competitive pressures for U.S. industry, generating the need for an ever-increasing level of broadly-educated engineering students entering the workplace. This notionhas been communicated through the NAE [1] and more recently by ASEE's "TransformingUndergraduate Engineering Education [2] (TUEE)" workshop where industry and academicparticipants “seek a T-shaped engineering graduate who brings broad knowledge across domainsand the ability to collaborate within a diverse workforce as well as deep expertise within a singledomain”. These and other industry feedback encourage us to rethink the way we deliverengineering education. Recent engineering graduates continually find themselves learning on-the-job business acumen, struggling with open-ended problem
Paper ID #40277Surveying the Cultural Assets of Engineering Students: An ExploratoryQuantitative StudyCollette Patricia HigginsEmily Joanna KampDr. Kenneth Stewart Dr. Kenneth L. Stewart is retired professor of sociology at Angelo State University where he served on the faculty from 1975 through 2018. He was also among the founding faculty members of the Master of Public Health Degree at Texas Tech University HealthDr. Azadeh Bolhari, P.E., University of Colorado, Boulder Dr. Bolhari is a professor of environmental engineering in the Department of Civil, Environmental and Ar- chitectural Engineering (CEAE) at the
/11.5. Light, G., Calkins, S., & Cox, R. (2009). Learning and teaching in higher education: The reflective professional (2nd ed.). Thousand Oaks, California: SAGE Publications, Ltd.6. Froyd, J. E., Layne, J., & Watson, K. L. (2006). Issues Regarding Change in Engineering Education Paper presented at the Frontiers in Education Conference. Retrieved 3/11/11 from http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpls/abs_all.jsp?arnumber=41171397. Henderson, C., Finkelstein, N., & Beach, A. (2010). Beyond dissemination in college science teaching: An introduction to four core change strategies. Journal of College Science Teaching, 39(5), 18-25.8. Merton, P., Froyd, J. E., Clark, M. C., & Richardson, J. (2009). A Case Study of
results will be given. Each projectwill be briefly introduced and outcomes will be shared. Finally, we will conclude with theoverall lessons we learned from this experience and discuss next summer’s plans as a result ofour analysis and self-reflections. We hope that our shared experiences (struggles,accomplishments, and mistakes, etc.) will help the engineering education community developmore effective relationships with K-12 by using the models we implemented.IntroductionOne of the biggest challenges for the engineering faculty in college is to teach the freshmen, i.e.students who have just graduated from high school. Student grades decrease in average due tothe transition from high school to the college. Engineering programs in particular face
Paper ID #30769Transforming an Engineering Design Course into an Engaging LearningExperience using ePortfoliosMiss Taylor Tucker, University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign Taylor Tucker graduated from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign with a Bachelor’s degree in engineering mechanics and is now pursuing a master’s in Curriculum and Instruction through the Digital Environments for Learning, Teaching, and Agency (DELTA) program. She is interested in engineering design and lends her technical background to her research with the Collaborative Learning Lab, exploring how to improve ill-structured tasks for
preparation, and itscourse projects have been well described in other studies [16], [18].Background and Institutional SettingAlthough many senior level engineering students at The Citadel participate in internships foracademic credit, many do not wait until their senior year for this experience. Many will seek anengineering internship, typically over the summer, primarily for the pay. As a rising sophomoreor junior, they have limited technical knowledge to contribute. However, as a rising sophomorethrough senior, they can gain considerable knowledge of collaborative problem solving and learna variety of new skills through internship experiences. Perhaps learning from both theory andexample is one of the greatest benefits of an internship, not only
students in experiments and active learning.Learning in a laboratory consolidates scientific and engineering concepts to develop engineeringdesign abilities, enable problem-solving and nurture professional and social skills [2]. Theundergraduate laboratory is important in preparing students for practice beyond the university.Skills developed in the laboratory, such as conducting experiments and tests, solving problems,designing, and innovating, are key skills for professional practice. In the last two decades,laboratories have been further enhanced by the introduction of the digital computer and systemsof distance learning, particularly over the Internet [3]. The digital computer has opened newpossibilities in the laboratory with updated software
