isolation and impostor syndrome were exacerbated by negativeinteractions with their Asian international peers. Data were collected through semi-structuredinterviews with 23 Black PhD students regarding their doctoral experiences. Across theinterviews, participants expressed similar experiences in their programs: 1) Feelings of racialisolation from underrepresentation among their peers, 2) Perceptions that Asian peers werepositioned to be in STEM which made Black students feel as though they were impostors in theiracademic fields 3.) Interactions with Asian peers that challenged their sense of belonging in theirdepartments and programs, leading them to feel increased isolation and minimal support. Thisresearch affirms the need to create and employ
for helping current “buoyant believers” maintain ahigh level of resilience and confidence, the present investigation uncovered detailed informationabout how Black male students in engineering and engineering-related fields developed suchtraits. 12,29 Research participants identified attributes such as a) childhood adversity, b) a refusalto quit, and c) prior academic success, which ultimately led to their collegiate achievements.Attribute 1: Childhood adversitySeveral research participants who were labeled as “buoyant believers,” described childhoodadversity which helped them learn how to focus on and fight for academic opportunities evenwith limited resources and outside discouragement. For example, Charles, a senior aerospace
the James F. Lufkin Award for the best conference paper—on the intersections between professional communication research and social jus- tice—at the 2012 International Professional Communication Conference. In 2015, he won the Ronald S. Blicq Award for Distinction in Technical Communication Education from the Professional Communica- tion Society of the Institute for Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE). His current research focuses on rendering visible and integrating the social justice dimensions inherent in three components of the engineering curriculum—in engineering sciences, engineering design, and humanities and social science courses. That research, conducted with co-author Juan C. Lucena, will
Engineering Network (KEEN) currently includes 37 partnerinstitutions that are dedicated to embedding the Entrepreneurial Mindset within theirundergraduate engineering programs. Engineering students develop a skillset as they progressthrough their curriculum that primarily revolves around technical skills such as analysis anddesign. While these skills are important, students also need a mindset to augment their toolboxof skills necessary to become outstanding engineers. The Entrepreneurial Mindset “equipsengineering students to understand the bigger picture, allowing them to recognize opportunities,evaluate markets, and learn from their mistakes.” [1] KEEN developed a framework for theEntrepreneurial Mindset. The KEEN Framework is a supplement to the
ACTIVITIES SOURCES OF SELF-EFFICACYCement and Concrete lecture MASTERY EXPERIENCESTeam laboratory research experiencesField trip to Joint School of Nanoscience and Nanoengineering VICARIOUS EXPERIENCESField trip to the LEED certified Proximity hotelDance sessions at a Dance Studio VERBAL PERSUASIONOral STEAM presentationsEngineering Education seminar EMOTIONAL STATEPlay-times/lunch/snacksCoaches/MentorsFigure 1. Mapping of STEAM ACTIVATED! activities to Bandura’s sources of self-efficacyResearch Experiences in bio-char modified cement paste cubes: the girls were engaged inlaboratory
their transition into higher education institutions. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2020Affirming Identity through Authentic Mentoring in a Safe Space: Supporting Military Veterans in an Engineering Graduate ProgramAbstractThis qualitative study explored five graduate student veterans’ experience in an engineeringmaster’s program that has implemented a double-layered mentoring structure for the students. Byexamining the synergistic confluence between mentoring relationships and student veterans’cultural identities in the graduate program environment, five major themes emerged from thethematic analysis. These themes include (1) understanding veterans’ struggles and advocating forthe students
masstransfer, electricity, and materials. The report noted that, at the time, few curricula requiredstudents to have exposure to all six of these areas. This enumeration of the six engineeringsciences is, itself, unscientific, being made without evidence of what engineers do and whateducators can do to prepare engineers for professional practice. Even so, these six engineeringsciences have come to constitute much of the structure of undergraduate mechanical engineeringcurriculum.The Committee collected evidence from industry on what education they expect of graduates.Industry “indicated no criticism of the technical competence of engineers but raised questionsconcerning (1) the adequacy of their background in basic science, engineering science
