Paper ID #9208What do schoolgirls think of engineering? A critique of conversations from aparticipatory research approachDr. Jane Andrews, Aston University Dr Jane Andrews is Programme Director of a suite of Engineering Management Master’s Programmes at the School of Engineering & Applied Science, Aston University, UK. Her research interests include all aspects of engineering education with a particular focus on elementary level engineering education and gender issues within engineering.Dr. Robin Clark, Aston University
already establishedschools’ priorities that in some cases do not support the inclusion of new initiatives such assustainability [5]. For these reasons it is necessary to integrate sustainability that aligns with NGSSand STL which are standards that are widely adopted among public schools. The purpose of thisstudy is to identify the key sustainability components for integrating sustainability in STEMcurricula in middle schools and explore examples of projects and curricula present in the literaturealigned to Next Generation Science Standards and Standards for Technological literacy.Literature ReviewEven though the United States has initiatives in policy to address sustainability issues [9], [10],the United States is still one of the highest
typically take and how changes in those courses can impact student learning and retention.Prof. V. Dean Adams, Utah State University c American Society for Engineering Education, 2019 The Effects of Calculus I on Engineering Student PersistenceAbstractThe number of students that start in engineering and persist to graduation with an engineeringdegree is continually declining with the attrition rate currently around 50%. This concern withengineering student retention has pointed to many issues including the early math requirements,specifically, Calculus I. Calculus I has often been referred to as a “bottle-neck” course for anyengineering degree program, which implies that if a student can successfully
regarding the need to modify the engineering curriculum in order to betterprepare engineering graduates to face the new challenges that the current engineeringenvironment presented. In 1994, “industry and academe realized that their concerns were thesame, [therefore] they began to mobilize through ABET, the organization responsible for settingthe standards of engineering education” (ABET, 2004, p. 1). As a result, the AccreditationBoard for Engineering and Technology (ABET) acknowledged this call from industry andeducational leaders, and started working towards changing the standards of engineeringeducation in order to guarantee that engineering students not only have an education in thetechnical disciplines of engineering but also in human
Education for Appropriate Technology: Inspiring Direct Engagement and Agency (GREAT IDEA).Prof. Christopher Papadopoulos, University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez Christopher Papadopoulos is an Assistant Professor in the Department of General Engineering at the Uni- versity of Puerto Rico, Mayagez (UPRM). He earned B.S. degrees in Civil Engineering and Mathematics from Carnegie Mellon University (1993) and a Ph.D. in Theoretical & Applied Mechanics at Cornell Uni- versity (1999). Prior to coming to UPRM, Papadopoulos served on the faculty in the Department of Civil Engineering & Mechanics at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (UWM). Papadopoulos has diverse research and teaching interests in structural mechanics
to performance measures, surveys must use questions designedto have discrete responses, such as a rating scale, in order to be machine scored. Still, theadvantages of machine scoring are great in terms of saving faculty time.MethodologyA serious measurement issue is the difficulty of collecting valid educational measurements, aswe cannot directly access the cognitive process of learning. 17 Thus, measurements such as thosementioned above must be used to indirectly measure the cognitive process of learning. Processmeasures are collected unobtrusively and reveal the behavior of the students, which has shownsome promise for predicting learning. However, behavior captured by a web server log can onlycapture interactions with the web site, not
implemented in the classroom.This paper will present a survey and analysis of data collected from graduate and undergraduatestudents via the National Society of Black Engineers (NSBE) online membership portal. TheNSBE membership includes approximately 10,000 collegiate students, 3,500 pre-collegestudents and 4,500 technical professionals. The large number and diverse set of students whoaccess NSBE Online (NOL) provides an opportunity to gain insight into the preferences of theAfrican American engineering student. The survey contained ten (10) questions concerning thestudents’ learning preferences and classroom techniques such as team projects, pop quizzes,individual questioning, and active learning activities.The data collected from this body of
