instructors’ priorities and potential strategiesthat can be leveraged by others engaged in the work of helping engineers develop necessaryskills for increasingly sociotechnical engineering work.BackgroundEngineering encompasses both technical and social dimensions [13] - [15]. Successfulengineering solutions not only require technical robustness but also necessitate alignment withstakeholder priorities, contextual factors, and consideration of both local and globalconsequences [16], [17]. These socially engaged engineering skills are integral for inclusive andcomprehensive engineering work and involve the acquisition, application, and equitableutilization of diverse contextual information related to stakeholders, communities, ethics, theenvironment
framework considers how multiple characteristics—in thisresearch, race and gender affect an individual socially in contrast to separating the characteristicsfor individual examination. Minorities, specifically Black females, continue to contributesignificantly to the underrepresented in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) inacademia and in the workforce, particularly electrical engineering. The barriers indicated in thisrepresentation often lean toward interest, gender biases, preparedness, and the invisibility of self-identification in mentors. Using mixed methods including literature reviews and questionnaires,this paper examined those methods and compared them to existing social and balanced identitytheories and interventions to
Inventory (IDI)?This effort leveraged a multi methods approach with quantitative data collected via theIntercultural Development Inventory (IDI) and qualitative data gathered in the form of surveys,focus groups, and course artifacts. Findings are presented as the conceptualized framework,Formation of Engineers to Address Wicked Problems (FEW), building on existing research andliterature aiming to contribute to the knowledge gap surrounding effective pedagogical practicesand methods related to global sociotechnical competency and Engineering for SustainableDevelopment. 3Contextual Background and Positioning of the FEW ModelThe ideals that have emerged within the ESD domain focus on considering social
from our mixed method approach of student surveys, interviews, andfocus groups. Comparison of survey, interview, and focus group findings indicate primarily thefollowing themes with major outcomes associated with S-L experiences, students reported thatthey: • agree in principle with combining academic subject matter with service • are more motivated to learn subject matter and work harder with S-L • achieve more research/ information gathering and learning more with S-L • experience a preference for and gains in soft skills while working as S-L teams • are more engaged with learning due to S-L • like the benefits of a mix of required to optional S-L experiencesAdditional findings emerging from qualitative interview and
students with experiences in not only the design, butalso the prototyping, testing, fabrication, and operation of a complex aerospace system. TheCDIO Capstone Course is a component of major CDIO educational initiatives in the Departmentthat include new teaching laboratories, a reformed curriculum, emphasis on active and experientiallearning, and applications of technology for teaching, learning, and assessment.The CDIO approach grew out of the need to provide students with more authentic learningexperiences that would prepare them for the demands of current engineering practice and Page 7.1128.1research. Most beginning engineering students
in industries and • Ethics as relevant to the • Machine learning concepts across business functions design, implementation, and and Python applications, • Concepts and ethical to support business strategy administration of artificial including data acquisition, concerns around AI formulation, intelligence and emerging supervised, unsupervised, implementation, and technologies and reinforced learning evaluation. • Basic understanding of coding, Python, and • Biases of algorithms
Paper ID #27701Exploring Within-Group Differences in Student-Faculty Interactions amongBlack Engineering Students at a Selective Four-Year Engineering CollegeMs. Felicia James Onuma, University of Maryland, College Park Felicia Onuma is a Ph.D. candidate in Higher Education at the University of Maryland, College Park. Her research interests center around the enrollment and retention of Black (immigrant) students in sci- ence, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) fields and the experiences of Black immigrant collegians at private elite U.S. colleges and universities. Felicia currently holds a graduate assistantship
. The maximum pressure and temperature must be comparable to typical subcritical steam plants. Other equipment such as coal mills, boilers, steam parts etc. must be of similar technology as employed elsewhere in the republic.Students were provided with a process diagram of a simplified single unit power plant basedon the Rankine cycle, with each subsystem and its relations to other subsystems shown, andclearly showing the path of the three material (fuel, air, and water/steam) streams. Thecontext of operation was defined in thermodynamic terms, with no account given to how theywere established, or any concern for seasonal or daily variation: The following information is valid for the proposed sites where the power plant
