with the L&L space and the individuals that comprise them. Weconceptualize the ESED culture as values and norms which prioritize diversity, equity, and inclusion with an emphasis oncommunity engagement. Expectations for department members center around involvement in additional community-buildingevents and collaborations between other students and faculty. We choose to interview students rather than faculty in order tofocus on the strengths that students bring to graduate school and see in L&L rather than the resources provided by faculty.Our unit of analysis is the L&L space within the ESED department.We rely on Lincoln and Guba’s [20] conceptions of trustworthiness and credibility to consider the quality of our work.This study
ways of how the engineering enculturation process can bepositively impacted on students’ performance.A. Purpose of the StudyIn studying the culture of the engineering profession and the expected ABET student outcomes atthe southwestern university, the following key enculturation factors were identified andincorporated into the First-Year Engineering Experience (Mendoza Diaz et al., 2017; Richard etal., 2016, 2017; Wickliff et al., 2017). Enculturation Factors List 1. Problem solving 2. Algorithmic thinking 3. Math and physical modeling 4. Engineering design 5. Engineering communications 6. Teamwork 7. Ethics 8. Engineering professionThe faculty are hoping with this research to better inform the literature
to make local change within thedepartment, but we also hope to contribute to a broader paradigm shift that transforms howuniversity faculty and staff understand and perceive neurodiversity, a key lever for enhancing theeducational experiences of neurodiverse students. This conceptual paper presents an overview ofthese departmental transformation efforts, with a focus on the shared theory, code, and toolsaround which our epistemic community is constructed. First, we present a social ecologytheoretical framework (theory) that challenges the deficit-based approach that has historicallyshaped neurodiverse learners' experiences by emphasizing learners’ assets and their potential of aneurodiverse student body to contribute to innovation for the
engagement first to bestmotivate students and a theory approach to solve problems second [21]. The success of team-based learning depends on the ability to demonstrate complex tasks [22].AMP! is designed to improve student engagement and achievement in STEM subjects bytraining teachers to guide students in making connections between applied mathematics andinquiry science through active, creative, and rigorous learning experiences. This approach isbased on the knowledge that linking mathematics and science throughout teaching progressionscreates an atmosphere where these disciplines connect more effectively [23]. Thus, regularcollaboration between teachers is needed and has shown to have a positive impact on studentachievement [24]. This
the Corps of Engineers for over 24 years including eleven years on the faculty at the United States Military Academy. Page 26.1395.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2015 STEM Collaboration Assessment Leading to Curriculum Changes and Greater Long-Term STEM Engagement?AbstractGifted Fourth and Fifth Grade students from Richland School District 2 conduct a field study(Active Learning Experiences in Resourceful Thinking, ALERT) at The Citadel every otheryear. The focus is for their students from 19 elementary schools who are part of a district-widegifted and
previously been shown to be important forengineering identity development [4], [8]. Therefore, we investigated how engagement withengineering communities, particularly those that have the elements of communities of practice,impacted engineering identity development for students of various pathways. Examples ofcommunities of practice that our participants engaged with included teams such as design buildcompetition teams and student government organizations. In our work, we initiallyconceptualized identity, specifically engineering identity, broadly using Gee’s identityframework [9] along with the expanded definition from Weiner, Lande, and Jordan [10]. Theseframeworks were used throughout the analysis of the qualitative data, but in keeping with
partnerships to further the impact of the program outreach intothe STEM education community.This paper presents a strategy - focused on the unique and compelling stories of the student andmentor participants - that was implemented to achieve a greater impact in program outreach andgoals while reducing program management costs. This strategy incorporates a qualitativedimension to traditional program metrics which add context which better illuminated the impactof the program on the larger STEM community. The strategy was also effective in deepeningstrategic partnerships with stakeholders through the promotion of the student’s host institution,unique campus organizations, the mentor’s organizational mission, and NASA technicalprograms. Overall, the
Paper ID #40086Introducing Entrepreneurship in Manufacturing courses: A Hands-onProject approachDr. Anu Osta, Rowan University Dr Anu Osta is a Senior Lecturer in Mechanical Engineering Department at Rowan University. His teaching interests are Mechanics, Materials and Manufacturing and Design. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2023 Introducing Entrepreneurship in Manufacturing courses: A Hands-on Project approachIntroductionOne of the driving purpose of entrepreneurship education is to enable the student community tobe able to convert the idea in their minds into a thriving, growing
