transferrable transdisciplinary graduate education and researchprogram to produce the next generation of researchers, educators, and decision makers focusedon dynamic collaborations across not only academic disciplines, but also among stakeholders.We are particularly interested in bringing together researchers, policy makers, and communitystakeholders in ways that foster mutual respect and value, and that adhere to the needs, goals,and engagement of the individuals most impacted by disasters.Previous work on disaster resilience demonstrates the importance of interdisciplinary teams indeveloping resilient solutions and effectively managing risk [1]. Disasters are complex problemsthat require solutions and collaboration from a wide-range of disciplines
funded by the National Science Foundation, ARDA, and the United States Department of Agriculture.Patrick S. Schnable, Iowa State University c American Society for Engineering Education, 2017 An Interdisciplinary Graduate Course for Engineers, Plant Scientists, and Data Scientists in the Area of Predictive Plant PhenomicsAbstractThis paper describes the development and first offering of a new graduate course entitled“Fundamentals of Predictive Plant Phenomics,” which is part of a recently awarded NationalScience Foundation Graduate Research Traineeship (NRT) award to Iowa State University. Thefocus of this particular NRT award is to train engineering
AC 2007-355: WORKPLACE ENVIRONMENTS THAT HINDER AND ASSIST THECAREER PROGRESSION OF WOMEN IN INFORMATION TECHNOLOGYRose Mary Cordova-Wentling, University of Illinois-Urbana ChampaignSteven Thomas, Lockheed Martin Corporation Page 12.1616.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2007 1 Workplace Environments that Assist and Hinder the Career Progression of Women in Information Technology AbstractThe purpose of this study was to develop an understanding of the workplace environmentcharacteristics that hinder and
University.Dr. Samhita Rhodes, Grand Valley State University Dr. Samhita Rhodes is Professor of Biomedical and Electrical Engineering, and the Graduate Program Director of the School of Engineering at Grand Valley State University. Dr. Rhodes’ expertise is in biomedical signal modeling and advanced image processing. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2024 Onboarding Engineering Graduate Students from Non- Engineering Undergraduate MajorsAbstractVarious government agencies forecast a shortage of engineers caused by a combination offactors including an increase in job opportunities, attrition in the STEM pipeline, and exits fromthe labor force for various reasons
an engineering technology department at a public institution is taking place atTexas A&M University, Northeastern University, and the University of Central Florida.And educational activities are taking place at the FPGA Mission Assurance Center at theUniversity of New Mexico. These activities will all be covered. Raising Community Energy Awareness: Building an Energy Display at the Mayborn MuseumEnergy is becoming an increasingly important topic in our lives. Watching the price ofenergy skyrocket, in particular electricity and gasoline, seems to elicit disapproval of theprice increases but little more. America has become indifferent to energy issues andcontinues to pay the higher prices without much
AC 2009-321: UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCH EXPERIENCE: A TOOL FORSTUDENTS PURSUING A GRADUATE DEGREE IN ENGINEERINGGymama Slaughter, Virginia State UniversityToni Harris, Virginia State UniversityKabongo Ngandu, Virginia State UniversityKeith Williamson, Virginia State UniversityKwame Adom, Virginia State University Page 14.1290.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2009 Undergraduate Research Experience: A Tool for Student Pursuing a Graduate Degree in EngineeringKey Words: Undergraduate Research Experience, Mentoring, Graduate Degree inEngineeringAbstractMany engineering programs across the country have witnessed large numbers of students leavingtheir
Professor in the Department of Industrial and Operations Engineering and an Engineering Education Faculty Member at the University of Michigan–Ann Arbor. Dr. Mondisa holds a PhD in Engineering Education, an MS in Industrial Engineering, an MBA, and a BS in General Engineering. She researches STEM mentoring experiences and mentoring intervention programs in higher education. American c Society for Engineering Education, 2020 Validation of an Instrument to Measure Science, Engineering, and Mathematics Graduate Students’ Mental Health (Work in Progress)AbstractThe mental health of students in higher education has been an increased focus in recent research.Current
lessons in communication are more easilyassimilated. Finally, students will be able to assess their own progress throughout the semesteras they compile a videotape of their oral presentations and a portfolio of their writtenassignments. This will give them tangible evidence of their improvements throughout thecourse, as well as written feedback on their performances.Course ActivitiesInstruction through interactive lectures equips the students with the tools they need to succeed intechnical communication. The course covers a wide variety of topics that the students will findnecessary in their graduate education (and beyond); a sampling of these topics is as follows:- Generation of research ideas: We define the creative process, identify techniques
