openness to newways of thinking and knowing.Kendall et al. [3] articulate an expansive definition of Engineering Leadership that incorporatesmany of the dimensions of complexity inherent in wicked problems: “Engineering Leaders (a) employ the full range of engineering skills and knowledge in the design of socio-technical innovations, while (b) seeking to understand, embrace, and address the current and future impact of their work in context by (c) actively fostering engaged and productive relationships with diverse stakeholders, including themselves and their team, the users of their technologies, and those impacted by their engineering work”.We argue that systems thinking is an important engineering leadership
proverbial Promise Land. In spite of being in a space that is morediverse, they manage to simultaneously be invisible and hypervisible. An unmerited sense ofassumed cultural belonging was highlighted with students reporting a lack of selfethnic reflectorsin their programs. In many ways the systemic and institutional structures on HBCUs with respectto STEM doctoral programming mirrored the colonial structures more often associated withHWIS. Their culture and cultural-based experiences as domestic students as well as theiracademic strengths were often not recognized by mentors while that of international studentswere. Three themes were supported by the data: Conspicuous Absence, Race Still Matters, andInvisibilized Hypervisibility.Implications: Better
’ creativity and propensity for innovation affects such transferpersistence.[Portions of this paper in the review of the literature and research design have been reprintedfrom the 2015 and 2016 ASEE Poster Session Papers which provide preliminary material for thereader.]1,2Motivation and overviewThere is a critical need for more students with engineering and science majors to enter into,persist, and graduate from postsecondary institutions. Increasing the diversity in engineering andscience is also a profound identified need.3 According to national statistics, the largest groups ofunderrepresented minority students in engineering and science attend the US public highereducation institutions and in particular the community colleges.4 Recent research
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, LLMs appear to be reshaping how students access, interpret, apply, andpotentially learn information.In engineering education, where problem-solving skills and technical understanding arefoundational, the role of LLMs creates complex pedagogical considerations. The capabilities ofwidely available models, such as ChatGPT, have evolved dramatically over the last two years.The present and future role of LLMs in programming for engineers appears quite complicated,serving dual roles as both coding assistance (or code creation) and learning tools. These tworoles, which are sometimes at odds with each other, raise important questions about how studentsdevelop programming skills. The rapid advancement in quality and capability of these tools
of cybersecurity students’ learning while family and work are determined to be significantlyimportant factors for learners while online learning environment and interactions are alsoimportant. As for the external factors that impact learning, the work option was determined to bethe most popular response as a part of the external factors impacting students’ learning.1. Introduction.Cybersecurity has grown rapidly over the last decade in response to the increasing sophisticationof cyber threats and the growing need for skilled professionals to address these challenges [6,7].In response, universities have stepped up their cybersecurity programs to prepare students for thistechnical and analytical field. Although technical skills remain
theory tounderstand how they construct and develop their engineering and professional identities. Thedata used for this study was secondary and gathered by a large state research university in 2020.A positioning analysis of undergraduate engineering students’ PDS reflections on co-curricularexperiences (i.e., technical work and research) indicates that the students build their engineeringidentities primarily in the process of positioning themselves as: 1) an engineering intern; 2) aresearch assistant; and 3) taking up agentic positions related to successfully completing the tasksand future career goals. Storylines show how individual students take up their responsibilitieswithin a particular context in co-curricular activities. The results also
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Alliance for Graduate Education and the Professoriate (AGEP) Distinguished Scholar Award. Dina’s dissertation proposal was selected as part of the top 3 in the 2018 American Educational Research Association (AERA) Division D In-Progress Research Gala.Mr. Aaron Robert Hamilton Thielmeyer Aaron Thielmeyer is a mechanical engineering undergraduate student at Purdue University.Mr. Herman Ronald Clements III, Purdue University at West Lafayette c American Society for Engineering Education, 2020 Paper ID #29338 H. Ronald Clements is a postbaccalaureate research assistant in the STRIDE lab at Purdue University
different areas likemarketing, advertisements and technical support [2]. There are many examples that showedtechniques that have been used related to PAs interaction in the educational system. Forexample, in [3], the authors used a PA that depended on dialog and commands to solve Law-related scenarios using Alexa, therefore using voice technique. Also, in [4], PA was animatedand explained the instructions to the learners using voice and lip synchronization. Moreover, multi-agent-systems were used to explain instructions to users via voice [5].Another example is shown in [6], where a study mentioned using Chatbots to improve thecognitive aspects in science class for sixth grade students, which means that they used “texttechnique” to interact. All
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related to different aspects of struggle contextualized in coursesversus at only one point in time). This approach will further assist us in refining and testing ourtheory of action [RQ2-3]. In addition, during the third year of the grant we plan to deliver theintervention in at least one second-year engineering disciplinary course that exhibits significantequity gaps in achievement.As we continue to scale the intervention into new engineering classroom environments, our effortsto address RQs 4-7 will continue. In the third year we will refine our faculty onboarding andtraining processes, and we plan to hold at least two additional training sessions for faculty whoimplement the intervention. We are currently in the process of interviewing our
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traction. Initiatives to developleadership in engineering students has been gaining popularity in national communities includingASEE Leadership Division, and NICKEL (National Initiative on Capacity Building andKnowledge Creation for Engineering Leadership [1]) in Canada. However, the focus on studentdevelopment often overlooks how educators are developing professionally and as educationalleaders.One common avenue for leadership and professional development is mentorship. Effectivementorship integrates both career and psychosocial aspects to develop professional identity andpersonal competencies [2]. Mentorship plays a role in shaping the cognitive and technical skillsof future engineers as well as enhancing the transferable skills essential for
