.” Indeed, as stated by Gwen during week 7, being asked to present in the same way asthe graduate students and postdocs in the lab was an important recognition, “My views arevalued in my lab, and this is shown through giving me tasks and allowing me to present myfindings just as everyone else in the lab group.”Competence was evident in research group meetings as REU students worked towardcontributing to lab discussions on topics not specific to their research project. Feelings ofcompetence shifted over the course of the REU, with students initially feeling a lack ofcompetence. For example, during week 3, Tiana commented, “I did not give much opinion in thegeneral lab meeting as I was not sure what they were speaking of.” Similarly, during week
may be useful to incorporate in academic settings to improve student engagementand hence conceptual understanding. Introduction Existing engineering education research has focused both on the development of methodsto assess conceptual knowledge in specific topics such as statics (e.g. Steif and Dantzler, 2005)or thermodynamics (e.g. Streveler, Miller, Santiago-Román, Nelson, Geist and Olds, B. M,2011), as well as on how learners understand concepts (e.g. Vosniadou, 2007). However, fewresearchers have looked into the intentional ways in which engineering students engage inlearning. Helping students develop effective learning strategies have been found to be useful forthem in accomplishing their
) Joyce B. Main is Assistant Professor of Engineering Education at Purdue University. She holds a Ph.D. in Learning, Teaching, and Social Policy from Cornell University, and an Ed.M. in Administration, Planning, and Social Policy from the Harvard Graduate School of Education.Dr. Susan M. Lord, University of San Diego Susan M. Lord received a B.S. from Cornell University and the M.S. and Ph.D. from Stanford University. She is currently Professor and Chair of Electrical Engineering at the University of San Diego. Her teach- ing and research interests include electronics, optoelectronics, materials science, first year engineering courses, feminist and liberative pedagogies, engineering student persistence, and student
technology, science, and medicine as well as U.S., European, and world history courses at research universities and liberal arts colleges. I earned a doctorate from Case Western Reserve University’s Program in the History of Technology and Science (Ph.D., 1997).Dr. Gregory Alan Good, American Institute of Physics BS in Physics, MA and PhD in History of Science. I taught history of science at West Virginia University for 25 years. I am now Director, Center for History of Physics, at the American Institute of Physics. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2017 Following in the Footsteps of Distinguished Leaders in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics
usedpersonas, popular in web interface and product design, to package much of our data into a formthat can be used for planning spaces and services within the new library. Such efforts to studyour users have enabled us to keep students and researchers at the heart of designing new spacesand services. It should be noted that this paper does not discuss the findings of the data collectedin detail, but focuses on our processes of gathering user-research data and effective methods foruser studies that are applicable in other libraries.II. Designing for the userProviding excellent spaces, services, technologies, and websites are now fundamental to themission of the academic library. At the heart of these efforts is the need to design with the user inmind
challenges rural students face when transitioning to institutions of higherlearning [5]. Rural communities tend to be geographically isolated and regions of lowereconomic opportunity, which can lead to limited advanced math and science courses and fewerSTEM outreach opportunities at the K-12 level [2], [3], [6]. This lack of STEM exposure mayhinder students from entering the engineering pipeline. The culture of rural communities can alsoimpact student’s decisions to pursue higher education. Education is often not identified as a toppriority for adults in rural communities. Many parents in rural areas have not attended collegethemselves, and therefore they are less likely to encourage their children to attend college [7].This can result in a lack of
interest are in modeling complex systems, security, software engineering and pedagogy. Her email is petrie@fau.eduIvan Esparragoza, Pennsylvania State University Ivan E. Esparragoza is an Associate Professor of Engineering at Penn State. His interests are in engineering design education, innovative design, global design, and global engineering education. He has introduced multinational design projects in a freshman introductory engineering design course in collaboration with institutions in Latin America and the Caribbean as part of his effort to contribute to the formation of world class engineers for the Americas. He is actively involved in the International Division of the American Society
