in 75-minute interviews based on willingness and availability to participate. Students were split intosmaller groups of three students each to facilitate in-depth discussion. The interview wasfacilitated by a third-party researcher, and was recorded and thematically analyzed.Students were asked open-ended questions about their perceptions of the importance or impact ofvarious program components, including math preparation, technical skill workshops, transferpreparation workshops, social activities, the embedded Retention Specialist, and access toscholarship and internship opportunities. Interviewers also attempted to gauge program impactby assessing factors such as sense of community, sense of identity and self-efficacy as a STEMstudent, and
: Please indicate your level of agreement with the following statements. (1-Strongly Disagree, 6- Strongly Agree)ConclusionThe first-year implementation of the S-SMART Summer Research Internship programsuccessfully provided opportunities for first- and second-year community college students, witha focus on those from URM groups, to engage in innovative engineering research, receive closementorship from faculty advisors and student peer mentors, and acquire hands-on engineeringskills in a collaborative research environment. The program's success in attracting URM andfemale students was demonstrated by their higher participation rates compared to overallengineering enrollments.The pre- and post-program surveys
U.S. and internationalcolleges and universities on the principles of effective teaching [12]. The workshop focuses itsseminars, demonstration classes, and practice classes around an ExCEEd Model consisting of: 1. Structured organization that is based on learning objectives, appropriate to the subject matter, and appeals to different learning styles. 2. An engaging presentation with clear communication, a high degree of contact with students, and physical models and demonstrations. 3. Enthusiasm! 4. Positive rapport with students. 5. Frequent assessment of student learning (both in and out of class). 6. Appropriate use of technology.As shown in Celebrating 20 Years of the ExCEEd Teaching Workshop presented in
writes that as students become active learners, they also become more sociallyengaged.16 In order for a living and learning community to be successful, it must promote the fullacademic and social integration of its students to improve their persistence.Literature ReviewThe National Study of Living and Learning Programs has found that one of the best ways toanalyze the impact of living and learning communities is to review Astin’s inputs-environments- Page 24.872.4outcomes conceptual model.17 Essentially, Astin’s model states that in order to effectivelyobserve how a college environment influences student retention (outcome), student inputs
that differentiate[d] successful from unsuccessful companies” [8]. This work-in-progressexpands on Schönborn’s findings in hypothesizing that there are specific cultural norms and valuesadopted by students in engineering colleges that differ from those of engineering industries, andthose differences may affect if and how early career engineers successfully transition toengineering careers.Literature ReviewDimensions of successThe organizational behavior model developed by Robbins & Judge lies on the premise that inputsat the individual, group, and organizational levels influence processes which therein influenceoutcomes. However, this model proposes a linear path within the levels: individual inputs influenceindividual processes which then
Paper ID #37146Board 285: Exploring Impacts of Socially Engaged Engineering Training:What Do Students’ Attend to in Scenario-Based Interviews?Ms. Kelley E Dugan, University of Michigan Kelley E. Dugan is an (incoming) Assistant Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology. Her research aims to understand and support complex sociotech- nical problem solving in engineering, which can often be framed as engineering design problems. They focus on how social dimensions can be recognized and integrated into problem solving processes by studying student and practicing engineers
allof these components1. This model is one of three learning community models at IUPUI designedto engage all freshmen in high-impact practices that are developed to address equity and accessto programs defining their first-year experience2.The Themed-Learning Community at IUPUI that is the subject of this study is a combination ofthree freshman-level, related courses required of the Interior Design Technology program titled"Designers in the Making". It is part of the University’s First-Year Experience program and linksrelated courses together for a group of up to twenty-five freshmen to take as a cohort. Studentsare able to connect with their faculty and fellow students during the course of the semester.Activities are designed to bridge
experiences of undergraduate en- gineering students and engineering educators. In addition to teaching undergraduate engineering courses and a graduate course on entrepreneurship, she also enjoys teaching qualitative research methods in the Engineering Education Systems and Design PhD program at ASU. Recently, she and her colleagues pub- lished a book, Transformative Teaching: A Collection of Stories of Engineering Faculty’s Pedagogical Journeys. American c Society for Engineering Education, 2020 Understanding how Novice Indian Faculty Engage in Engineering Education ResearchAbstractUnlike engineering research, engineering education
