Paper ID #37088A Critical Examination of ASEE’s Diversity Recognition Program toPromote Changed Practices at PostSecondary InstitutionsProf. Amy Slaton, Drexel University Amy E. Slaton is a Professor of History at Drexel University. She writes on issues of identity in STEM education and labor, and is the author of Race, Rigor and Selectivity in U.S. Engineering: The History of an Occupational Color Line .Mrs. Kayla R. Maxey, Purdue University, West Lafayette Kayla is a doctoral student in the School of Engineering Education at Purdue University. Her research interest includes the influence of informal engineering learning
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large Midwestern university. All participants had taken at least one design-relatedcollege course and many students had engaged in design activities through extra-curricularactivities or internships. With these experiences, students had opportunities to develop theirdesign skills and strategies, including concept generation. Participant demographics are shown inTable 1.Table 1. Participant information. Pseudonym Gender Level of education Abraham Male Junior Brie Female Sophomore Chris Male Junior Danielle Female
Center for Design. Her work is primarily focused on design strategy and research. American c Society for Engineering Education, 2021 Design Learning Preferences of First-Year Electrical and Computer Engineering Students - Work in ProgressPurposeThe individuals that apply to and attend engineering post-secondary institutions are a part of arapidly changing and highly-diverse group. If we develop a deeper understanding of today’sengineering students - what motivates them, what interests them, and what’s important to them -we can use that knowledge to help inform their experiences. Engineering programs certainlyhave specific objectives and requirements to
, national organizations have called for broadening of graduate education beyondthe technical to include career development and professional skills training [4-6]. The impetus isthat traditional graduate degrees prepare students to become professors and researchers ateducational institutions while career outcome studies show that those with engineering graduatedegrees find employment in a wide range of industries such as healthcare, banking, aerospace,consulting and manufacturing [5, 7, 8]. In Canada only 14% of engineers with PhDs (includingarchitecture and related technologies) are employed as professors [4].There is a need to provide leadership-learning opportunities to engineering students as leadershipcompetencies can boost their success in
Paper ID #26713Work in Progress: First-Year Engineering College Students: Value Createdfrom Participating in a Living/Learning CommunityDr. Krishna Pakala, Boise State University Krishna Pakala, Ph.D., is an Clinical Associate Professor at Boise State University, Idaho. His academic research interests include innovative teaching and learning strategies, use of emerging technologies, and mobile teaching and learning strategies.Ms. Kim M. B. Tucker, Boise State University Kim Tucker is currently completing her Doctoral Degree in Curriculum and Instruction and works as the Coordinator of Residential Learning for in the Living
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between their areas of technical expertise and the humanities and social sciences; to gain the sensitivity to project and test the moral and social implications of their future professional judgments and activities; and to foster their leadership abilities in preparation for managing change and promoting the general welfare in an evolving technological and global context.At the time this paper was written, results for the curriculum development process are being usedto inform a campus discussion to decide whether a new administrative structure is required forthe McBride program and to assess future faculty staffing needs. The curriculum framework willalso be reviewed by a distinguished external review
, states, or countries. Technology is used to connect these members. These types of teams tend to be more project/task oriented. Teams can be built on strengths and weaknesses rather than geography.3 Quality circles are individuals who become aware of, analyze, and address problems that arise from the workflow of the company. The goal is to improve performance and inform management of any issues that might arise. Often these are tied to quality improvement initiatives.3 Task Forces, or problem-solving teams, are teams of experts, typically a cross-section of people, who come together to solve a well-defined and temporary challenge. They have a sense of autonomy and do not need to constantly
development environment specificallydesigned for teaching and learning object-oriented programming. It consists of a simple interfacethat is interactive and designed for teaching. The majority of educational data mining researchfor introductory programming classes in Java utilizes the BlueJ system.Other free and commercial auto grading tools and platforms are emerging such as AutoGradr,HackerRank, Web-CAT, Vocareum, Taskgrader and more.4. CeMeCodeOur coding window, CeMeCode, is a lightweight web based coding environment, developed byour team. It integrates with Dartmouth’s single sign-on authentication systems and can beembedded into other tools such as our Learning Management System (see Figure 1) and our in-class response system.CeMeCode is