in 2010 and a Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE) in 2012.Kristina Maruyama Tank, Iowa State University Kristina M. Tank is an Assistant Professor of Science Education in the School of Education at Iowa State University. She currently teaches undergraduate courses in science education for elementary education majors. As a former elementary teacher, her research and teaching interests are centered around improv- ing elementary students’ science and engineering learning and increasing teachers’ use of effective STEM instruction in the elementary grades. With the increased emphasis on improved teaching and learning of STEM disciplines in K-12 classrooms, Tank examines how to better
education, including how to support engineering students in reflecting on experience, how to help engineering educators make effective teach- ing decisions, and the application of ideas from complexity science to the challenges of engineering education. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2020 A Look Into the Lived Experiences of Incorporating Inclusive Teaching Practices in Engineering Education AbstractThis research paper contributes to the field's understanding on how to support educators increating a diverse and inclusive engineering education environment. Even with manyconversations around diversity and inclusion, recruitment
, competency development, and understanding the experiences of traditionally marginalized people (e.g., Latinx, international students, Indigenous students) in engineering from an asset-based perspective. Homero is interested in understanding how to develop effective and culturally relevant learning environments that can promote the sustainable competencies engineering students require to succeed in the contemporary workforce. His goal is to develop engineering education practices that value the capital that traditionally marginalized students, bring into the field. Homero aspires to change discourses around broadening participation in engineering and promoting action to change. Homero has been recognized as a Diggs
Proceedings of the 2009 ASEE Gulf-Southwest Annual Conference Baylor University Copyright © 2009, American Society for Engineering Educationof engineering. Consistent feedback from campers shows that these strategies are effective inreaching students and teaching them about engineering.Given these effective strategies, it is also important to look at the camp demographics to insurethat this outreach is also having an impact on underrepresented groups in engineering. For 2008the overall ethnic demographic was African-Americans 20% and Hispanics 13% with theremainder of students White or Asian. While we would still like to increase these percentages,they are reasonable in terms of the
Analysis of Sprinkler Systems. Her research interests include fire protection systems, codes and stan- dards, as well as educational effectiveness and women in STEM. She serves as the advisor to the OSU SFPE Student Chapter and is an active member in the Oklahoma Chapter of SFPE. She is a licensed Fire Protection Engineer in Nevada, California and Oklahoma. Prior to returning to OSU, Ms. Charter was a Senior Consultant for the Las Vegas office of Rolf Jensen & Associates, Inc. Ms. Charter has been heavily involved in large mixed-use properties egress design. She has developed performance specifications and conceptual drawings for fire alarm and automatic sprinkler systems, as well as construction design documents
Paper ID #15987Assessment of a Collaborative NSF RET Program Focused on Advanced Man-ufacturing and MaterialsDr. Margaret Pinnell, University of Dayton Dr. Margaret Pinnell is the Associate Dean for Faculty and Staff Development in the school of engineering and associate professor in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at the University of Dayton. She teaches undergraduate and graduate materials related courses including Introduction to Ma- terials, Materials Laboratory, Engineering Innovation, Biomaterials and Engineering Design and Appro- priate Technology (ETHOS). She was director of the (Engineers in
Paper ID #11783Go Green on Campus Project: A Collaborative International Student ProjectProf. Patricia Fox, Indiana University Purdue University, Indianapolis Professor Patricia Fox is a Clinical Assistant Professor in the Department of Technology Leadership and Communication in the Purdue School of Engineering and Technology at Indiana University-Purdue Uni- versity Indianapolis (IUPUI). Pat has been a member of the faculty for over 32 years. She has previously served as Associate Chair and Associate Dean in the School. Pat teaches leadership, ethics, sustainabil- ity, and study abroad courses. She has held a number of
towards the common goal of the completed project. Once assessing the site, they wereable to inspect the existing infrastructure, take measurements, figure distances and elevations,calculate amount of material needed, and finally solidify our plan. Page 26.540.8The gutter teams’ major focus was to make sure the gutters were functional and feeding oursystem effectively. In order to do so, the team had to dissemble the gutters, clean them, re-setthe existing brackets, and seal the seams. The team’s biggest challenge was in having to re-usethe existing gutters and brackets. They did not anticipate the gutters being in such poorcondition. Stronger