Paper ID #35582Retention Strategies for Educators from Women STEM Graduates of the1970’s & 1980’sDr. Kathleen Buse, Advancing Women in the Workforce Kathleen Buse is a business leader whose work focuses on helping organizations be more successful through the development of engaged and inclusive work cultures. As President and Founder of Advancing Women in the Workforce, she helps employers recruit, retain, and advance women. Kathleen’s experience includes 25 years in industry, beginning as an engineer and advancing to executive leadership. She spent ten years in academia where she became an award-winning researcher and
topeers through conference presentation and publication. However, the evolving landscape,particularly in technology-related fields like engineering and applied sciences, has expanded thedemand for PhD degree holders beyond academia. Industries across various sectors actively seekPhDs to advance technology through research and development in mission-driven settings. Herewe define ‘industry’ broadly to include private corporations, national labs, defense researchorganizations, health institutes, etc.This shift in demand has led an increasing number of STEM PhD students to pursue or considercareers in industrial contexts, revealing a misalignment between current PhD training programsand preparation for future employment [1,2]. Most PhD programs tend
writing skills are very important to engineersIn short, students had an average or slightly below average experience learning writing in thiscourse. Finally, through comparing students’ experiences in the two courses, we can concludethat overall, students had a slightly better experience learning communication skills in ME 1000as compared to ME 2000.Although this data is useful and provides a general assessment of the effectiveness ofcommunication instruction from the students’ points of view, we can not move beyond the datato draw inferences about what aspect of instruction in particular made the instruction effective orineffective. Thus, open-ended questions are necessary to further interpret the quantitative dataand in turn, modify the
, T. Phelan, K. Smits, and R. Bullock, "Developing global sociotechnical competency through humanitarian engineering: A comparison of in-person and virtual international project experiences," Journal of International Engineering Education, vol. 3, no. 1, p. 5, 2021.[15] R Core Team. (2013, March 29). R: The R Project for Statistical Computing. Available: https://www.R-project.org/[16] Posit Team. (2024, March 29). RStudio Desktop - Posit. Available: https://posit.co/download/rstudio-desktop/[17] I. Fellows, Package ‘wordcloud’, 2022. [Online]. Available: https://cran.r- project.org/web/packages/wordcloud/wordcloud.pdf. Accessed on March 29, 2024.
the sophomoreyear. The students are provided with a substructure and basic mechanical elements for the crane.The substructure consists of a steel base onto which a steel I-beam column is pinned. Thecolumn has a number of holes along the edge to be used for pinning structural members. Asliding block along the base provides another attachment point. A motor and gearbox arepermanently mounted to the base and a cable take-up reel is connected to the gearbox through ashaft coupling. The weights rest on the steel base and are hoisted by a cable. This structure isshown in Figure 1 and its specifications are given in Table 1. The teams actually design theadditional structural elements needed to lift the weights. The same substructure is used by all
transforming the practice of engineering across multipleengineering disciplines; and immersive Virtual Reality/ Augmented Reality transforming theexperience of engineering students beyond previous simulation tools.Engineers are changing the world through the technologies they develop and deploy. While theprofession may have broader aspirations, individual engineers are limited to the technologydecisions they actively make, or passively accept. Ensuring those decisions are “ethical” requiresindividual engineers to have some awareness of potential ethical issues and skill in ethicalreflection. To achieve the broader social aims of the profession, as expressed in the variousprofessional codes of ethics, requires the development of a culture of ethical
participants described: The problem I have seen with UMKC … is the rapidity with which UMKC makes changes. They do not give us [MCC faculty] much time to react when there is a new curriculum. Sometimes it's happening beyond the scope of the engineering department, like ‘Oh, UMKC has decided they're going to do Gen Ed differently’ That was a relatively recent change that messed up not just engineering transfer from MCC, but other majors, and that lack of consideration for transfer students. It takes us [at MCC] a year to make a curriculum change and get it all approved and find a teacher and redo the schedule. Anything less than a year is almost impossible if you are making major rewrites of the
Copyright © 2003, American Society for Engineering EducationEC2000 Student Program Outcomes StudyA final survey of EC2000 student program outcomes was conducted across all ten sections of the“Engineering Design and Graphics” course in the Fall 2002. Program outcomes are defined tobe the knowledge, skills, abilities, and attitudes engineering graduates should be able todemonstrate at the time of graduation. Table 11 lists the ten program outcomes for theMechanical Engineering Department at the University of Texas at Austin. Included in the tableis the mapping to the ABET prescribed a through k outcomes. Table 11: ME Program Outcomes 1. Knowledge of and ability to apply engineering and science fundamentals to real
