, share ideas, and develop a sense of belonging in STEM [18]. Thissocial interaction can create a supportive atmosphere where learners feel safe to exploreengineering concepts and take intellectual risks [19]. Engagement is further influenced by thequality of peer interactions. High-quality interactions, characterized by constructive feedbackand shared problem-solving, have been linked to improved understanding of physics concepts[1]. Engagement is contingent upon the existence and effectiveness of how students interact withone another in the learning experience.MentorshipPeer mentoring emerges as a significant aspect of informal STEM education, particularly inengineering education [20], [21]. The collaborative nature of peer interactions allows
), a graduate student-ledorganization at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (UIUC), designs and hostseducational workshop programming to accomplish its mission to promote allyship and fosterinclusivity within the STEM. AiS recognizes allyship, defined as active support and advocacy byindividuals – particularly those with privilege – for marginalized groups, as a critical tool inreducing discrimination and promoting equity. Concurrently, AiS understands the importance ofdeveloping effective diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility (DEIA) programming to createconcrete, demographic-specific strategies for allyship as informed by existing research within theliterature. This process involves addressing the unique challenges faced by
participation in engineering.It is important to keep in mind that potential role models are just that: potential role models orrole model prospects. The individual who may be seeking a role model, the role aspirant [15],ultimately determines whether a role model prospect is a role model to them. As such, weconsider outreach educators to be role model prospects until a child identifies them as a rolemodel.Although the idea of introducing youth to role model prospects sounds reasonable, research doesnot overwhelmingly support the effectiveness of these potential role models. Despite claims thatrole models are one answer to increasing underrepresentation in engineering, the addition of rolemodel prospects to outreach programs does not necessarily improve
, an inauguralgroup of universities received NSF ADVANCE Institutional Transformation (IT) awards toincrease the representation of women faculty in science and engineering. To date, a total of fivecohorts of 44 institutions of higher education have received the award, and the 19 institutionscomprising the 2001 and 2003 cohorts have completed their five-year projects.In this paper, we examine the effectiveness of recruitment programs and practices developed byCohort 1 ADVANCE institutions in an effort to increase the representation of women faculty.Towards this end, we focus on changes in the number of women faculty at the assistant professorrank in colleges of engineering at seven Cohort 1 ADVANCE institutions. We examineperformance during
successful careers in engineering. Conductingresearch using the RAA in engineering education can contribute to a deeper understanding of thepsychological and social factors, potential barriers, and facilitators that influence decision-making processes and behaviors in engineering, ultimately leading to more effective strategiesfor improving outcomes and addressing the challenges facing the field today.ConclusionThe RAA, consisting of three integral components – attitudes, interpreted social norms, andperceived behavioral control – comprises a comprehensive framework for analyzing behavioralchoices across diverse contexts and situations. The synergistic junction of these influencesaccounts for a broad spectrum of behavioral decisions, providing a
environment within any organization. Theinstructors mainly focus on preparing students, especially in STEAM fields, for participation in agender-equitable job market.The necessity of a balanced admission system that fairly represents academic instructors andfamilies is discussed. Instructors view individual commitment and trust as the organization'sbackbone for achieving educational and occupational goals. Efforts to improve opportunities forwomen and to balance job opportunities, both within and outside the university, align with thegoals of equality and diversity in the workplace.The workshop highlighted the necessity of collaborative endeavors to advance gender parity inengineering schools. Principal themes, such as self-assurance, effective
holds a B.S. degree from Eastern Michigan University and an A.M.L.S. from The University of Michigan. Lynn has served on the Board of Directors of the Special Libraries Association and is a Fellow of the Association. In addition to her expertise as an engineering information professional, Lynn teaches graduate library science courses for Clarion University of Pennsylvania, is a frequent conference presenter and is an author of the Engineering and Technology Section of the reference work Magazines for Libraries now in its 18th edition.Bo Baker, University of Tennessee Chattanooga Bo Baker is the Information Commons Librarian at the University of Tennessee Chattanooga. He is
