employers.Many of our Master’s students are working hard to change their careers. Obtaining a Master’sdegree requires significant time and expense, and we have an obligation to ensure that rigorouswell-designed courses are available as needed. The results from the JHU alumni survey indicatethat we are achieving that goal. Table 7: JHU Survey Results from Recent Alumni (Class of 2016, n=9) Online courses were available when I needed them 100% During my graduate studies at EP, I was able to successfully balance the needs of 100% my academic work with those of my professional/personal life Courses in my program were rigorous 89% A sense of community is
partners with various levels of involvement from serving as a member of theproject committee to providing an advisory role on issues related to industry practice.A separate ‘cold lab’ has been designated for the Architectural Engineering graduatestudents. This lab was recently sponsored by long time industry partner DegenkolbEngineers. As a result, upgrades to the lab will occur on a yearly basis. The graduate labserves as a classroom for graduate courses as well as a computer lab and study area forgraduate students.Major IssuesThesis/Project Concerns. For the six year history of the ARCE master’s program, therehas been a mandatory project requirement and students have pursued three differentapproaches: • Student support of faculty research
the student to see what information theylearned from the ICC. Page 12.153.6Usability StudyAs work continued on the CoM ICC, the committee wanted student feedback to determine howthe tool would be received by users. In spring 2006, the DLR team conducted a preliminaryusability study on the CoM ICC. Three CHEN students who were members of the StudentAdvisory Board for the project participated. Each student met with a project team memberworking on faculty development and assessment and a project team graduate student. During themeeting, the student sat at a computer and worked through the CoM ICC. Student commentswhile reviewing the ICC were
Page 22.951.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2011 International Research Experience for Engineering Students in China in the area of Fuel CellsAbstractThe department of mechanical engineering at Oakland University was awarded by the NationalScience Foundation a three year grant entitled “International Research Experience forStudents(IRES): Collaborative Research Activities with China on Fluid and Thermal Transportin Fuel Cells.” The objective of the proposed IRES site is to annually provide five U.S.engineering students (four undergraduates and one graduate) with the unique opportunity to workon fuel cell collaborative research between Oakland University (OU) and
Paper ID #6958You Know You Can, but Should You and Will You? The Status of Master’sLevel Accreditation in Civil EngineeringDr. Andrea L Welker PE, Villanova University Dr. Andrea L. Welker, PE, is an associate professor in the department of Civil and Environmental Engi- neering at Villanova University. Dr. Welker teaches a variety of geotechnical undergraduate and graduate classes, including soil mechanics, foundation design, geoenvironmental engineering, and geosynthetics. Her research focuses on the geotechnical aspects of storm water control measures. In addition to teaching and performing research, she is the
their careers and how different experiences within the practice and culture of engineering foster or hinder belongingness and identity development. Dr. Godwin graduated from Clemson University with a B.S. in Chemical Engineering and Ph.D. in Engineering and Science Education. She is the recipient of a 2014 American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) Educational Research and Methods Division Apprentice Faculty Grant. She also was an NSF Graduate Research Fellow for her work on female empowerment in engineering which won the National Association for Research in Science Teaching 2015 Outstanding Doctoral Research Award.Jacqueline Doyle, Florida International UniversityDina Verdin, Purdue University, West Lafayette
education (especially in regards to the design of complex systems), student preparation for post-graduation careers, and innovations in research-to-practice.Dr. Robin Adams, Purdue University, West Lafayette Robin S. Adams is an Associate Professor in the School of Engineering Education at Purdue University and holds a PhD in Education, an MS in Materials Science and Engineering, and a BS in Mechanical Engineering. She researches cross-disciplinarity ways of thinking, acting and being; design learning; and engineering education transformation.Dr. Jennifer A. Turns, University of Washington Jennifer Turns is a Professor in the Department of Human Centered Design & Engineering at the Univer- sity of Washington. She is
, Universidad EAFIT, Medellin, Colombia - Purdue University, West Lafayette ´ Juan David Ortega Alvarez is an assistant professor at Universidad EAFIT and served as the Head of the Process Engineering Department from 2010 to 2014. He holds an MS in Process Engineering and Energy Technology from Hochschule Bremerhaven (Germany) and is currently enrolled as a graduate student in the Engineering Education Doctoral Program at Purdue University. Before his full-time appointment with EAFIT, he served as Engineering Director for a chemical company for 7 years. His research interests are focused on the practice and teaching of process design, simulation and control and also on faculty and institutional
