, The State University of New York Dr. Matilde S´anchez-Pe˜na is an assistant professor of Engineering Education at the University at Buffalo – SUNY where she leads the Diversity Assessment Research in Engineering to Catalyze the Advancement of Respect and Equity (DAREtoCARE) Lab. Her research focuses on developing cultures of care and well-being in engineering education spaces, assessing gains in institutional efforts to advance equity and inclusion, and using data science for training socially responsible engineers.Esther Jose, University at Buffalo, The State University of New York ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2023 Engineering Faculty and Role Models: A Work in
ReligiousStudies developed the survey. The Committee worked with professionals from Villanova’sOffice of Planning and Institutional Research (OPIR) who ensured the efficacy of the survey andpreserved the confidentiality of the respondents. The committee prepared the survey over the2011 summer for distribution to the CoE faculty at the beginning of the fall 2011 semester.As will be discussed in the next section, the Dean of Engineering sent the survey electronicallyto all full-time faculty members of the College in September 2011. The responses were Page 23.508.2submitted directly to OPIR which tracked the participants and sent reminder notices
perspective. The first time any of us triedto play basketball, we likely didn’t get the ball through the hoop very often. Practice andlearning techniques improves the success rate. While trial and error is not the most efficientlearning tool, it is necessary in the scientific / engineering community to develop project plans /proposals that are innovative, robust, and have a high probability of yielding successful resultsthat advance the field.#9: Do try and try againWhile every idea has shortcomings, the more important side of that is that every idea has merit.The challenge for the new faculty PI is to use the reviews to identify if a) the idea had too manyflaws or b) your presentation of the idea was poor. Work to address each directly. For
teach this body ofknowledge. It concludes that civil engineering faculty must be scholars, effective teachers,practitioners, and role models. While true, there are a number of complex issues that arise suchas whether it is possible for one person to possess all of these attributes, whether such a modelbest serves the projected trends in civil engineering education, and whether these needs areapplicable to and can be enforced for non-traditional, non-university civil engineering programs.As a new committee (BOK-2) has formed to write the second edition of this document, theASCE Committee on Faculty Development is revising the “who should teach” chapter for thiseffort. This paper discusses some key issues that are relevant to the civil
progression than men5,7,9,10,16,22,23,28,30. Research into career satisfaction is anessential first step toward understanding how to improve retention and advancement of faculty.Career satisfaction is a multifaceted construct that includes a number of possible factors such as:salary, workload, resources, access to networks and mentoring, collegial relationships andsupport, respectful treatment on the job, etc. But which factors are most important? How are theyrelated? To explore these questions we conducted a study that builds upon the work of Bilimoria,et al.6. These researchers developed a conceptual model to understand career satisfaction for menand women faculty based on research indicating that perceptions of institutional leadership
developed at the University of NorthTexas that meets the social and behavioral sciences objectives as required by the Texas HigherEducation Coordinating Board (THECB). See Figure 1. A faculty member of the EngineeringTechnology Department, before his retirement, wrote the original syllabus. The author, a currentfaculty member, adapted the syllabus to the THECB objectives and led the initiative to have thecourse approved, and listed, as an elective social and behavioral sciences course for all studentsat the University of North Texas. This request became reality and the new course was offered forthe first time in the spring 2003 semester. The course was also approved as a required course forall engineering technology students
the participants to flesh out their ideas to a greater extent. One approachwould be to carry out the exercise in two stages, so that the participants could do some exploring,writing, and polishing as “homework” after the opening exploratory session and then report ontheir results in the second session.The enthusiastic responses of the participants and the quality of their work suggest the power ofthis exercise both to interest new faculty members in collaborative research and to convince themthat it is something well within their power to do. We intend to continue the exercise in futureofferings of the orientation workshop, and we recommend it for any faculty development
