ten-year follow-up study of EET graduates was completed. This study concerned itself with current and past job functions, salary analysis, job progression,prior (to graduating) work experience and course analysis. This paper will concentrate on thecourse analysis. SURVEY DEMOGRAPHICS A survey was sent out to over 450 graduates of the electrical engineering technology programat NJIT, representing graduates from this program over a ten year period. The 60 graduatesresponding represented a 13% response rate. While names and other demographic informationwere optional, over 80% of the respondents included that information. This will help withfurther follow-up studies. Over 85% of the respondents worked two
researchers and students in investigating the performance of buildings, bridges and lifelines.Prof. Jeffrey W Berman, University of WashingtonEdgar Bautista, California State University, Los Angeles As an undergraduate at California State University, Los Angeles I worked on the Linked Column Frame project. Currently, I am in the graduate program, Department of Civil Engineering, California State University, Los Angeles.Michael Noddings, Portland State UniversityMs. Linda My Hanh Nguyen I am currently a senior at California State University of Los Angeles.San Yu Aung, California State University of Los Angeles I am an undergraduate student who worked on the Linked Column Frame project at California State University, Los
Motor Company's Scientific Research Lab. Dr. Sheppard's graduate work was done at the University of Michigan.Lorraine Fleming, Howard University LORRAINE FLEMING is professor and former Chair of the Department of Civil Engineering at Howard University. Dr. Fleming serves as the Co-PI of a National Science Foundation HBCU Undergraduate Program grant designed to increase the number of underrepresented minorities who pursue degrees in engineering, mathematics, and science. Additionally, she is a Co-PI for the Center for the Advancement of Engineering Education. She serves as the Principal Investigator of an NSF grant designed to study the post baccalaureate decisions of high achieving Black
globe.11Programs that not only incorporate liberal arts, but require students to take classes on culturalawareness and participate in international exposure, thru study abroad and/or foreign language,produce engineers that are ready to work in the global engineering economy. One of the majorstrengths of the dual degree program is the students’ ability to receive an excellent liberal artseducation that not only includes foreign language but also includes culture, history, and othertraditional liberal education topics.11 This research continues by claiming that the program isintended to explicitly prepare graduates to work in the international engineering environment bysupplementing language skills with cultural, political, and economic knowledge
-residence summer bridge program; 2) a living-learningcommunity specifically designed for ECAP students; 3) a freshman engineeringprogram which includes specialized advising, tutoring, block scheduling, first yearexperience topics, and a common introductory engineering course; 4) peer mentoring;5) yearly internships, summer research, or study abroad experience; and 6) renewableneed-based scholarships. The program evaluation addressed several dimensions key toretaining and increasing the graduation rates of underrepresented students inengineering programs. The evaluation compared ECAP students with their non-ECAPpeers in several ways. It followed which students changed majors, transferred todifferent colleges within the university, or withdrew from
Nevada, Reno. He graduated with his Masters in 2019 from the University of Nevada, Reno, and plans to pursue a career in academia in the future. His research interests are in graduate student attrition rates within academia, engineering identity development, and factors that influence decision making on persistence.Dr. Adam Kirn, University of Nevada, Reno Adam Kirn is an Associate Professor of Engineering Education at the University of Nevada, Reno. His research focuses on the interactions between engineering cultures, student motivation, and learning ex- periences. His projects involve the study of student perceptions, beliefs and attitudes towards becoming engineers, their problem-solving processes, and cultural
as a student,they do not have experience with facilitating student learning and typically lack the properpedagogical preparation prior to entering the classroom to be effective. There is significant workregarding graduate student development across higher education [3, 4]. In physics, Goertzen andcolleagues studied how graduate students think about and facilitate Physics Tutorials in order toimprove professional development for graduate students [5, 6, 7]. Speer focused on providing aframework for understanding the connection between beliefs and practice of graduate students inmathematics [8. 9]. Chemical engineering educators have published reports on courses devotedto developing graduate students’ skills as researchers and writers [10, 11