hour format whereby there are 3 hours of instructionand one 3-hour laboratory session each week, which follow an eight-activity sequence in STEM-BDP. First, students conduct approximately 1-hour of knowledge acquisition online, whichsubstitutes for one of the three hours of classroom meetings. STEM-BDP advocates for the firstpass of knowledge acquisition to occur outside of the classroom through fortified video contentwith dynamic highlighting, callouts, electronic pen, hotlinks and online activities as illustrated indetail in Section 4. Slides of the video content are also provided verbatim that match those usedin the video, which are made available as a .pdf file. Students are assigned to annotate them withquestions while viewing the
alignment of academia with women and industry with men stems from both personalimpressions of the field and from women professors’ observations of their own students. Womenin our sample noticed that female students tend to, for the most part, choose academia aftercompleting their engineering degrees whereas men choose industry. Academia as a “femalespace” is encouraged by graduate advisors or general societal impressions of both what is bestfor women’s and what is best for men’s interests: “…The technical things. Men like more do the technical things compared to the academician they don’t really like to teach someone…but they [men] like to do practical, do hands-on, the industry…” - Tutor, Chemical Engineering, 9 Years5.2.3
writing, and use of field and labequipment; and ii) the improvement of students’ interest in science and confidence in their ability to do well inscience. Figure 1 shows research areas in which significant proportions of the students made more than moderateto big gains included: Problem Solving in general (100%); Formulating a research question that could beanswered with data (100%); Identifying limitations of research methods and designs (100%); Figuring out the nextstep in a research project (90%); Understanding the connections among scientific disciplines (90%); and Analyzingdata for patterns (70%). Other skill-enhancement areas in which significant proportions of the students made morethan moderate to big gains shown in Figure 3, included
medium sized businesses, is how innovationcan be fostered without destroying the efficiency and effectiveness of existing businessprocesses. How can a strategic approach to solving such complex problems be taught in ourengineering management curriculum without disrupting our current four year BS and/orexpanding our MS engineering programs? The aim of this paper is to suggest a framework forimplementing a systems thinking and management approach to shed some light on a path thatothers may want to follow.2 Please see Figure 1. In order to accomplish this overarchingpurpose our technical approach was comprised of several steps: 1) Explore innovation as adiscontinuous change in engineering designs and/or business models; 2) Factor innovation’s
. Parker. “Navigating Change: a typology of student transition in higher education,” Studies in Higher Education Conference, Vol.39, No.5, 734-753, 2014 http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/03075079.2012.721351.[8] S. Kift, K. Nelson and J. Clarke, “Transition Pedagogy: A third-generation Approach to FYE – A case study of policy and practice for the higher education sector.” The International Journal of the First Year in Higher Education, 1(1), 1-20, 2010.[9] M. Zukas and J. Malcolm. “Pedagogies for Lifelong Learning:-Building Bridges or Building Walls?” http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.593.4296&rep=rep1&type=pdf, 2002.[10] L. Watson. and J. McIntyre. Scaling Up Building engineering workforce capacity through
– including turn-taking, word choice, caseformulations (c.f. [34]) - alongside rhetorical and interactional functions such as positioning [35]management of stake and interest [36], and the construction of interpretative repertoires [37].Our four-step analytic process focused on transcripts of interviews from the Fall and Springsemesters of our first year of implementation. The first step (1) was to listen and relisten to theinterviews, alongside the transcripts, in order to familiarize ourselves with the data and check theaccuracy of computer-generated transcriptions. The next step (2) was for two researchers (EMSand REG) to identify extracts of each transcript with the concept of neurodiversity wasdescribed, defined, or discussed in order to (3
crucial indicator of institutional quality [1]. Over the past twodecades, time-to-degree for United States (U.S.) bachelor’s degree recipients has noticeablyincreased, resulting in higher education institutions becoming particularly concerned aboutcompletion or graduation rates [2]. Traditionally, the bachelor’s degree is a four-year degree.However, more than 50 percent of bachelor’s students fail to complete their degree on time, thusbecoming extender students. This term refers to students who take longer than four years tocomplete a bachelor’s degree [3], [4]. Given that most undergraduate Science, Technology,Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) students take longer to graduate, the four-year degree hastransformed into a six-year degree, raising
