validated for useamong introductory biology students in a variety of higher education contexts, and powerfullycaptured change among non-science majors. We used all of the items designed to measure fourconcepts from the ToSLS section on “Understanding Methods of Inquiry that Lead to ScientificKnowledge”: (1) identify a valid scientific argument; (2) evaluate the validity of sources; (3)evaluate the use and misuse of scientific information; and (4) understand the elements ofresearch design and how they impact scientific findings/conclusions. These four concepts aremeasured using a total of 15 multiple-choice questions, with 3-5 individual questions measuringeach concept, all of which demonstrated high internal (construct) validity among the more
faculty development. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2024 Reframing Racial Equity Year 2: Examining Scripts of WhitenessOverviewThis EHR Racial Equity project, sponsored by National Science Foundation’s Directorate forSTEM Education (EDU)/ Division of Undergraduate Education (DUE), aims to shift the wayfaculty understand racial equity in engineering education. Rather than treating“underrepresentation” as a problem that needs to be solved (representation is not the same aspower, after all), the literature illustrates that the culture of engineering creates an inhospitableenvironment for students and faculty of color [1], [2], [3]. The invisible and normalized nature ofWhiteness has led to
process of developing the software that we built for a summercamp related to teaching around 20 neurodivergent high school students programming conceptsunder the funding of NSF’s Division Of Research On Learning and ITEST. We elaborate on thechallenges and potential issues of creating and making such software easily accessible. Morespecifically, the synchronization problems that arise from turning a closed single-user system intoa multi-user system for a neurodivergent programming camp. Additionally, we discuss about theiterative and real-time feedback development of our tool.IntroductionThe importance of collaborative tools in fostering an early software development experience isundeniable. Exposing students to these tools is a great way to
single story.They are a relatively modern qualitative research methodology used in the existing literature forseveral purposes: to do justice to complex accounts while maintaining participant anonymity[1]–[3], summarize data in a more engaging personal form and retain the human face of the data[2], represent specific aspects of the research findings [3], enhance the transferability of researchfindings by invoking empathy [4], illuminate collective experiences [5], and enhance researchimpact by providing findings in a manner that is more accessible to those outside of academia[1]. Composite narratives leverage the power of storytelling, which has shown to be effective instudies of neurology and psychology; i.e., since humans often think and
with school supplies, or other BSC giveaways. Foodhas been provided by Bibi’s House of Kabob, a family-owned local restaurant and strongsupporter of the colleges.3. Evaluations3.1 Internal and external advisory boardsThe Internal Advisory Board (IAB) for the BSC project consists of UHCL and communitycollege administrators and senior faculty members. The External Advisory Board (EAB)members consist of members of local STEM industries. We have been meeting with the IABsemi-annually, and with the EAB annually to report progress and to receive feedback and advice.This gives the BSC Executive team the opportunity to learn of ways to improve the efficiency ofour project activities, such as continuing with the theme of the annual STEM challenge
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]. The thematic synthesis will consist of three phases: 1) coding each line of text, 2)development of descriptive themes associated with the studies, and 3) generation of analyticthemes that interpret the findings [7].AcknowledgementsThis work is supported by the U.S. National Science Foundation award #1828659. Any opinions,findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the authorsand do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.References[1] Annual Estimates of the Resident Population by Sex, Race, and Hispanic Origin for theUnited States, States, and Counties: April 1, 2010 to July 1, 2016. Source: U.S. Census Bureau,Population Division. Release Date: June 2017[2] B. L. Yoder
views of the National Science Foundation."References:[1] Gumina, Mario James. "Using hackathons as a tool in STEM education." (2017).[2] Decker, Adrienne, Kurt Eiselt, and Kimberly Voll. "Understanding and improving the culture of hackathons: Think global hack local." 2015 IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference (FIE). IEEE, 2015.[3] Richard, Gabriela T., et al. "StitchFest: Diversifying a College Hackathon to broaden participation and perceptions in computing." Proceedings of the 46th ACM technical symposium on computer science education. 2015.[4] Kovaleva, Yekaterina, Ari Happonen, and Audrey Mbogho. "Towards gender balance in modern hackathons: literature-based approaches for female inclusiveness." Proceedings
