college consistently ranked at the bottom of student concerns across everyyear and engineering major. We also needed a better understanding of how the studentsexperienced the program structure of our women in engineering program and if it could beimproved to better reflect the needs of this new student cohort. Finally, we wanted to know howprevalent these declining engagement trends were on campus and what, if any, steps could betaken to improve them. This paper focuses on focus groups held with undergraduate women inengineering students, and contextual interviews held with other campus programs, clubs andorganizations. First, we present a summary of what we learned about this new cohort of studentsas well as the key survey findings that informed
among the attitudes, beliefs, motivation, cognitive skills, and engineering skills of K-16 engineering learners; and teaching engineering.Mrs. Kayla R. Maxey, Purdue University at West Lafayette (COE) Kayla is a doctoral candidate in the School of Engineering Education at Purdue University. Her research focuses on creating and sustaining cultures of inclusion in engineering. She investigates normative cultural ideologies produced and reinforced by engineering education structures (e.g. departments, courses, poli- cies) to determine the influence on initiatives to recruit, retain, and support diverse students. Her current work explores the cultural productions of faculty to understand how to improve inclusion in
engineering [7], [9]. Cheryan contends that women would be more likely to select engineeringmajors if there was more messaging about how different and diverse types of people can succeedin the field, and if the diversity of the work was emphasized [7], [9]. Similarly, the NAE, whichis responsible for the Engineer Girl website, has reported on the need to provide richer, morefocused messages about engineering to make it more appealing to young people, particularlywomen. In one report titled, “Changing the Conversation: Messages for Improving the PublicUnderstanding of Engineering” they advocate the need for new and improved messages topersuade girls and underrepresented minorities to consider engineer as a career choice.According to the report, new
government agencies. In 2010, Dr. Lambrinidou co-conceived the graduate level engineering ethics course ”Engi- neering Ethics and the Public,” which she has been co-teaching to students in engineering and science. She is co-Principal Investigator on a National Science Foundation (NSF) research and education project developing an ethnographic approach to engineering ethics education. Page 26.322.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2015 Canons against Cannons? Social Justice and the Engineering Ethics ImaginaryAbstractWhat if social
assistance for the Department of Defense to improve the energy and demand perfor- mance of military facilities, development, and implementation of water and power distribution technolo- gies to improve conditions in border communities along the Texas/Mexico border. Previously, Schneider was Chief of the Technology Requirements Branch for the U.S. Air Force’s Air Education and Training Command. He led a team of information and training technology experts in the evaluation of existing and emerging training and educational technologies and evaluated them for inclusion into the Air Force’s learning processes. Schneider’s experience includes various human-centered management positions as well as a faculty appointment to the
building, and macroethics in science education. She received her PhD in physics at the Uni- versity of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2019, where she focused on mastery-style online learning for engineers in a large preparatory physics course. In her postdoctoral work at Texas State University, she co-developed and implemented curricula to engage students in conversations about ethics, science and society, with a research interest in how to best support students and instructors in these conversations. She recently finished a AAAS Science & Technology Policy Fellowship at the National Science Foundation, supporting and working with the Hispanic-Serving Institutions (HSI) Program. She is also an organizer for the
Foundation and the National Institute of Food and Agriculture.AbstractThis paper presents exemplary cases of learning entrepreneurial mindset from an institution that providesfaculty, graduate students, and undergraduate students separate theory-driven trainings inentrepreneurship and subsequent opportunities to practice experiential learning of entrepreneurshiptogether. A sequence of project-based learning courses in engineering brings together faculty and studentsto work in multi-disciplinary teams. Students gain experience solving practical, open-ended engineeringproblems and developing professional skills throughout their studies. Opportunity identification,feasibility analysis, product development, professional communication, leadership, and
directedby the author starts working with most of the minority students in the program when they arefreshmen. The retention of these NACME students is higher than that of non-minority studentsin engineering and much higher than the retention rate of other engineereing minority studentsnot in the NACME program.28-30 Page 13.1287.8In all three of the academic scholarship programs, the Guaranteed 4.0 learning system,develioped by Donna O. Johnson, is taught to help the students make effective use of their timeand to help them earn good GPAs so they will be eligible for graduate school.31 Also, in all threeof these programs, the students are required to
