physical sciences each require different skills andknowledge. In other words, this finding shows strongly that each group tend to distinguish thedisciplinary differences rather than the similarities between engineering and the physicalsciences. We recognize that the limited size of our sample data collected at a single university isa constraint on the strength of our arguments. Thus, we recommend that more qualitative as wellas quantitative research be conducted to progress this area of study. This suggests directions forfurther work to refine our understanding of student perceptions to provide foundations forimproved materials and processes to support the decision making of high-school graduates aboutwhat they will study in university. As
Paper ID #23694Learning in Academic Makerspaces: Preliminary Case Studies of How Aca-demic Makerspaces Afford Learning for Female StudentsMs. Megan Tomko, Georgia Institute of Technology Megan E. Tomko is a Ph.D. graduate student in the George W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineer- ing at the Georgia Institute of Technology under the guidance of Dr. Julie Linsey. She completed one semester in her graduate studies at James Madison University with Dr. Robert Nagel as her advisor. Her B.S. degree in Mechanical Engineering is from the University of Pittsburgh where she also worked as a Field Telecommunications Intern for
of Toledo. His research focus is concerned with understanding the ways in which culture and climate impact student’s cognition, attitudes, behaviors, and outcomes. His population of interest is racial/ethnic minorities, with African American student experiences as a focal point.Dr. Aaron Lee Adams, Alabama A&M University Aaron Adams is an assistant professor in the Department of Mechanical and Civil Engineering at Alabama A & M University. Before pursuing graduate studies, he worked at the National Academy of Engineering & Ford Motor Company as a product design engineer focusing on Minority STEM education and envi- ronmental policies. His research interests include nuclear radiation detection and thermal
Paper ID #6085Preferential Learning of Students in a Post-Secondary Introductory Engi-neering Graphics Course: A Preliminary Study Focused on Students At-RiskDr. Jeremy V Ernst, Virginia Tech Dr. Jeremy V. Ernst is an assistant professor in the Department of Teaching and Learning at Virginia Tech. He currently teaches graduate courses in STEM education foundations and contemporary issues in Integrative STEM Education. Dr. Ernst specializes in research focused on dynamic intervention means for STEM education students categorized as at-risk of dropping out of school. He also has curriculum research and development
development of a diverse workforce in engineering and STEM. She is the PI of a NSF Scholarship in STEM grant aimed at supporting high achieving, low-income students to complete their bachelor’s degrees and continue on to graduate school. She has received several teaching awards including the UMass Lowell Award for Excellence in Innovative Teaching in 2021 and the Biomedical Engineering Teaching Award from the American Society for Engineering Education in 2021. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2024 Work In Progress: Design of a Full Time Summer Research Program for High School StudentsProgram OverviewThe PROPEL Careers Program is a paid high school
engineering graduation, followinga model first introduced by Tinto in 19934. Results of these studies allow better targeting ofadmissions to particular student achievement characteristics and may maximize educationalresources and improve retention rates. However, such research does not provide guidance inwhy high-achieving students, particularly women and racial/ethnic minorities enroll in but thenleave engineering education, or how such influences might be changing over time. A second category of studies has considered the learning and interpersonal environmentof engineering and the interaction with student characteristics that might influence students’decisions to remain in or leave engineering education. Some studies have described the
authors examined datafrom student Longitudinal Assessment of Engineering Self-Efficacy (LAESE)surveys. Despitethe shrinking number of women engineering students at San José State University , the self-efficacy levels of the women engineering students were high. The authors can surmise thatwomen who choose to study engineering at SJSU feel confident in their abilities to succeed inengineering and or project such confidence given the male-dominated terrain of Engineering.A. Theoretical basis for the researchThere is little empirical research on the specific impact of cultural attitudes about gender roles ongirls’ interest and career choice in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM)fields, particularly about STEM interest and career