the complex dynamics of communication within research labs, examining how graduate students experience communication mis-cues and identifying strategies to help both students and their advisors navigate and overcome these challenges. She also investigates how faculty approach their communication with graduate students, the concerns they encounter, and the guidance they provide to cultivate stronger, more effective communicators. Recognizing that effective communication is foundational to leadership and mentorship, Dr. Simmons emphasizes the role of oral communication in building agency. Her work uncovers how mastering oral communication can empower individuals to assert their ideas confidently and navigate
faculty and deansvolunteered to assure that the material were shelved in the correct places.The opening ceremony for Price Gilbert Library was on Saturday, November 21, 1953 (Box 5,Series 2). Distinguished guests included librarians from the Library of Congress, NationalScience Foundation, Department of Agriculture, and the University of Illinois. Mr. Burchard ofMassachusetts Institute of Technology delivered the main address.The new building brought the positive changes that were predicted by Crosland. In her 1955-1956 Report of Director of Libraries, Crosland noted an increase in the number of patrons in thelibrary. The Wilby Room was used for meetings by 90 organizations and multiple professionalshort courses (Annual Report, 1955-1956). For
permanent due to virus mutation, etc.Transition RatesTerminology and development of the model.β(t) is called the transmission rate or effective contact rate (the rate at which individuals bumpinto others and expose them to the virus)γ is called the resolution rate (the rate at which infected people recover or die)δ(t) [0,1] is the death probabilityAs before, we re-parameterize as R0(t): =β(t)/γ, where R0 has previous interpretation.Jumping directly to the equations in s,i,r,d already normalized by N,dsdidrdd=−γR0sidt=(γR0si−γi)dt=(1−δ)γidt=δγidt(1)(1)ds=−γR0sidtdi=(γR0si−γi)dtdr=(1−δ)γidt dd=δγidtNote that the notation has changed to heuristically put the dt on the right hand side, which will beused when
manager (Ernst and Young Consulting Turkey), where she added important values within 5 years. Also she worked in SAP Business for a long time and managed various SAP/ERP projects in Turkey and also abroad. Now she is serving in ERP, CRM and e-business categories as senior consultant and lecturing at various universities. Additional to these she is sometimes giving conference seminars and company trainings in her expertise areas. Dr. Baloglu has about 15 professional and academic papers, published in various technology magazines and books. And she currently works for Marmara University - Dept. of Computer Engineering under title of Asst. Prof and also teaches the some courses in
engineering.Indeed, there is ample evidence that diversity improves the productivity and creativity of teamsthrough varied perspectives, experiences and interpretations [1, 2]. However, there is littleawareness of the potential contributions of neurodiverse individuals, such as those with AttentionDeficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD). ADHD has been defined by the AmericanPsychological Association as a neuropsychological condition characterized by a persistentpattern of inattention, hyperactivity, and/or impulsivity [3]. However, ADHD has been shown tobe associated with creativity, innovation, and risk-taking, all of which are critical skills forengineers to tackle the multifaceted challenges of the future [4-6]. While these traits are allpotential assets
hadachieved. After all, there were more effective ways to stop people dying than by being a surgeon.On my final helicopter flight I had sat next to a Swedish water engineer who told me about hiswork, while my body shook with chills. He built filtration plants, and the clean water that he hadbrought to the refugee camps had preserved probably thousands from death. By comparison I’dsaved perhaps a handful of lives by operating to stop blood-loss or gangrene; improved theoutcome of injuries in a few more cases where I was able to conserve a damaged limb or clean awound, and possibly – just possibly – prevented some fatalities through the haphazarddistribution of drugs among the refugees.”13 The post-program survey substantiates the girls’ desire to
Paper ID #15210The Changing Role of Professional Societies for AcademicsDr. Gretchen L. Hein, Michigan Technological University Gretchen Hein is a senior lecturer in Engineering Fundamentals at Michigan Tech. She have been teaching ENG3200, Thermo-Fluids since 2005. She also teaches first-tear engineering classes. She has been active in incorporating innovative instructional methods into all course she teaches. Her research areas also include why students persist in STEM programs and underrepresented groups in engineering.Dr. Daniela Faas, Harvard University Dr. Faas is currently the Senior Preceptor in Design Instruction
to everyone else on the list. (Dickerson 34-41) This errorcan be easily avoided if the users had regular training on sending out mass emails on companywide email system. Of course, we don’t know if the person who sends the email was beingsupervised or the manager just left the task to a staff member. If the latter scenario was the case,then the manager is at fault. Such important task must be handled by a manager who’stechnically savvy and will be able to evaluate all possibilities for error in advance.Inappropriate Access privileges for users In regard to access privilege sometimes certain ordinary users may have extra ordinaryprivilege on a network. This is extremely dangerous. According to CERT and US Secreteservice, 87% of insider