grades in the course are likely to participate. In some cases, faculty have dismissed the feedback, attributing the input only to those students “who have an axe to grind,” - students are too busy to provide useful input, or that they do not care about the quality of instruction to take the time to complete the evaluations, - students from departments other than the faculty member’s department are providing the negative reviews, thus faculty may dismiss the reviews because “their own” majors are not the ones with the negative perceptions, and - the course is required, or a general education course, or for some reason not a course some students perceive as
University of San Diego, she worked as a Senior Research Engineer at L3 Technologies. American c Society for Engineering Education, 2021 A Thermodynamics Design Project that Applies Theory, Explores Renewable Energy Topics, and Considers the Economic and Social Impacts of the DesignsAbstractThermodynamics courses introduce theoretical concepts that can be applied to real-worldproblems using impactful project-based learning (PBL). Entrepreneurially minded learning(EML) can augment PBL by instilling an entrepreneurial mindset (EM), categorized by curiosity,making connections, and creating value, in the students. This paper describes a group
effective teach- ing decisions, and the application of ideas from complexity science to the challenges of engineering education. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2018 “I came in thinking there was one right practice”: Exploring how to help graduate students learn to read academic researchAbstractIn the fall of 2017, an engineering educator with many years of experience offered a course toincoming doctoral students. The course was focused on helping the students explore approachesto reading published scholarship and develop their own scholarly reading practice. The coursewas taken by a student who documented her experiences in a reflection journal. Against thisbackdrop, this paper uses
engineering education. This additionally impacts who stays inacademia and teaches undergraduate engineering courses, which has further implications forstudent learning and representation in the field.In general, single institution datasets (such as the one in our study) are less highly regarded thanmulti-institution datasets because the data and findings are typically less generalizable. Priorexamples of good single institution studies of graduate students focused on doctoral studentinstitutional choice (Bersola, Stolzenberg, Love, & Fosnacht, 2014) and retention and time-to-degree completion (Nerad & Cerny, 1993). However, the level of detail regarding fundingprovided in our single institution dataset has potential to fill in some gaps
. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2016 Staying in or Getting Out: The Relationship Between Undergraduate Work Exposure and Job Satisfaction after GraduationIntroductionPast research has focused on the ways engineering students talk about the work they hope to doas professional engineers after graduation, which the authors refer to as their ‘images of work.’1These authors found that students’ initial images of work were marked by hopefulness andaspiration; students wanted to design new technologies and engage in innovation. As the studentsmoved through their undergraduate education, however, their images of work became moremundane. Often this mundaneness emerged as a
. He is a graduate of the Milton S. Hershey Pennsylvania State University College of Medicine. He completed his undergraduate studies in Biology from the University of Utah. His research interests are varied and involve pediatric hematology and oncology as well as higher education curricula, both with universities and medical schools.Paymon Sanati-Mehrizy Paymon Sanati-Mehrizy is currently a medical student at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. He completed his undergraduate studies in Biology from the University of Pennsylvania in May 2012. Currently, his research interests consist of higher education curricula, both with universities and medical schools.Dr. Reza Sanati-Mehrizy, Utah Valley University
tenure-track faculty level (Fig. 1A) [2], [5]. This decline in female representation at thefaculty level is also observed broadly throughout science, technology, engineering, andmathematics (STEM) fields in general (Fig. 1B) [6], [7]. Furthermore, this lack of representationis not limited to academia; while 46% of STEM doctoral degrees are awarded to women, only32% of STEM positions in government and industry are occupied by women [7]. Therefore, evenin cases where women eagerly pursue a STEM education, they disproportionately choose not toutilize this education after graduation. This is not only detrimental to the women themselves, butalso to maximizing the potential of the national STEM workforce.Figure 1: Female Representation in Biomedical