and her master's degree in Industrial Engineering from Louisiana State University.© American Society for Engineering Education, 2010 Engineering from Louisiana State University. Page 15.718.2© American Society for Engineering Education, 2010 Incorporating Visual Communications Assignments to Enrich Education in All Engineering DisciplinesIntroductionAt Louisiana State University, a gift from an alumnus made possible the establishment of aprogram to improve students’ communication skills. As we described in a 2006 paper, theCommunication across the Curriculum (CxC) Program was established in 2004 with an initialemphasis on engineering
engagement and minimized confusion. Interestingly, students often adopted additional tools beyond those initially suggested, demonstrating adaptability and initiative in managing their collaborations. It was also important to prime these students to navigate intercultural collaborations prior to the exchange through short class activities that introduced the idea of intercultural competency and raised their awareness on the impact of cultural differences on communication and working styles. Even though both of our courses were primarily focused on engineering and biotechnology, the exchange evolved over time, resulting in a truly multicultural experience that extended beyond academic learning. Through both reflection questionnaires and
Paper ID #33807Adapting Pedagogy in the Pandemic Environment: A Work-in-ProgressAnalysis of the Impact of Remote Learning in an ArchitecturalEngineering Technology ProgramMr. Eugene Kwak, State University of New York, College of Technology at Farmingdale Architect, LEED AP, urban designer, passive house designer; as a student at Columbia, earned the Lucille Smyser Lowenfish Memorial Prize; running research and grant-based projects; working for Cookfox Architects and Dattner Architects, focused on technology-based green and sustainable work including 150 Charles St. and New Housing New York Legacy Project; his entry for the
] 1 • Multidisciplinary projects [12] • Including both technical design as well as the team and professional aspects of industry [13] These decisions to re-design a capstone experience focus on what to add, remove and/or modifywithin a current capstone are significant and should engage both the internal and external stakeholders toensure the best learning experience for students. In multi-disciplinary programs, the diverse stakeholderopinions often will have competing interests and perspectives [12]. As part of the ABET requirements,programs are expected to seek input from their stakeholders which add to this list of necessary perspectivesthat need to be considered and addressed. However, the process and effort needed to
graduate assistant, a scienceeducation PhD student to help with program development and evaluation. In terms of expandingthe impact of the college, outreach and community engagement provided cradle to career serviceto students and their mentors; resulted in training teachers who implement new practices in theirclasses, and helped provide access to educational and career opportunities for people across thestate.Internally, efforts to produce lasting cultural shifts in inclusion on the college campus wereundertaken. These efforts included: i) sharing best practices in implicit bias training for facultysearches; ii) fostering collaborations between diversity/inclusion leaders with researchers todesign and implement broader impacts activities; and iii
information about the outreachprogram’s outcomes and impact, should be shared with stakeholders; such as an update onthe program success during a faculty meeting. Feedback on participants’ successes should alsobe used to strengthen links to the community colleges the participants are recruited from,communicating the value of the program to the students they serve. For example, theAACRE program conducts short presentations about the successes and career developments ofpast program participants to the local community colleges where the program often recruitsparticipants from. Using quantitative measures and information about the program’s impactsupports efforts for the ongoing funding and resource allocation to the program, and alsohelps communicate
for multiple compressor pressure ratios toanalyze its impact on the power output and efficiency. Or in dynamics, instead of calculating therange and maximum height of a projectile, they can plot and visualize the trajectory of theprojectile for various initial conditions. While there are significant advantages for helping students develop fluency usingcomputer programs to solve engineering problems, there are some challenges to consider. Forinstance, when teaching computer programing to first-year engineering students, the class sizesare typically large, making it difficult to provide timely and relevant feedback. For second- andthird-year students, the computer assignments should help students explore the relevantengineering concepts