Students’ Interests in STEM via Summer Learning Experiences: See Blue STEM Camp,” Sch. Sci. Math., vol. 114, no. 6, pp. 291–301, Oct. 2014, doi: 10.1111/ssm.12079.[12] National Reseach Council, Successful K-12 STEM Education: Identifying Effective Approaches in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics. Washington, D.C.: National Academies Press, 2011. doi: 10.17226/13158.[13] I. Obembe et al., “Survey of Courses on Semiconductor Manufacturing at U.S. Universities,” IISE Annu. Conf. Proc., pp. 1–6, 2024, doi: 10.21872/2024IISE_7253.[14] S. Murphy, A. MacDonald, C. A. Wang, and L. Danaia, “Towards an Understanding of STEM Engagement: a Review of the Literature on Motivation and Academic Emotions,” Can. J. Sci
engineering andcomputer science. Literature reviews compounded the theme that STEM camps improve theinterest level of the participants in STEM. Furthermore, STEM camps should be designed toprovide hands-on activities and experiments in an empowering learning environment [5], [6].As of 2024, GEMS has had over 575 students and twenty-eight teachers who have been a part ofthe after-school clubs and summer camps. A sizable portion remained with the GEMS programsfor multiple years, as well as going from miniGEMS in middle school to megaGEMS in highschool [1], [2]. GEMS is under the umbrella of Mission and Ministry at the University of theIncarnate Word (UIW) in San Antonio, Texas [12]. GEMS was founded by the PrincipalInvestigator of the Autonomous
approaches to engineering education integrate empathyas a core skill and orientation to engineering practice, placing the other people involved in theengineering design process at the center [5]-[6]. This human-centered approach has the potentialto strengthen engineering practices while also offering more welcoming invitations into the fieldfor groups of learners, particularly women, who have historically been underrepresented inengineering courses and careers. Research has found that the dominant view of engineering asprimarily about “working with things” rather than “working with people” leads many youngwomen to the conclusion that engineering is not for them [7]-[9]. These conceptions ofengineering begin to form in elementary and middle school
curriculum and instruction in engineering education, motivation and preparation of under served pop- ulations of students and teachers and in assessing the impact of operationalizing culturally responsive teaching in the STEM classroom. As executive director of the LBJ Institute for STEM Education and Research, she collaborates on various state and national STEM education programs and is PI on major grant initiatives through NASA MUREP and NSF Improving Undergraduate STEM Education and NSF DUE . Araceli holds Engineering degrees from The University of Michigan and Kettering University. She holds a Masters degree in Education from Michigan State and a PhD in Engineering Education from Tufts University.Dr. Michael A Soltys
in the Engineering Education realm working with faculty motivation for change and re-design of Material Science courses for more active pedagogies.Dr. Beena Sukumaran, Rowan University Beena Sukumaran has been on the faculty at Rowan University since 1998 and is Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering. She is currently serving as Vice President for Research. Her area of expertise is in micro-geomechanics and she has published over 100 peer reviewed conference and journal papers including several papers on engineering education and the unique undergraduate curriculum at Rowan University, especially the Engineering Clinics. She has been involved in various outreach activities to recruit more women and
, finding solutions and making5 Since the Maternal Wall bias is focused on gender based bias, we would not elaborate on the regressioncoefficients of the race variables. Model 5 does show Latino/Latina reported lower level agreement with thestatement. We do not have enough data in this study to offer an explanation to this result.improvements are what researchers and practitioners should focus on next. Various attemptshave been made or are in the making. For instance, a group of graduate students and faculty atthe Purdue University Engineering Education program published a report with proposedsolutions to improve African-American women’s presence in engineering (Fletcher et al 2016).The Center for WorkLife law at U. C. Hastings are working on
InteractionsAbstractThis exploratory study addresses the need to increase the numbers of traditionallyunderrepresented minority (URM) students in engineering careers through an investigation of therole of research mentoring in recruiting and retaining URM students in engineering. Mentoringstudents in engineering and science research has long been acknowledged as an effective way toengage undergraduates in engineering majors, and is also an essential component of the doctoraldegrees that represent the gateway to careers in engineering research. This study was guided bythe following questions: 1) What can we identify as best practices in mentoring and supervisingURM students as they conduct engineering research? 2) How is the effectiveness of thesepractices