University of Central Florida, where he has been a full-time faculty member since 1993. He has completed over 325 articles, 50 funded projects as PI or Co-PI, and 56 graduates as Ph.D. dissertation and/or M.S. thesis advisor. He was previously an Associate Engineer at IBM and a Visiting Research Scientist at NASA Ames, in total for four years, and has been a registered Professional Engineer since 1992. He has served ten terms as a Topical Editor or Associate Editor of various IEEE Transactions and in many IEEE/ACM/ASEE conferences including General Co- Chair of GLSVLSI-2023. He has received the Joseph M. Biedenbach Outstanding Engineering Educator Award from IEEE and is a Fellow of AAAS.Harrison N Oonge, University of
University Dr. Joseph Shelton is an assistant professor in the Computer Science department at VSU. He is a recent computer science Ph.D. graduated from North Carolina Agricultural and Technical (NCAT) State Uni- versity. He has published over 30 publications that incorporated artificial intelligence techniques, a vital role in data analytics. Additionally, he has participated in a number of activities that emphasized teaching STEM principles to a young audience. Though Dr. Shelton focused on innovating his research, he also has a passion for educating any audience in his research. Dr. Shelton is working with the national 4H program to inspire young practitioners up to age 14 in STEM fields, specifically computer science
Assistant Professor in the Department of Industrial and Operations Engineering and an Engineering Education Faculty Member at the University of Michigan–Ann Arbor. Dr. Mondisa holds a PhD in Engineering Education, an MS in Industrial Engineering, an MBA, and a BS in General Engineering. She researches STEM mentoring experiences and mentoring intervention programs in higher education. American c Society for Engineering Education, 2021 Using Photovoice to Examine the Mental Health Experiences of Engineering Graduate Students during COVID-19 (Work in Progress)AbstractMental health service utilization and reported mental
understand better the context of the inadequacies described by employers, we conducted in-depth qualitative interviews with newly hired new graduates of engineering programs.Specifically, we examined the work experiences of newly hired engineers having less than twoyears employment at a large, U.S.-based manufacturing company. This is the period duringwhich new employees encounter and learn the specific expectations and requirements of the joband are arguably the most aware of any differences between their engineering education andengineering practice. This is also the time when new engineers become socialized into thepractice of engineering in organizational settings. Research indicates that this is a critical periodfor new employees in general as
AC 2011-2917: ENGINEERING EDUCATION IN CHINARobert L. Mott, University of Dayton Robert Mott is professor emeritus of engineering technology at the University of Dayton and the author of three textbooks in mechanical design field. Mott serves as a senior staff member for the National Center for Manufacturing Education, a National Science Foundation-sponsored center that initiated and manages the Manufacturing and Engineering Technologies Education Clearinghouse (METECOnline). In 2004, he served as the founding chair of the SME Manufacturing Education and Research Community. Since then he continues to lead the efforts to fulfill SME’s role in higher education. He has a B.S. Mechanical Engineering, General Motors
AC 2012-3154: CREATING AND SUSTAINING PRODUCTIVE RESEARCHGROUPS IN GRADUATE ENGINEERING DEPARTMENTS: RESULTS FROMA FACULTY AND FUTURE FACULTY WORKSHOPMr. John Andrew Janeski, Virginia Tech John Andrew Janeski is a Dean’s Teaching Fellow and Ph.D. candidate in the Aerospace and Ocean Engineering Department. His primary research interests center around spacecraft dynamics and control. However, the Dean’s Teaching Fellowship has afforded him the opportunity to pursue research topics that span his experiences as a graduate student and instructor. He earned his bachelor’s degree in physics from Rhodes College.Dr. Erin Crede, Virginia Tech Erin D. Crede completed her Ph.D. in engineering education from Virginia Tech
, University of Colorado, Boulder Alyssa Nicole Berg is currently an undergraduate in mechanical engineering at the University of Colorado, Boulder. She is interested in the energy field and plans on attending graduate school. Page 25.678.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2012 Graduate Students Mentoring Undergraduates in Research: Attitudes and Reflections about These ExperiencesOne-on-one mentoring relationships between 1st or 2nd year engineering undergraduate studentsand graduate student mentors were established and monitored during a semester-long formalresearch
a second language (p. 6). The authors suggest a variety oftechniques that they argue will help graduate advisors and educators improve writing in regardsto the aforementioned difficulties. Students extensively reading the type of work that they areexpected to produce was one suggestion. Yet, the authors contend that “a graduate advisor orfaculty member cannot assume that merely reading this type of work will be enough for thestudent—they must practice critiquing it as well” (p. 7). Similar to Gassman et al. (2013), theauthors also suggest student creation of concept maps to classify relevant topics and literature,and to plan out dedicated time to the writing process. Receiving feedback on writing and thenediting work is also recommended, as
