projects, as the shared paradigms and epistemologicalfoundations of engineering will ease the boundary work between disciplines. The argument is thathaving a sense of how other disciplines relate to their chosen line of study will prepare studentsbetter to enter into broader interdisciplinary contexts where they, to a larger extent, have to co-construct their understandings and approaches with other disciplines.In 2019, Aalborg University (AAU) launched AAU Megaprojects, allowing students to experiencebroad interdisciplinary projects crossing all faculties at the university. Over the course of a fullsemester, students have the opportunity to work on grand challenges related to the 17 SDGs [9].A study was conducted to follow and elaborate on
Paper ID #38711An Overview of State Developed P-12 Standards for Technological andEngineering Literacy (Other)Dr. Tyler S. Love, University of Maryland Eastern Shore Dr. Love is a Professor of Technology and Engineering Education, and Director of Graduate Studies in Career and Technology Education for the University of Maryland Eastern Shore at the Baltimore Mu- seum of Industry. He earned his master’s and Ph.D. in Integrative STEM Education from Virginia Tech. His bachelors degree is in Technology Education from the University of Maryland Eastern Shore. He previously taught technology and engineering (T&E) courses in
AC 2009-717: CHILDREN'S CONCEPTIONS AND CRITICAL ANALYSIS OFTECHNOLOGY BEFORE AND AFTER PARTICIPATING IN AN INFORMALENGINEERING CLUBPamela Lottero-Perdue, Towson State University Dr. Pamela S. Lottero-Perdue is an Assistant Professor of Science Education in the Department of Physics, Astronomy & Geosciences at Towson University. She began her career as process engineer, taught high school physics and pre-engineering, wrote curriculum and was a master teacher for Project Lead the Way, and led two Project FIRST robotics teams. As a science teacher educator, she has added engineering content and pedagogy to her science methods courses for prospective elementary teachers. She teaches engineering to
determinism, specifically the triadic reciprocalrelationship of cognitive—personal—factors, behavior, and environmental factors. One’sbeliefs about his or herself have impact and influence on control and agency55,58,63. In SCT, aperson’s beliefs about their capabilities influence how they will behave more so than even theirskills and previous accomplishments55,58. However, SCT does not presume that people canexceed their capabilities by some positive belief system55,58.Self-efficacy originates in SCT as a method of determining how well knowledge and skills wereacquired58,60. Bandura defines self-efficacy as the “belief in one’s capabilities to organize andexecute the courses of action required to produce given attainments”56,p.3. Bandura’s
revealing the identity of the female participant [34], and havingparticipants choose whether or not to have a pseudonym and honoring that choice in the writeup[7]. These choices were likely influenced by the researcher’s values of, for example, avoidingbias, keeping participants' identities confidential, or giving power to the participants in the waytheir stories were represented. However, these choices could have effects on readers, as the waythe author refers to the participant could influence how the reader relates to the participants, inmore humanizing or dehumanizing ways. This also appeared in the way that authors labeledparticipants. For example, some authors referred to participants as “informants” [49] while othersreferred to them as
Ann-Marie Vollstedt is a lecturer for the Dean’s Office at the University of Nevada, Reno. Dr. Vollst- edt completed her dissertation at the University of Nevada, Reno, which focused on exploring the use of statistical process control methods to assess course changes in order to increase student learning in engi- neering. Dr. Vollstedt teaches courses in engineering design as well as statics and continues to conduct research in engineering education.Dr. Jeffrey C. LaCombe, University of Nevada, RenoDr. Adam Kirn, University of Nevada, Reno Adam Kirn is an Associate Professor of Engineering Education at University of Nevada, Reno. His re- search focuses on the interactions between engineering cultures, student
practices I observed (that is, fullyrespond to the first question), engaging with the complete diversity of technique at the site wasof vital importance to the analysis presented.Of course, this work builds from an assumption that there might indeed be “queer” technicalpractices that are worth identifying and learning about. Far from using this hypothetical categoryto essentialize “queer” as a personal or organizational identity that reliably modulates “non-queer” technical practice into a genre of technique that educators can systematically describe andreverse-engineer into “improved” technical education, I envision the category as a provocation tothe positionality of queer engineering students as outside-insiders, and to the notion that“queerness
