challenges within engineering programs (National Academies of Sciences,Engineering, and Medicine, 2016). In turn, these experiences shape their educationaland psychosocial outcomes, often in ways that differ from their overrepresented peers(i.e., white men).Interestingly, while there is a robust collection of literature that examines theexperiences and factors that impact outcomes for women and students of colorpursuing undergraduate degrees in engineering, there is scant literature that focuseson SwD (Lee, 2014). Additionally, while current engineering education researchprovides insight on the effects that environmental factors (e.g., faculty language inthe classroom) and individual psychosocial factors (e.g., sense of belonging) have onthe
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Office of Professional and Community Engagement (PACE) within the Faculty of Education at the University of Calgary. She is also the Director of the Galileo Educational Network. Her research insterests include the ways in which K-12 educational structures, curriculum and learning need to be reinvented for a knowledge/learning society. She has specific interests in: (i)the promotion of deep intellectual engagement, (ii)the ability to create learning environments that require sustained work with ideas and (iii) the pervasiveness of networked digital technologies that open up new ways of thinking, ways of working and tools for working and living in the world. She has has co-authored three books. Sharon has received
focuswithin the engineering education community. Prior research has centered around graduatestudent engineering identity (Choe & Borrego, 2019; Miller, Tsugawa-Nieves, Chestnut, Cass, &Kirn, 2017; Perkins et al., 2020; Satterfield et al., 2019), writing concepts and processes ofengineering graduate students (Berdanier & Zerbe, 2018a, 2018b), and engineering graduatestudent attrition (Berdanier, Whitehair, Kirn, & Satterfield, 2020; Whitehair & Berdanier, 2018).Berdanier et al. (2020) created a model for graduate student attrition, called the GrAD model,based on Reddit posts of engineering doctoral students who were considering or had left theirgraduate programs. Additional research examines the experiences of engineering
, cybersecurity-related courses are offered to junior and senior level college students and donot target first-year students. In an effort to identify and attract more college entry-level studentsto these programs, RIT faculty have been working with Onondaga Community College andCorning Community College to explore game-based learning strategies to engage students learningthrough interactive game scenarios. The game-based learning approach potentially shortens theprerequisite chains of advanced courses, thereby reducing the time and cost for obtainingcybersecurity knowledge and skills for students.The Game-Based Learning (GBL) approach has gained considerable attention [10, 11, 16] sinceJames Gee first presented the impact of game play on cognitive
effective communication skills[13]. Additionally, participation in collaborative teamwork transforms students from passiveparticipants to active contributors as they interact and collaborate with fellow learnersconcerning the subject matter [14]. These collective scholarly endeavors substantiate the promiseof student-led methodologies in reshaping university lecture dynamics, emphasizing theirbroader impact on holistic student development through collaborative, engaging, and student-centered learning approaches.The study explores the effectiveness of a novel strategy, student-led group lecture delivery, inengaging students and inspiring exploration within the CEM course. This active learningapproach is implemented in the junior-level course CE315
, courseinstructors might attend to issues of group cohesion (which may impact collective efficacy);provide accurate but encouraging ongoing feedback on group performance; help teams toredefine and learn from smaller successes and failures; scale complex tasks down into their sub-parts; encourage efficacy-boosting performance attributions; and, where necessary, restructureineffective teams. Team skills may require an intentional focus by instructors; it cannot simplybe assumed that students with good math, science, and technical abilities (and self-efficacy) willautomatically function well in teams.In sum, the present findings support for the utility of collective efficacy as a concept forunderstanding student project team functioning. They also support the
community. The goal of these efforts is to create thenext generation of diverse STEM professionals. Similarly, reform efforts have alsofocused on improving the quality of STEM education. While students’ interests inengineering disciplines are shaped by a variety of factors, parents play a substantial rolein enhancing children’s interest. It is critical to understand parents’ knowledge andawareness of the engineering concepts that will translate into their attitudes towardengineering. Parents’ attitudes have a direct impact on students’ attitudes towardengineering.In this study, 32 middle-school student parents’ knowledge and awareness with regards toengineering and engineering concepts are examined. Specifically, parents’ knowledge ofbuilding