to: a) address the quality and quantity of theteaching of engineering topics (possibly as a subset of technology education topics) in publicschool through college, and b) develop first-rate, cross-disciplinary, rigorous and quantitativeeducational research programs that will produce graduates prepared to teach or to assumeleadership positions that will shape engineering, science, and math education curricula andpolicies at the college, local, state, and federal levels.The engineering education degree programs currently being developed are:• A Certificate in Engineering Education to supplement graduate work in a traditional engineering discipline or provide advanced study to licensed K-12 teachers and postsecondary teachers. Required and
education research. He has published three book and more than seventy articles in various areas of industrial engineering including K-12 research. He is actively involved with professional society activities including IIE and ASEE. He is the editor in chief of the International Journal of Logistics & Transportation Research and serving in the editorial board for several other journals. Page 26.872.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2015 Identifying Best Practices of Logistics & Transportation Graduate
of International Programs in the Shiley School of Engineering. In that role he has developed and directed study abroad programs as well as international research and service learning projects for the School of Engineering.Dr. Sharon A. Jones P.E., University of Portland Sharon Jones is the Dean of the Shiley School of Engineering at the University of Portland. She is a licensed civil engineer with degrees from Columbia University, the University of Florida, and Carnegie Mellon University. Her research interests focus on applying decision-making methods to evaluate sustain- ability policies with emphases on infrastructure, developing economies, and particular industrial sectors. She is also interested in
team involving allparts of these programs -- students, industry members, and faculty. Another factor is that thestrong linkages with industry in developing and delivering the curriculum naturally lead tointeractions between teaching, practice, and research. Identified gaps of knowledge lead toideas for new research studies, and this and the overall work help set priorities for future work.The background of students the authors have taught in some of the subjects listed earlier differssubstantially from those found in a traditional aerospace engineering graduate program centeredon research degree tracks. On one end of the spectrum have been students who have justreceived a bachelors degree, many of whom have no industrial design experience, and
connectingwith and better understanding the needs of ECS graduate students. The goal of this study is toshare lessons learned and recommendations for developing successful graduate programminginitiatives through collaboration.Introduction and BackgroundConnecting with graduate students in the College of Engineering and Computer Science (ECS)and developing methods for providing educational and professional development opportunities ischallenging due to the non-uniform and individually-tailored nature of graduate study.The Libraries provide an array of resources, such as specialized databases and research supportservices to graduate students, aiding them in their studies, research, and career-buildingendeavors. It is the mission of the Libraries to engage
engineering education to meet these very needs. It is envisioned that students withBachelor of Science degrees in engineering and other technical fields will be eligible toparticipate in the M.S. and Ph.D. programs. These programs will combine advanced courses inengineering and education with research in engineering education. Graduates of such programswill be well-positioned for faculty careers at the K-12, community college, or university level aswell as a variety of other careers. Proposed criteria for admission into the M.S. and Ph.D.engineering education programs, descriptions of the programs and program coursework, andanticipated job opportunities for graduates of such programs are discussed.Vision for Research and Discovery in Engineering
done their master project/thesis research in the design and simulation ofvarious MEMS devices, such as MEMS accelerometers, comb resonators,piston/torsional/bi-functional micromirrors, variable capacitors, microgyroscopes, etc.Based on the research results, students had published various posters/papers in academicconferences. Some students are also pursuing their Ph.D study in the MEMS field afterthey complete their master degrees. A proper pipeline has been formed in our MEMSprogram. Each year some new students are joining this program, and some existingstudents graduate and find their job in MEMS industry or continue their Ph.D study in theMEMS field.During the teaching of MEMS courses, course projects can help students accumulateexperience
AC 2007-507: SOLAR ENERGY: INNOVATIVE, APPLIED RESEARCHPROJECTS FOR THE SUSTAINABILITY OF DEVELOPING COUNTRIESOlivia Dees, Middle Tennessee State University OLIVIA DEES is a Graduate Research Assistant for the Masters of Science in Professional Science (MS-PS) degree program at Middle Tennessee State University. She has a B.S. in Plant Biology with a minor in Environmental Science and Technology, and is currently pursuing a MS-PS degree with a concentration in Biotechnology.Saeed Foroudastan, Middle Tennessee State University Dr. Saeed D. Foroudastan is the Associate Dean of the College of Basic and Applied Sciences and Professor of Engineering Technology. He received his B.S. in Civil