Paper ID #28852A Pathway Towards STEM Integration: Embodiment, Mathematization, andMechanistic ReasoningDr. Paul Jason Weinberg Weinberg, Oakland University Dr. Paul J. Weinberg is an Associate Professor of Mathematics and STEM Education at Oakland Univer- sity (Rochester, MI), where he teaches methods courses for pre- and in-service secondary mathematics teachers. In addition, he teaches mathematics content courses, in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics, for elementary education majors. Dr. Weinberg’s research focuses on students’ reasoning within STEM disciplines, in the context of schooling; this focus has
and the transfer of dataacross devices and platforms. Although some core knowledge is relevant as these changes occur,there is also substantial demand to acquire new knowledge.Currently, a large number of formal degree programs prepare students for the cybersecurityworkforce. Some of these programs are specific to cybersecurity and some of them aretraditional engineering programs that have an emphasis – either though a minor or a certificate –on cybersecurity. In addition to college degrees professional development within cybersecurity isalso strongly driven by external certification courses and agencies such as CompTIA™. Theseprograms have found niche in training professionals precisely because the field is so dynamicand for professionals to
Interdisciplinary Design Skills1 INTRODUCTIONAt the Sunapee State University engineering majors are similar to those at other schools around thenation. Most students choose a specific major in an area of interest to them and their future career plans.Within the engineering major, these students follow a specific track of courses with little variation in theform of electives taken during the third and fourth years. With the only common courses between majorsbeing rooted in math, physics, chemistry, writing and some social sciences, it is unsurprising to find thatgraduates from different programs develop and exhibit a completely different set of technical skills. Theissue in this model surfaces when those graduates leave the university to begin their
design class using open-ended questions and identified aspects of theirexperiences that could lead to improved student retention in engineering13. Using multiple surveyinstruments, Demetry and Groccia evaluated and compared mechanical engineering students’experiences in two introductory materials science classes with one implementing active learningand cooperative learning strategies14. Torres et al. presented students’ experiences of learningrobotics within a virtual environment and remote laboratory, where students knowledge wasassessed via automatic correction tests and students opinions were collected using self-evaluationquestionnaires15. Grimes et al. evaluated civil engineering students’ experiences in a visualclassroom named VisClass
translational research forintellectual advancements. This continuum indicates that research on curriculum innovationtends to focus on description of educational practice or evaluation of new interventions, whileresearch on translational research values on creation or advancement of intellectualinfrastructure.Curriculum Innovation Translational Research Descriptive Research Evaluation Research Basic Research Translational ResearchTo establish a clear To determine effectiveness To improve theoretical to disseminate evidence-description of materials of human interventions understandings without the based innovations with aand phenomena
. Nomenclature Before proceeding further, there is an issue of nomenclature to deal with. The newFramework for Science Education does two things to improve terminology. By using the Page 25.359.3phrase “science and engineering practices” it makes clear the importance of inquiry as areflection of what scientists and engineers do, not just inquiry as a pedagogical strategy.Second, it explicitly includes engineering, thereby stressing its importance andtelegraphing that there are some differences between science and engineering. What is lacking, however, in the Standards documents and the field at large, areumbrella terms for science and engineering, and
perhaps prioritizethis type of intervention to the tools we have for improving inclusivity and sense of belonging inengineering. Drawing from a series of focus groups held within the A. James Clark School ofEngineering at the University of Maryland College Park, this paper aims to identify how place(and the spaces associated with them) intersects with student’s engineering identity in positiveand negative ways with the goal of better understanding how we can alter a place to be safer andmore inclusive.Place as a Mediator of Engineering Ideologies and MindsetsWe argue that place is an important dimension of identity formation and sense of belonging forengineering students. Most engineering undergraduates come to college with aspirations
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 autonomy. Her research has been sponsored by the National Science Foundation (NSF). Dr. Lord is a fellow of the ASEE and IEEE and is active in the engineering education community including serving as General Co-Chair of the 2006 Frontiers in Education (FIE) Conference, on the FIE Steering Committee, and as President of the IEEE Education Society for 2009-2010. She is an Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Edu- cation. She