by providing resources to faculty that make it easy for them to include examples of successful engineers of all backgrounds and/or show examples of great engineering from multiple cultures. 3. Create low-cost boot camps and summer courses to strengthen math and technical skills for struggling students. Year 3 (2025) Goals: 1. Create a cycle of class observation and review of all faculty that provides suggestions for implementing active learning techniques, with follow up to help iterate on these practices.Before the November workshop, the student focus group report was transmitted to the FLCparticipants, who were asked to review the report in light of the previous 2½ years of FLCtraining. The student focus group report
. Froyd is a Fellow of the IEEE, a Fellow of the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE), an ABET Program Evaluator, the Editor-in- Chief for the IEEE Transactions on Education, a Senior Associate Editor for the Journal of Engineering Education, and an Associate Editor for the International Journal of STEM Education.Dr. Julie P Martin, Clemson University Julie P. Martin is an assistant professor of Engineering and Science Education at Clemson University. Her research interests focus on social factors affecting the recruitment, retention, and career development of underrepresented students in engineering. Dr. Martin is a 2009 NSF CAREER awardee for her research entitled, ”Influence of Social Capital on Under
for conducting research interviews, highlighting theimportance of careful evaluation and skill development among new and established researchersalike. While there is an abundance of literature and resources on designing interview protocolsfor research, there is limited empirical or theoretical literature available that focuses on teachingand developing research interview skills. What resources do exist are mostly concentrated inclinical or applied research disciplines such as healthcare [2], social work [3], and humanresource management [4], and these are often patient- or candidate-facing interviews whichfocus on evaluative goals rather than experiential.In many ways, developing interview skills emerges from the acts of reviewing, observing
. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2016 Experimental Centered Pedagogy approach to learning in Engineering: An HBCUs experienceIbibia, Dabipi, Engineering and Aviation Sciences Department, University of Maryland EasternShoreSacharia, Albin, Department of Electrical Engineering, Norfolk State UniversityMajlesein, Hamid, R., Department of Electrical Engineering, Southern University and A & MCollegeConnor, Kenneth, A., Electrical, Computer, and Systems Engineering Department, RensselaerPolytechnic InstituteNewman, Dianna, Division of Educational Psychology & Methodology, School of EducationUniversity at Albany/SUNYGullie, Kathy, Division of Educational Psychology & Methodology, School of EducationUniversity at Albany
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and spring semester. They discuss topics ranging from scholars'performance in their courses to their summer plans, including finding an internship, studyabroad, and undergraduate research.Peer mentors: Peer mentoring is an evidence-based practice for helping students adjust touniversity life [14, 15]. We selected eight upper-division peer mentors based on their academicbackgrounds and sharing similar characteristics with the scholars, including first-generationstatus and demographic identification. The management team assigned each peer mentor fourscholar mentees. The CREATE project director conducted a virtual training session for the peermentors and went over the project's peer mentor training manual. Additionally, she showed thema video
distinct types of career plans. The first involved graduate school, either intraditional career pathways for psychology students (clinical psychology or neuroscience: n = 3)or in human factors (n = 1). Students in the second pathway intended to immediately enter theworkforce: two students intended to apply for data analytic positions in a company, and onestudent intended to use their technical knowledge to teach K-8th grade students about coding andcybersecurity. One Psychology major intended to become a physician’s assistant.Four students in this sample were majoring in Economics (n = 3) or Business (n = 1). Threestudents reported planning to directly use their Applied Computing minor. One Economics majorintended to pursue a Master’s degree in
degrees in Mechanical Engineering and Secondary Mathematics Education from the University of Nevada, Reno, and during his undergrad- uate education, he focused on K-12 Engineering Education. Justin’s research and service focuses on the experiences and development of low-socioeconomic students as an often understudied population. Justin has served as the ASEE Student Division Co-Program Chair and is a current Director of Special Projects for the Educational Research & Methods Division.Dr. Adam Kirn, University of Nevada, Reno Adam Kirn is an Assistant Professor of Engineering Education at University of Nevada, Reno. His re- search focuses on the interactions between engineering cultures, student motivation, and