College of Vanderbilt Univer- sity. Her teaching interests relate to the professional development of graduate engineering students and to leadership, policy, and change in STEM education. Primary research projects explore the preparation of graduate students for diverse careers and the development of reliable and valid engineering education assessment tools. She is a NSF Faculty Early Career (CAREER) and Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE) recipient.Mr. Paul Carrick Brunson, Paul Carrick Brunson AgencyMs. Nikitha Sambamurthy, Purdue University, West Lafayette Nikitha Sambamurthy is pursuing a Ph.D. in Engineering Education at Purdue University. Her research interests include: blended
. Finelli studies the academic success of students with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), social justice attitudes in engineering, and faculty adoption of evidence-based teaching practices. She also led a project to develop a taxonomy for the field of engineering education research, and she was part of a team that studied ethical decision-making in engineering students.Dr. Maura Borrego, University of Texas at Austin Maura Borrego is Director of the Center for Engineering Education and Professor of Mechanical Engi- neering and STEM Education at the University of Texas at Austin. Dr. Borrego is Senior Associaate Editor for Journal of Women and Minorities in Science and EDr. Jenefer Husman, University of Oregon
responsible for developing students’engineering capabilities, enabling those students to ‘perform services in their area ofcompetence’ [1] once they enter the workforce. The typical example of, ‘Someday our studentsmight be tasked to design a bridge and are you confident they could do the job? Lives are atstake.’ This notion calls to mind a potential tension between considering student welfare in theshort-term and the public in the long-term, anticipating that our students will someday bepracticing engineers in a position to impact public SHW. However, there is growing recognitionthat the current culture of “hardness” in engineering education should be tempered ortransformed to a culture of wellness [20].It is my assertion that engineering faculty
faculty member’s activities into well-defined units. An index for the individualand the department is derived which represents productivity and workload. Costs of all facultyactivities including individual classes, advising, lab development, research, and others are derived. Student credit hours produced, student faculty ratios, and other metrics are also computed. Themodel has been useful not only as a fiscal management tool but also to assess trade-offs in thedeployment of departmental resources. The fundamentals of the model are described andexamples are given.I. IntroductionThe most important resource in an academic environment is human capital; that is, faculty time.In the complex mission of an engineering department where individuals
framework for analyzing the results of the qualitativeinterviews with engineering faculty. However, they were not developed for educational purposes,and do not capture all variability within intention to use. Thus, the literature was further exploredfor constructs which may be missing from the TAM2 and UTAUT2. Additional constructs,including time [17-18], were identified. The constructs within the TAM2 were combined withconstructs from the UTAUT2, as well as these additional constructs that emerged from literatureas suspected to influence technology adoption, to provide a framework for viewing andunderstanding the qualitative interview data.MethodsThis qualitative study involved interviewing 21 engineering faculty from across the College
Fields for Female Faculty at Public Two-Year Institutions.Christine Mattley, Ohio University Page 22.1271.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2011 Satisfaction of Female Faculty at Public Two-Year InstitutionsAbstractPublic two-year colleges contribute to the nation’s STEM capacity by providing afoundation for baccalaureate degree attainment, educating a skilled math and scienceworkforce and supporting local economic development. Their female faculty represent avital national resource, particularly in STEM fields, where they often serve as role modelsand mentors for female students
.). NewYork: Routledge. ISBN: 0415910714.Women Faculty at Work in the Classroom: or Why it Still Hurts to be a Woman in Labor (1993). Bernice R. Sandler. Washington, D.C.: Center for Women Policy Studies. ISBN: 1877966150.Describes the differences in the ways that male and female students treat female and malefaculty. Different expectations for men and women exist, and female instructors tend to bedevalued, in part because of the way they communicate. For administrators, there are strategiesdesigned to make classroom behavior a topic for campus-wide discussion, develop appropriatepolicies, and provide training for faculty and administrators. The paper also provides a goodbibliography on the chilly climate
the one hand, schools may consider that STEAM education leads to students'innovative thinking and contributing to society's workforce development goals. On the other hand,STEAM education can be focused on creativity, self-expression, and empathy, which can lead to self-realization and fulfillment. Currently, K-12 settings are the primary users of this framework, shaping thecurricular activities, exploring new ways to integrate these five disciplines, and researching the content,pedagogy, and assessment related to this field. However, at undergraduate or graduate levels, thisframework has been little explored. This research seeks to understand faculty members’ perception as afactor that may prevent the extensive use of STEAM education by