and North Carolina. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2016 Engineering Leadership: Faculty Perceptions and ProfilesAbstractThis work augments our understanding of faculty perceptions of engineering leadership and itsplace in engineering curricula. As evident by the scholarly activity, development of a newdivision within ASEE, and attendance at the sessions for that division, engineering leadership isan area of increasing interest among the engineering education community. However,discussions at a 2015 conference panel appeared to show that this interest is not uniform acrossall members of the professorate. Based on observations in this session and others, there appearsto be a relationship
programs at its website. In an effort to increaseaccessibility to non-traditional students seeking to advance their career in Electrical EngineeringTechnology, a new online Electrical Engineering Technology program was recently launched.The development and delivery of the lab component of Digital Fundamentals, one of the coursesin this program, is presented. Several research questions were asked prior to and during thedevelopment of the program. These questions were as follows: i) Can online courses be deliveredwhile maintaining rigorous accreditation standards? ii) Can teamwork be encouraged andmaintained in an online setting? iii) Can the integrity of the assessment processes be preserved?And iv) can the pedagogical effectiveness of the lab
engaged in an international school-based or non-school- based experience. In addition, each site recruited a comparison set of engineeringstudents who had not had such experience as a comparison group.Review of the literatureEngineering educators have acknowledged the vital role of global preparedness in training 21stcentury engineers, who are able to work and compete in a new global milieu.8,19-21 Manycontemporary discussions focus on engaging engineering students in various kinds of globallyfocused learning activities as a strategy to educate new generation of global engineers.19 Theliterature review that follows provides a brief overview of pedagogical practices designed tofoster global preparedness, their programmatic features, and impact on
competitions, locally, regionally, and globally to IEEE student members and graduate studentmembers. Many competitions provide a way for student members to connect to the global IEEEcommunity and impact humanity through the creative application of technology andengineering. The motto of these competitions is: “Get involved, have fun, and take the challenge.You might just win some prizes and recognition from your peers around the world”10. Verypopular IEEE contests are the Humanitarian Technology Challenge, IEEE International FutureEnergy Challenge, IEEEXtreme 24-Hour Programming Competition, etc. Similar contests withthe one presented in this paper are organized by the Xilinx University Program for the Europeregion: “University Contest on Embedded
and B.S. in Electronics and Communication Engi- neering from India. Prior to his current appointment, he worked as a Postdoctoral Researcher and Assis- tant Research Scientist at University of Michigan. He is the recipient of 2018 Outstanding Postdoctoral Researcher Award at University of Michigan. He currently serves as the Associate Editor of Journal of Women and Minorities in Science and Engineering, and International Journal of Mechanical Engineering Education.Stephen Otondi, New Jersey Institute of Technology Stephen Otondi is an undergraduate student at the New Jersey Institute of Technology in the Ying Wu College of Computing. He is pursuing a BS in Computer Science. He currently serves on the executive
, students wereexposed to the practical aspects and important advantages of collaboration and brainstorming.Third, due to the latest innovations in technology and education, laboratory based work is alwaysin need of enhancement; students engaged in performing lab work are well positioned tounderstand the possible shortcomings, and thus propose improvements; each student, accordingto his or her own ideas and experience (such as experience gained during the coop program),should be able to have a contribution, ranging from very small to significant, to at least one ofthe labs he/she was exposed. Lastly, best solutions can be followed by senior design projects inwhich the proposed improvements are further developed and implemented in the laboratory.This
students, and 3) gender dynamics experienced by STEM students. These focalpoints highlight the experiences we aim to amplify, providing deeper insight into the factorsshaping community college students’ journeys and their sense of belonging in STEM.Sense of Belonging For this section, we will discuss different dimensions of the literature surroundingstudents’ sense of belonging in higher education settings. The literature surrounding sense ofbelonging that we focus on here centers around the programmatic support students receive ontheir campus, the institutional context, and how students’ Pell grant status impacts theirbelonging. Sense of belonging is defined by scholars as the extent to which students feel