). A nationally recognized expert on closing the gender gap for women and girls in STEM education, Ms. Milgram has testified before the U.S. Congress on women in STEM and personally conducted hundreds of WomenTech Educators Trainings in 46 states and Canada. She has presented papers included in conference proceedings at national conferences such as the Amer- ican Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) and Women in Engineering Programs and Advocates Network (WEPAN). In 2013, Ms. Milgram received a reader’s choice award recipient for the cover article ”How to Recruit Women & Girls to the STEM Classroom” published by International Technology and Engineering Educators Association (ITEEA) in Technology and
Texas was based on antiquated orinsufficient geospatial information [2].The assessment moved the 86th Texas legislature (2019) to adopt changes to Texas Water Code§16.061, establishing a flood planning process led by the TWDB. Regional flood plans for eachof the State’s 15 major river basins (known as Regional Flood Planning Areas) were to besubmitted to the TWDB in January, 2023. These plans will be subject to quinquennial updates[3]. Fifteen Regional Flood Planning Groups were formed and met to design and write planswhich cover the entire state.The Canadian – Upper Red River Basin Regional Flood Planning Area, or Region 1,encompasses a sparsely-populated portion of Texas. It covers 40,000 mi2 of the high- androlling-plains physiographic
Paper ID #29081Launching the Urban STEM CollaboratoryProf. Katherine Goodman, University of Colorado Denver Katherine Goodman is assistant professor at the University of Colorado Denver, and the associate director of Inworks, an interdisciplinary innovation lab. Her research focuses on transformative experiences in engineering education. She is currently division chair of the Technological and Engineering Literacy - Philosophy of Engineering Division (TELPhE).Dr. Stephanie S Ivey, The University of Memphis Dr. Stephanie Ivey is the Associate Dean for Research with the Herff College of Engineering and a Pro- fessor
Mechanical Engineering Department at Seattle University. She is the PI on an NSF-RED grant. Her research also includes electro-mechanical systems for the sustainable processing of microalgae. Her work is published in venues including the Journal of Engineering Education, IEEE Transactions on Education, International Journal of Engineering Education, Transactions of ASME, Chemical Engineering Journal, Bioresource Technology, Proceedings of the Combustion Institute, and Combustion and Flame. She is a member of the ASEE, ASME, and the Algae Biomass Organization. Dr. Shuman served as Chair for the ASEE Energy Conversion and Conservation Division. She received a Dipl. Ing. degree in mechanical engineering from Belgrade
workshop addressed the design, development, implementation, andevaluation of DMTL in the K-20 educational landscape. The workshop flow which was used isoutlined in Figure 5. The initial half-day of the workshop consisted of technical overview andnetworking activities which commenced on Sunday afternoon. These included an optional postersession for those wishing to present their Position Paper in a poster format. The poster sessionalso provided an optional social mixer while allowing other participants to arrive into Orlandothat evening. On Monday, the Workshop sessions commenced after a keynote address spanning Figure 5: Workshop Graphical Agenda and corresponding Daily Program Structure.all four tracks and outlook of the field to motivate the
interest to different audiences (e.g., The score results are likelymore of greater interest to instructors than the re-evaluation and vice versa with researchers).The specific purpose of this paper is to evaluate three internal structure claims for each instrument: That (1)they fit established models of good measurement (e.g., consistent with prior research), (2) they are areliable measure of that construct (i.e., stable across time), and (3) they are fair and unaffected byconstruct-irrelevant sources of variance (i.e., measure statistical learning; not predict gender). Otheraspects of validity (e.g., content, substantive, and external validity) are also important to a holisticargument that our use is valid. However, in our case, those other
, research or exposure toprofessional practicing engineers dominated the answers. Interacting with friends, peers,whether in engineering or not, dominated in a few cases or emerged as a close second.Figure 3 illustrates the responses when students were asked about other factors thatimpact their enculturation. The horizontal axis exhibits the themes that were mostcommon in their answers: Real world indicates working out in the “real world” outside ofthe classroom in some companies as interns or co-ops or in research (though the studentsdo not necessarily realize that research can be different). Interacting with others may bewith friends, peers in engineering, whether in the first-year class or in at least one othercourse, where more knowledge may be
