byteams of teachers and students that are usually linked to institutionalized and permanentuniversity initiatives called “extension centers” [3]. In some cases, along with service learning,such initiatives also develop research, taking challenges posed by their support to grassrootsgroups as matters of academic investigation either on methodological or technical-theoreticalground [4].GE is distinguishable from some other forms of community engagement (such as humanitarianengineering, engineering for (sustainable) development, engineering in emergency, etc. [5]) byits commitment to social (or social-technical) change, which involves the government takingresponsibility to fund and promote such initiatives. This has to do with GE’s leftist roots
extension[1]. Extension means a wide variety of activities, “ranging from community engagement tojunior company; from cultural production to juridical assistance to the poor; from universityhospitals to extension courses destined to present academic knowledge and research to non-specialized audience” [1]. The aim of extension is to create “A process that promotes atransformative interaction between higher education institutions and other sectors of society,through the production and application of knowledge, in permanent articulation with teachingand research” [2].One important type of extension is performed by extension centers, institutionalized groups ofteachers, students, and administrative staff, that develop community engagement activities
, advancing work inthe community. Similarly, Percy Pierre described how, as director of the Sloan EngineeringProgram, he supported pre-college engineering education efforts for minority students. Althoughthese pioneers helped fund different kinds of engineering education work (research, teaching,and learning), they all described their influence more in terms of legitimacy for engineeringeducation than in monetary terms.Kemnitzer’s account focused on supporting early-career faculty through an NSF program thatwas the precursor to the current CAREER program. She recalled how the first award of this kindto a faculty member engaged in engineering education work was a significant step toward thefield gaining legitimacy at the national scale. She described
the criteriaof a boundary spanner? and if so, How are these criteria enacted in context?BackgroundThe University-K12 Liaison position largely focuses on all K12 students and teachers across adistrict, with particular attention to increasing equity of outreach across schools in a largelyunderserved region. However, our liaisons do not fill positions as recruiters for creating a studentpipeline to the University, but are rather based in a center for outreach and engagement. Thecurrent study examines the practices of this liaison work through the theoretical framework ofboundary spanning developed by Jesiek, Mazzurco, Buswell, and Thompson (2018). Jesiek et al.synthesize 15 years of literature from multiple disciplines to characterize boundary
future directions. Our evaluation of the program centers on the following defined goals for in-custody stu- dents: to be empowered in logical thinking and mathematical skills, to elevate technical literacy, to create a project to take home upon release, to be prepared for success at an intro- ductory computer programming course at our local community colleges upon their release. For undergraduate teaching assistants, we state the following expected outcomes: to have an expanded world-view and to improve their teaching and communication skills. We evaluate impact and outcomes of our program using interviews and surveys conducted upon completion of the course. Over half of students who complete the
Technology Management undergraduate concentration of the Industrial Technology Program and earned graduate faculty status in Fall 2006. In 2008, Dr. Murphy assumed the role of the Technology Education Master’s Degree Program Coordinator; assisting the program to in- crease enrollment from approximately 30 students to around 70+ students (to date). Other responsibilities for Dr. Murphy as Program Coordinator include meeting with incoming graduate students, advising stu- dents, coordinating service-learning projects for students, and engaging students in research endeavors. Dr. Murphy was promoted to full professor in 2016. Dr. Murphy serves as Co-Principal Investigator on two grants sponsored by the United States Depart
increased from 19,000 to 37,000 • Trust and relationships were built between the local community, local contractors, the NGO KiHO, and participating Ohio State faculty and students • Local construction techniques were observed to stem from a desire to reduce the physical labor required, allowing for the process to be adjusted accordingly • Pre-conceived notions were difficult to overcome • Those processed and changes that would have the most impact were prioritized • In-country partners are now able to construct storage tanks with limited oversight Table 1 Summary of Rainwater Harvesting Results Tank Cost in US