Session NO. 2642 How to Initiate Dialogue in Student Research Teams Bonnie D. Burrell and Clark K. Colton Department of Chemical Engineering Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139AbstractIn the process of integrating teambuilding training into a chemical engineering projectslaboratory, we concluded that a pedagogical tool was needed to move the student teams throughthe early team life cycle and communication stages in order to create the needed trust to begineffective communication. The tool we developed consists of two parts: (1) an
? Preemptive Bias Detection in Automated Review SystemsAbstractThe number of graduate students has been increasing rapidly to meet industry demands, withover 200% increase in competitive fields like computer science (CS) in the past decade. This hasled to several universities adopting AI in their admissions processes for various tasks such asevaluating transcripts, extracting important information from essays, and scoring applications.Past implementations of AI for decision-making in admissions have often led to issuessurrounding bias with the potential to have long-standing effects on diversity. With the minimalchange in diversity in graduate CS education over the last decade and the recent removal ofaffirmative action for admissions, it is critical
color and white women, and received the Denice Denton Emerging Leader award from the Anita Borg Institute in 2013. She has been author or co-author on papers receiving ASEE-ERM’s best paper award, the AAEE Best Paper Award, the Benjamin Dasher award, and co-authored the paper nominated by the ASEE Committee on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion for ASEE Best PIC Paper for 2018. More recently, she received her school’s Award for Excellence in Mentoring, Award for Leadership, and a 2019 award from the College of Engineering as an Outstanding Faculty Mentor of Engineering Graduate Students. In 2020 she won the Sterling Olmsted Award from the Liberal Education/Engineering and Society Division of ASEE. She was president of
Paper ID #34228Providing Meaningful Hands-on Design Experience in the Remote-learningEnvironment with a Miniature Mechanical Testing KitMiss Xinyue (Crystal) Liu, University of Toronto Crystal Liu is a graduate student at the University of Toronto in the department of Materials Science and Engineering. Her research focuses on engineering design and education. She obtained her BASc in Mechanical Engineering at the University of Toronto in 2019. She has worked in product development and is interested in application of technology and design in engineering education research.Dr. Yasaman Delaviz, York University Yasaman Delaviz
minimal; studieshave previously determined that students should be able to achieve the same score on a testwhether taken through the computer or taken on paper.1-3 Some concerns persist in that thechange in format may allow more technology-skilled students to gain a boost compared to otherstudents,4 as well at the inequality in digital and internet resources between students, which couldlead to an imbalance in performance,5 all of which is before considering any potential increasedchance of student cheating on exams.6Primarily, however, additional perspective for the fall 2020 semester was provided based onevents not directly related to coursework. With the backdrop beyond the classroom of a globalpandemic, a movement for racial justice, and a
’ [materials] contribute to solutions every bitas much as ‘minds’ [social] do; information and meaning is coded into configurations of objects,material constraints, and possible environmental options, as well as in verbal routines andformulas or ‘mental operations. […] Our ‘cognition’ is always bound up with, co-dependentwith, the participation and activity of Others, be they persons, tools, symbols, processes, orthings” [14]. This emphasis of social and material context as being an intrinsic part of cognitionis one of the main points of situated cognition [7]. Therefore, it is worthwhile to explore the social and material contexts of the designactivities performed by practicing engineers and engineering students. Understanding how
not provide information about the gender or race. Participants were asked tocomplete surveys in class at the beginning (Week 2) and end of the semester (Week 15) to assesstheir thoughts and feelings about engineering. The survey took approximately 15 minutes tocomplete.4.2 MeasuresIn addition to standard demographic variables, we also collected measures of (a) students’ self-assessed ability to achieve the outcomes listed in ABET Criterion 3, (b) situational interest inengineering that emerged as a function of the course, and (c) individual interest in engineering asa profession/discipline. These measures, described in detail below, were highly reliable, withCronbach’s alphas above 0.80.Student Outcomes (ABET Criterion 3). Students rated the