Paper ID #7247Longitudinal Study of Entering Students with Engineering as Their Major:Retention and Academic SuccessProf. Cathy W. Hall, East Carolina University Cathy Hall is a professor in the Department of Psychology at East Carolina University. She holds a Bach- elor’s in Psychology from Emory University, and a MEd and PhD in Educational Psychology from the University of Georgia. Her expertise includes psychological assessments, research design and methodol- ogy, and data analysis. Her research interests include emotional intelligence, metacognition, resilience, and self-regulation.Karen A. De Urquidi, East Carolina
. Agnes d’Entremont is an Instructor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering. Her technical research in Orthopaedic Biomechanics is focused on joint motion and cartilage health with a particular concentration in pediatric hip disorders and MRI-based methods. Her teaching-related interests include team-based learning and the flipped classroom, as well as diversity and climate issues in engineering education.Mr. Navid Shirzad, Biomedical Engineering Graduate Program, UBC Page 26.813.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2015 Gender and Personality Type Influence in
Paper ID #28800The Influence of Connecting Funds of Knowledge to Beliefs aboutPerformance, Classroom Belonging, and Graduation Certainty forFirst-generation College StudentsDr. Dina Verd´ın, Arizona State University Dina Verd´ın, PhD is an Assistant Professor of Engineering in the Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering at Arizona State University. She graduated from San Jos´e State University with a BS in Industrial Systems Engineering and from Purdue University with an MS in Industrial Engineering and PhD in Engineering Education. Dina is a 2016 recipient of the National Science Foundation’s Graduate Research Fellowship
B.Sc. in Engineering degree with honors in Computer Science and Automatic Control from the Faculty of Engineering, Alexandria University, Egypt in 1988, and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Computer and Information Science from the School of Engineering, University of Pennsylvania in 1989 and 1991, respectively. He is currently the Vice President for Graduate Studies and Research and the Dean of the School of Engineering; a Professor of Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Mechanical Engineering and Electrical Engineering and the Founding Director of the interdisciplinary Robotics, Intelligent Sensing, and Control (RISC) Laboratory at the University of Bridgeport, Connecticut. He has
whatever courses theychoose, and freedom of teaching (Lehrfreheit) meant that the professor should be able toinvestigate any problem in the conduct of his research and to reveal whatever findings he mayhave in teaching and in published works. Employing novel instructional techniques in trainingscholars, including the seminar, the specialist's lecture, the laboratory and the monographic study,the German university succeeded in welding teaching and research to produce the creativescholar and the original investigator in every academic discipline.31 32 33The ideals of the German university were the instruments and tools that built Johns HopkinsUniversity in Baltimore in 1876 to become the first true American graduate school. Nonsectarianby design and
with the EngE academic job market.Our study will address the following research questions: 1. What are current EngE PhD graduates prepared to do? 2. What academic job opportunities are available in the field of EngE? 3. How do the program outcomes (POs) and the required qualifications of academic job opportunities compare?MethodsTo address our research questions, we undertook an exploratory qualitative study. We employedtraditional qualitative data analysis to answer the first two research questions and naturallanguage processing (NLP)-assisted qualitative data analysis to answer the third researchquestion.Our study uses publicly available data with two primary data sets: program information and jobpostings. We determined
department head of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Colorado State University. He is a fellow of the IEEE. A complete vita is available at: http://www.engr.colostate.edu/ ˜aam. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2016 The Case of an Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) Department in the Internationalization Process of a Research I Public Institution Colleges of Engineering at US tier I public institutions have had a long-standing tradition ofwelcoming international students to their various programs, especially at the graduate level.Recently, the percentage of international students studying at the undergraduate level has alsobeen increasing. Out of