included an abstract, theory, results, conclusions, references, a lab manual forfuture classes, and an Ansys tutorial.The project directly supported Outcome C of the course: "Discuss and explain machining."Through hands-on experience with press brakes and measurement tools, students appliedengineering analysis to real-world manufacturing. Additionally, the use of Ansys for simulationsprovided valuable skills applicable to their future careers.By reproducing this project, future students can enhance their understanding of machiningprocesses, improve efficiency through simulation-based adjustments, and gain practicalexperience comparing experimental results with theoretical predictions.Table 1: Manufacturing processes course inventory for university
Paper ID #37189A Qualitative Study of Undergraduate Women in Engineering Project TeamsDr. Grace J. LiangDr. Rick Evans, Cornell University Sociolinguist and Director of the Engineering Communications Program in the College of Engineering at Cornell UniversityMojdeh AsadollahipajouhDr. Stacey E. Kulesza, P.E., Kansas State University Dr. Stacey Kulesza is an associate professor in the civil engineering department at Texas State University. Dr. Kulesza is a graduate of the American Society of Civil Engineers Excellence in Civil Engineering Education (ExCEED). She teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in geotechnical
, working with indigenous youth, or promoting inclusivity from the perspective of neurodiversity.” [A1]For the focus usage group, neurodiv* played a central role in the paper. In more traditionalstudies, this meant that the research question(s) included neurodiv*. In other articles, the authorsproposed a framework or other strategies for curricular reform where the primary motivation wasto increase course accessibility to neurodivergent students. These articles only introducedstrategies; they did not report results of their application. However, this is not to say that thefocus usage group excludes all articles that present results of applying curricular reformstrategies. Such articles could have been included if they discussed outcomes for
these students were struggling within the course, andwhether their negative experiences throughout the whole process could lead to ineffectivelearning experiences. Then our research team could see if there was a possibility for this negativeexperience to be interrupted with an intervention. If this was effective our hope would be tonormalize this outside intervention as a standard practice in engineering education.In an effort to keep the benefits and potentially eliminate the drawbacks of the drag-and-dropquestion format, we want to change the format of the survey instrument to a series of drop downmenus for future implementations. There will be multiple drop down menus in a row, all with thesame bank of words as options. This format allows
, and gender and 2) engineering education, with a focus on socioeconomic class and social responsibility. She is currently completing a book manuscript on the intersection of engineering and corporate social responsibility. She is the author of Mining Coal and Un- dermining Gender: Rhythms of Work and Family in the American West (Rutgers University Press, 2014), which was funded by the National Science Foundation and National Endowment for the Humanities. In 2016 the National Academy of Engineering recognized her Corporate Social Responsibility course as a national exemplar in teaching engineering ethics. Professor Smith holds a PhD in Anthropology and a certificate in Women’s Studies from the University of Michigan
, University of Michigan Shanna Daly is an Assistant Professor in Mechanical Engineering at the University of Michigan. She has a B.E. in Chemical Engineering from the University of Dayton (2003) and a Ph.D. in Engineering Edu- cation from Purdue University (2008). Her research focuses on strategies for design innovations through divergent and convergent thinking as well as through deep needs and community assessments using design ethnography, and translating those strategies to design tools and education. She teaches design and en- trepreneurship courses at the undergraduate and graduate levels, focusing on front-end design processes. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2020
attitudes.Ghada Salama, Texas A&M University at Qatar Ghada Salama is an Instructional Associate Professor at Texas A&M in the Chemical Engineering Pro- gram at Qatar. She teaches freshman Engineering introductory courses, and chemical engineering courses of different levels . She is a strong advocate and believer of student engagement and conducting interac- tive classes to support and encourage the learning process. She has published and presented in numerous conferences sharing her experiences in engineering education.Emilio Ocampo Eibenschutz, Texas A&M University at Qatar Emilio Ocampo Eibenschutz is a Research Associate at the Liberal Arts Program at Texas A&M Univer- sity at Qatar. His research areas
], few studies portray how engineering undergraduates engage inethical reasoning, particularly as it unfolds and shifts throughout the course of the designprocess. Even fewer have examined ethical reasoning when situated within authentic designcontexts, particularly those in which students must navigate the messy interconnections betweenend-user needs, design constraints, team dynamics, technical problems, and ethical dilemmas. Toprepare engineers capable of grappling with these ethical complexities, engineering educatorsneed a richer understanding of students’ situated, daily ethical decision-making. Drawing on acase study of 13 students in an undergraduate service learning engineering course, this studyapplies reflexive principlism as an