, "Hydroxychloroquine is Widely Used Around the Globe," Frontier Centre for Public Policy, 2020.[19] University of Washington School of Medicine, "The end of hydroxychloroquine as a treatment for COVID-19," UW Medicine- Newsroom, 2021.[20] K. Tantawi, "Literature Review: Rethinking BioMEMS in the aftermath of CoVid-19," Biomedical Journal of Scientific & Technical Research, vol. 31, no. 1, pp. 23944-23946, 2020.[21] G. A. Hunt, "A Case Study of Interdisciplinary Capstone Engineering Design," in ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition, Salt Lake City, Utah, 2018.[22] Accreditation Board for Engineerng and Technology (ABET), "Criteria for Accrediting Engineering Technology Programs, 2021 – 2022," 2021. [Online]. Available: https
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revealed that studentspredominantly rooted their definitions of HC in three assumptions (Table 1, assumption 2,5,6):(a) the central focus of engineering on the technical specifications rather than the socio-culturalconsiderations; (b) under-valuing of engineering “soft skills”; and (c) under-valuing of diversityin engineering. While their definitions of HC did not directly state these, based on the attributionto cognitive and socio-humanistic elements, it was apparent that their definitions reflected a levelof relatedness to these topics. It was unclear, however, how much were these topics valued bythe participants, which is beyond the scope of this project.Furthermore, all participants confirmed a level of HCA by their provision of a definition
oriented inclusive environment ü Establish goals ü Plan tasks Result ü Meet objectives orientedFigure 1: Current Teamwork Learning EnvironmentAs shown in Figure 1, in engineering capstone design, groups of students are assigned a taskperformance in which learning is considered a product of this collaboration. Task performance can bedefined as the effectiveness with which an individual (or group) performs activities that contribute tomeeting the objectives of a predetermined scope of work which is technical at its core, by providingdirect or indirect
Careers in Engineering Academia (Experience)AbstractImproving undergraduate STEM teaching for diverse students is dependent to some extent onincreasing the representation of Black, Indigenous and People of Color (BIPOC) and women inthe ranks of faculty in engineering departments. However, new faculty members, whether theyhad postdoctoral training or not, report that they were not adequately prepared for academia. Toaddress this need, a professional development program was developed for underrepresenteddoctoral and postdoctoral students, which focused on various strategies to be successful inteaching, research and service aspects of academic positions. The program included an intensivetwo-week summer session, with follow
Approach to MeetingSustainable Development Goals. Proceedings of the American Society for Engineering Education,2022References [1] Oded Berger-Tal and Jose´ J. Lahoz-Monfort. Conservation technology: The next generation. Conservation Letters, 11(6):e12458, 2018. [2] Gerardo Ceballos, Paul R. Ehrlich, Anthony D. Barnosky, Andre´s Garc´ıa, Robert M. Pringle, and Todd M. Palmer. Accelerated modern human–induced species losses: Entering the sixth mass extinction. Science Advances, 1(5):e1400253, 2015. [3] Jenna Mueller, Mary Dotson, Jennifer Dietzel, Jenna Peters, Gabriela Asturias, Amelia Cheatham, Marlee Krieger, Baishakhi Taylor, Sherryl Broverman, and Nirmala Ramanujam. Using human-centered design to connect engineering
courses coupled with self-guided learning. As capstone faculty, let usexplore a dynamic and immersive alternative experience through a design firm model. If requirementsincluded student participation on multiple projects with multiple team members and multiple clients, canwe craft an environment that mimics the workplace? We will present herein a different capstoneexperience that presents complexities in student progression while maintaining learning outcomes andABET requirements.As outlined in the most recent 2015 survey of ABET-accredited engineering programs, capstone designcourses are often centered on an open-ended or loosely defined problem as presented by an academicor, more often preferred, an industrial client [1]. Students are required
what new topics were covered and how much time was spent on each. Many of the topicslisted (Table 3) are logical as gap fillers or more importantly to provide skills needed for thecapstone project. The only topics covered by more than one program were photovoltaic design(three schools), sustainability (three schools), ethics (three schools) and technical writing andpresentation skills (two schools). Topics longer than 1 week (3 days), consisted of sustainability,carbon analysis, lifecycle assessment and technical writing. Each of these were taught in thoseprograms for 2 weeks. Table 3: Capstone Course Lecture Content 1 Day: Lecture Content 2 Day: Lecture Content 3 Day: Lecture