’ past experiencesbefore coming to college, are heavily nuanced, and develop slowly, such that the benefits ofpositive development may not even be realized until well after graduation. These circumstancesnecessitate the need for assessment approaches that can be used for both programmatic reviewand for engineering education research that address the development of professional skills inengineers. Toward meeting this need, this paper builds upon previous work to provide furtherevidence of validity for the Engineering Professional Responsibility Assessment (EPRA) as atool for assessing elements of professional development in engineering students.The Engineering Professional Responsibility AssessmentEPRA was developed to assess engineering students
academic standings and theirprogresses were monitored. The study result shows that students can improve their academicperformance significantly after being involved in faculty-student research activities. Moreover,students, involved in research, showed more leadership skill as well as advancement to graduatestudies.IntroductionUndergraduate level engineering courses in US are mainly controlled by the accreditation criteriasuch as the one set by the ABET (ABET, 2013)1. The number of semester units that the studentshave to take to graduate bachelor’s degree in engineering mainly ranges from approximately 120to 140 units depending on the program’s requirement for math, science and engineering coursesas well as the general education courses. Time
Paper ID #36235A Feasibility Study on Building a Stand-Alone Community Microgrid in theUnited StatesMs. Salma Alami Yadri Salma Alami Yadri was born in Morocco. She graduated from Essex County College in Newark, NJ, where she earned an associate’s degree in Electrical engineering in spring 2020. During her time at Essex County College, she actively participated and was involved in many societies and clubs. Most notably, the Essex County College Math Club, where she held the office of vice president. She also regularly volunteered as a peer tutor for students with disabilities at Essex County College. In May 2020, she was
. Page 23.1046.2 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2013 REU Site: Summer Undergraduate Research in Engineering/Science Program at the Georgia Institute of TechnologyAbstractThe Summer Undergraduate Research in Engineering/Science (SURE) program, initiated in1992, is a ten-week summer program for junior and senior level undergraduates from U.S.institutions. The overall goal of the program is to expose underrepresented students toengineering research, and as a direct consequence, interest them in opportunities availablethrough graduate study. Participating students are paired with faculty and graduate student socialmentors. During their stay
student within a research project A. The clinicstudents that continue on the same project through the junior and senior year (four semesters)help maintain the continuity and the productivity. By the time the seniors are ready to graduate,they have a similar level of experience as a graduate student in a given project.At the end of three years, there could be potentially two graduate students stemming from theirwork on clinic work from research project A. The second graduate student (Y) may notnecessarily work on research project A, but may work on a new research project B. This helpsincrease productivity on the second research project from the first semester itself. The clinicexperience has also led students to pursue graduate studies in other
, participatedin the REU program for 10 weeks during the summer in 2017 or 2018. This study utilized thedata from 19 out of the 25 students who responded to both pre- and post-surveys (76% responserate) to present student changes in career decision making and research experiences at theuniversity. Most students came to favor graduate education and research and their preferencesdid not change after the REU program. Students’ perceptions of research knowledge, skills, andengineering career path were all positively improved. We also identified several areas of researchskills that students were able to amass during the programs.I. IntroductionThe National Science Foundation (NSF) has been among the federal governmental institutionsthat strongly support summer
, psychologicalinfluence, image-building, art-therapy, etc.) and organize discussions, mini-researches and groupexercises under the supervision of a teacher. At the end of the study the students are to defend agraduation paper. This final research systematizes, solidifies and broadens the psychologicalknowledge and competences, and includes theoretical and empirical study of a subject. Practically all the educational courses for students getting additional to higher educationin psychology at the FAE take into account the engineering major. This fact affects the content oftheoretical and practical classes, selection of model situations, examples and cases, and subjectsof graduation papers. Students decide about the area of research that is interesting for