Industrial EngineeringAbstractThis research paper is a pilot of a larger, mixed methods study that aims to capture theexperience of sophomore engineering students’ self-regulated learning (SRL) strategy use andthe connections with the student’s motivation with respect to the future. The overarching goal ofthe project is to understand the motivations and attitudes of undergraduate students inengineering, which is vital to answering the call for increasing the number of engineeringgraduates. Our project aim is to study engineering students’ future time perspective (FTP) andhow their FTP affects their use of SRL strategies. The quantitative portion of this study describesa cluster analysis of data from a motivation survey that characterizes students
Paper ID #20468Building Career-Ready Students through Multidisciplinary Project-Based Learn-ing Opportunities - A Case StudyProf. Gareth W. Figgess, California State University, Sacramento Gareth Figgess is a professor of Construction Management at California State University, Sacramento. He teaches a range of courses including construction surveying and layout, soils and foundations, and construction graphics and visualization. Professor Figgess’ professional background is predominantly infrastructure and heavy-civil related, but since joining the faculty at CSU Sacramento in 2013, he has pursued several research
Paper ID #9097Why I Am an Engineering Major: A Cross-Sectional Study of Undergradu-ate StudentsDr. Louis Nadelson, Boise State University Louis S. Nadelson is an associate professor in the College of Education at Boise State University, with a PhD in educational psychology from UNLV. His scholarly interests include all areas of STEM teaching and learning, inservice and preservice teacher professional development, program evaluation, multidis- ciplinary research, and conceptual change. Nadelson uses his over 20 years of high school and college math, science, and engineering teaching to frame his research on STEM teaching
competence and confidence in the literatureprocess26, and can assist graduate students in their transition to become independent scholars27.BackgroundFour years ago, the Howard R. Hughes College of Engineering at the University of Nevada, LasVegas (UNLV), began to offer the graduate students a free workshop series on technical writingto improve their success rate in acceptance of papers, reports, dissertations, theses, and graduatefellowships. The planning for these workshops was based on ideas from Dr. Mohamed Trabia,Associate Dean for Research, Graduate Studies, and Computing at the College of Engineering;he had been advocating for some time on the need to provide training in writing andcommunications skills to engineering students. These skills
, 2007 A Preliminary Analysis of Correlates of Engineering Persistence: Results from a Longitudinal StudyAbstractThis paper outlines the preliminary findings of a longitudinal survey-based study, the Persistencein Engineering (PIE) survey. This survey was designed to identify and characterize thefundamental factors that influence students’ intentions to pursue an engineering degree over thecourse of their undergraduate career, and upon graduation, to pursue a career in an engineering-related field, including practicing engineering as a profession, teaching, or conducting research.In addition, it is also designed to broaden our understanding of how students navigate theireducation and begin to form identities as
AC 2009-611: CAREER MOTIVATIONS OF FRESHMAN ENGINEERING ANDNON-ENGINEERING STUDENTS: A GENDER STUDYMarisa Orr, Clemson University Marisa K. Orr is a doctoral candidate at Clemson University. She received her B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Clemson in 2005. She has been an Endowed Teaching Fellow and is currently chair of the Mechanical Engineering Graduate Student Advisory Committee. In her research, she is studying the way that students progress through a Mechanical Engineering curriculum and terramechanics.Zahra Hazari, Clemson University Zahra Hazari is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Engineering & Science Education and the Department of Mathematical Sciences at
studentsrelative to traditional undergraduate students and graduate students. Developed in theorganizational sciences, the JD-R model has emerged as the most widely applied, studied, andsupported job design and occupational health psychological framework [15-16]. Schaufeli [17]aptly points out that “because of its comprehensive, broad, flexible and communicative nature theJD-R model not only enjoys great popularity among academic researchers, but it makes the modelalso quite suitable for practical use in organizations” (p. 120). Consequently, the JD-R model hasbeen applied in thousands of organizations in occupational [15], sports [18], and school [19]-[21]settings. The JD-R model aims to identify and explain a wide range of demands and resources thatare
retention of a diverse group of students in the STEM disciplines. She has developed and implemented education programs that span K-20, researched improvements to STEM classroom education, and is working to develop a career-ready quantum workforce.Marco Brizzolara, George Mason University ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2024Title: Graduate students’ development of teaching skills and identityAbstract: This Work in Progress paper focuses on exploring how graduate teaching assistants’(GTAs’) identity around teaching evolves during their time as a GTA. Studies have shown thatthere is a need to prepare graduate students for their responsibilities as a GTA and, in manycases, for future faculty roles