Paper ID #45367Collaborative Housing Design: A Case Study on Developing Learning Activitiesthat Cross Cultural, Climatic and Geographical DifferencesDr. Todd Nicewonger, Virginia Tech Todd E. Nicewonger holds a Ph.D. in Applied Anthropology from Columbia University, an M.Ed. in Anthropology and Education from Teachers College, Columbia University, and an M.A. in Adult, Occupational, and Continuing Education from Kansas State University. His research delves into the cultural practices of makers and growers, exploring how these practices intersect with broader socio-political concerns. This focus has led him to conduct
, distinctions. The participants’ interest incontinuing their studies into graduate school was solidified by their REU, both through theworkshops and other learning experiences that introduced them to the process of applying forgraduate study, and because their industry mentors reinforced the message that they need theknowledge and skills they would develop with advanced study. By the end of the summerexperience, the participants demonstrated mastery of the content they needed to successfullycomplete their projects, and the professionalism and autonomy needed to work in a corporatesetting.Evaluation question 2: What were the impacts of the collaboration between academic andindustry researchers on connections between the two groups?Finding Summary: Both
their decisions to enter into graduate studies or the professional worldLuis Rodolfo Garcia Carrillo, New Mexico State University Luis Rodolfo GARCIA CARRILLO received the PhD. degree in Control Systems from the University of Technology of Compi`egne, France. He was a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Center of Control, Dynamical systems and Computation at UC Santa Barbara, USA. He currently holds an Assistant Professor position with the Klipsch School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at New Mexico State University, USA. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2024 Asset-Based Approaches to Transformative Learning: Community and Culture in an Undergraduate Engineering Research Program at a
Paper ID #47529Assessing the Impact of Internships on Undergraduate Students’ AcademicSuccess: A Case Study of Engineering Technology and Related ProgramsDr. Doreen Kobelo Regalado P, Florida A&M University - Florida State University Dr. Doreen Kobelo Regalado is an Associate Professor and Director of the Construction Engineering Technology Program at Florida Agricultural & Mechanical University (FAMU), within the School of Architecture and Engineering Technology. Her research expertise spans transportation engineering, focusing on traffic operations and safety, vehicle automation, intelligent transportation systems
analysis. Overall, he aims to situate his research on emerging technologies within the present-day educational context, with Taiwan as a starting point and a comparative approach as a guiding methodology.Dr. Qin Zhu, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University Dr. Zhu is Associate Professor in the Department of Engineering Education and Affiliate Faculty in the Department of Science, Technology & Society and the Center for Human-Computer Interaction at Virginia Tech. Dr. Zhu is also an Affiliate Researcher at the Colorado School of Mines. Dr. Zhu is Editor for International Perspectives at the Online Ethics Center for Engineering and Science, Associate Editor for Engineering Studies, and Executive Committee
Paper ID #16753Student Benefits of Multidisciplinary versus Single-Disciplinary Design Ex-periences: A Cohort Study of a Capstone Design ProgramProf. Jenni Buckley, University of Delaware Dr. Buckley is an Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering at University of Delaware. She received her Bachelor’s of Engineering (2001) in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Delaware, and her MS (2004) and PhD (2006) in Mechanical Engineering from the University of California, Berkeley, where she worked on computational and experimental methods in spinal biomechanics. Since 2006, her research efforts have focused on
” or “low” or “high” or “strongly or “do not or “strongly Statement disagree” “disagree” know” “agree” agree” (1) (2) (3) (4) (5)1. My interest in environmental engineering is - 3/2 6/3 5/7 3/5 1/02. My knowledge level in environmental engineering 1/0 7/7 7/4 3/5 0/1 research is -3. I am planning to pursue graduate study in environmental
providing the muchneeded skills and self-confidence required to persist and to succeed; the CDS offers such anopportunity.The purpose of this research is to explore the impact of participation in the CDS on women’sself-confidence in an engineering profession and to discover how they persisted in engineeringsince graduation. The specific research questions framing this investigation are: 1. What are the specific professional engineering skills gained as a result of participating in the Collegiate Design Series? 2. What experiences (positive and negative) from their participation in CDS contributed to Page 25.1311.4 their persistence in