classroom environments in mind?” Through the lens of expectation states theory, weask the following research questions: 1. What personal classroom experiences do LAs from a small, private university and a large public university draw from to inform their beliefs regarding status? 2. What are the prevalent status characteristics that these LAs identify in the classroom? 3. What associated expectation states do these LAs identify? 4. What instructional moves do these LAs describe regarding alleviating status differences and creating more equitable spaces?This research advances the current knowledge base on how LAs conceptualize andoperationalize status in the classroom. This study aims to look beyond the structural formation
. Ross, Florida International University Monique Ross, Assistant Professor in the School of Computing and Information Sciences and STEM Transformation Institute at Florida International University, designs research focused on broadening par- ticipation in computer science through the exploration of: 1) race, gender, and disciplinary identity; 2) discipline-based education research (with a focus on computer science and computer engineering courses) in order to inform pedagogical practices that garner interest and retain women (specifically Black and His- panic women) in computer-related engineering fields. American c Society for Engineering Education, 2021
Paper ID #46039Enabling Successful Transitions to Higher Education for Students with DisabilitiesSeth Vuletich, Colorado School of Mines Seth Vuletich is the Scholarly Communications Librarian the Colorado School of Mines. Seth provides specialized support to graduate students through all stages of the research lifecycle. Prior to entering the field of librarianship, Seth was a professional woodworker and earned a bachelor’s degree in geology from the University of Colorado, Boulder. Seth earned his Master’s in Library and Information Science from the University of Denver in 2021.Brianna B Buljung, Colorado School of
. Page 10.284.3 It was deemed highly valuable for upward mobility in the aerospace industry thatyoung engineers be able to provide a briefing. They should be able to clearly andconcisely present a message. They also need to know when to say they do not know theanswer. A common failing among new engineers was overstepping personal knowledge.In an attempt to not appear unprepared, new engineers often extrapolated beyond thedata. Further, as a part of communication skills, it was also deemed valuable to learnnegotiation skills. Negotiation skills were considered important in both internal andexternal discussions. New engineers would not likely get involved in too many externalfinancial negotiations, but there are a number of
engineering [1, 2]. In undergraduate education, multiple pathways intoengineering degree programs (e.g., introductory courses offered at regional campuses andcommunity colleges) are often viewed as a way to broaden participation in the field byincreasing access and affordability. However, research within the K-12 context has uncoveredthat educational tracking practices, similar in structure to the pathways seen in higher education,function in ways that perpetuate social inequalities. Often students in less prestigious tracksdevelop lower self-beliefs and educational attainment goals while being offered less resourcesand educational support [3]. Despite these parallels, little is known about how institutionalizedpathways function in higher education
Professor of Engineering Education at Purdue University. Her research focuses what factors influence diverse students to choose engineering and stay in engineering through their careers and how different experiences within the practice and culture of engineering foster or hinder belongingness and identity development. Dr. Godwin graduated from Clemson University with a B.S. in Chemical Engineering and Ph.D. in Engineering and Science Education. Her research earned her a National Science Foundation CAREER Award focused on characterizing latent diversity, which includes diverse attitudes, mindsets, and approaches to learning, to understand engineering students’ identity devel- opment. She is the recipient of a 2014
. Education Sciences, 10(10), Article 264. https://doi.org/10.3390/edusci10100264O’Meara, K. (2016). Whose problem is it? Gender differences in faculty thinking about campus service. Teachers College Record, 118(8), 1–38. https://doi.org/10.1177/016146811611800808Randel, A. E., Glavin, B. M., Gibson, C. B., & Batts, S. I. (2021). Increasing career advancement opportunities through sponsorship: An identity-based model with an illustrative application to cross-race mentorship of African Americans. Group & Organization Management, 46(1), 105–142. https://doi.org/10.1177/1059601120978003Silverman, D. (2019). Interpreting qualitative data (6th ed.). Sage.Stake, R. E. (1995). The art of case study research. Sage.Tran
