professional ethics curriculum. Karl received his Ph.D. in Applied Electromagnetics from the University of Michigan. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2025 Tuition Equity: A study of the disparate impact of different forms of block tuition based on raceAbstractThis full empirical research paper explores the impact of block tuition across differentdemographics. While much attention has been paid to college accessibility, particularly regardingelite school admissions and overall affordability, less focus has been given to how institutionalpolicies—such as tuition and fee structures—affect different degrees and studentsdisproportionately. These structures not only make certain
AC 2011-1954: PREPARING COUNSELORS TO ADVOCATE STEM CA-REERS: A PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT MODEL FOR K-12 COUN-SELORSMeagan C Ross, Purdue University, West Lafayette Meagan Ross is a Ph.D. student in the College of Engineering Education at Purdue University. She received a B.S. in Computer Science from Texas Woman’s University, and a M.S. in Electrical Engineer- ing from Texas Tech University. Prior to beginning her doctoral studies, she worked as a micro-opto- electromechanical systems engineer for Texas Instruments. Meagan began working for Institute for P-12 Engineering Research and Learning (INSPIRE) in the area of teacher professional development in 2009. Meagan is passionate about providing awareness of
to every stage of forming theengineer, including • Exploratory and motivational stage: K-12, enrichment activities, competitions • Preparatory: scholarships, fellowships, rankings of undergraduate and graduate engineering programs, internships • Professional careers: publications, salary surveys, organizations • Academic careers: career development, evaluating institutions and offers, research opportunities and grants, summer research opportunities, fellowships, organizations • Leadership: leadership training, career advancement programs and administration in higher education • Recognition: awardsIn 2005, the first MIND Link paper appeared with a little more than 300 links. This year’s MINDLinks paper
Three Rivers Community College.Dr. Elizabeth Litzler, University of Washington Elizabeth Litzler, Ph.D., is the director of the University of Washington Center for Evaluation and Re- search for STEM Equity (UW CERSE) and an affiliate assistant professor of sociology. She has been at UW working on STEM Equity issues for more than 19 years. Dr. Litzler is a member of ASEE, 2020-2021 chair of the ASEE Commission on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, and a former board member of the Women in Engineering ProActive Network (WEPAN). Her research interests include the educational cli- mate for students, faculty, and staff in science and engineering, assets based approaches to STEM equity, and gender and race
Paper ID #36843Board 363: Promoting the Dispositional Dimension of Competency inUndergraduate Computing ProgramsDr. Bonnie Kathleen MacKellar, St John’s University Bonnie MacKellar is an associate professor of computer science at St John’s University. Her research interests include semantic models in medical informatics, and software engineering education, including HFOSS, and the role of competencies in preparing students for careers in computing.Dr. Natalie Kiesler, DIPF | Leibniz Institute for Research and Information in Education Natalie Kiesler completed her doctorate in Computer Science at Goethe University Frankfurt
research. She is on the USD team implementing ”Developing Changemaking Engineers”, an NSF-sponsored Revolutionizing Engineering Education (RED) project. Dr. Lord is the 2018 recipient of the IEEE Undergraduate Teaching Award.Dr. Matthew W. Ohland, Purdue University at West Lafayette (COE) Matthew W. Ohland is Associate Head and the Dale and Suzi Gallagher of Professor of Engineering Edu- cation 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 assign- ment, peer evaluation, and active and collaborative teaching methods has been supported by the National Science Foundation and
Paper ID #22265Optimizing Student Team Skill Development using Evidence-Based Strate-gies: Year 3: NSF Award 1431694Dr. Matthew W. Ohland, Purdue University, West Lafayette (College of Engineering) 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 the National Science Foundation and the Sloan Foundation and his team received Best
Paper ID #22100STEM Storytellers: Improving the Oral Communication Skills of STEMGraduate StudentsDr. Shannon D. Willoughby, Montana State UniversityDr. Brock J. LaMeres, Montana Engineering Education Research Center Dr. Brock J. LaMeres is the Director of the Montana Engineering Education Research Center (MEERC) and an Associate Professor in the Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering at Montana State University. LaMeres teaches and conducts research in the area of computer engineering. LaMeres is currently studying the effectiveness of online delivery of engineering content with emphasis on how the material