submission rate, these may be because of students’behavior of completing the task at an adequate rate.Similarly, cognitive engagement relies on the principles of use and effort to invest in learningactivities [3], [15], which may help students use the application. Besides a relationship amongstudents’ behavioral engagement, cognitive engagement, and educational app engagement, forboth pre-engagement and changes in engagement, we observed that changes in engagementnegatively impact students’ app engagement. Based on existing literature, one probableexplanation could be students may go through different phases of engagement in the course [6],[7]. It is possible that at post-engagement survey time, students may have been in a differentphase of
Paper ID #37235Faculty-Student Interaction and Its Impact on Well-Being inHigher Education for STEMCortney E Holles (Teaching Professor) Cortney Holles is a Teaching Professor in the Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences at Colorado School of Mines where she has taught and developed the required first-year ethics and writing course for STEM majors since 2004. She also teaches science communication and service learning. She defended her educational criticism/action research dissertation on “Faculty-Student Interaction and Impact on Well-Being in Higher Education” and earned her Ed.D in 2021. She is now engaged in
advocates. For instance, two participants described increasedknowledge and skills around communication. Participant #2 highlighted the strength they foundin the community as well as tools for better communication: I believe this group has made a huge impact on my life, not only as an academic but as a person in general. It gave me the strength to advocate for other and for the things I believe are important for faculty, staff, students and community in general. It is the first time I feel good about speaking out and understanding that I can be an institutional agent of change. It has provided the tools to better communicate with others and engage in dialogue that is beneficial for me and the people surrounding
Paper ID #37987Assessing Student Impacts from an Interdisciplinary SummerResearch Program Modeled on Problem-Based LearningMohammed K. Faris Dr. Mohammed K. Faris is a Lecture in the Department of Civil Engineering at the University of Mosul / Iraq, finished his PhD at the University of South Carolina in 2020. He is also a Member of The American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) since 2021. His current interest is to use active learning strategies to teach Civil Engineering classes, and to make the students more aware about the problem-solving techniques.Charles Pierce Dr. Charles E. Pierce is an Associate
Paper ID #37245The Impact of Gender Identity on Early-Career Engineer'sPerception of ExpertiseCaroline BoltonElif Miskioglu (Assistant Professor) I am an early-career engineering education scholar and educator. I hold a B.S. in Chemical Engineering (with Genetics minor) from Iowa State University, and an M.S. and Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from The Ohio State University. My early Ph.D. work focused on the development of bacterial biosensors capable of screening pesticides for specifically targeting the malaria vector mosquito, Anopheles gambiae. As a result, my diverse background also includes experience
minority students’ success in STEMincluding disparities in affordability, reduced access to advanced placement courses, and thepresence of “inferior cognitive and math ability stereotype” threats [6]. Thereby programs thataddress these critical factors by providing experiential learning opportunities (e.g., case studies,competitions, undergraduate research experiences) for students and support (e.g., mentors,scholarships, community engagement) in STEM disciplines have had positive impacts onstudents’ success [4].Another component critical to the preparation of undergraduate students with competitiveskillsets needed for success in the STEM workforce is motivation. Students’ motivationgenerates, directs, and sustains what they do to learn [7, 8
on post-graduation successand social responsibility with workshops on life after university studies (including graduate andprofessional school opportunities, scientific and professional societies, and teamwork in theworkplace), and being a member of a community (e.g., giving back to society, civicresponsibility, mentoring others, etc.).A survey given to the 28 participants at our first workshop showed that the students’ interestsand knowledge deficiencies were less than a perfect match for what we had expected and forwhich we had planned activities. The survey results (shown in Table 2) indicated that anoverwhelming majority of the students wanted to learn more about the following as soon aspossible: additional scholarship and fellowship