maintenance costs, how to avoid inefficient energy and water use, and how to increase the productivity of people working in a facility. o Sustainable Operations involves effective planning and allocation of resources over the operational life of the facility. Specific education and research opportunities in this phase can include investigating and teaching how to ensure indoor environmental quality, thermal comfort, and light quality, how to conserve energy, water, and resources, and how to manage waste. This phase also includes explicit consideration of what happens to the facility or civil infrastructure system at the end of its useful life of the facility. Additional education and
Page 24.577.3Hispanic students was eliminated when the following variables were controlled: enrollment in ASEE 2014advanced math and science courses in high school, self-motivation to study STEM, students withat least one parent with a college degree, parents who expected their child to obtain a collegedegree (Villarejo, 2008). In a survey of 713 ethnically diverse university freshman, Phinney,Dennis, and Osorio (2006) identified six factors influencing minority student decision to attendcollege. In addition to the factors mentioned above, this research identified helping their familyand proving their worth as particularly important factors for lower income
Session 1692 Summer Technology and Engineering Preview at Stout for Girls (STEPS for Girls): Introducing the World of Manufacturing Peter D. Heimdahl University of Wisconsin-StoutAbstract: The University of Wisconsin-Stout hosted a tuition-free summer engineering andtechnology camp for 163 girls entering 7th grade in four one-week sessions in July 1997. Thepurpose of the camp was to expose women to the opportunities for technical careers earlyenough to influence their choices of math, science, and technical courses in middle and highschool. The camp was partially supported by
. 1A variety of technical standards challenges are present in the literature. For starters, academia isexpected to provide basic technical standards education rather than supplement the trainingprovided in industry co-ops and internships [4]. Educators struggle to provide technical standardseducation due to the overloaded higher-education curriculum [2] and the need to customizeexisting content for discipline-specific courses [5]. Much of this burden (including themaintenance, purchasing, and education of technical standards) falls on academic librarians whoare in short supply. Little to no attention is given to educating graduate students on technicalstandards [2]. Due to these known challenges, efforts have been made on behalf of
should have adequate no hassle parking for staff anda drop-off area for children. Aside from the usual classroom type space with desks and chairs,the robot challenge layout area requires a minimum 20 square feet of open level flooring orcarpet (a square space, 20 feet on each side) that can be marked with a roll of painter’s tape (theblue kind) to denote the boundary conditions for the various robot course terrains. It is alsopreferable that the classroom or its equivalent is equipped with computers and a LCD or Elmotype projector within easy access to the challenge layout area. FLATE recommends 1 computerper 2 campers with an easy walking by space between each computer setup. It’s also helpful ifinstructors have Internet access within the
. Her current research is aimed at investigating intersectional stigma and how it affects HIV-related outcomes in Tampa Bay by applying participatory qualitative methods. Dr. Gabbidon also teaches graduate and undergraduate courses in Psychology including Cultural Competence, Program Evaluation, and Health Psychology.Dr. Saundra Johnson Austin, University of South Florida Dr. Saundra Johnson Austin has dedicated her career to promoting diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging of students and professionals in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) education and careers. Her research is grounded in the effective implementation of STEM curricula in urban middle schools. Johnson Austin began her
. Holley, “The Role of Threshold Concepts in an Interdisciplinary Curriculum: a Case Study in Neuroscience,” Innovative Higher Education, vol. 43, no. 1, pp. 17–30, Feb. 2018, doi: 10.1007/s10755-017-9408-9.[4] K. Sanders and R. McCartney, “Threshold concepts in computing: past, present, and future,” in Proceedings of the 16th Koli Calling International Conference on Computing Education Research, in Koli Calling ’16. New York, NY, USA: Association for Computing Machinery, Nov. 2016, pp. 91–100. doi: 10.1145/2999541.2999546.[5] J. Calver, P. Muir, and T. Fairgrieve, “Improving Student Takeaway in an Introductory Numerical Analysis/Scientific Computing Course: A Threshold Concepts Approach,” in Proceedings of the 21st Koli