Paper ID #18111Entering the Engineering Pathway: Student Veterans’ Decision to Major inEngineeringDr. Catherine Mobley, Clemson University Catherine Mobley, Ph.D., is a Professor of Sociology at Clemson University. She has over 25 years experience in project and program evaluation and has worked for a variety of consulting firms, non-profit agencies, and government organizations, including the Rand Corporation, the American Association of Retired Persons, the U.S. Department of Education, and the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research. Since 2004, she been a member of the NSF-funded MIDFIELD research project on
Paper ID #21760I Never Played the ’Girl Card’: Experiences and Identity Intersections ofWomen Student Veterans in EngineeringRebecca C. Atkinson, Clemson University Rebecca works full time in new student orientation at Clemson University. She is in her fourth year of her doctoral degree in educational leadership. Her research interests include women student veterans and competency development from military experience. She has 15 years of higher education experience including a stint working at the U.S. Naval Academy. Rebecca is also the daughter of a U.S. Military Academy graduate.Dr. Catherine Mobley, Clemson University
Paper ID #21314Expanding Access to and Participation in MIDFIELD (Year 2)Dr. Matthew W. Ohland, Purdue University, West Lafayette (College of Engineering) 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 the National Science Foundation and the Sloan Foundation and his team received Best Paper awards from the Journal of
Paper ID #25401How the ”Needs of the Force” Impact Navy and Marine Corps Veterans’ De-cision to Major in EngineeringDr. Catherine E. Brawner, Research Triangle Educational Consultants Catherine E. Brawner is President of Research Triangle Educational Consultants. She received her Ph.D.in Educational Research and Policy Analysis from NC State University in 1996. She also has an MBA from Indiana University (Bloomington) and a bachelor’s degree from Duke University. She specializes in eval- uation and research in engineering education, computer science education, and technology education. Dr. Brawner is a founding member and
Paper ID #25342Institutional Agents’ Roles in Serving Student Veterans and Implications forStudent Veterans in EngineeringDr. Catherine Mobley, Clemson University Catherine Mobley, Ph.D., is a Professor of Sociology at Clemson University. She has over 30 years experience in project and program evaluation and has worked for a variety of consulting firms, non-profit agencies, and government organizations, including the Rand Corporation, the American Association of Retired Persons, the U.S. Department of Education, and the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research. Since 2004, she been a member of the NSF-funded MIDFIELD
Students”, which provided data for this study. Dr. Weatherton is a registered Professional Engineer in Louisiana.Stephanie Lynn Daza, University of Texas at Arlington Dr. Daza’s work focuses on research methodology, theories of difference, and globalizing trends in ed- ucational policy and practice. Her work has been published in The International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education and Race Ethnicity and Education. She completed her PhD in Social and Cultural Foundations with a focus on research methodology at The Ohio State University in 2006. Prior to this, Stephanie was a US Peace Corps Volunteer in Bolivia and a high school teacher in California.Vu V. Pham, University of Texas at Arlington
AC 2010-777: INFLUENCING SENSE OF COMMUNITY IN A STEMLIVING-LEARNING COMMUNITY: AN NSF STEP FUNDED PROJECTMelissa Dagley-Falls, University of Central Florida Melissa Dagley Falls is the Director of Academic Affairs for the UCF College of Engineering and Computer Science and advisor to both undergraduate and graduate students within the college. Dr. Dagley Falls chairs the Admission, Advising, and Retention Committee (AARC) and serves on the assessment and activities teams of the NSF-funded STEP program entitled “EXCEL:UCF-STEP Pathways to STEM: From Promise to Prominence." Her research interests lie in the areas of student access to education, sense of community, retention, first-year
University - Brandywine Campus. He is on the Board of the ASEE Minorities in Engineering Division (MIND), and ASEE International Division. He is Vice President of Research of the Latin American and Caribbean Consortium of Engineering Institutions (LACCEI). Page 15.874.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2010 MIND Links 2010: Resources to Motivate Minorities to Study and Stay In EngineeringAbstractThe Minorities in Engineering Division (MIND) of the American Society of EngineeringEducation (ASEE) created the MIND Links project in 2004, recognizing that, although there aremany