on concept generation and design-by-analogy. Her research seeks to understand designers’ cognitive processes with the goal of creating better tools and approaches to enhance engineering design. She has authored over 150 technical publications including over forty journal papers, and ten book chapters. American c Society for Engineering Education, 2021 Comparison of Student Learning in Two Makerspace CommunitiesAbstractThe Maker Movement has led to a boom in academic makerspace development over the past 15years. Academic makerspaces—which are those located on community college and universitycampuses—enable students to engage in solving challenges that are
a course because of lack ofactive student engagement. In order to help students in these beginning courses we need tointegrate and use techniques and technology that will help them to develop and improveprogramming skills through dynamic teamwork [3]. In addition, in most of the cases the class sizesare bigger, students are unprepared and have diverse level of understanding thus putting extraburden on the faculty. In some cases traditional face to face teaching along with tutorial and labexercise may work but with the change in the way today’s student communicate and learn, we mayrequire a different approach to achieve our goals [14]. Advances in the field of technology haveproven their usefulness in the context of learning and teaching in
. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2020 How much does student perception of course attributes impact student motivation?Intrinsic motivation creates a more positive and engaged atmosphere in the classroom, and ispositively correlated with students’ persistence in engineering. While an instructor can’t“intrinsically motivate” students, they certainly can create conditions that cultivate or defeatintrinsic motivation. In this study, the impact on students’ motivational state of five coursedesign features was measured using Guay, Vallerand, and Blanchard’s Situational MotivationScale (SIMS) (1). Course features considered included the incorporation of open-ended problemsolving, physical realization of
the 3D model, 2D diagrams provided in thetasks, or worked calculations included in the activity sheets. Within each of the models, therewas variety and similarity in the ways students used the different models. For each code,representative examples and quotes from the analytical notes were included to support consistentcoding.Table 1. Ways Students Engaged with and Communicated Thinking about Statics Tasks Representation Code Description, examples Used Uses M-W Writes on the While engaging in problem solving, uses a dry erase marker to label or make 3D SMK 3D model other marks on the model M-G Uses gestures As a student considers changing a
STEM engagement experiences forSpanish speaking students of need; to benefit an international audience (students in Honduras) withthe intent of replicating the program of informal enrichment for other communities with Spanishspeaking students in the United States or elsewhere; and to provide professional development toeducators/facilitators, orientation and encouragement to parents, and direct learning opportunities tothe participating students.Growing Inequities in Mathematics Education in the United StatesThere is growing concern in the U.S. regarding student performance in national standardized tests dueto 4th and 8th grade students’ largest drop in math performance in thirty years (NAEP, 2022). Overall,in 2022, 38% of eighth graders scored
engineering laboratory sequence, many students have been exposed towriting laboratory reports, usually in a chemistry laboratory and/or physics laboratory course.Although writing laboratory reports is a valuable skill, today’s engineers are expected to reporttheir results and express their findings in a variety of different forms of oral, written, and visualcommunication [3].To help our students develop new and improved skills in effective communication, we havemodified our laboratory course sequence to highlight and address different approaches toreporting laboratory results. This new initiative in our senior chemical engineering laboratorysequences provides the students with a range of skill-sets that prepares them to communicatesuccessfully on a
success. However, although students accumulate more knowledge in different classes,creativity is not built into most technical courses2. A capstone course comes in much contrast toregular classes as it is supposed to be a peak experience of the undergraduate journey, aiming atdeveloping skills for working in multidisciplinary teams, unleashing technical creativity andimproving communication skills3. The capstone experience integrates theory and practice,providing genuine research experience4 through a hands-on learning process5, and open-endedinterdisciplinary questions. The experimental work to be conducted in capstone projects comesto demonstrate a different side of the neatly arranged theoretical concepts and represents anessential part in
, the effectiveness ofsuch projects within the context of competition is largely unexplored.Surveys of recent graduates will serve as the primary assessment tool for the effectiveness ofinterdisciplinary versus non-interdisciplinary teams and competition versus non-competitionteams. The authors will assess both the impact of student competitions on learning and theimpact of interdisciplinary teams on the learning and effectiveness of competition teams.Additional assessment tools will include competition scores and feedback received from facultymembers based on the performance of the 2020 West Point Steel Bridge Team.IntroductionIt only takes a quick look at the news over the past few years to see that the world is changing ata rapid pace