Paper ID #26513A Multi-institution Investigation into Faculty Approaches for Incorporatingthe Entrepreneurial Mind-set in First-year Engineering ClassroomsMs. Renee Desing, Ohio State University Renee Desing is currently a graduate student at the Ohio State University in the Department of Engi- neering Education. Ms. Desing holds a B.S. in Industrial Engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology and a M.S. in Industrial Engineering and Operations Research from the Pennsylvania State University. Most recently, Ms. Desing worked as a managing consultant for IBM Public Sector Advanced Analytics.Dr. Krista M
pedagogy. His education includes a B.S. and M.S. in Civil Engineering from the University of Nevada, Reno.Mr. Justin Charles Major, Purdue University-Main Campus, West Lafayette (College of Engineering) Justin C. Major is a fourth-year Ph.D Candidate and National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fel- low in the Purdue University Engineering Education Program. As an undergraduate student at the Univer- sity of Nevada, Reno (UNR), Justin completed Bachelor’s degrees in both Mechanical Engineering and Secondary Mathematics Education with an informal emphasis in engineering education. Through his in- volvement in the UNR PRiDE Research Lab and engagement with the UNR and Northern Nevada STEM Education communities, he
Mentoring Delegation *competency not matched with left column competencyDiscussionAs shown in Table 1, there are numerous commonalities between the competencies ofengineering design and engineering leadership, and various themes emerged from thecomparison. There are overlapping competencies in each of the sub-process areas of theengineering design process. Various competencies align with work process, or how the work isapproached, planned, and managed. The largest number of commonalities exist in the cognitiveprocess section. These competencies align with how information is gathered, taken intoconsideration, and used creatively. Thirdly, both engineering design and engineering
participation in learning [9]. Developing teamwork skillsbenefits students academically and has long-term implications for personal and professionaldevelopment. It develops leadership skills, enhances problem-solving abilities, and developsdecision-making skills, all contributing to students' overall growth and readiness for futureefforts [2], [10], [11], [12]. Teamwork skills gained through academic settings are crucial forstudents' future careers as employers highly value them [13]. It also enhances empathy, socialawareness, and improved decision-making abilities, which are essential for navigating diversework environments and making informed choices [14], [15]. Effective time management skillsand self-reflection abilities in students are being
Paper ID #40955Automation of the Capstone Team Formulation ProcessDr. Wayne Johnson, University of Georgia Wayne M. Johnson is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Environmental, Civil, Agricultural and Mechani- cal Engineering at the University of Georgia (UGA) in Athens, GA. Prior to joining UGA in 2022, he was a Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Georgia Southern University-Armstrong Campus, Savannah GA. He received his Ph.D. and M.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Georgia Institute of Technology and his B.S. in Mechanical Engineering (Cum Laude) from Louisiana State University. He has published 16 papers in
Representation (problem solver summarizes what is going on in the problem and what is expected of them) 4. Solution Generation & Transfer Processes (the problem is solved) 5. Solution Evaluation (problem solver asks “does this make sense?”)This scheme was then used to code the transcripts for areas in which the participants were judgedto be working in the different levels of the framework. Given the limits of this coding scheme inallowing for new codes to emerge, process coding was also applied to the transcripts as it relatesdirectly to the actions being performed by the participants at an instant. Axial coding [32] wasthen used to integrate the provisional and process coding schemes before the data was analyzedfor themes and
. Recent statistics indicate that declining populations of engineers pursueadvanced degrees7. Research experiences for undergraduates (REU) programs are widelypromoted as an effective educational tool for enhancing the undergraduate experience8, 9 withmultiple benefits10, the most instrumental of which is an increased interest in science,technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) careers11, 12. REU fosters increasedpersistence in the pursuit of an undergraduate degree13; increased interest in pursuing graduateeducation14, 15; and gains in skills by REU alumni over comparison groups (conducting research,acquiring information, and speaking effectively)16. REU helps develop career pathways forunderrepresented students by increasing minority
- ing, systems engineering, physics and mathematics. He has over 30 published papers and/or technical presentations while spearheading over 40 international scientific and engineering conferences/workshops as a steering committee member while assigned in Europe. Professor Santiago has experience in many engineering disciplines and missions including: control and modeling of large flexible space structures, communications system, electro-optics, high-energy lasers, missile seekers/sensors for precision guided munitions, image processing/recognition, information technologies, space, air and missile warning, mis- sile defense, and homeland defense. His interests includes: interactive multimedia for e-books, interactive