development decisions.In a similar vein, Edward J. Eckel reported on a citation study of Masters’ theses and Ph.D.dissertations completed at Western Michigan University’s College of Engineering and AppliedSciences for the years 2002-2006. Eckel analyzed 2,903 citations from 96 Masters’ theses and2,886 citations from 24 Ph.D. dissertations with the primary goal of learning whether one coulddemonstrate an improvement in graduate student research competence by consideration of choiceof resources cited. Eckel found that Masters’ candidates cited grey literature more frequentlythan Ph.D. candidates, and that “Grey literature was more highly cited in the civil engineeringtheses than in all other disciplines.” Eckel’s analysis contains classifications for
Paper ID #30570Convergent Learning from Divergent Perspectives: An Executive Summaryof the Pilot StudyMrs. Renee Rigrish Pelan, The Ohio State University Renee Rigrish Pelan is an Engineering Education graduate student at The Ohio State University. She is working on the AISL grant as a Graduate Research Associate under Dr. Rachel Louis Kajfez. She holds an M.S. degree in Industrial & Human Factors Engineering and a B.S. in Industrial & Systems Engineering from Wright State University. Her research interests include diversity in engineering, teaching methods, and informal learning environments.Tylesha D. Drayton
Paper ID #6978The role of Universities in the Continuous Professional Development of theRussian Engineering WorkforceDr. Phillip Albert Sanger, Purdue University, West LafayetteJulia Ziyatdinova, Kazan National Research Technological UniversityProf. Svetlana Vasilievna Barabanova, Kazan National Research Technological University Born in U.S.S.R., Barabanova graduated from Kazan State University in 1983 as a doctor of law. In 1986, Barabanova began working at what is now known as Kazan National Research Technological University. Barabanova is a specialist in educational law, and a participant in government commissions for
Undergraduate Native Americans (IOU-NA) (#EEC-1359163), is a multidisciplinary REU in the Center for Integrated Access Networks (CIAN), anNSF funded Engineering Research Center (ERC) at the University of Arizona. The IOU-NAsupported up to 8 students in a 10-week summer research experience for three summers in labsacross the College of Optical Sciences and the College of Science. This program was developedbased on theories of student departure and persistence in college, as well as American Indianidentity theories and serves as a catalyst for persistence in STEM undergraduate programs and asa recruitment pathway toward graduate studies in STEM. This program provided opportunitiesfor students to incorporate themselves academically and socially into an
are multiple factors thataffect the experience of graduate students as they transition from their previous identities to therole of researcher and scholar. Our review of the literature paired with our personal experiencessuggest that there are several factors that affect these three aspects of graduate student identitydevelopment. First, students are more likely to develop a stronger graduate student identity when theyfeel more competent in their disciplinary and writing skills (Burt, 2014). In a study thatinvestigated the impact writing had on graduate student identity, graduate students shared thatthey often feel ashamed of their work and compare themselves to their peers (Del Toro, 2017).Students were afraid to share their work in
study. Jeannine works closely with the research team to ensure that each step is performed to exact specifications. She conducts the interviewer briefing session at the beginning of each study and electronically monitors a portion of the fieldwork. After the completion of the data collection, she receives an anecdotal report from the Field Director (choosing results to highlight in the final report). Jeannine oversees the statistical analyses, writes the text portion of most reports, supervises the report preparation, and is in regular contact with her clients. Jeannine attended Old Dominion University where she completed a Bachelors degree in Business Man- agement. Prior to joining Continental Research, she was
STEM majors are involved in some form of research activitythroughout their undergraduate matriculation given its immediate and long-term benefits [9], [10],[11] [12], [13]. Studies reveal that participating in undergraduate research venues is notablybeneficial towards nurturing academic development and clarifying career options post-graduation[13], [14]. Hurtado et al. [10] reported that research opportunities have further facilitated thedecision of its participants to pursue STEM careers and Ph.D. studies post-graduation [13]. Suchacademic tool has further proven to increase the pursuit of STEM degrees and graduate educationfor every ethnic group [15], [16], [17].Despite the numerous academic and personal benefits of conducting undergraduate