ABET's "A-K," as these outcomes are informally known.Without question, in many schools, classes in which social scientists, activist engineers, andethicists play a role do bring deeply critical questions to American higher engineering education.I sincerely hope that my own history courses within an engineering school achieve such results.Yet, I will also show that the position of criteria c,h,j,d,g, and i amidst the more narrowlyinstrumental goals outlined for engineering education, and their application within assessmentsystems by engineering departments, powerfully dictate social normativities for engineeringstudents. In many cases, features of social context and issues of positionality (that is,distributions of the privilege or costs
science.IntroductionDepending on the field or the university, women sometimes comprise but a small minority of thedoctoral students in engineering or science departments. But just over 100 years ago, womenwere not formally admitted at all to doctoral programs at any university in the United States.Although they weren’t officially accepted into graduate school at that time, many women didfind ways to get in, usually as “special” or nondegree students. In 1870, for example, EllenSwallow Richards applied to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology for a graduate degree inchemistry. She was admitted, but as a special student who was seeking a second bachelor’sdegree (her first one was from Vassar). MIT, it was argued, didn’t want its first graduatechemistry degree
Education (CPREE, funded by the Helmsley Charitable Trust), a member of the governing board for the International Research in Engineering Education Network, and an Associate Editor for the Journal of Engineering Education. Dr. Turns has published over 175 journal and conference papers on topics related to engineering education.Dr. Gregory Mason P.E., zyBooks, A Wiley Brand Gregory S. Mason received the B.S.M.E. degree from Gonzaga University in 1983, the M.S.M.E. degree in manufacturing automation from Georgia Institute of Technology in 1984 and the Ph.D. degree in mechanical engineering, specializing in multi-rate digitalDr. Teodora Rutar Shuman, Seattle University Professor Teodora Rutar Shuman is the Chair of the
[9]. Thus, students must be actively involved in themakerspace and community to reap the identified benefits. However, Barton et al. found littleevidence demonstrating the involvement of diverse audiences in makerspaces [10]. A sizablegroup of students is not participating in makerspaces, thereby missing out on the documentedbenefits.Research suggests there is a caveat to the democratizing and transformative nature ofmakerspaces, where technology-oriented makerspaces fall prey to the marginalizing normswithin STEM and engineering environments [11], [12]. To address this issue, an emerging bodyof research focuses on creating inclusive makerspaces. An inclusive makerspace intentionallycreates a safe space for students to foster meaningful
grassroots, while also informing policy. Three thrusts that define her research interests at the intersections of engineering, technologies, and education include, ways of thinking that address complex educational challenges, democratization of K-12 engineering education, and online and technology-based learning.Dr. Stacy S Klein-Gardner, Vanderbilt University Stacy Klein-Gardner’s career focuses on P-12 science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) education, particularly as it relates to increasing interest in and participation by females and URMs and teacher professional development. She is an Adjunct Professor of Biomedical Engineering at Vander- bilt University where she is serving as the external evaluator
-making after participating in an integrated science,technology, engineering, and mathematics academic/ career summer camp. Using a case studymethodology, we examine three of the students in detail regarding their changes in self-reportedfuture academic major choices and career goals utilizing measures of motivation, self-efficacy,and self-determination.Interview data provides qualitative evidence that participants’ experiences during camp mayindeed impact their short-term outlook towards their informed decision making and motivationrelated to pursuing STEM careers. Repeat participants (two or more years) are highlighted as casestudies and their survey and interview input is analyzed to determine to what extent, if any, studentsattribute changes