used in the project. We would also like to thank Kamille Green,Aurausp Maneshni, and Claire Rogers for their assistance with the implementation of projectduring the class.References[1] T. Smith, and T.W. Cawthon, “Generation Z Goes to College,” College Student Affairs Journal, vol. 35, no. 1, pp. 101-102, 2017.[2] K. Kiili, H. Ketamo, and M.D. Kickmeirer-Rust, “Evaluating the Usefulness of Eye Tracking in Games-Based Learning,” International Journal of Serious Games, vol. 1, no. 2, pp. 51-65, 2014.[3] N. McGrath, and L. Bayerlein, “Engaging Online Students through the Gamification of Learning Materials: The Present and the Future,” 30th Annual Conference on Australian Society for Computers in Learning in Tertiary Education, pp
colleagues to develop role-playing games teaching engineering within its complex humanistic context. NOTE: this paper has co-authors.Mr. Leo Ryan Bunyea, Worcester Polytechnic InstituteDr. David DiBiasio, Worcester Polytechnic Institute David DiBiasio is Associate Professor of Chemical Engineering and Department Head of ChE at WPI. He received his ChE degrees from Purdue University, worked for the DuPont Co, and has been at WPI since 1980. His current interests are in educational research: the process of student learning, international engineering education, and educational assessment. Collaboration with two colleagues resulted in being awarded the 2001 William Corcoran Award from Chemical Engineering Education. He served
Ph.D. in Engineering and Science Education. Her research earned her a National Science Foundation CAREER Award focused on characterizing latent di- versity, which includes diverse attitudes, mindsets, and approaches to learning, to understand engineering students’ identity development. She has won several awards for her research including the 2016 American Society of Engineering Education Educational Research and Methods Division Best Paper Award and the 2018 Benjamin J. Dasher Best Paper Award for the IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference. 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
and breaks down the conceptand lab activities for those students. Also, during the same week, one of the IAIs delivers thedesign project milestone(s) within the online design studios to a maximum of 40 students. All thelabs and design studios have the support of at least one staff and one faculty mentor. During thelabs and design studios, TAs also meet with students in small breakout groups. Generally, a TAdrops into 1-2 online breakout groups made up of 3-5 students. IAIs work alongside TAs toaddress specific student needs or queries that may arise during and after the breakout session aswell as being available throughout regular working hours.DesignUsing the lenses of collaborative teaching and community of practice (CoP), this study
traditional hand-written homework assignments [1], [3].The importance of experiential learning in the classroom has a long theoretical and historicalbasis; references to the use of ‘authentic’ experiences in science education in the United Statesdate back to the formalization of the K-12 educational system as we know it around the turn ofthe 20th century [4], [5]. John Dewey first proposed the revolutionary idea of blendingexperiences with education in 1938 [6]. Later in 1946, Kurt Lewin learned the importance to thelearning process to have some tension or conflict between participants in a training group (T-group) during the subsequent discussion about an experience. Although his findings did notbecome wide-spread until the 1960s, Jean Piaget
yearengineering students, from 2019 to 2021. Table 1 captures key details about these three cohorts.The 2019 cohort were based on campus and attended all classes in person. The 2020 cohort werebased at their respective homes and attended all classes online. The 2021 cohort were based oncampus but attended some classes in person and some online, due to the university’s gradualphasing in of in-person classes. The 2019 data was collected and analyzed in the previous study[10]. The 2020 and 2021 data are analyzed here and compared to that of 2019. Name of Dataset Student Location Course Location Sample Size (N) Intro2019 On campus In person (3 sessions/week) 81 PoD2020* At home Online
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social and technical educational resources, fostering a collaborative environment of individuals of diverse disciplines and backgrounds, encouraging an ethos of individual social responsibility, and addressing complex real-world problems and examining impacts to marginalized communities. 3. The third priority is to “challenge norms in higher education and STEM.” This indicates interactive and interdisciplinary project work, as well as a concentrated effort to include those outside of STEM disciplines in these efforts. It also includes a reflective process of what it means to be an engineer. 4. The fourth priority is to “enrich the club culture of diversity, equity, and inclusion.” This includes creating
,fostering collaborative learning and engagement. These groups were assigned by the instructor atthe beginning of each semester and remained unchanged throughout the semester to encourageconsistency in group dynamics. Each group typically consisted of 3-5 students, with groupcomposition adhering to a specific principle: avoiding situations where female students wereminoritized; namely, groups were designed to ensure that if female students were present, theirnumbers were equal to or exceeded those of male students. This approach aimed to create abalanced and inclusive environment that supported equitable participation and minimized thepotential for isolation.[15]These groups collaborated weekly on problem sets during discussion sessions. To
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research interests include transfer student information asymmetries, threshold concepts, curricular complexity, and advancing quantitative and fully integrated mixed methods.Mr. Siqing Wei, University of Cincinnati Dr. Siqing Wei received a B.S. and M.S. in Electrical Engineering and a Ph.D. in Engineering Education program at Purdue University as a triple boiler. He is a postdoc fellow at the University of Cincinnati under the supervision of Dr. David Reeping. His research interests span three major research topics, which are teamwork, cultural diversity, and international and Asian/ Asian American student experiences. He utilizes innovative and cutting-edge methods, such as person-centered approaches, NLP, ML, and
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better understanding of currentexperiential learning activity within the College. Over 10,000 students, including 7,350undergraduates, are enrolled in the College of Engineering at the University of University.Through a rich opportunity mix including hundreds of student organizations, curricularopportunities, co-curricular opportunities, research and entrepreneurial experiences, teamcompetitions, and others, 98% of 2018 engineering graduating seniors (Figure 1) reportedinvolvement with at least one type of the following experiences—research, civic engagement,creative work, international experience, entrepreneurship, client project, or internship [3].College of Engineering (n=1604) student engaged learning participation rates are slightly
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