constructs related to persistence and demographic items to capture therespondents’ various social identities. We used intersectionality first as a theory to guide theidentification of constructs and creation of items for the constructs and then as a methodologicalapproach to analyze data based on respondents’ multiple demographic identities.Persistence is defined as the personal tendency to endure through hardships to achieve goals orcontinue a course of action [13] [14]. We differentiate persistence as a personal measure orquality and retention as an organizational measure or quality [15]. The PEAS is designed toexplore the personal experiences of faculty as they continue in careers in the academy.Persistence is addressed in the literature with an
learning modules,13 an increasing number of ethicstexts, and online resources such as those provided by The Online Ethics Center for Engineeringand Science at Case Western Reserve University.14 Rather, our purpose is to spark thought in thehope that existing material can be improved upon and new material and approaches can bedeveloped.Organization of the PaperThe paper begins with a brief review of the attorney’s code of ethical conduct, the American BarAssociation’s Model Rules of Professional Conduct. Second, other sources of authority andadvice available to lawyers on ethical issues are described. Third, the ethics curriculum in legaleducation is discussed. Fourth, the Multistate Professional Responsibility Examination that mostlawyers are
flexible work hours and carers‟ leave (all of which of course relate totheir reported higher rates of caring responsibilities for children and others).Despite the medium-to-high availability of these facilities to both groups, Table 3 also showshow comparatively little both groups utilise most of these provisions. Women engineers‟experience of the detrimental effects on their careers of utilising these family-friendly provisions(or fear of these effects) is well documented in the literature5,10,13,22,24. Bagilhole et al forexample remark that “Women still experience clear discrimination surrounding the issue ofmaternity leave and the return to work; requests for part-time contracts are often agreedalongside some kind of demotion of position within
mothering of children with learning disabilities," Learning Disability Quarterly, vol. 41, no. 1, pp. 7-18, 2018.[26] C. Alvarado and V. Modesto-Lowe, "Improving Treatment in Minority Children With Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder," Clinical pediatrics, vol. 56, no. 2, pp. 171-176, 2017, doi: 10.1177/0009922816645517.[27] C. Ong-Dean, A. J. Daly, and V. Park, "Privileged Advocates: Disability and Education Policy in the USA," Policy futures in education, vol. 9, no. 3, pp. 392-405, 2011, doi: 10.2304/pfie.2011.9.3.392.[28] L. J. Graham, "Sally Tomlinson, The politics of race, class and special education: The selected works of Sally Tomlinson," Power and Education, vol. 7, no. 3, pp. 364-366, 2015, doi: 10.1177
from 2000 through 2008, where he taught courses in environmental engineering, water resources, and environmental security. Dr. Manous has been actively involved with the ”professional” aspects of the engineering profession for over 20 years particularly through his involvement with the American Society of Civil Engineers where he chaired the ASCE Committee on Professional Practice, Post-Hurricane Katrina Critical Infrastructure Guidance Task Force, and Paraprofessional Task Committee. He is also chair of the Executive Board of the National Institute for Engineering Ethics (NIEE).Mr. Jon D Nelson, Tetra Tech, Inc. Jon D. Nelson, P.E. is a senior vice president in the central region of the Engineering and Consulting
input voltage. In our experiment, the PWM signal is created by a microcontroller. Fig. 1. Buck Chopper Circuit TopologyIII embedded solutions An embedded solution can be created using any number of microprocessors, microcontrollers, single-board computers,FPGAs, or DSP boards. Some of the more common solutions seen at the undergraduate level include the Raspberry Pi single-board computer, the BeagleBone Black microcontroller, or an Arduino microcontroller. We’ve found that a Raspberry Pi requiresa bit more familiarity with operating systems and languages like LINUX and Python. Our students were introduced to theArduino Uno in an early course and this effort sought to build on that native
result of having direct work experience inprofessional engineering settings. In other words, having work experience made students’ imagesof work more specific, while at the same time shifting them from the hopeful to the mundane. Inaddition to direct work experience, the authors note that students can gain familiarity withprofessional engineering work through their coursework or from family members who areengineers. With a few exceptions, this hopeful-to-mundane pattern characterized thedevelopment of students’ images of work during the course of their education.In this prior work authors described the images of work of students while they were still incollege, leaving open the question of how those images evolve when students pass the
Paper ID #24789Dilemmas in Co-Curricular Support: A Theoretical and Pragmatic Discus-sion on Current Practice and Future ChallengesDr. Stephen Secules, Purdue University-Main Campus, West Lafayette (College of Engineering) Stephen is a Visiting Assistant Professor in the School of Engineering Education at Purdue. He has a prior academic and professional background in engineering, having worked professionally as an acousti- cal engineer. His research focuses on equity and inclusion in undergraduate engineering education. He uses critical qualitative and ethnographic methodologies to investigate and improve engineering class