(described below), they were used as ameans to connect to teacher curriculum, engage classrooms, and train students, both on how theirresearch sensor operates and how best to interpret AQ data. Chemical Engineering outreachstudents, AirU faculty, and Breathe Utah were all involved in conducting the designed teachingmodules; AirU sensors are installed by the AirU faculty and sponsored staff. These partnershipsbetween faculty, undergraduates, community partners, and local high schools were key toachieving CS goals. After installation, outreach teams and faculty remain available totroubleshoot and address student and teacher follow-up questions.Teaching Modules: Opening Up the Black BoxAn important part of collaborating with middle and high school
complete their challenges.The interactive and appealing nature of the courses and their respective challenges was expectedto result in increased participation, improved academic performance, and greater self-motivationof the participants compared to their overall performance during the prior three years ofparticipation in the program. Students and instructor surveys were used to help determine theeffectiveness of the curriculum and pedagogy. The paper discusses the impact on the TexPREPand undergraduate students involved in curriculum development and the process for successfulimplementation.IntroductionSummer outreach programs offered at colleges and universities are a means for both recruitingand preparing prospective engineering students1,2
in this team spent a lot of their spare time in designing, communicating with end users,and trouble-shooting problems. None of the students had worked on the similar project, so theycould easily get overwhelmed by the above design challenges. All students were motivated bythe meaning of the project, and their hard work and perseverance made the project successful.As explained above, any logistics issue could easily become a failing factor if not resolved. Onefaculty member’s past experience of traveling in Haiti as a volunteer helped us achieve a hassle-free trip to Haiti, despite the danger of violent crime. Without the Haitian translator and theaccommodation and dining we received from the NVM and the orphanage, our health, and evensafety
possible to support a more viral propagation of work.To support this potential, in the summer of 2020, a small team of students, architects, engineers,and designers continued the work, remotely due to Covid-19 travel restrictions. During theirbrief time on the project, this team, with their community partners in South Africa, leveraged thephysical and inspirational foundation offered by the already completed makerspace to designschools, clinics, and other much-needed community works. These projects, like thefoundational work upon which they were based, were created on the foundation of, and inservice to, the library of resources, which ensured that they were realized using only accessiblemeans: scavenged materials, common tools and easily-learned
knowledge to people-oriented challenges in global settings; theseprograms have many names but are known as, Community Engaged Learning, Global ServiceLearning (GSL) [5] or Engineering for Community Development (ECD) [6].The student and community impacts of these types of programs have been widely assessed asprojects have seen success through incorporation of principles such as ethics, social justice, localexpertise and resources, and building trusting relationships with shared goals [7]. There has beenextensive analysis on the use of ECD to develop global sociotechnical competency skills andpositive student learning outcomes [8], [9].However, historically, well-intentioned university-forged relationships with partner communitiesand resultant
Engaging Community College Students in Research using Summer Internship on Analysis of Performance Degradation of Integrated Circuits Due to Transistor Aging Effects in Nano-Scale John Paulino1, Jesus Garcia1, Joshua Lohse1, Hector Prado1, Atul Balani2, Sridevi Lakshmipuram2, Cheng Chen2, Amelito G. Enriquez1, Hao Jiang2, Hamid Mahmoodi2, Wenshen Pong2, Hamid Shanasser2 1 Cañada College, Redwood City, CA/ 2School of Engineering, San Francisco State University, San Francisco, CAAbstractIntegrated Circuits, or ICs, work behind the scenes to make people’s lives better from commonappliances, such as refrigerators and dish-washers, to the
distinct fields. The public health topics of health disparities (HD) and social determinants of health (SDOH) are becoming vital components to medical curriculum engaging medical students as socially responsible physicians that can mitigate health inequities in their future profession. As these programs adapt to the inclusion of public health topics, as should engineering curriculum that relies deeply on the collaboration with clinical experts for translation of engineering health technologies. These shared principles may improve the ability for engineers on multidisciplinary teams to become competent on the social responsibilities of translating DDS to people and how they may impact health inequities. The present work
including faculty in the discussions as well. Ideally, future © American Society for Engineering Education, 2018 2018 ASEE Southeastern Section Conferenceiterations of this workshop will continue to be peer-led, but under the guidance of a facultycoordinator to ensure continuity in subsequent years.Although our first cohort was small, we felt that our workshop had a big impact in acclimatingthe new students to the mindset of performing academic research. We have begun the process toincorporate this workshop formally as a one-credit elective in the University of Florida chemicalengineering curriculum. The long-term vision is to recommend the course strongly for all newPh.D. students, while still