lectures to lead thestudents into the process of (1) investigating the Design Brief holistically, (2) identifying aproblem they’d like to solve, (3) creating and iterating through ideas, and (4) recommending asolution.2.2 Delivering the Engineering for People Design Challenge at Colorado State UniversityDuring the 2020-2021 academic year, The Engineering for People Design Challenge wasintroduced in a first-year civil and environmental engineering course during the spring semester.The EWB project scope and schedule was delivered to the students on an in-person and remotebasis during select course lectures. A portion of course laboratory time was spent working withdata and software related to the project and technical report requirements. A
assess, given the current post-pandemicconditions, whether those motivational factors are in place. The study was approached from aninsider, scholar-practitioner standpoint with the hope that the results of this survey would be usedto inform campus administrators in real-time and positively impact working conditions. Theapproach loosely aligns with an action research paradigm [1], but it is recognized that this projectcurrently does not represent a fully developed action research project. Thus, the study isdescriptive and exploratory in nature. It is also important to note that this study is cross-sectionaland does not include pre-pandemic data. Thus, it is impossible to empirically determine a causalrelationship between pandemic related issues
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8 8 8 6 4 4 2 0 Freshman Sophomore Junior Senior School Year Figure 1. School Grade Distributions of ApplicantsAccording to research, there is a general consensus that class size plays a crucial role in studentlearning outcomes, and smaller class sizes are associated with better student
that focus on improving STEM education. Her areas of interest include broadening participation and building equity in STEM, engaging undergraduate students in broader impacts, and understanding math identities among pre-service teachers.Fethiye Ozis (Assistant Teaching Professor) Dr. Fethiye Ozis is an Assistant Teaching Professor in the civil and environmental engineering department at Carnegie Mellon University. Dr. Ozis holds a B.S. in environmental engineering from the Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Southern California. Dr. Ozis is a licensed Professional Engineer, Environmental, in Arizona. Before joining CMU, Dr. Ozis was a faculty member at
Paper ID #33764Reverse Software Engineering as a Project-Based Learning ToolMs. Cynthia C. Fry, Baylor University CYNTHIA C. FRY is currently a Senior Lecturer of Computer Science at Baylor University. She worked at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center as a Senior Project Engineer, a Crew Training Manager, and the Science Operations Director for STS-46. She was an Engineering Duty Officer in the U.S. Navy (IRR), and worked with the Naval Maritime Intelligence Center as a Scientific/Technical Intelligence Analyst. She was the owner and chief systems engineer for Systems Engineering Services (SES), a computer systems design
thentesting using standard electronic test equipment.3.2 Online labs for EE and CSE studentsWe implement two different remote lab solutions for EE and CSE students during self-pacedonline lab sessions. Namely, we introduced the VISIR lab platform [18] and netCIRCUITlabsfrom Emona Instruments [19]. Both remote labs offer suitable online lab environments fordifferent educational levels of EE and CSE courses.The VISIR workbench is equipped with a web interface that enables students to use familiarbenchtop instruments from their computer screens, such as a virtual breadboard, multimeter,and basic electronic components (see Fig. 1 and YouTube video). The goal of thisrepresentation is to reproduce tactile learning by emulating the required operating
general.B. RStudio self-efficacy: The survey asked students to evaluate their own technical skills in RStudio. It also addressed students’ confidence in connecting statistical theory to the RStudio syntax.C. Theory self-efficacy: In addition to general statistics and RStudio, statements are included specifically about the theory learned in class. Not only were we concerned about how well students could learn theory, but we were also interested in if they enjoyed learning and solving these new problem types.The self-efficacy survey included several statements adapted from a multitude of sourcesas well as several newly developed statements which were reported in Table 1. For theself-efficacy scales, statements were used from five different