nearlyall) students are engaged in doing something applied with course content. It is generallysuggested that calling on individuals or small groups to share out following the activity is betterthan asking for volunteers to keep students motivated and task-focused [2].Learning sciences research suggests key reasons active learning is a more effective approachthan lecture alone, in part explained by cognitive load theory, which recognizes the limits ofworking memory and the means by which information is stored in long term memory [6].Essentially, because of constraints on working memory capacity, learners cannot process or payattention to large amounts of information without actively doing something with that information[6]. Additionally, retrieval
, San Luis Obispo Ben D. Lutz is an Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering Design at Cal Poly San Luis Obispo. He is the leader of the Critical Research in Engineering and Technology Education (CREATE) group at Cal Poly. His research interests include critical pedagogies; efforts for diversity, equity, and inclusion in engineering, engineering design theory and practice; conceptual change and understanding; and school- to-work transitions for new engineers. His current work explores a range of engineering education and design contexts, including the role of power in brainstorming activities, epistemological and conceptual development of undergraduate learning assistants, as well as the experiences of recent
, CMMI Program 20052008 Review Committee of Visitors in 2009, member of TRB Committee on Basic Research and Emerging Technologies on Concrete and ASCE committee on Performance Based Design.John Stephen Polasek, P.E., Western Michigan University John S. Polasek P.E. retired from the Michigan Department of Transportation (MDOT) after over 38 years of service in 2009. John received his B.S. degree in Civil Engineering from MSU in 1972 and was hired at MDOT. Over the years, he has worked in the Design Division, as a Staff Engineer for the Local Government Division, as the Kalamazoo District Design Engineer and Project Development Engineer, as well as Region System Manager. In June 2003, John was appointed Director of the
data on these intersecting identities. Interview data were coded infour passes. We identified how the student’s unique values and experiences, mainly related to hiswork ethic, took priority over connecting with others or engaging in departmental or universityprograms. Themes that emerged from the interview data were familiar experiences (seekinghands-on experiences), motivation for engineering degree attainment (familial expectations anddesire for job security), degree attainment resources (strong sense of self-reliance, lack ofreaching out to other sources of support), and strategic gaps (limited understanding of what anengineer does or how to get an engineering job). Understanding this student’s experienceprovides insights into underlying
their first day of class. Guided by an upperclassmen lab manager, students worked together in teams of five on a semester-long HealthInequity Design Challenge. Freshmen had a combination of individual and team assignments togain knowledge in both health inequity and the design process. Throughout the semester,students heard lectures from guest speakers and clinicians on a variety of topics relating to healthinequity and/or the design process including: Health Inequity in the Emergency Room, theDesign Process, Empathy in Design, Ethics in Engineering Design, Ensuring Diversity inClinical Trials, Social Justice, and Entrepreneurship. The course also included discussions oncase studies in ethics with faculty mentors and a design project utilizing
professional womenengineers thrive? The objective of this research is to address this gap in the literature and toidentify why some women enter, stay, and thrive in engineering.This focus on the negative is not only incomplete but also potentially misleading. Such a focuscreates a negative discourse that leaves out information on the options that are available forwomen academically, professionally, and organizationally. It purports to be an accuraterepresentation of women’s ability to achieve in the engineering field when it is not, in fact.Further, the pervasiveness of this discourse may deter many women from perceiving engineeringas a viable option and subsequently pursuing related majors and/or occupations because theybelieve that failure is the
females. Studentinterviews, administered during the last semester of their senior year, provide additional evidenceabout confidence in engineering students, with marked differences in the responses of male andfemale students. This multi-method approach, utilizing the rich dataset of the AcademicPathways Study, enables us to consider approaches to understanding the ‘confidence gap’ inengineering students.Introduction:Despite years of research and intervention, women continue to be underrepresented inengineering.1 Women earned less than one-fifth of the bachelor’s degrees in engineering andengineering technologies granted in the U.S. in 2004.2 One reason for the gender gap which hasbeen explored by researchers is a gap in self-confidence, which