understanding ofwhat it means to be an engineer in practice. The responses were similar for the question aboutthe impact of the panels on students’ understanding of how the material in the course relates toengineering practice, with 92.4% of students reporting a positive impact.Lessons Learned & Next StepsIt was apparent early in the development process that there would be challenges associated withimplementing Design Your Career as a co-curricular requirement. The goal is to productivelyassist students in their career development, but even the most productive activities can feel likebusy work when students are short on time and are not able to fully engage with them. It isdifficult to prioritize the important when confronted with the urgent
thecurriculum. These findings suggest that students engaged deeply with the course topics andrecognized their relevance to real-world engineering challenges.Figure 2. Word cloud from students’ responses, highlighting key concepts like sustainability, materials, and systems thinking.5.0 DiscussionThe results of this study indicate that integrating the EOP framework into the Sustainable BuildingPractices course enhanced students’ understanding and application of sustainability principles incivil engineering. The quantitative and qualitative findings collectively demonstrate the impact ofthe revised curriculum on improving learning outcomes, improving students’ critical thinking, andempowering them to
’ creativity and communication skills, especially writtencommunication, as well as emphasizing real-world applicability of the course’s topics, a story-based element was first piloted in fall 2020 semester, and further implemented every time thecourse was taught by the authors. In such assignments, the students were asked to “Tell a Story,”i.e., to develop a unique and individual story related to either a previous laboratory experiment oran in-class problem, and to refer to the learned technical content. All the collected stories wereinformally peer-assessed on the realistic nature of the scenario, the use of engineering content tosolve the story’s problem, and of course creativity. A summary of the winning stories andstudent feedback will be
thermodynamics serves as a critical principleto understanding how energy and matter evolve during physical processes. This study seeks tosupport more integrated models of STEM education by exploring the effects of discipline-specific instruction on students’ understanding of the first law of thermodynamics. When studying the impact of instruction on a students’ proficiency with crosscuttingconcepts, the extent to which a student can use crosscutting concepts to bridge or “transfer” ideasacross disciplinary contexts is of paramount importance [4]. Transfer of learning may be definedas the process a student engages in when applying a concept learned in a familiar context to anew context [6]. Modern approaches to transfer of learning research
AC 2008-1611: ACTIVE LEARNING ACROSS THE COMPUTER SCIENCECURRICULUMWilliam Birmingham, Grove City CollegeVincent DiStasi, Grove City College Page 13.144.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2008 Active Learning Across the CS Curriculum1. IntroductionThe general idea of active learning is to engage students during lecture with a variety of thingsthat actively involve them in the material being presented. Through active engagement, studentsare highly encouraged to focus attention on the lecture. While active learning holds greatpromise, it also raises several important issues: designing materials for lecture that incorporateactive learning while keeping
An ability to function on multidisciplinary teams 3.6 3.1 An ability to identify, formulate and solve engineering 3.9 3.9 problems An understanding of professional and ethical responsibility 3.6 3.6 An ability to communicate effectively 3.7 3.7 The broad education necessary to understand the impact of 3.1 3.0 engineering solutions in a global/societal context A recognition of the need for and an ability to engage in 3.9 3.4 lifelong learning A knowledge of contemporary issues
communities (that is, communities with a population of less than30,000) is even more limited. There are several factors that contribute to this phenomenon,including university classification, department culture, student demographics, and geographicallocation. We focus on the attraction and retention problem of minority engineering faculty at acomprehensive university in a rural community in southeast Georgia. The target institution hassuccessfully recruited and retained minority faculty members at a steady rate over the last fiveyears. Approximately, 16% of its total faculty are minorities. These observations initiated thebasis of this study. We began to question the nature of this phenomenon and ponder the uniquecharacteristics of this university
31). Engage to excel: Producing one million additional college graduates with degrees in science, Technology, engineering, and mathematics. report to the president. Executive Office of the President. https://eric.ed.gov/?id=ED54151114. S. Venkatesh, E. W. Fong and I. H. Yeter, "Investigating Ethics in an Undergraduate Design Thinking Project: The Stanford EDIPT Framework Approach in Southeast Asia," 2022 IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference (FIE), Uppsala, Sweden, 2022, pp. 1-5, doi: 10.1109/FIE56618.2022.9962748.15. Verdin, D., & Godwin, A. (2015, October). First in the family: A comparison of first- generation and non-first-generation engineering college students. In 2015 IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference
propulsion systems and Engineering Education. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2025 ACE up your Sleeve: An Analysis of Student Generative AI Usage in an Engineering Statics CourseAbstractRapid technological advancements, including the emergence of computer-aided design andsimulation, have had a significant impact on the engineering industry. This, in turn, extends toengineering education, demonstrating a similar influential effect. The latest development to havesuch reverberations is the launch of a generative artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot known asChatGPT. ChatGPT utilizes a large language model (LLM) that trains the platform to understandand generate human-like responses
implement and resulted in students that were significantly more engaged in the course.Some changes have not worked well or did not make enough of a difference to justify the extraeffort on my part. Active learning generally went well; problem-based learning did not fare aswell.I continued to read articles of PBL success stories in engineering classrooms including papers byWoods and by Perrenet, et al.5,6 Boud and Feletti published a second edition of their book toaddress issues that faculty had implementing PBL such as the resources necessary to get PBLprograms started.7 One issue addressed was the mismatch that can occur when evaluationtechniques do not match the learning outcomes or when grading systems do not reward thebehaviors encouraged in
Paper ID #9073Student Experiences In An Interdisciplinary Studio-Based Design Course:The Role Of Peer ScaffoldingMs. Bushra Tawfiq Chowdhury, Virginia Tech Bushra Tawfiq Chowdhury is highly motivated, focused and result oriented individual, pursuing a career which provides a challenging and a dynamic environment. Holding a Master’s in Information security and having a strong leadership attitude.Takes advantage of communication, organizational, multitasking and technical skills with a diverse work experience involving academics and in the IT industry. Currently a PhD student in the in the Department of Engineering Education
timing of suchchoices, the characterizing features of the choice, and the features of the participants whofollowed the pathway in question.2 Theoretical frameworkTo support the exploration of how undergraduate engineering students make interest-orientedenrollment decisions relative to time, this work leverages interest as situated within engineeringrole identity [23], [28]. Engineering role identity considers how students take on the role of anengineer by engaging with professional practices, developing social networks, and making senseof their personal interests compared to the demands and opportunities of the profession [29],[30]. Interest in engineering was initially regarded as an implicit aspect of engineering identityand as a foundation
communication and teamworking. There were thoughtful nuances reportedfor these two skillsets, such as, “I think the main thing that needs to be emphasized when talkingabout communication is ‘willingness’ to communicate.” (Student-03). Teamworking required“accountability and responsibility. I think they go hand in hand with – when you’re working in ateam it’s other people [that] are reliant on you and you should be relying on other people . . .”(Student-04). The importance of working with others was something to be learned, “[A]Necessity, in terms of working with other people. It just – you just have to do it, and thensuddenly you realize that it’s not the worst thing in the world . . .” (Student-05).Other non-technical skills mentioned included
college constituent group. Third, it provides a vehicle tobridge the void between our professors and their colleagues in industry, providing commonground for communication and a vehicle to professional development.IntroductionThe development of a robust industrial interaction underpins many successful academicprograms on a variety of levels.1,2,3 PBLI has provided a new relevance to students and faculty intying their work directly to external agencies. Work becomes more meaningful and fulfilling asits significance is defined in its relation to, and impact on, other things. PBLI participants do nothave the common academic flaw of possessing an answer in search of a question. Instead,through strong relationships between industry and academia they
. Kim is a curriculum theorist, teacher educator, and narrative inquiry methodologist. Her research centers on various epistemological underpin- nings of curriculum studies, particularly engaging in hermeneutical excavation of the stories of students and teachers around the notion of Bildung, a human way of developing or cultivating one’s capacity. She received the Faculty Outstanding Researcher Award in 2018 from Texas Tech University, and the Out- standing Publication Award from the American Education Research Association in 2017 for her book, Understanding Narrative Inquiry, published in 2016. She has published numerous articles in journals including Journal of Curriculum Studies, International Journal of