Foundation both solicited the premier Graduate Research Fellowship Program, which led to comprehensive changes in other federal STEM fellowships. In his role at Mason, Carr supports the faculty with search committee parameters to help ensure that the George Mason faculty better represents the diverse Mason student body, he supports the Office of the Dean and the associate deans in their efforts to develop and enhance an equitable and just campus climate within the College of Engineering and Computing, and he supports the larger campus community goals by helping to challenge the status quo and assist in the university in its strategic goals. Christopher has is Bachelor of Arts in International Relations & History from
Paper ID #21942A Mixed-methods Study of Non-text Social Media Content as a Window intoAfrican-American Youth STEM IdentitiesDonna Auguste, University of Colorado, Boulder Donna Auguste is a Ph.D candidate in the interdisciplinary ATLAS Institute, College of Engineering and Applied Science. Her research engages intergenerational learners of color with STEM through sensor- based experiences that are personally meaningful, providing an opportunity to assess impact of such ex- periences on STEM identities. She examines modern expressions of STEM identities in social media. She earned a M.S. in Information Technology
this REU program, studentswere provided with three levels of mentoring. The mentoring team consisted of faculty members,industrial mentors and graduate students who were available to assist the REU students with theirprojects, with their professional socialization and to help foster the personal and professionalgains, such as increased confidence, that REU students have reported in other studies 10, 28. Webelieve that one of the largest untapped resources for mentors and role models is the largenumber of engineers and researchers who have spent “their whole professional lives within anindustrial organization and then retire,” 29 or individuals who are working in research functionswithin companies, but who wish to be involved with students in
provide severalopportunities for research. Several recent studies have demonstrated the importance ofundergraduate research in student learning [9, 17, 6], in the retention of diverse students in fields inwhich they are underrepresented and in students' pursuit of graduate education [11, 4]. Byinvolving the students in research they have the opportunity to learn and grow, as well as toincrease their chances of attending graduate school.2.3 OUTREACH: via Teaching Teachers Renewable Energy Systems and Natural Resources:creating a continuum - Previous research indicates that hands-on learning experiences forteachers as well as for students offer a valuable, real-life instructional method for learningscience and engineering, especially when it
Engineering Education, 2023Work in Progress: Towards a participatory action research approach to improverepresentation of Black Ph.D.s in engineeringAbstractThis work-in-progress introduces a conceived participatory action research approach to improverepresentation and support for Black Ph.D.s in engineering. In 2019, only 3.9% of doctoralengineering degrees were awarded to Black students (ASEE, 2020), thereby affecting who goeson to become future faculty members, leaders, and role models (Burt et al., 2019). Most researchon broadening participation in engineering has focused on undergraduate education with relativelylimited work on graduate populations (Burt et al., 2018). A recent systematic literature review onBlack students in engineering a
an emphasis on broad integratedtransdisciplinary knowledge.Furthermore, this paper describes an experiential college preparatory program for high schoolseniors embedded in an engineering company and reports the outcomes of a longitudinal studyover four and half years. The study gathered feedback from three secondary graduate cohorts onwhat knowledge content and learning practices in their secondary program were most helpful intheir success at the postsecondary level. Forty-eight secondary students entered the program,with forty-two completing it. The study also discusses the impact of low student-to-teacher ratiosand teacher experiences in transforming experiential knowledge into acquirable studentknowledge.The research offers insights on
Paper ID #13443The Rapid Adoption of SMARTER Teamwork Tools: the System for Man-agement, Assessment, Research, Training, Education, and Remediation forTeamworkDr. Matthew W. Ohland, Purdue University Matthew W. Ohland is Professor of Engineering Education at Purdue University. He has degrees from Swarthmore College, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, and the University of Florida. His research on the longitudinal study of engineering students, team assignment, peer evaluation, and active and collaborative teaching methods has been supported by over $14.5 million from the National Science Foundation and the Sloan Foundation
Paper ID #242472018 CoNECD - The Collaborative Network for Engineering and ComputingDiversity Conference: Crystal City, Virginia Apr 29The role of female engineering faculty in female student success and belong-ing: A case study at California State University, FresnoDr. Lalita G Oka, California State University, Fresno Dr. Lalita Oka is an Assistant Professor in the department of Civil and Geomatics Engineering at the California State University, Fresno. She teaches undergraduate and graduate level Geotechnical Engi- neering courses. Her research interests include Geomechanics, Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering, Experimental