they engage in interdisciplinary discussions, explain how multiple factors have contributed to infrastructure inequities and how they can be part of the solution. This also emphasizes the importance of relying on multiple disciplines in different fields of knowledge to address JEDI issues. Additionally, the framework proposed includes, in its structure and suggested activities, multiple opportunities for students to evolve from foundational understanding to thinking in multi- disciplinary ways and being creative in the design of solutions. Collaborative efforts and increased visibility of these narratives among the engineering students, and the community at large, will amplify the potential for meaningful change
Impacts Technology Students (SKIITS)1 developed an online,asynchronous, accessible-from-anywhere course that community colleges can use as a resourceto offer spatial skills training to their students with a nominal investment of institutionalresources. The course is based on research and materials created with the support of NSF fundingthat were successfully used in face-to-face instruction in four-year universities.SKIITS focuses on three research questions:1. Can effective materials developed through earlier NSF funding to improve spatial skills be transformed into an effective set of online resources?2. Does providing spatial skills training improve the retention of low-spatial-ability students, including women in technician programs?3
. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2017 Adapting Tested Spatial Skills Curriculum to On-Line Format for Community College Instruction: A Critical Link to Retain Technology Students (SKIITS)I. IntroductionSpatial Skills Instruction Impacts Technology Students (SKIITS)1 is developing an online,transportable course that community colleges can use as a resource to offer spatial skills trainingto their students with a nominal investment of institutional resources. The course is based onresearch and materials funded by NSF that have successfully been used in face-to-faceinstruction in four-year universities.SKIITS focuses on three research questions:1. Can effective materials developed through
for assessing conceptual knowledge and change for intro- ductory materials science and chemistry classes. He is currently conducting research on NSF projects in two areas. One is studying how strategies of engagement and feedback with support from internet tools and resources affect conceptual change and associated impact on students’ attitude, achievement, and per- sistence. The other is on the factors that promote persistence and success in retention of undergraduate students in engineering. He was a coauthor for best paper award in the Journal of Engineering Education in 2013.Dr. Dale R Baker, Arizona State University Dale Baker is a science educator, Her research focuses on equity issues as well as teaching and
. IntroductionAdapting Tested Spatial Skills Curriculum to On-Line Format for Community CollegeInstruction: A Critical Link to Retain Technology Students (HRD# 1407123) was funded by theNational Science Foundation (NSF) in July of 2014. The goal of SKIITS (Spatial SkillsInstruction Impacts Technology Students) is to develop an online, fully transportable course thatcommunity colleges can use as a resource to offer spatial skills training to their students costeffectively and with a nominal investment of institutional resources. The course is based onresearch and materials funded by NSF that have successfully been used in face-to-faceinstruction in four-year Universities.SKIITS focuses on three research questions:1. Can effective materials developed through
, this is the most important factor of any job I acquire.4.2 Quantitative AnalysisThe coded qualitative analysis was quantitatively displayed to investigate how the personalpitches connected to the twenty program competencies. The findings are provided in Figure 2. Insummary, students did a relatively good job of communicating their experiences and abilitiesrelated to oral communication, ethical and cultural engagement, leadership, and the individualcontribution they offered to projects. However, students failed to discuss their abilities related toseven of the twenty competencies, including integrated communication, written communication,information literacy, qualitative reasoning, active listening, give, receive and act on critique, andsystems
Student Satisfaction with ASEE Activities and its Impact on ASEE Student Membership Adam Carberry, Daniel Bumblauskas, Alexandra Coso, Ana Torres-Ayala Arizona State University, University of Missouri, Georgia Institute of Technology, University of South FloridaAbstractThe number of students participating in engineering education research, reform, and practice hasbeen steadily growing, as seen by the increased student membership of the American Society forEngineering Education (ASEE) within the last decade. A possible source for this increasedinvolvement includes the creation of graduate programs awarding engineering education degrees,but according to a 2010