education.” “Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright 2005, American Society for Engineering Education”2.2 Investing in the U.S. Engineering Workforce for Tomorrow:The Driving Force for Transforming Engineering Graduate Education to Improve CompetitivenessAs Lester Thurow pointed out: “Technological leaders remain economic leaders; technological laggardsbecome losers.” 12 The generation of experienced engineers who have contributed to the vast majority ofdevelopments of U.S. technology since Sputnik is now retiring. By the year 2010, estimates indicate that30% of America’s domestic engineering leadership base will have retired, causing a “brain drain
Paper ID #37529Writing in discipline-appropriate ways: An approach to teachingmultilingual graduate students in mechanical engineeringMr. Xixin Qiu, Pennsylvania State University Xixin Qiu is a doctoral candidate in Applied Linguistics at The Pennsylvania State University. His re- search concerns the application of corpus-based linguistic analysis to engineering writing pedagogy. Cur- rently, he teaches both freshman and graduate-level academic writing to international students and serves on the Student Editorial Board of English For Specific Purposes. ©American Society for Engineering Education
interests include multicultural education, identity construction, and interdisciplinarity.Tori Rhoulac Smith, Howard University Tori Rhoulac Smith began her appointment as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Civil Engineering at Howard University in 2003. In this position, she fulfills a number of research, service, and both graduate and undergraduate course instruction roles. Dr. Rhoulac Smith’s primary area of research is in traffic operations and multimodal school transportation systems. She engages not only in transportation engineering research, but regularly conducts engineering education research projects and serves as the campus coordinator for the Learning Communities for Scientific
history and today’s challenges available for us to freelymine and appropriate instead of being conditioned by it. In this context a humble but importantrole of western designers may be to structure the project so that such experimental methodscould be unleashed. Such method could render the existing binaries (West and non-West, pastand present, field and home) obsolete and generate instead a new forum based on commonpolitical aspirations. Fieldwork that is capable of creating such a forum could further the roles ofarchitectural and engineering education.1 Formerly Kigali Institute of Science and Technology until 3013.2 See for instance Ewing, S. et al, eds. Architecture and Field/Work, Critiques: Critical Studies in ArchitecturalHumanities
education entails. Many facultymembers would agree with the statement that it is the student’s degree and not theirs. If thestudents understand what they must do to attain their graduate degree and take ownership of thatdegree, it will be more valuable to them. To encourage this concept, this class attempts to covermany topics important to graduate school success that are not covered in other formal courses Feedback: In general, feedback from both the faculty and students has been extremelypositive. Faculty member have specifically noted the students have indeed improved theirpresentation skills across the board thus meeting the original goal of this class. In addition, theyhave noted that students are better able to digest literature
States Military Academy Lieutenant Colonel Brad Wambeke is the Civil Engineering Design Group Director at the U.S. Military Academy, West Point, NY. He received his B.S. from South Dakota State University; M.S. from the University of Minnesota; and Ph.D. from North Carolina State University. He is a member of ASEE and is a registered Professional Engineer in Missouri. His primary research interests include construction engineering, lean construction, and engineering education. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2016 Investigation of Probabilistic Multiple-Choice Assessments in a Structural Design CourseABSTRACTStudent assessment is a critical part
compassionand empathy with respect to education (numbers identified in Table 2). A Web of Science search[48] found that the term empathy (or empathetic) was a much more common idea in highereducation and engineering than compassion, which in turn was much more common thankindness. Papers that resulted from the search on kindness and education were generally relatedto PK12 or medical settings (nursing and medical school). The pre-college papers tended tofocus on teaching kids and students to be kind in their behavior toward peers and more broadly.This had a focus on fostering kindness in pupils among an array of prosocial behaviors,sometimes included with social-emotional education. The medical school settings tended tofocus on teaching future