the School of Letters and Sciences and the Consortium for Science, Policy & Outcomes, Arizona State Uni- versity and Visiting Scholar at the Genetic Engineering & Society Center, North Carolina State Univeristy. Herkert has been teaching engineering ethics and science, technology & society courses for more than twenty-five years. He is editor of Social, Ethical and Policy Implications of Engineering: Selected Read- ings (Wiley/IEEE Press, 2000) and co-editor of The Growing Gap between Emerging Technologies and Legal-Ethical Oversight: The Pacing Problem (Springer, 2011), and has published numerous articles on engineering ethics and societal implications of technology in engineering, law, social science
to choose from a wider variety of collaborators.The following two sections will employ illustrative case studies of what vocabulary creationlooks like using ASLCore’s process. As the authors of this paper were involved in the process ofvocabulary creation, the case studies and the discussion that follow will be written in first personplural (“we”). Note that this paper does not seek to measure the effectiveness of these signs orvalidate them within the Deaf community, which is work that may be taken up in future studies.Instead, each illustrative case study focuses on qualitatively unpacking the anatomy and historyof a small number of signs in detail. The goal is to familiarize readers, who may be new tosigned languages and Deaf cultures
regulatory approvals, effects on the local community, and the environment. Although engineers carry these responsibilities, they are reluctant to use formal authority (and it is only rarely available to them). Instead, they rely on informal technical coordination. The aim is to deliver the intended products and utility services with the predicted performance and reliability.”Analogously, students’ framing of an IEL task may involve maintaining an overarchingawareness of the design context and potential solutions, while addressing local subtasks, such asprocuring materials (e.g., cardboard, tape, glue) or testing the functionality of specificcomponents. We contend that when students are framing a complex design task as
. This study examines the effect of the media in how people build a mental picture ofengineers and engineering as a profession. It is important to look at how the media shapes Page 23.240.2people’s pictures and perceptions of engineers because those pictures have the potential forbuilding or sustaining a barrier deterring people from entering engineering fields. This study isbroadly situated in Social Identity Theory 5 and then more narrowly focused using Nerd Identity6, 7 as a framework. The use of nerd identity as characterizing the stereotypical engineer proposesa dichotomy between the nerd and the non-nerd. The broader implications of
, “Cooperative Educationand EC 2000” describes the efforts of the University of Kentucky in revamping its assessmenttools to produce facts and figures which can be used to validate the benefit of cooperativeeducation in the professional development of engineering students5. In the 1997 CIECConference Proceedings, “Re-Engineering Cooperative Education Learning: A Call for Action” Page 5.145.3looks at ABET 2000 and its potential effect on the way cooperative education is viewed byengineering educators6. It states that “Estimates have been made that the education provided inengineering programs account for less than half of the education that the
be no talking or sharing during the Gallery Walk, that this was intended to be asingular activity to provoke close looking and reflection.To foster their thinking in three-dimensional ways, the teachers looked closely and kept a list ofthe many and varied forms, techniques, and structures used to create the design and mechanics ofthe pop-ups. After this initial period of exploration, the teachers discussed what they hadobserved. They talked about the various mechanisms such as wheels, supports, hinges, tabs, andsliders, and they also discussed the effect that the pop-up illustrations had on the text itself. Theydiscussed the idea that pop-ups enhance the relationship between the reader and the text bymaking the reading process more
. Based on the African American Male Theory (AAMT) [4], our research team examinedthe three students’ experiences in the context of the interconnected environmental systems(microsystem, mesosystem, exosystemic, macrosystem, chronosystem). Highlighting theconcepts of “resilience,” “resistance,” and “pursuit of social justice” in AAMT, the authorsexplored the three students’ multiple-layered social and professional identities as emerging Blackmale engineering professionals.Theoretical frameworkThis study is grounded in Bush and Bush’s African American Male Theory [4], which providesan effective analytic framework to understand the unique facets of Black males’ experiencessituated in various educational, academic, and community contexts. Like other
engineering from the Univer- sity of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He previously earned his Bachelor’s in 2008 from the University of California, Berkeley. His course development includes civil engineering materials, dynamics, engineering design, engineering economics, first-year engineering experience, matrix analysis, mechanics, probability and risk in engineering, statics, and structural analysis. His research aims to better society by exploring how infrastructure materials can be made to be more environmentally sustainable and resilient; and by exploring how engineering can be structured to be more welcoming of diverse perspectives, which can fuel solutions in challenging societal inequities