several book chapters. All his research and book publications are in several areas mainly in computational science. He has been teaching several courses in areas such as stochastic and deterministic operations research, applied statistical analysis, and computational mathematics since late sixties. Further, he has been a member of the editorial board of international journals such as Computer Science and Informatics (India), and Neural, Parallel and Scientific Computations (USA). He has also been cited in Marquis Whos Who (Sep 2005).Gholam Ali Shaykhian, NASA Gholam "Ali" Shaykhian is a Software Engineer with Application, Simulation and Support Software Branch, Shuttle Processing
changed her program to Engineering and Computing Education a year later. Her re- search interests include exploration of marginalized engineering students’ experience, hidden identity, diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI), and STEM Education.Dr. Stephen Secules, Florida International University Stephen is an Assistant Professor Engineering and Computing Education at Florida International Univer- sity. He has a prior academic and professional background in engineering, having worked professionally as an acoustical engineer. He has taught a number of courses on engineering and education, including courses on engineering design, systems in society, and learning theories. Stephen’s research interests include equity
experiences (Eliot &Turns, 2011). Reflection activities may enable students to do things such as consolidate theirlearning and think critically about how their current course material can be applied to futurework in the real world. Moreover, armed with insights from student responses to reflectionactivities, educators may be able to do things such as better attune to areas of student confusionand adjust their teaching style to help improve students’ understanding of course material.However, there is little data on how students experience reflection activities and even less dataon how educators perceive such activities. How do we go about broadly appreciating theknowledge gains that can and do result from engagement in reflection activities?We
course of theircareers. For this reason, we now turn our attention to the literature on engineers’ career paths.Part 2: Engineers’ career pathsMost studies on engineers’ career paths are premised on a dual track model attributed to humanresource managers in the 1950s who were motivated to institutionalize a technical incentivestructure to improve the retention of high performing engineers [2, 4-6, 43, 44]. Stated simply,this model proposes that engineers can either: 1) ascend a traditional management hierarchy,gaining authority over larger numbers of employees with each step (management ladder), or 2)move through successive technical titles associated with salary increases, higher status, greaterresponsibility, and increased autonomy (technical
of different concepts, and whether they described alternative metaphors.Results and discussionWe outline our current analysis of the stories of these 14 participants through discussion of howeffective or not effective the pipeline metaphor is at understanding their lives. Each direct quotefrom a participant is labeled with a unique four-digit number that refers to our internalrecordkeeping. In general, “[...]” is used to excerpt out interviewer interjections of understanding(such as “okay” or “uh-huh”), to excerpt out something that might identify the participant, or tootherwise improve readability.How does the metaphor highlight particular lived experiences of women?Many of our participants agreed that the metaphor of pipeline “sounds
were identified using qualitative data analysis. They were broadly organized for this paperinto dominant themes that included a) interviewees’ characterizations of “the public,” b)experiences that shaped interviewees’ views of “the public,” c) interviewees’ understandingsabout their role in society, d) interviewees’ understandings about the role of “the public” inengineering decision making, and e) interviewees’ perceptions of risks and benefits associatedwith interacting with “the public.”IntroductionAt the forefront of the engineering code of ethics is the mandate to “hold paramount the safety,health and welfare of the public”1. The National Academy of Engineering (NAE) refers toengineers as “a key force in the improvement of our economic
with MIDFIELD. Address: 3504 Corin Court, Raleigh, NC, 27612-4100. Telephone: (+1) 919.782.4427. Email: rtecinc@bellsouth.netSusan 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 Univer- sity. She is currently Professor and Coordinator of Electrical Engineering at the University of San Diego. Her teaching and research interests include electronics, optoelectronics, materials science, first year engi- neering courses, feminist and liberative pedagogies, and student autonomy. Dr. Lord served as General Co-Chair of the 2006 Frontiers in Education Conference. She has been awarded NSF CAREER and ILI grants. She is currently working on a
picked up enough useful phrases and terms for independence.The students reported volunteering for this project for a variety of reasons. Expecting to learnmore about their research project, they also hoped to try out and improve their Chinese languageskills, explore the Chinese culture, and build their resume. Several of them welcomed an excuseto learn more about the land of their family’s heritage. Most acknowledged the lure of beingpaid to (a) do research and (b) travel to China.All participants were made explicitly aware that they were the subjects in a funded researchproject studying the effects of their participation in CURE. They signed IRB-approved consentforms as acknowledgement of their understanding and agreement to participate as well