Paper ID #8259IGIP Co-Plenary - Public-Private Partnership in Professional Education: Ex-perience of the Research UniversityProf. Vasiliy Ivanov, Kazan National Research Technological University Prof. Vasiliy Ivanov is a first vice-rector at Kazan National Research Technological University and a di- rector of Institute of Additional Professional Education, Kazan, Russia. In 1972 he graduated cum laude from Kazan Chemical Technological Institute (now Kazan National Research Technological University). He received his PhD in Sciences there in 1986. In 1989 Vasiliy Ivanov became professor of General Chemical Technology
the attribution of ideas than theattribution of words. Bouville31 argued that this was as it should be, since ideas and researchresults have greater value than words in science. On this basis, Johnson32 advocated for adifferent threshold for a finding of plagiarism in science and technology writing, while at thesame time admitting that there are still limits to legitimate textual appropriation, even in thesciences. That said, there appears to be little conclusive evidence in the literature to support thecontention that plagiarism is a common occurrence in graduate engineering writing.While several recent studies have examined the academic integrity of engineeringundergraduates (copying on exams and in research papers),33,34,35,36,37 as well
scholars would present theirresearch and receive special recognition to celebrate their accomplishments. Table 1: Post- Baccalaureate Program: Exploratory Tasks Track 1: Graduate Studies Track 2: STEM Workforce Research Guidance First Semester Inclusive Mentoring for Faculty Workshop Mentor-Protégé Research Planning Preparing a Research Poster and Video Workshop Research Symposium Versatility of STEM degrees Panel Sessions
2017 ASEE International Forum:Columbus , Ohio Jun 28 Paper ID #20747Special Aspects in Implementing the Project-Based Learning in Russian Uni-versitiesDr. Vasiliy Grigoryevich Ivanov, KAZAN NATIONAL RESEARCH TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY Vasily Ivanov graduated from Kazan State Chemical and Technological Institute (today Kazan National Research Technological University, KNRTU) in 1976. He continued his research and obtained a Ph.D. in Engineering in 1986. At the same time, he held the administrative positions in the regional system of education management. He received the
ofengineers. Since 2011, NSF has invested over $23 million in Research Initiation Grants in theEngineering Education program and its successor, the PFE: RIEF program; however, to date, fewstudies have been conducted on the nature and outcomes of RIEF mentoring relationships [1],[2], [3], [4].In this collaborative autoethnographic study, we contribute to knowledge surrounding EERresearch capacity building by exploring a novel mentoring structure that involves two RIEFprincipal investigators (faculty mentees), their EER faculty mentor, a first-year EER graduatestudent, and a postdoctoral EER scholar. Uniquely, the graduate student and postdoctoral scholaroccupy dual mentor-mentee positions, as they possess more qualitative educational
Asian or Caucasian [30]. The researchers also notedthat students transferring with 70 or more semester credit hours were just as likely as studentswho transferred in with fewer hours to take at least two years to complete their degree [31]. Thisindicates that transfer students, even those who have completed two years of study or more priorto transfer, will likely take longer to graduate than the traditionally-expected four years.Data and MethodologyPublic two-year colleges and four-year universities in Texas are required to report student-leveldata to the state’s higher education agency. Enrollment data, major selection, and studentdemographic information are reported each semester, while graduation data are reportedannually. The Texas
Society.Desen Sevi Ozkan, Virginia Tech Desen is a Ph.D. student in Engineering Education at Virginia Tech and holds a B.S. in Chemical Engi- neering from Tufts University.Hannah Claire Strom, Virginia Tech I am currently a Sophomore Undergraduate in Chemical Engineering with an intended Spanish minor at Virginia Tech. I am participating in Undergraduate Research with the Engineering Education department and intend to study Engineering Education in graduate school. I have previously worked as a grader for the Foundations of Engineering Class and assisted teaching Matlab once a week. I also work as a peer mentor for incoming freshman through the Center for Enhancement of Engineering Diversity. I wish to explore more about
towards thehighest level of quality within research projects. This paper presents the approach of how auniversity team (professor and graduate students) collaborated with the National Society of BlackEngineers (NSBE) to conduct a longitudinal analysis of a summer engineering program fundedthrough an Early CAREER faculty award from the National Science Foundation’s EngineeringEducation Broadening Participation (BPE) program. According to the literature, there is a greatneed for longitudinal analysis of STEM outreach programs, especially informal ones, and supportstudents from historically excluded backgrounds. This paper contributes to the academia-non-profit partnership literature within the context of longitudinal studies by mapping out the