AC 2010-384: PEER MENTORING: IMPACT ON MENTEES AND COMPARISONWITH NON-PARTICIPANTSRose Marra, University of Missouri ROSE M. MARRA is an Associate Professor in the School of Information Science and Learning Technologies at the University of Missouri. She is Co-Director of the NSF-funded Assessing Women andMen in Engineering (AWE) and Assessing Women In Student Environments (AWISE) projects and Co-PI of the National Girls Collaborative Project. Her research interests include gender equity issues, the epistemological development of college students, and promoting meaningful learning in web-based environments.Whitney Edmister, Virginia Tech WHITNEY A. EDMISTER is the Assistant Director of the
reflected on why understanding redlining andother social justice issues are important to their future careers as civil engineers. This paper describeswhat was done in both classes and reflections from both students and instructors.IntroductionService-learning and community-based learning are proven pedagogical approaches used across multipledisciplines and educational levels to bridge teaching and community engagement (Billig, 2000; Kuh,2008). Over the course of decades, research demonstrates the benefits of service-learning (SL) to studentlearning (Warren, 2012), satisfaction (Drinkard & Tontodonato, 2019), engagement, and retention(Bringle, Hatcher & Muthiah, 2010). This paper describes how information on redlining wasincorporated into a
contexts, environmental chemistry, water quality, and the physico-chemical aspects of contaminant fate, transport, and remediation. Since the completion of the ESCALA Certificate in College Teaching and Learning in Hispanic Serving Institutes, Dr. Otero-Diaz has focused on restructuring course formats and projects to include community-based-learning methods. Her current research assesses the impact of such methods on student perceived engagement and achievements.Dr. Melissa Salazar, ESCALA Educational Services Melissa L. Salazar, Ph.D Education (UC Davis), MS Food Technology (UC Davis),and BS Chemistry/Chemical Engineering (UC Berkeley). Dr. Salazar was an active researcher in the fields of immigrant health and
, aiming for a UTA-to-student ratio of 1 to 20 in CS1, where students experience faculty lectures followed by practicalexercises.The authors of this paper created a study to determine if UTAs would be a critical componentthat increases the quality and inclusiveness of education for CS students. This study wasconducted at a public research institution and Hispanic serving institution (HSI) in theSoutheastern US region. The study included hiring UTAs and recruiting faculty to participate inthe project. During this process, the faculty and coordinator were focused on UTAs beingapproachable, patient, and willing to engage in a diverse learning community. The long-termobjective is to address the crucial need for computer science classes that maintain
Paper ID #43566Work-In-Progress: Enhancing Engineering Education: A Comparative Analysisof Low-Cost Desktop Learning Module Impact on Student Engagement andOutcomesOluwafemi J. Ajeigbe, Texas A&M University Oluwafemi Ajeigbe is a PhD student in Electrical Engineering at Texas A&M University, where his research interests include cybersecurity in industrial control systems, as well as the cognitive and pedagogical underpinnings of active learning strategies in STEM classrooms. Oluwafemi received his Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering (2021) from Washington State University and a Bachelor of Engineering (BEng
Paper ID #30063To Start or Not: Impact of Engineering Students’ Engagement inEntrepreneurship Competitive Activities on their EntrepreneurialIntentionsMiss Yaxin Huang, Shanghai Jiao Tong University Yaxin Huang received a Bachelor’s degree in English language and literature from Hohai University of China (2018), and is studying for a Master’s degree in higher education at SJTU. Her research interest includes engineering students’ international learning experiences, innovation and entrepreneurship edu- cation.Prof. Jiabin Zhu, Shanghai Jiao Tong University Jiabin Zhu is an Associate Professor at the Graduate School of
Society for Engineering Education, 2015 Impact of Narrative, Character Creation, and Game Mechanics on Student Engagement in a Game-Based Chemical Engineering Laboratory Course1. IntroductionAs modern students have come of age in a time where video games, whether mobile, console, orsocial, have become ubiquitous, game-based learning (GBL) is gaining increased attention as atool used in education1-5. In GBL, games are used as environments and contexts where studentscan learn via trial-and-error with no permanent consequences6-8. Note that GBL is not merelyfree-form activity, but one with rules that guide and dictate the experience, as well as offering acondition in which the game can be “won”9,10.One