two different forms, both of whichare supported by the satisfaction of the basic psychological needs. First, employees become moreintrinsically motivated when basic psychological needs are met, pursuing their daily workactivities out of a sense of enjoyment and interest in those activities. Second, employees who areautonomously motivated internalize extrinsic motivations, such as the values of the organizationor of their own workgroup [5]. Both types of autonomous motivation are responsible forimproved intentions and behaviors associated with boosting physical health and safety [11], aswell as increased persistence, greater satisfaction, and improvements in overall well-being[12][13]. Further Olafsen et al. [14] demonstrated that the
demonstrating the role ofchemistry in life with a valid influence on students’ judgment and attitude.The effectiveness of this approach has been demonstrated by the dramatically diminished gapbetween teaching and learning. Long lasting learning was verified by using this approach onstudents who chose Chemistry at University level. The atmosphere in the classroom waspleasant and friendly. The knowledge of the language of Chemistry acquired before enteringthe study of chemistry improved the ability to comprehend the subject matter.In conclusion, the teaching-learning process implemented on the knowledge of the languageof chemical formulae to which the content of chemical processes adds, together with a closeattention given to matching chemistry processes
Paper ID #38106Thinking Critically about Critical Research with MilitaryUndergraduates in Engineering EducationAngela Minichiello (Assistant Professor) Angela (Angie) Minichiello, Ph.D., P. E., is an Assistant Professor of Engineering Education and Adjunct Faculty in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at Utah State University. Her research employs asset-based frameworks to improve access, participation, and inclusivity across all levels of engineering education. Angie engages with qualitative, mixed-method, and multi-method approaches to better understand student experience for the ultimate purpose of
engineering students teaching math and science through robotics,” Journal of Science Education and Technology, 14(1): p. 59-73.10. Chambers, J.M. and M. Carbonaro, (2003) “Designing, developing, and implementing a course on LEGO robotics for technology teacher education,” Journal of Technology and Teacher Education, 11(2): p. 209-241.11. Kim, C., et al., (2015) “Robotics to promote elementary education pre-service teachers’ STEM engagement, learning, and teaching,” Computers and Education, 91: p. 14-31.12. Jaipal-Jamani, K. and C. Angeli, (2017) “Effect of robotics on elementary preservice teachers’ self- efficacy, science learning, and computational thinking,” Journal of Science Education and Technology, 26(2
laboratory projects in the middle years [27]–[29].Engineering teams offer a mode for interdisciplinarity and task delegation so students can finishlarge and complicated projects within the span of a course. What is not often taught, however,are the various skills necessary in the social processes that make teaming effective:communication, delegation, and conflict resolution, to name a few [30]–[32]. The socialcircumstances in which these skills become relevant can reveal hidden epistemologies that guidethe teaming process, especially when gender differences and dynamics are considered [21].Within engineering, these epistemologies are woven into the culture of engineering learningenvironments and often the engineering field itself [18]. Therefore, we
that. So that's an extra burden. To me personally, teaching a community engagement, service-learning course is already much more burdensome than teaching a regular class. … A community engagement [course requires] all the prep work that you have to do with your partners to get them ready, get your students ready, and bring them together, and work out differences, and get them to work together for an extended period and actually have some meaningful impact. … I had some times in my annual performance reviews where [they said] ‘this is good service. But how are you gonna improve on your research?’ And I was like, this is my research. I'm writing grants. I'm writing papers. I needed to educate my colleagues and supervisors that it's not
Gül E. Okudan is an Assistant Professor of Engineering Design at The Pennsylvania State University. She received her Ph.D. from University of Missouri-Rolla. Her research interests include intelligent shop floor control, manufacturing strategy modeling and measurement, solid modeling, product design, and product design teams. Her published work appears in journals such as Journal of Engineering Design, Design Studies, Journal of Engineering Education, European Journal of Engineering Education and Technovation. She is a member of ASEE and ASME. She is also a National Research Council-US AFRL Summer Faculty Fellow of the Human Effectiveness Directorate for 2002, 2003 and 2004