scholarly activities undertaken by the authors cooperativelyhave involved supporting the educational mission of our institution. In fact, some of our moreresearch-oriented projects have their roots in teaching techniques and instructional problems.Although challenging, an interdisciplinary approach to teaching and scholarship has often beenpreferable to other alternatives, and, in some cases, necessitated by circumstances. Our success iscumulative with our experiences benefiting students in our respective classrooms. It is not ourintent to add to the volume of research defending these active learning strategies. Instead, wereview the lessons we’ve learned in the application of these strategies.BackgroundPurdue University’s College of Technology
AC 2011-1742: ”SUCCESS IS DIFFERENT TO DIFFERENT PEOPLE”:A QUALITATIVE STUDY OF HOW AFRICAN AMERICAN ENGINEER-ING STUDENTS DEFINE SUCCESSQuintin S. Hughes, University of Oklahoma Quintin Hughes received both is B.S. (2004) and M.S. (2009) in Industrial Engineering from the Univer- sity of Oklahoma. He received a Bridge to Doctorate graduate fellowship to fund his Master’s research, which was centered in Engineering Education and sought to understand the pre-college influences of suc- cessful African American engineering students. He is currently an Industrial Engineering doctoral student with the same emphasis in Engineering Education. His doctoral research will take a further look at identi- fying common success
. Sekeres will be starting her M.S. in Systems Engineering at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University in the fall.Dr. James J. Pembridge, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical Univ., Daytona Beach c American Society for Engineering Education, 2017 What’s So Funny About STEM: Examining the Implementation of Humor in the ClassroomIntroductionHumor has long held a place in the repertoire of classroom instructors and researchers haveexamined the role of humor in the classroom for over four decades across many contexts.Recently that research has focused on the use of humor in the college classroom, primarilyfocusing on students’ perception of humor use and not on the manner in which the
Persaud, Pennsylvania State University Anita Persaud is the Associate Director and Research Associate for the Office of Engineering Diversity (Multicultural Engineering Program) at The Pennsylvania State University. She received her BA from Queens College in Queens, New York, majoring in Psychology, and she received her MEd and DEd degrees in Counselor Education from the College of Education from Penn State University. She is the Senior Diversity Researcher on a current NSF-STEM grant where she is responsible for assisting Penn State branch campuses in creating their own ASE summer bridge programs. She also teaches First Year Seminar courses for incoming engineering students.Drey
AC 2010-479: TEACHING DECISION-MAKING IN ENGINEERING: A REVIEWOF TEXTBOOKS AND TEACHING APPROACHESSenay Purzer, Purdue University Senay Purzer is an Assistant Professor in the School of Engineering Education at Purdue University. She is also the Co-Director of Assessment Research for the Institute for P-12 Engineering Research and Learning (INSPIRE). She received a Ph.D. and a M.A in Science Education, Department of Curriculum and Instruction from Arizona State University. Her creative research focuses on collaborative learning, design & decision-making, and the role of engineering self-efficacy on student achievement.Jing Chen, Purdue University Jing Chen is a graduate student in the
Paper ID #8741The Framework on Innovative EngineeringDr. Daniel Michael Ferguson, Purdue University, West Lafayette Daniel M. Ferguson is the recipient of three NSF awards supporting research in engineering education and a Research Associate at Purdue University. Prior to coming to Purdue he was Assistant Professor of Entrepreneurship at Ohio Northern University and Associate Director of the Inter-professional Studies Program and Senior Lecturer at Illinois Institute of Technology. His research interests include engineering innovativeness, entrepreneurial engineering, teamwork, mindset changes and learning strategies of
AC 2009-1627: FACULTY SCHOLARSHIP AND PROFESSIONAL CURRENCY: ASELF-ASSESSMENT MODEL FOR DEVELOPING AN EFFECTIVEPROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT PLANAhmed Khan, DeVry University AHMED S. KHAN, Ph.D., is a senior Professor in the EET dept. at DeVry University, Addison, Illinois. He received his M.Sc (applied physics) from University of Karachi, an MSEE from Michigan Technological University, an MBA from Keller Graduate School of Management., and his Ph.D. from Colorado State University. His research interests are in the areas of Fiber Optic Communications, Faculty Development, Nanotechnology, Application of Telecommunications Technologies in Distance Education, and impact of Technology on Society. He teaches