2005-2130 The Integration of Hands-on Team Projects into an Engineering Course to Help Students Make the Transition from Student to Professional Engineer Craig J. Hoff, and Gregory W. Davis, Kettering UniversityThere is considerable concern that current engineering education practices do notadequately prepare students for the practice of engineering. This statement goes farbeyond the often stated requirements that to be successful in their careers engineeringgraduates must have good communication skills, must be able to work inmultidisciplinary teams, etc. There
describe Advancing Cultural Change (ACC), an action-oriented researchinitiative that engages undergraduates in ethnographic research to explore university culture andthe lived experiences of its community members. Despite continued efforts to broadenparticipation in engineering programs across the country, there remains significantunderrepresentation of racial minorities and women. This lack of diversity is due, in part, toexclusionary behaviors, such as bias and discrimination that pervade the cultures of engineering.Drawing on critical theories including intersectionality and critical methodologies inanthropology, ACC is aimed at making the experiences of underrepresented groups visible whilestrategizing collectively on ways to reduce cultural
Psychology from Calvin College, and a PhD in Educational Psychology from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.Dr. Gail Baura, Loyola University Chicago Dr. Gail Baura is a Professor and Director of Engineering Science at Loyola University Chicago. While creating the curriculum for this new program, she embedded multi-semester projects to increase student engagement and performance. Previously, she was a Professor of Medical Devices at Keck Graduate In- stitute of Applied Life Sciences, which is one of the Claremont Colleges. She received her BS Electrical Engineering degree from Loyola Marymount University, her MS Electrical Engineering and MS Biomed- ical Engineering degrees from Drexel University, and her PhD
. Such a report helps the Leonhard Center to assess project impacts and processes. Table 1 in thebelow “Project evaluation” section provides descriptive results from the evaluation. Some recent projecthighlights include: using emerging technologies like Virtual Reality (VR)/Augmented Reality (AR) andArtificial Intelligence (AI) to promote classroom engagement; creating micro-credentials for robotics,engineering literacy, engineering writing, inclusive teaming, extra-curricular clubs recognition, and ethics;multiple department-level Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) programs; creating an Academic Job MarketSeminar for graduate students; and many more.Themes through the yearsAppendix A shows a timeline of the history of the Leonhard Center
fellow also engaged students in higher level thinking by asking real-worldapplication questions and promoting critical thinking skills among students, thus helping theeducational enterprise.The impact on the teacher is evident through the lessons taught, enriched concepts and student-driven lesson plans. The module added to the prior knowledge of the teacher and introduced newconcepts in science and engineering. The teacher learned various ways to incorporate Page 13.181.7technology, new ideas, and activities to lessons, and also gained an overall knowledge to enrichlessons. The teacher participated in discussions and researched to obtain more
their role in it early and often.Engineers traditionally have had difficulty defining engineering to non-engineers. Therefore, topromote public understanding of and interest in engineering and engineering education,engineering education students must have the ability to communicate this information to thegeneral public. In addition, students must also be able to describe engineering education toothers, particularly engineers, who may have preconceived notions about the field. The centralbelief is that for our students to have an impact on engineering education they need to be developskills in talking, thinking, and working across the disciplines that make up engineeringeducation.Developing community. Isolationism3,4, a common problem in
research studies that, for the last threedecades, have shown the value of communities of practice to the workplace 11 and the largerimportance of community to civic engagement. Following Robert Putnam’s groundbreakingstudy of community in Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community 12,researchers and policymakers (including President Obama) have been concerned about thedecline of community in the U.S., diminished social capital, greater income inequality, and thethreat of individualism to society 13. Educators began to question whether university students inthe United States feel sufficiently supported on their campus communities, and scholars haveidentified inclusiveness and community as key attributes of American education, the
learning, project-based learning, inquiry-based learning, andchallenge-based learning.In the Control Systems course in the Electronic Systems Engineering Technology (ESET)program at Texas A& M University, students were introduced to the Maker Culture in class.Laboratories were re-structured to support students’ effort to work on course projects that theychose on their own. This had a positive impact on the motivation of the students. A Mini-MakerFaire was organized at the end of the semester where student did demo and presentation. Theproject evaluation was also changed to reflect the Maker Culture spirit: whether your designworks or not is not as important as what you learned in the process.Although the subject has been discussed by many