routinepractices, and share with you the fruits of our labor.Assessing the Teaching Responsibilities for DeansWe chose to assess our school’s practice of requiring administrative deans to teach courseswithin an academic department in the school. In the past decade, university faculty workloadefforts have come under close scrutiny by state legislators, university trustees or regents, and thegeneral public. In 1995, to comply with a request from the Board of Trustees of IndianaUniversity, capacity models for faculty teaching loads were developed by and for all academicunits at Indiana University campuses including Indiana University Purdue UniversityIndianapolis (IUPUI). These capacity models are continuously being updated and fine-tuned byeach academic
AC 2011-2554: PERCEPTION AND PREFERENCES OF FACULTY FORONLINE LEARNINGErtunga C Ozelkan, University of North Carolina, Charlotte Ertunga C. Ozelkan, Ph.D., is an Associate Professor of Engineering Management and the Associate Director of the Center for Lean Logistics and Engineered Systems at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. Before joining academia, Dr. Ozelkan worked for i2 Technologies, a leading supply chain software vendor and for Tefen USA, a systems design and industrial engineering consulting firm. Dr. Ozelkan holds a Ph.D. degree in Systems and Industrial Engineering from the University of Arizona. He teaches courses on supply chain management, lean systems, decision analysis, and systems
. This coalition has appliedfor an NSF ADVANCE Grant for Institutional Transformation. These S&E leaders are also thefirst subgroup to request a microanalysis of Campus Climate Survey results specific to theirdisciplines and interests.In Spring 2005, the university provost charged a 21-member committee comprised of faculty,administrators, staff, students, and a community member to develop and administer the surveyand analyze the responses. The committee undertook an extensive review of model campusclimate surveys from across the nation, including those from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, the University of Arizona, the University of Washington, and the California system,prior to developing faculty, staff and student survey instruments
engineering curriculum, a foundationwill be formed upon which a system for improved communication skill in engineering can bebuilt.Initial InvestigationsThere has been for a long time a concerted effort by a number of practitioners across the countryto develop programs that will help students understand the need to communicate in a manner thatwill benefit careers outside of the English world. The Writing Across the Curriculum movementhas done much to support the need to make faculty and students more conscious of theimportance of communication in life and in the workplace. The Northwest Inland Writing Projectat the University of Idaho, the National Writing Project, and the Red Mountain Writing ProjectScholarly Writing Retreat for University Faculty
Coursework Backgrounds Research CommunitySchmaling, K.B, Trevino, A.Y., Lind, J.R., Blume, A.W., & Baker, D.L. (2015). Diversity statements: How faculty applicants address diversity.Journal of Diversity in Higher Education, 8(4), 213-224. 5Best Practices for Diversity Statements Rubric Sample Prompts Bias Training Diversity Advocate University of Iowa. (2021). Diversity info and resources. https://hr.uiowa.edu/development/supervisors- toolbox/diversity-equity-and-inclusion/diversity-info-and
provision for the consideration of the views of faculty, staff, administrators, and students on matters in which they have a direct and reasonable interest.”ABET, formerly The Accreditation Board of Engineering and Technology, includes the followingstatement in its General Criteria 6 dealing with faculty: “The program faculty must have appropriate qualifications and must have and demonstrate sufficient authority to ensure the proper guidance of the program and to develop and implement processes for the evaluation, assessment, and continuing improvement of the program, its educational objectives and outcomes.”Many of the publications related to faculty governance are devoid of any material dealing
. Inrecent years, programs such as Michigan’s NextProf workshop and CU Boulder’s ACTIVEFaculty Development and Leadership Intensive, have emerged that bring together Ph.D. studentsand postdocs to network with peers as well as meet and learn from faculty at host institutionsregarding the job search. Any review of faculty application materials happens briefly duringthese events, which does not allow scaffolding for the participants or application materialrevision opportunities. Other programs focus their preparation on certain types of institutions(e.g., Stanford’s Preparing Future Professors and predominantly undergraduate institutions),disciplines (e.g., Rising Stars in Mechanical Engineering and the University of Chicago’s FutureFaculty Conference