2006-2612: TRANSFORMING K-12 EDUCATION VIA THE COLLABORATIVELARGE-SCALE ENGINEERING ANALYSIS NETWORK FORENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH (CLEANER) PROJECTElizabeth Eschenbach, Humboldt State University Beth Eschenbach is department chair and professor of Environmental Resources Engineering at Humboldt State University. Beth left civil engineering as an undergraduate at UC Santa Cruz, and graduated with honors in mathematics and in psychology. She obtained her MS and PhD at Cornell in Environmental and Water Resources Systems Engineering. She completed a postdoc at the Center for Advanced Decision Support in Water and Environmental Systems (CADSWES) at UC Boulder. Beth’s career goals include increasing
graduates from Hampton University go on to graduate school. Thesestudents all have one or more summer research experiences at PWIs thanks to NSF REU programsand other similar programs. The students see themselves doing research in PWI labs and feelcomfortable in that atmosphere due to the immersive summer research internships.Ethics Case Study Project MethodologyHybrid Ethics Class Collaboration Between PWI and HBCUEthics guides all aspects of an engineer’s job from proper safety, process and product design andquality management22. Products and their contents, uses, and potential hazards must be properlydisclosed and labeled9. Engineers also have an ethical responsibility to credit intellectualproperty both within and without the company 9. A
Paper ID #37357Examining K-12 Singaporean Parents' EngineeringAwareness: An Initial Study of the Knowledge, Attitude, andBehavior (KAB) Framework (Fundamental)Akmal Zakwan Bin Zulkifli Akmal Zakwan Bin Zulkifli is an undergraduate student - currently pursuing a Bachelor of Science (Education) specializing in Physics and Mathematics at Nanyang Technological University-National Institute of Education (NTU- NIE). He is extremely passionate about STEM education and research on education-related matters in the STEM fields. He believes that there is much unexplored potential to learn and understand about STEM education
Page 12.338.4(legitimate) careers for women than are those who have not seen such presentations. Anopportunity presented itself to conduct a pilot study that, though limited in several ways, doesshed some new light on the tenability of this suggestion.Between April 1 and May 15, 2004, the Survey Research Institute at Purdue Universityconducted as a graduate student training exercise one of its periodic social surveys of the entirecontinental United States via a computer assisted telephone-interviewing (CATI) system. In thesystem, telephone numbers are selected randomly from a list of random digit dialing telephonenumbers that include all area codes and telephone prefixes throughout the United States. TheCATI system allows graduate student
on WILreveals that in almost all of the cases the focus is on employability/ placement of collegestudents and hardly any article on continuous learning or retention of employability skills ofworking professionals. This is of particular importance when evolving technologies arerapidly transforming the workplace. Research suggests that WIL adopted for workingprofessionals can help them remain relevant and grow in their chosen profession. Our studyconfirms this and further demonstrates that such a model can be offered at scale in asustainable way without compromising the quality of learning. We present here ourdescriptive study conducted in a multi-modal University that has institutionalized WIL tomeet the continuing education demands of about
Paper ID #47871BOARD # 406: NSF INCLUDES Research Experience and Mentoring (REM)Program for FuSe Interconnects: Enabling Transitions into the MicroelectronicEcosystem (WIP)Dr. Kenneth A Connor, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Kenneth Connor is Program Officer at the Inclusive Engineering Consortium (IEC), whose mission is to enable MSI ECE programs to produce more and better prepared graduates from groups that have been historically underrepresented in ECE careers. He is also an emeritus professor in the Department of Electrical, Computer, and Systems Engineering (ECSE) at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) where he
science intotheir classrooms.While there are no current computer science standards within the NGSS, current studies haveresearched the most popular forms of teaching code: utilizing gamification of learning and/orproblem-based learning (PBL) [7]. In this study, we will explore the implementation of computerscience instruction leveraging the gamification framework and instructional technology. We seekto answer the following research question: How can teachers combine gamification of learningand robotics to teach computer programming?Researcher PositionalityI (Leslie Brown) am currently an engineering education graduate student at Utah StateUniversity. I worked as a software engineer after completing a mechanical engineeringundergraduate degree