique course and define which goals fit our lives, values, and dreams. (Sandberg 2013, p. 10) Page 26.825.2 A facilitated book discussion series was developed to explore some of
studentstake a one-credit “Introduction to Aerospace Engineering” (IAE) class in their fall semester, thenin the spring they take a two-credit “AE Practicum” lecture and lab that teaches design skills.Before 2018, it was assumed that a hands-on project wasn’t feasible in the fall IAE class due tothe limited contact hours (one credit hour; weekly lecture) and relatively large class size (over125 students in one auditorium). Unlike in statics, students were randomly assigned to groupsusing the CANVAS course management software, reducing the requirement for first yearstudents to find partners in such a large class. In an anonymous survey completed by 53% of theclass, 90% of respondents indicated they liked the open-ended nature of the project and 96
in industrial engineering from Seoul National University in 1998. After graduation, he worked in industry for five years as a consultant and as an embedded software engineer in Seoul and Boston, where he became interested in human-computer interaction (HCI) research. He received his Ph.D. degree from the School of Industrial and Systems Engineering at Georgia Institute of Technology in Aug. 2008. His research topics include human-computer interaction, information visu- alization, and decision science, and he has focused on applying these techniques on improving healthcare services.Dr. Krishna Madhavan, Purdue University, West Lafayette
involvescritical thinking and design-based problems using teamwork, design, and inquiry-based learningto practice and apply these skill sets, a connection to critical consciousness is a natural one,especially since critical consciousness involves “inquiry-based thinking and needs to bedeveloped through practice” (Kantharajah, 2022, p. 9). Engineering instructors have been reforming curricula and/or using aspects of CRP indesign problems to encourage inquiry-based thinking. For instance, Castaneda (2019) exploredhow steps could be taken to implement critical consciousness into a broader engineeringcurriculum through a sophomore statics and dynamics course instead of an isolated concept in anupper-level seminar (Castaneda, 2019). The goal of
are our current career vision statements:Julie: My vision is to create environments that elevate and expand the engineering educationresearch community.Rachel: My vision is to increase engineering students’ success through a deep understanding ofidentity and motivation.Julie’s blog post contains writing prompts to help you get started writing your own and isavailable at: https://fisher.osu.edu/blogs/leadreadtoday/why-and-how-career-vision-statements.Once you have developed a career vision, consider giving your research group an identity thataligns with your vision. In engineering and science, many faculty use their last name as aresearch group name. This is certainly effective in identifying the principal investigator for thework, but it does