hard-of-hearing women faculty. Project objectives include: 1) Refine and strengthen targeted institutional structures, and install practices that promote representation and advancement of women faculty. 2) Improve the quality of women faculty work life, professional development, and incentive/reward structures. 3) Align institutional, administrative, and informal systems of power and resources to support and sustain progress by shaping the political frameworks that impact representation and advancement of women. 4) Enhance the working environment and support career advancement for women faculty using symbolic measures that emphasize issues of meaning within the organization.Other concurrent
out of science as a result of the strength of their careerorientation. This orientation is in part initially influenced by parents, and then compounded byteachers.17 Despite the lack of career orientation toward the STEM fields, reports from theNational Center for Education Statistics13 show an increase in the number of females pursuingdoctoral degrees in general. Even with this increase in female PhDs, there is still a significantdisparity between the number of females who obtain doctoral degrees, and those who havefaculty careers and transition to becoming assistant professors.20 Consequently, these studiesreinforce the need to recruit, retain and develop female faculty in STEM.The Importance of Building a Critical Mass of Women Faculty in
from 2000 to 2007. She is currently the Associate Dean of the College of Applied Science and Technology and co-PI on the AdvanceRIT initiative. Her scholarly activities recently have focused on women in technology programs and the female faculty who teach them.Dr. Andrea Gebhart Rommel, Independent Scientific Consultant Andrea Gebhart Rommel, Ph.D. is an Independent Scientific Consultant based in the Rochester, NY area. With a Ph.D. in Neuroscience and expertise in the field of higher education, she provides a broad range of scientific consulting services to help both organizational and individual clients achieve their goals. Her areas of specialization include research, program development, scientific report writing
AC 2009-2208: BRINGING PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE INTO THECLASSROOM: FACULTY EXPERIENCESKaren Chou, Minnesota State University, Mankato Karen C. Chou is Professor of Civil Engineering and former Civil Engineering Coordinator at Minnesota State University, Mankato. Dr. Chou has over 25 years of professional experience and is a registered P.E. in New York, Tennessee, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Iowa, and South Dakota.Deborah Nykanen, Minnesota State University, Mankato Deborah K. Nykanen is an Associate Professor of Civil Engineering at Minnesota State University, Mankato. Her teaching, research and professional experience focus on water resources, hydrology and hydrometeorology. Dr. Nykanen has 8 years of
premises seek to apply to teach for the summer schoolwhenever such an opportunity exists. Summer school has been developed in such a waythat full semester credit courses can be offered for two weeks, four weeks, and the regulareight weeks, that span the whole summer. The two weeks and the four weeks summersemester full credit courses are mainly offered in the social sciences and the humanitydisciplines. Multiple one-hour classes are held in a daily basis to complete the requiredsemester contact and credit hours for each course towards graduation. Such compressedshort time span course offerings have benefited both the students and the faculty. Thestudents can obtain semester credit hours towards graduation and the faculty can earn anextra financial
Session 3675 Dual Career Academic Searches for Engineering Faculty Positions * * # # Noel N. Schulz , Kirk H. Schulz , Mariesa L. Crow , James L. Drewniak Michigan Technological University*, University of Missouri-Rolla#IntroductionThe hiring and transferring of dual career couples is an increasing problem in industry [1-4] and academia.Many dual Ph.D. husband and wife teams seek faculty positions in engineering, and are often hampered byuncertainty in how to go about searching for two tenure track positions
AC 2007-998: FACULTY-FRIENDLY ASSESSMENT SYSTEMS FORBIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING PROGRAMSSteven Schreiner, Western New England CollegeJudy Cezeaux, Western New England CollegeDiane Testa, Western New England College Page 12.731.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2007 Faculty-Friendly Assessment System for Biomedical Engineering ProgramsAbstractMany engineering programs have limited resources to create and operate an assessment system.Paramount to the success of a system is the system’s ability to engage faculty without being anundue burden so that the faculty remains compliant and the system yields useful information.The assessment
2650 Doctoral Level Studies for Engineering Technology Faculty V. Raju, Professor and Dean School of Engineering Technologies Farmingdale State University of New York, Farmingdale, NY 11735AbstractThis paper reviews the growth of graduate level programs in engineering technology, identifiesthe need for doctoral level education for engineering technology faculty, and presents themechanisms available for such an education. The paper presents case studies on three doctoralprograms that are currently available for engineering technology educators. It discusses