, and design learning.John Alexander Mendoza-Garcia, Purdue University, West Lafayette / Pontificia Universidad Javeriana - Bo-gota, Colombia John Mendoza-Garcia is a Colombian Systems Engineer (Bachelor’s and Master’s degree) that currently is a Ph.D candidate in Engineering Education at Purdue University. His advisors are Dr. Monica E. Cardella and Dr. William C. Oakes. He is interested in understanding the development of systems thinking to support its assessment and teaching. Currently, he works for the first year engineering program at Purdue where he has taught the engineering introductory courses in design and algorithmic thinking, and has also developed content for these courses. He has an appointment with the
Master of Science and Ph.D. degrees in Chemical Engineering, both from the University of Michigan. He teaches a number of alternative energy courses at Lawrence Tech. Dr. Fletcher and his student research team is focusing on energy usage and efficiencies of several traditional and alternative energy systems. Page 26.1691.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2015 Using undergraduate engineering students to develop practical methods forreducing energy costs at a grain receiving, storage and transfer facility based on an energy study in the State of MichiganABSTRACT
such as people of Color,women, rural populations, and low-income families [14].Socio-technical imaginaries open up possible futures for some and close down futures for others.In this sense, they can create a path dependency that limits imagination. And since many STEMmajors come from privileged backgrounds and benefit from promissory innovation imaginaries,these socio-technical imaginaries become the resource pool most STEM students draw from fortheir own imaginations. This was evident in a study exploring the challenges of integratingsocio-technical systems thinking into technical engineering courses [15]. The study found thatsocio-technical systems thinking activities did help students bridge the social-technical divide.However, the study
advancement in engineering disciplines and careers.1 For instance,Scholars studying career decision-making and vocational socialization of women engineers have:(a) drawn attention to the prevalence of masculine tropes in engineering schools’ missionstatements,2 (b) related the dominant disciplinary and occupational stereotypes to women’sdisciplinary and career preferences,3 and (c) explained a woman’s choice to build her career inengineering professions requires negotiating the masculinist cultures that prevail incontemporary organizations involved in educating, training and hiring from the workforce thathas received tertiary engineering education.3,4 Such examples have sought to improve thesocialization and mentoring experiences of women engineers
personal story and academic interest converge around: identity; language, ideology and consciousness; pedagogy, and epistemology. Broadly speaking, he focuses on critical qualitative inquiry with a discerning eye toward humanizing and culturally sustaining pedagogies.Idalis Villanueva (Dr.) For the past 10 years, Dr. Idalis Villanueva has worked on several engineering education projects where she derives from her experiences in engineering to improve outcomes for minoritized groups in engineering using mixed-and multi-modal methods approaches. She currently is an Associate Professor in the Engineering Education Department at the University of Florida. In 2019, she received the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists
influences of DEI in engineering culture, examining the state of and ways in whichengineering faculty beliefs influence the experiences of students and other faculty is paramount.MethodsMethodologyTo answer our research question, we chose to perform a systematic literature review [10]. Thebenefits of using a literature review include the ability to examine a wide range of research usingspecific search terms to get a general understanding of how literature has presented engineeringfaculty beliefs about DEI. Second, the only limitation to our gathering information is access toliterature databases. Therefore, a literature review is a timely, cost-effective way to gather a largeamount of data about the state of our topic.Researcher PositionalityTo
Cycle Academy Award for the best paper on Sustainable Consumption (2017). He is also responsible for teaching introduc- tory, intermediate and advanced design related courses in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at University at Buffalo.Dr. Vanessa Svihla, University of New Mexico Dr. Vanessa Svihla is a learning scientist and associate professor at the University of New Mexico in the Organization, Information and Learning Sciences program and in the Chemical and Biological Engineer- ing Department. She served as Co-PI on an NSF RET Grant and a USDA NIFA grant, and is currently co-PI on three NSF-funded projects in engineering and computer science education, including a Revo- lutionizing