projects through various sources such as NASA, the Department of Homeland Security, NSF, and the Colombian Research Institute. He also have several years of experience working as a consultant for pharmaceutical and energy companies in the U.S. and Latin America.Dr. Ding Yuan, Colorado State University - Pueblo Ding Yuan received a Bachelor of Engineering degree in industrial automation from Dalian University of Technology, Dalian, Liaoning, China, in 1998 and a Ph.D degree in Electrical Engineering from New Jer- sey Institute of Technology, Newark, NJ, in 2006. She is currently an Assistant Professor of Engineering at Colorado State University-Pueblo.Dr. Jane M. Fraser, Colorado State University, Pueblo Jane M
Department of Engineering Education at Virginia Tech. He earned his PhD in Engineering Education Systems & Design at Arizona State University and has a BS/MS in Biomedical Engineering. His research group explores approaches to building positive and inclusive learning environments that support the professional growth of students and faculty within engineering education contexts. His research interests include graduate student mentorship, faculty development, mental health and well-being, teamwork and group dynamics, and the design of project-based learning classes. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2025 Understanding First-Year Engineering Students' Perceptions of
University. Previously, for 20 years, he was on the faculty of the University of Missouri’s Department of Practical Arts and Vocational Technical Education in various professorial, coordinator, and leadership roles. Internationally, he has worked in Germany, South Africa, Poland, the USSR, Saudi Arabia, Canada, Ireland, Scotland, England, France, Czech and Slovak Republics, Finland, the Netherlands, Switzerland, and Taiwan. His early experience involved teaching in Alberta and at universities in North Dakota and New Jersey. Page 25.1259.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2012
certain art class would be counted or not. Another issue would be art classes are already impacted, art professors may not let a computing major student into their classes whether it be the student isn't as educated in the art field, having too many students already, or both. “ ● “Make it easier for CSC students to take art electives. I know this isn't easy to do, but I feel like that is my biggest complaint with the minor.” We have recently addressed these concerns with the proposal and addition of the new courses ( ART 376 The Art of Mixed Reality, ART 470 Conceptual Art and Storyboarding for Games &
the United States. As an academic, he has published papers at national and international conferences, and in academic journals.Mr. Ishmael Boynton Preer c American Society for Engineering Education, 2019 Student Perspectives on the use of iPads for Navigating Construction Drawings: A Case StudyIntroductionThe rate of educational technology integration continues to increase as faculty become moreagreeable to the positive impact that it has on student learning [1]. Pilgrim, Bledsoe & Reily(2012) [2] in their research, New Technologies in the Classroom state that "integratingtechnology into instruction means students are utilizing technology to enhance higher-levelthinking
addresses issues around an educational environment that actively encourages studentVPA development. Regarding high school active VPA participation encouragement, 79.0%SA+A of all parents of VPA-talented students indicated they would value such an environment(25.9% indicated strong agreement). However, only 33.3% SA+A of FTIC parents expressedsupport. Focus group discussions indicated (as before) the general FTIC parental concern ofVPA activities distracting their engineering-focused students. However, enthusiasm was againheard regarding the non-FTIC parents. Student responses in the SS were similarly supportive forall non-FTIC students; FTIC students echoed their parental views.Regarding college active VPA participation, the level of support was
-American female currently teaching in the faculty of the College of Engineering. Whitney earned her Bachelor of Science in Biomed- ical Engineering, her Masters of Business Administration in Quantitative Analysis and her Doctorate of Philosophy in Biomedical Engineering/Engineering Education. In her role as Assistant Dean, Dr. Gaskins has revamped the summer bridge program to increase student support and retention as well as developed and strengthened partnerships in with local area school districts to aid in the high school to college path- way. In 2009, she founded The Gaskins Foundation, a non-profit organization, whose mission is to educate and empower the African American community. Her foundation recently launched
reflect influences from interculturalcommunication theory, which tends toward a compositional approach, as well as theories ofintercultural maturity that take a more developmental view. GPI has been employed in largenational studies of university students [14], and of engineering students more specifically [15].Many of the assessment instruments mentioned above are backed by considerable evidence oftheir validity and reliability. Nonetheless, two potential shortcomings remain. First, none of thesetools are contextualized or grounded in the realm of engineering practice. In light of this issue,other scholars have taken a compositional approach to creating new assessment tools that can beused to measure attributes or competencies viewed as