. This work examines three aspects of experiential learning activities in two distinctEngineering Technology courses: 1) the relationship between student learning style and thetiming of experiential learning activities related to a given topic; and 2) the role of course andtopic type on the relationship between student learning style and the timing of experientiallearning activities. The next section details the background research in these areas, this isfollowed by the methods, results, and conclusions of the work.BackgroundExperiential Learning Experiential learning attempts to rectify what Kolb characterized as the “rejection” of the“real-world” by the educational establishment 1. The key to experiential learning is the creationof
AC 2011-802: GRADE 3-8 TEACHERS’ INITIAL IDEAS ABOUT 21STCENTURY SKILLS IN THE CONTEXT OF A SCIENCE AND ENGINEER-ING PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMAugusto Z. Macalalag Jr., Stevens Institute of Technology Augusto Z. Macalalag Jr. is an Assistant Director of STEM Education Research at Stevens Institute of Technology’s Center for Innovation in Engineering and Science Education. He is responsible for conducting teacher workshops, program development, research, and publications as part of the National Science Foundation’s Mathematics and Science Partnerships Program. His research interests include improving K-12 science and engineering education through teacher preservice and inservice programs.Chris Jurado, Stevens
Paper ID #37265Exploring the Exploratory Factor Analysis: Comparisons andInsights from Applying Five Procedures to Determining EFAItem RetentionJoseph Mirabelli Joseph Mirabelli is an Educational Psychology graduate student at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign with a focus in Engineering Education. His work focuses on mentorship, mental health, and retention for STEM students and faculty. He was awarded the 2020 NAGAP Gold Award for Graduate Education Research to study engineering faculty perceptions of graduate student well-being and attrition. Before studying education at UIUC, Joseph earned an MS
Paper ID #9494Assessment of a New University-Wide Entrepreneurship and Innovation Mi-norMr. Philip M Reeves, The Pennsylvania State University Philip Reeves is a graduate student in the Educational Psychology Department at Penn State. He is work- ing with faculty to evaluate a new university-wide entrepreneurship and innovation minor as a graduate assistant for the Leonhard Center for Enhancement of Engineering Education.Dr. Sarah E Zappe, Pennsylvania State University, University Park Dr. Sarah Zappe is Research Associate and Director of Assessment and Instructional Support in the Leonhard Center for the Enhancement of
Paper ID #32998Goal-match Mentoring: A New Strategy for Faculty of Color in EngineeringAcademiaDr. Sylvia L. Mendez, University of Colorado at Colorado Springs Dr. Sylvia Mendez is a Professor and Chair of the Department of Leadership, Research, and Foundations at the University of Colorado Colorado Springs. She earned a PhD in Educational Leadership and Policy Studies from the University of Kansas, a MS in Student Affairs in Higher Education from Colorado State University, and a BA in Economics from Washington State University. Dr. Mendez’s research centers on effective faculty mentoring practices, broadening
, Engineering, Science Achievement (MESA) outreach program was selected as the subject of this study because of its 40 years of experience in introducing engineering to students traditionally underrepresented in the discipline. The research study proposes to examine the influence of MESA activities on students’ engineering self-efficacy, interest in engineering and perceptions of engineering. Hailey is a recipient of the College of Engineering Teaching Excellence Award, the Utah Engineers Council Engineering Educator of the Year award and the Society of Women Engineers Distinguished Engineering Educator Award. Christine Hailey is the Faculty Advisor of the Utah State University SWE Section. She is also a licensed
if they were followed through to completion. Some of the pairshave in fact continued their conversations and several proposals are expected to emerge.This paper briefly outlines the content of the orientation workshop, describes the structure andoperation of the project formulation exercise, summarizes the proposed projects, and recounts theparticipants’ reactions to the exercise.Introduction: Orienting New Faculty MembersRobert Boice 1 has found that most new faculty members take 4–5 years to become as effective inteaching and productive in research as they are capable of becoming. This result is notsurprising considering how little the higher education community does to orient its initiates to thechallenges that come with their new jobs