differences, shevalued his approach, as long as it solves the problem efficiently. She believed that he belonged incomputer engineering because he was knowledgeable about the courses in the curriculum andhighly interested in cybersecurity and other topics in the field. Other differences she discussedincluded students who were analytical and engaged in deep thinking, which she felt wasnecessary for their first-year engineering courses and physics.Mr. Rhee (student chosen pseudonym; electrical engineer) mentioned how his peers weredifferent from him because of their work ethic. He insisted that they had a “talent or knack forthe curriculum” which made them understand the material faster, due to their previousexperiences. He also described how the
above 40% over the last 15-plus years [13]. Many universities across the U.S. have taken active steps to improve faculty diversity andthe advancement of women and faculty of color. The National Science Foundation (NSF) hasplayed an important role in this regard through its NSF ADVANCE Program. This is a fundingprogram aimed at understanding and addressing gender-based inequities – and their interactionswith race/ethnicity – in academic STEM fields. The University of X (UX) has received two NSFADVANCE grants. The first is a smaller PAID grant to develop workshops and resources onfaculty recruitment and on formal mentoring for engineering and the natural sciences at UX.4The second is an ADVANCE Institutional Transformation (IT) grant. This
faculty teaching classes at RIT.Focus Group Observations Overall, RIT provides a very good environment in which to work, and the environment has improved over time, in part due to administrative initiatives. Contribution of women faculty is devalued. Work-life balance is either a challenge or strength (variable across campus, and strongly dependent on college/department). Women seem to lack the ability to negotiate/advocate for resources. Initial male student perception of women faculty is poor (i.e., women faculty must prove themselves).A number of studies published in the literature have resulted in similar lists of barriers that arefaced by women in the STEM fields and reasons why women may leave these jobs. These reportthat women in
university.For example, Steven points to his advisor as having a good balance between his faculty positionand life for an “R1” school, and that he just couldn’t see himself writing grants all the time.Samantha and Christopher had a similar hesitation about pursuing grants, and wanting to be ableto focus on teaching.On the other hand, even if these participants realized they didn’t want their advisor’s type offaculty position, their advisor still often played a critical role in supporting their graduatestudents to achieve their goal pursuing a position that focuses on teaching. In Steven’s andValerie’s cases, their advisors encouraged them to take courses on college teaching. In Obie’s,Samantha’s, and Christopher’s cases, their advisors afforded them the
technological literacy of anexpanding portion of the population, and improve the skills of the workforce [4, 5].For the past two decades, we have worked to design educational experiences that reach allchildren, particularly those who are currently underserved or underrepresented. We have studiedthe literature, developed inclusive design principles that guide our work [6, 7], and workedcollaboratively with educators who regularly teach students from underrepresented populationsas we designed curricular resources. The Engineering is Elementary (EiE) curriculum is designedto introduce students to engineering concepts and practices. Each of the 20 units focuses on afield of engineering (e.g., chemical, biomedical, industrial); introduces students to an age
AC 2012-3970: 3RS FOR ENGINEERING SCHOLARS: RESPONSIBILI-TIES, REPERCUSSIONS, AND REMEDIES ASSOCIATED WITH PRO-FESSIONAL PLAGIARISMMs. Susan H. Sarapin M.A., Purdue University Susan Sarapin is a doctoral candidate in Purdue University’s Brian Lamb School of Communication Divi- sion of Media, Technology, and Society. She studies the effects of TV viewing on the public’s perceptions of and attitudes toward crime, criminals, and the justice system. This extends to the exploration of persua- sion in the courtroom and the lay public’s understanding of scientific concepts, statistics, and techniques. Sarapin intends to combine teaching, research, mentoring undergraduate and graduate research, and con- sulting
create a computer model of their bridge and performan analysis of their design with the assistance of engineering students from the American Societyof Civil Engineers Student Chapter. A maximum of 30 teams were allowed to participate in thecompetition. In addition to the standard load test (30 pts), each team was also judged on meetingspecifications (20 pts), load/weight ratio (20 pts), project report (15 pts), and aesthetics (15 pts). The competition followed the same format through the 2017 competition. Quite frankly,the competition had grown stale and needed improvements. There were several areas ofimprovement needed with the existing format. 1. Some of the bridges were holding more than 100 lbs, which exceeded the capacity the