Paper ID #27419Advancing Freshmen Engineering Education by Utilizing the Impact of 2017Storms on U.S InfrastructureDr. Jagadish Torlapati, Rowan University Dr. Jagadish Torlapati is currently a faculty at the Civil and Environmental Engineering Department at Rowan University in Glassboro. His primary areas of interest are environmental and water resources engineering. Prior to his role at Rowan University, he was a post-doctoral researcher at New Jersey Institute of Technology where he worked on Exxon Valdez and BP oil spills. He has received his Doctoral and Masters degrees in Civil Engineering from Auburn University. He
traditionally marginalized engineering students from an asset-based perspective. Homero’s goal is to develop engineering education practices that value the capital that tra- ditionally marginalized students, bring into the field, and to train graduate students and faculty members with the tool to promote effective and inclusive learning environments and mentorship practices. Homero has been recognized as a Diggs Teaching Scholar, a Graduate Academy for Teaching Excellence Fellow, a Global Perspectives Fellow, a Diversity Scholar, a Fulbright Scholar, a recipient of the NSF CAREER award, and was inducted into the Bouchet Honor Society. Homero serves as the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) Chair for the
being recognized and promoted, and various groups have published guidingprinciples [7-9]. Different fields use different terms; for example, community based participatoryresearch (CBPR) is common in public health [10-11] and participatory action research (PAR) iscommon in education [12]. However, complexity, confusion, and sometimes misuse amongterms are concerns. A few examples of definitions from the literature follow: CE: “the application of institutional resources to solve problems facing communities through collaboration with those communities… leverages the capacities of all the participants to improve community well-being” [13, p. 59]. In some cases, SL may not fit this definition of CE, such as when faculty and/or students hold
and approaches arediscussed, the proposed assessment method is analyzed and feedback from instructors, educatorsand professionals are expected. It is the author strongly believes that such discussions andfeedback are improving the course content and quality, while in the same time advancing thepower electronics education through new topics, new or updated laboratory experiments orapplications, as well the development of new course materials, helping the instructors, especiallythe younger ones interested in education research and teaching in this complex engineering area.In this paper the description of the new combined power electronics course, including learningobjectives, teaching plan, challenges and issues are introduced and discussed
Session 2647 A Twenty-Year History: Perspective From the Past James L. Hales, Beverly J. Hunter University of Pittsburgh at Johnstown ABSTRACT All new graduates of the University of Pittsburgh at Johnstown are surveyed annually bythe Office of Career Services. The Engineering Technology Division has done periodic surveysof all its alumni. This paper examines the data collected through these instruments. Conclusionsdrawn from the results are useful in evaluating the effectiveness of the programs and in planningfor the future
RSS feed address and made available through iTunes. The course provided participants who were new to podcasts with a framework for usingthis media not just as an exercise to engage students, and students with diverse learning styles,but as a means to communicate with parents, peers, and the community. Throughout the course,participants’ discussions in the forums, blogs, and chat room, ranged from the many wayspodcasts could be used in various disciplines, to funding opportunities for acquiring technology,and methods for dealing with other concerns such as IT and firewall issues, copyrightinfringement, and privacy concerns. Student produced podcasts varied dramatically as each was geared to situations orresponded to a need within
gapbetween research and practice: The research is not sufficiently persuasive or authoritative; Theresearch is not relevant to practice and does not address the issues and concerns of teachers; Ideasfrom research have not been accessible to teachers and are either difficult to find or understand; Theeducation system itself is either too intractable or too unstable, and therefore unable to engage insystematic change. Further, she notes that the gap between educational research and educationalpractice has been an ongoing phenomena and complaint of educational researchers since at least 1934.Careful experimental design was a focus of educational research in the 1960’s, but such research did notresult in broad and rapid adoption of researched
interest in engineering education. She develops materials and re- searches best practical classroom approaches for integrating computation and computational thinking in introductory CEE courses; and for promoting teamwork, communication and problem-solving in context, throughout the CEE curriculum.Dr. Ashlynn S. Stillwell, University of Illinois Urbana - Champaign Dr. Ashlynn S. Stillwell is an Associate Professor and the Elaine F. and William J. Hall Excellence Faculty Scholar in Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Her research focuses on creating sustainable water and energy systems in a policy-relevant context. She earned a B.S. in Chemical Engineering from the