and engineering research faculty to develop and implement K-12 teacher professional development. Currently, Taylor is pursuing a doctorate degree in Materials Science and Engineering and Penn State University.Dr. Matthew Johnson, Matt is an Assistant Professor with the Center for Science and the Schools in the College of Education at Penn State University. His research interests focus on how teachers learn about epistemic practices of en- gineers through in-service teacher professional development programs and how they provide opportunities for students to engage in them to learn disciplinary content.Mr. Manoj Varma Saripalli, The Pennsylvania State UniversityMs. Yu Xia, Pennsylvania State University
Department Head for Graduate Programs in Vir- ginia Tech’s Department of Engineering Education. She has her doctorate in Engineering Education and her strengths include qualitative and mixed methods research study design and implementation. She is/was PI/Co-PI on 8 funded research projects including a CAREER grant. She has won several Virginia Tech awards including a Dean’s Award for Outstanding New Faculty. Her research expertise includes using motivation and related frameworks to study student engagement in learning, recruitment and retention in engineering programs and careers, faculty teaching practices and intersections of motivation and learning strategies. Matusovich has authored a book chapter, 10 journal
engage cross-culturally at thebeginning of the summer, and they indicated accelerated gains such that they rated themselves as Page 20.42.8better prepared than the RQI students at the end of the summer. There may be several factors thatcontribute to this. As with the intrapersonal dimension, this may reflect that the NanoJapan studentsare more self-confident at the end of the summer as a result of having successfully lived and workedfor twelve-weeks in an international environment. This may also suggest that the NanoJapancurriculum, through which students are trained on intercultural communication and completeweekly written activities in
dissemination of information in the form of lecture-based strategies exemplifiestraditional teaching, a teacher-centered approach. Instructional teaching strategies lie along acontinuum from teacher-centered to student-centered. The former features pure lecture withoutstudent questioning, and the latter showcases students’ active engagement with investigation ordesign as the instructor facilitates.The findings reveal the warranted assertion that engineering fellows communicate biomedicalengineering research with science and engineering practices through a belief about studentlearning. It was an individual personal belief about student learning that determined how fellowsconstructed modules; activities that represent or parallel dissertation work, and
Paper ID #37506The Community College Pathway: A Study of Women inSTEMRoberta Rincon Dr. Roberta Rincon is the Associate Director of Research with the Society of Women Engineers, where she oversees the organization’s research activities around issues impacting girls and women from elementary through college and into the engineering workforce. Before joining SWE, Roberta was a Senior Research and Policy Analyst at The University of Texas System, where she focused on student success and faculty awards programs across nine academic institutions. Roberta received her B.S. in Civil Engineering from The University of
Connecticut with a Ph.D. degree in Civil Engineering. Before joining San Francisco State University as an assistant professor, he worked as a structural engi- neering professional at Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (SOM) LLP. As a licensed professional engineer in the states of Connecticut and California, Dr. Jiang has been involved in the design of a variety of low- rise and high-rise projects. His current research interests mainly focus on Smart Structures Technology, Structural Control and Health Monitoring and Innovative Engineering Education. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2018 Engaging Community College Students in Civil Engineering Research of Structural Health
program hasmet certain standards necessary to produce graduates who are ready to enter their professions.”9It also ensures that “students who graduate from accredited programs have access to enhancedopportunities in employment; licensure, registration and certification; graduate education andglobal mobility.”10Other International ActivitiesAs a means to become further engaged in the global community of engineering education, ABETbecame a member of both the Global Engineering Deans Council (GEDC) and the InternationalFederation of Engineering Education Societies (IFEES) in 2011.The GEDC, modeled after the ASEE Engineering Deans Council, was established in 2008 withthe mission “to serve as a global network of engineering deans, and to leverage on
available on their campus and may considersurveying their members (and prospective members) to better understand what offerings wouldbe desirable at their campus. For survey ideas, the survey used for this study is found in theAppendix.ConclusionsThe Student Chapter Mission as presented by the Student Division of ASEE may not beappropriate for all Student Chapters. Those from community colleges or undergraduate-servinginstitutions are not likely to have a graduate student population, making the third bullet, “Toincrease the interest of engineering graduate students in careers in engineering education”,inappropriate for these Chapters. Other Chapters may have difficulty making and keeping tieswith local K-12 schools or engaging in outreach; some may