, direct investigations, managetime, and use technology productively.2Instructors of project-based curricula, particularly those new to the learning model, often struggleto balance the active engagement of students and the relative chaos that can easily emerge.8Because students must manage their own time and materials, collaborate with teammates as theysee fit, and make their own decisions, project-based learning is typically less-structured thanother active learning methods.9 As a result, classrooms may appear unorganized, off-task, andout of control. In high school classrooms, where students with vastly different maturity levels,language abilities, and intellectual capabilities must work together, project-based lessons can testa single
?Through answering these questions, the results of this study will: provide an overview of theways in which ASEE is currently discussing and addressing diversity in engineering; highlightways in which additional member divisions can be involved; summarize the ways in whichdemographics are included (or not included) in these efforts; and inform future efforts of ASEEmembers.2. FrameworkTo answer these questions, we combined intersectionality (Crenshaw, 1991) and the AERAStandards for Reporting on Empirical Social Science Research (2006) to frame our analysis ofover 150 conference publications from ASEE. Together, these frameworks enabled a systematicdecomposition of each paper and, subsequently, a critical examination of how aspects ofdiversity are
Paper ID #21489Improving Middle-School Girls’ Knowledge, Self-Efficacy, and Interests in’Sustainable Construction Engineering’ through a STEAM ACTIVATED! pro-gramDr. Andrea Nana Ofori-Boadu, North Carolina A&T State University Dr. Ofori-Boadu is an Assistant Professor with the Department of Built Environment at North Carolina A & T State University. Her research interests are in bio-modified cements, sustainable development, and STEM education. Dr. Ofori-Boadu has served in various capacities on research and service projects, including Principal Investigator for two most recent grants from the Engineering Information
) Mission: To promote a collaborative and Mission: To advance and promote the theory and inclusive community to advance human practice of engineering sciences and technology health through education, discovery, and to medicine and biology, serving as a forum for translation. (BMES) information exchange between healthcare professionals, scientists, and the general public. (CMBES)If we conceptualize a vision statement as an aspirational future state and a mission statement asan articulation of an organization’s key purpose, it stands to reason that any organizationintending to hold the public paramount will include explicit messaging about
, Assistant Professor in the Department of Engineering and Technology Education at Utah State University, has taught Solid Modeling, CAD, Introductory Electronics, Surveying, Statics, Assessment and Evaluation, and Introductory Engineering courses at Utah State University. Goodridge has been teaching for the Utah State College of Engineering for more than 15 years. He holds dual B.S degrees in industrial technology education and civil engineering from Utah State University, as well as an M.S. and Ph.D. in Civil Engineering from Utah State University. His research interests include entrepreneurship in engineering, spatial thinking and spatial cognition, and professional development for those teaching engineering.Ms. Melissa
screening criteria of university-driven K-12 physics or engineering informal education,we included 37 articles in this review that presented a theoretical basis or framework fordeveloping or assessing engineering or physics outreach programs. The theories were separatedinto five predominant learning theories: cognitivism, constructivism, contextualism,experientialism, and humanism. In addition to an overarching learning theory, all articles alsoindicated other frameworks that shaped the lens through which they considered the outreachactivities.This review article introduces and compares learning theories that universities are currently usingto design, implement, and assess outreach activities, as well as highlights which theories may bemost aligned
transformational resistance and identitydevelopment. Through her narrative, we see how transformational resistance can occur at anypart of the identity development process, though certain identities during these parts may not besalient or significant to the individual. This paper addresses the complexity in creating diversity,equity, and inclusion (DEI) spaces for invisible marginalized identities and offers the experiencesof the participant to question the bounds of inclusivity in these spaces.IntroductionUnderstanding the lived experiences of invisible marginalized people in STEM (Science,Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) is paramount to well-executed diversity, equity, andinclusion (DEI) programs. While crafting programs for marginalized people