flexibly when some puzzling, unclear orunanticipated answers emerged in individual interviews. The longest interview took onehour and 23 minutes and the shortest lasted 47 minutes. Each interview wasaudio-recorded based on participants’ informed consent. Confidentiality was assured toensure our participants speak freely. Chinese Mandarin was used as the language of theinterviews and all the verbatim transcriptions. All participants’ names were anonymizedin the following presentation of the data.For data analysis, we conducted a thematic analysis[18] with the assistance of NVivo 12.The entire analysis process was a mixture of inductive and deductive approaches. Asdiscussed above, the capability stance[6] has inspired this study to focus on
annualsurvey that captures what students are doing six months after graduation—with the activitiesthey participated in during college, as collected by the NSSE. The study found a correlationbetween ELA and post-graduation outcomes, with graduates who did not complete an ELA being98% more likely to still be seeking employment or continuing education compared to those whocompleted an ELA. The current study adds to the body of literature on ELA by exploring theimpacts of depth and breadth of these activities on post-graduation outcomes particularly formechanical engineering students. This work will further provide students with information aboutthe optimum duration and combination of ELA that would most likely help them achieve theirintended post
Ethiopia.We obtained consent from participants and collected demographic information virtually overemail.Data Coding and Analytical ApproachAll interviews were audio-recorded. Due to the usage of two languages, meaning-basedtranslation and transcription were conducted manually by the first author of the paper who isfluent in both languages. This study is cross-cultural research, where we used two languagesduring data collection. Thus, we used meaning-based translation to reduce the possibility oflosing the complexity and richness of meanings and potential misinterpretations that may occurin a word-for-word translation [20], [22].We engaged in inductive–iterative, and ongoing reading and coding of emergent insights, anddeductive coding– applying a
technologies currently being developed hasprofound implications for engineering education. Our students have to face increasinglycomplex adaptive systems organized in recursive, nonlinear feedback loops. A morepronounced attention to nonlinear systems could thus enable our students to understand notonly the usefulness but also the limits of linearity, and facilitate the comprehension of morecomplex systems. This is especially true for mathematics, as differential equations play afundamental role in the modeling and analysis of complex systems.Courses in ordinary differential equations are part of the majority of undergraduateengineering curricula, and typically cover analytical solution methods for first-order andlinear higher-order differential
with it. This research projectaims at understanding engineering doctoral students’ perceptions on their readiness to teachcourses once they begin their academic careers. To understand engineering doctoral students’perceptions on their preparedness to teach courses, a survey instrument was designed anddeployed.The survey instrument included three parts: Likert scale questions, free response questions, anddemographic information. The Likert scale questions evaluate the participants’confidence/preparedness in areas of teaching such as the teaching and learning process (9 items);course design and delivery (8 items); creating a dynamic classroom (9 items); harnessing the powerof technology (6 items); collaborative learning (6 items); and effective
full suite of modern design application software [31]For more than a decade now, reports from industry and government have called for engineeringstudents to be prepared for leadership roles [3]. In the late 2000’s ASCE established a vision forthe future that frames five critical learning outcomes [4,29]: (1) master builders, (2) stewards ofnatural environment, (3) innovators and integrators of ideas and technology, (4) managers of riskand uncertainty, and (5) leaders in shaping public policy. Based on this vision, there have beenrenewed studies in the last 10 years on capstones to meet current demands. Studies have included: Engineering ethics [24] Leadership skills [3] Integrating technology (for course admin
all social identities. Her perspective is informed by over ten years of social work experience in child protection service (CPS) and research on disparate outcomes in CPS by race. Recent scholarship has explored prejudice-reduction through intergroup dialogue. In June 2019 Dr. Rodenborg received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the National Association of Social Workers Minnesota. Her latest article is: Nancy Rodenborg & Adrienne Dessel (2019) Teaching Note—Learning About Segregation and Cultural Competence, Journal of Social Work Education, 55:4, 809-817, DOI: 10.1080/10437797.2019.1619643 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2020 S-STEM Lessons Learned