communicative needs identified byindustry stakeholders. A natural fit for a technical writing and communication curriculumdesigned for the needs of engineers, the Kolb model of experiential learning features a practicethat is process-based, focused on connecting new and old knowledge, and requires learnerdiscomfort—through iterative testing a learner must be willing to dispense with ideas found to befalse. Knowledge creation occurs through the meaningful interaction of one’s lived experiencewith that of the immediate environment [1].Understood as an active and dynamic approach to problem-solving, experiential practices in theclassroom offer unique student impact opportunities for mid-performing students, while stillretaining value for advanced students
moderately correlated, witha few weaker correlations (e.g., advisor with identity) and a few strong correlations (e.g., advisorwith lab/research stressors, class stressors with TA stressors). One interesting note is that astudent’s overall stress or anxiety symptoms as measured by the DASS 21 psychometric test wasmore weakly associated with intention to remain than many of the SDSQ-E subscales, suggestingthat measuring stressors impacting students’ doctoral working environments may be moreimportant to predicting student wellness and retention.Preliminary work into investigating Year 3 stressors has suggested that these trends hold.Future Work and ProductsFuture work will include dissemination of the results of our full study and the conclusion
, individualmentoring of undergraduates during these research experiences has been effective in increasingthe undergraduates’ retention in the STEM disciplines. 5-7Within this context, the Learning Enhanced Watershed Assessment System (LEWAS) lab is ahigh-frequency, real-time environmental monitoring lab located on the campus of Virginia Techwith the following three primary goals: 1) to engage in interdisciplinary research with cutting-edge technology for advancing the environmental monitoring research, 2) to bring this researchinto practice by educating engineers and non-engineers with hands-on authentic problems, and 3)to educate the community with the experiences gathered from research and practice. 8-10 TheLEWAS lab has a field site, which is located at
with most of the department, including thoseparticipating in the TLC. Thus, we defined metrics to track our progress that include metrics thatwe expect to change in one to two years and metrics that may take longer to see effects of theTLC work. The shorter-term metrics chosen are the Teaching Practices Inventory (Wieman andGilbert 2014) and student evaluation scores. The longer-term metrics include student attitudesand student success. Student success for us will be defined by retention rates, diversity, andgraduation rates (van den Bogaard 2012). Only baseline information for the one shorter-termmetric is presented in this paper. In addition, we also track the number of faculty attending theTLC. Our attendance has ranged from 3 to 11 with a
stakeholders.Dr. David A. Delaine, Ohio State University Dr. David A. Delaine is an Assistant Professor at The Ohio State University Department of Engineering Education. Within this newly formed department he strives to creatively impact engineering education and society through investigating community-based learning and its potential impact on students and commu- nities. The goal of this research is to establish knowledge in how STEM CBL can support broadening participation and promote social justice and citizenship through evidence-based approaches.Tanya M. Nocera Ph.D., Ohio State University Tanya M. Nocera, PhD earned a BS in Physics from Allegheny College and a MS and PhD in Biomedical Engineering (BME) from The Ohio
professional work experience closely related to their academic focus area.This simultaneous combination of academic and professional work experience has proven tohave a tremendous positive impact on students’ learning and enables them to fully develop theirprofessional identity as engineers early before they graduate. At the completion of the courses,students submit a written report and give an oral presentation to a broader audience on details ofthe work performed and their findings and learning. The experience that students gain throughthis program directly contributes to the new ABET-EAC Student Outcomes (1) through (7).Using a set of rubrics designed based on the ABET-EAC Students Outcomes and in consultationwith the students’ academic advisors
employers. The senior students,however, were challenged to engage in these peer-collaborative practices in accordance withmore metacognitive practices such as independent learning management and critical thinking. We designed the eight instructional factors into the existing curriculum for each course inaccordance with students' needs and the predefined learning objectives, recommendations fromthe literature, and to be cohesive across content areas, course prerequisites, and students’post-graduation aspirations. We additionally considered how the shift to virtual learning during atime of political and social upheaval would impact students, and made efforts across each courseimplementation to communicate expectations of students and offer