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
associated with the grant, and snowballsampling (referrals). Interviews were conducted over Zoom, recorded, and typically were about60 to 90 minutes in duration. Aligned with the counterstories methodology, it is important toshare the participant experiences in their own words. Thus, this paper contains lightly editedclean verbatim quotes where hesitations and repeats have been removed to improve readability.To fully protect the identity of the individual participants in the study, only compositedemographics are reported. The ranks of the women while conducting CER included masters anddoctoral students, post-doctoral researchers, research faculty, teaching faculty, and tenured/tenuretrack professors. These experiences spanned a wide variety of
. 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
.” 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