Paper ID #31196Gendered Professional Role Confidence and Persistence of ArtificialIntelligence and Machine Learning StudentsMiss Kimberly Ren, University of Toronto Kimberly is an enthusiastic Engineering Science student at the University of Toronto specializing in Biomedical Systems Engineering. She is a passionate proponent of women in STEM. She is an award- winner in engineering competitions across Canada and beyond in areas including super-resolution mi- croscopy, machine learning solutions for health care, and space missions for microbiology research.Dr. Alison Olechowski, University of Toronto Alison Olechowski is an
foundations of the Foundry as a pedagogical platform are extensivelydeveloped in the extent literature and beyond the scope of this work.1,2 For this contribution, wehighlight specific features of the platform that lend itself well to curriculum design as theybecome markers of the student learning experiences within the development process. Forexample, the Foundry’s core learning strategy is centered on student teams, collaboration inidentifying a challenge (either societal or technological), and then the iterative application of thetwo paradigms that move the challenge towards the development of a Prototype of InnovativeTechnology (PIT). As part of this process, student-teams will leverage Organizational Tools,identify needed Resources, acquire
century engineer will look very different than their 20th centurycounterparts 2. While these changes can be seen as a real threat to the engineering jobmarket, engineers who have learned how to harness computational capabilities for Page 14.356.2advanced analysis and problem-solving will continue to be in great demand for decades tocome.Therefore, our multidisciplinary National Science Foundation project has a twofold goalto (1) develop a computational thinking thread that spans beyond the freshman year’scomputing course to all levels of the engineering curricula, and (2) increase students’computational competency in applying appropriate computing
necessarysoftware foundation that allows students to work with the robot in a reasonable timeframe. iRobot provides several well-document tutorials, including using a Raspberry Pias the brains of your setup. The Raspberry Pi connects directly to the Create 2 through aUSB to serial cable, allowing students to send wireless commands to the Create 2 fromtheir laptop using any traditional programming language. These commands let studentsdrive around, play musical notes, or have the Create 2 return to its docking station.Furthermore, camera data from the Raspberry Pi is made available as a website thatstudents can view for visual feedback.Students are split into groups and presented with the challenge of exploring an unknownenvironment to find an object of
by undergraduate students. The material testing program yielded usefulinformation in itself, but the innovative method of international collaboration provides anexample for educational institutions and NGOs of sharing resources for common benefits.Engineering Ministries International Uganda (EMI) provides design and constructionmanagement services to Christian charities throughout East Africa. Their structural engineershave been using North American timber standards to estimate the strength of similar Africanwood species, since little published information on the strength of locally-sourced African woodsis available. Through the connection of the lead author’s involvement with EMI during a recentsabbatical, EMI sent samples of cypress
disability impact disabled student experiencesin the engineering classroom?Conceptual Framework Critical Disability Theory [CDT] (Hall, 2019) and the Design Justice framework(Costanza-Chock, 2020) were used as lenses to guide our research. CDT is a framework used forthe analysis of disability through the centering of disability and challenging of ableistassumptions surrounding disability. CDT describes disability as the complex relationshipbetween the medical contributions of disability and the barriers imposed on the concept ofdisability by the social environment (Hosking, 2008). The Design Justice Framework analyzeshow design works to benefit and burden different groups of people by elucidating how designreproduces and/or challenges the
Department of Bicultural-Bilingual Studies at The Uni- versity of Texas at San Antonio. His research has contributed to the integration of critical theoretical frameworks in engineering education to investigate deficit ideologies and their impact on minoritized communities. His work seeks to analyze and describe the assets, tensions, contradictions, and cultural collisions many Latino/a/x students experience in engineering through testimonios. He is particularly in- terested in approaches that contribute to a more expansive understanding of engineering in sociocultural contexts, the impact of critical consciousness in engineering practice, and the development and imple- mentation of culturally responsive pedagogies in
Graphics,” in 2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition Proceedings, ASEE Conferences, 2012, pp. 25.237.1-25.237.7. doi: 10.18260/1-2--20997.[31] K. Fisher and K. Cook, “Improving Learning Of Engineering Graphics Through A Combination Of Techniques,” in 2007 Annual Conference & Exposition Proceedings, ASEE Conferences, 2007, pp. 12.857.1-12.857.8. doi: 10.18260/1-2--1594.