: Ottawa, ON. p. 3. 2. NAE, The Engineer of 2020: Visions of Engineering in the New Century, 2004, National Academies Press: Washington, DC. p. 118. 3. Baranowski, M., Rebranding engineering: Challenges and opportunities. The Bridge 2011. 41(2): p. 12-‐16. 4. Bonasso, S.G., Engineering, leadership, and integral philosophy. Journal of Professional Issues in Engineering Education and Practice, 2001. 127(1): p. 17-‐25. 5. Cassin, R.B., Leadership and communication in civil engineering: Past, present, and
the way to pass unknown oral questions to otherstudents seemed quite new to me. I did not hear about them from any of my colleagues before.Later in this lesson, Professor Lord reviewed some contents in circuit design. Because moreprofessional terms appeared, some of the students cannot keep up easily. They need to be trainedto be more familiar with these terms. Overall, most students believe that they can keep up withProfessor Lord later based on the experience of the first day.”Wu Chien-Shiung College“When information about this class was first issued at the end of last semester, very few studentsin Wu Chien-Shiung College applied for it. This cold response was puzzling. Why are thestudents reluctant to try a new class style, even though
deeper understanding of how language andrace intersect in online spaces, contributing to broader discussions about identity, power, andrepresentation in digital culture.PositionalityThe first author identifies as a first-generation, bilingual transfronterizo from a low-incomecommunity, Mexican American with a background in engineering. His academic and teachingendeavors aim to integrate social justice concerns into engineering education, especially byfostering critical awareness among engineers to address issues related to deficit ideologies andinequity. His research in engineering education also emphasizes the need to challenge prevailingnarratives about what constitutes engineering and who does engineering. He approaches thisstudy from a
responsible resource production, occupational health, and mine environmental monitoring. Dr. Sarver teaches about sustain- able development principles and practices for mineral and energy resource projects at the graduate and undergraduate levels.Dr. Linda A. Battalora, Colorado School of Mines Linda A. Battalora is a Teaching Professor in the Petroleum Engineering Department, a Payne Institute for Earth Resources Fellow, and a Shultz Humanitarian Engineering Fellow at the Colorado School of Mines (Mines). She holds BS and MS degrees in Petroleum Engineering from Mines, a JD from Loyola Uni- versity New Orleans School of Law, and a PhD in Environmental Science and Engineering from Mines. Prior to joining the Faculty at
] B. Jesiek, Q. Zhu, S. Woo, J. Thompson, and A. Mazzurco, “Global Engineering Competency in Context: Situations and Behaviors,” Online Journal for Global Engineering Education, vol. 8, no. 1, Mar. 2014, [Online]. Available: https://digitalcommons.uri.edu/ojgee/vol8/iss1/1[17] A. Mazzurco, J. A. Leydens, and B. K. Jesiek, “Passive, Consultative, and Coconstructive Methods: A Framework to Facilitate Community Participation in Design for Development,” Journal of Mechanical Design, vol. 140, no. 121401, Sep. 2018, doi: 10.1115/1.4041171.[18] M. S. Archer, Ed., Conversations about reflexivity, First issued in paperback. in Ontological explorations. London New York: Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2013.[19] N
aspirations. Graduate schools or engineeringgraduate programs should consider incorporating a parent/family component. This componentcan operationalize as a website with resources, an on-campus office with dedicated staff, or partof a new admission orientation. Faculty and staff can relay the importance of students connectingwith their families or significant others in their lives, especially when Black males encounterobstacles or stress during their tenure in their engineering programs. Also, engineering facultyand staff can direct Black males to the university counseling center to work with a counselor onhow Black men can best communicate with their families about the graduate school process.Mentorship is vital in the graduate school process for
appear asexpected. An issue concerning the use of an HTML tag within an HTML tag resulted in unexpected results and required a swapping of the tags in order toachieve the intended result. Another issue that was encountered was the idea of a “comfortable”scrolling distance when reading pages. This is an extremely subjective concept and can only beresolved by testing each page and gathering feedback from team members and beta testers.While on traditional pages one pays little attention to the title bar, with the AvantGo browser itpays an integral role in setting the scene for the page being displayed. The Palm OS title bar doessuffer from size restrictions, but it is a useful feature. By choosing a well-planned and concisetitle for each page