getthere.3. SETS Program Goal, Objectives, and Key AchievementsThe goal of our SETS project is to provide financial support, academic services, and leadershipdevelopment opportunities to a cohort of engineering technology students in alignment with themission of the NSF S-STEM program. Taking into consideration of the unique characteristics ofour programs, we commit to improve the academic performance, time-to-graduation, andworkforce-readiness of selected SETS scholars. By establishing collaboration with the UHscholarship and financial aid division [15], we are enhancing our programs to better serve ourstudents to reach their full potential and make positive contribution to the creation anddevelopment of a more sustainable and resilient future.To
undergraduate computing and engineeringprograms requires a multi-pronged, systemic approach including targeted recruitment, inclusivepedagogy, meaningful assignments and curriculum, academic and social support for students,high-level institutional support and appropriate policies, and ongoing assessment of progress [2],[3]. These components of the system experienced by students are represented in the NCWIT ES-UP Systemic Change model (see Figure 1). Figure 1: Systemic Change in Undergraduate Computing & EngineeringThe NSF grant in division EHR/DRL was a five-year collaborative project between fiveinstitutions to serve the disciplines with the lowest representation of women: computer science,computer engineering, electrical engineering
Chemical Engineering and Ph.D. in Engineering and Science Education. Her research earned her a National Science Foundation CAREER Award focused on characterizing latent diversity, which includes diverse attitudes, mindsets, and approaches to learning, to understand engineering students’ identity devel- opment. She is the recipient of a 2014 American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) Educational Research and Methods Division Apprentice Faculty Grant. She has also been recognized for the synergy of research and teaching as an invited participant of the 2016 National Academy of Engineering Frontiers of Engineering Education Symposium and 2016 New Faculty Fellow for the Frontiers in Engineering Education Annual
with ADHD found that only 3%these students were in engineering programs, while 76% were enrolled in colleges of arts andsciences.10To embrace the significant minority of ADHD students in engineering programs, a specializedResearch Experience for Undergraduates (REU) Site titled “REU Site: Research Experience inCyber and Civil Infrastructure Security for Students with ADHD: Fostering Innovation” has beenfunded by the NSF Division of Engineering Education and Centers. The REU Site offersresearch opportunities in the security of critical infrastructures to undergraduates with ADHD.This program is designed based on unique strengths in divergent thinking and risk taking. Thispaper discusses the major observations of the REU program as well as the
advancing quantitative and fully integrated mixed methods.Dr. Kenneth Reid, University of Indianapolis Kenneth Reid is the Associate Dean and Director of Engineering at the R. B. Annis School of Engineering at the University of Indianapolis. He and his coauthors were awarded the Wickenden award (Journal of Engineering Education, 2014) and Best Paper award, Educational Research and Methods Division (ASEE, 2014). He was awarded an IEEE-USA Professional Achievement Award (2013) for designing the B.S. degree in Engineering Education. He is a co-PI on the ”Engineering for Us All” (e4usa) project to develop a high school engineering course ”for all”. He is active in engineering within K-12, (Technology Student Association
-dominated culture of engineering. Faulkner first coined the term“gender in/authenticity” in a discussion of engineering dualities experienced in the softwareengineering workplace [35], [36]. She explained a division of engineering into the “technical”and “social” realms. The technical was seen as “real” engineering, where stereotypically menwere expected to engage. Women were expected to engage more with the social realm. Faulknercontinued this research and expanded on gender in/authenticity in later work [7], [30], [37].Within many engineering firms she discovered that interactions were gendered leading someengineers, men and women, to feel as though they didn’t belong.With this framework, we intend to extend the concept of in/authenticity to race
classroom observations using the classroomobservation protocol, and video record targeted class sessions to document student and teacherinteractions. In addition, interviews with the instructor and a purposeful sample of students willbe conducted at the end of term. This multi-method study will examine in detail the quantitativeand qualitative measures separately to triangulate the findings. Assessment data will be analyzedusing paired samples t-tests. Throughout the term, this analysis will provide evidence of anychange in the students’ interest, self-efficacy, or both. The project team will use these findings torefine the treatment. If the treatment is functioning as intended, the team will conduct a pilotstudy in Phase 3 using the gamma version