% of the students who did not change inSR and 25% of the students who decreased in SR. Common themes of the courses that werediscussed by the students were international, community, ethics, service learning projects, anddevelopment. The survey also gathered information about students’ participation in volunteeractivities. Students who showed a positive change in SR had the highest average volunteerfrequency scores of 11.1, compared to average volunteer frequency scores of 9.9 and 9.0 forgroups of students with no change or negative changes in SR scores, respectively. The resultssuggest that courses and volunteer experiences may be effective ways to positively influencestudents’ views of SR. On-going research will explore changes in students as
engineering education. She received a M.S. from Tufts University in science, technology, engineering and math education and a B.S. from Northwestern University in me- chanical engineering. Her current research involves examining different types of homework problems in mechanical engineering coursework and the design process of undergraduate students in project-based courses.Dr. Tejaswini S. Dalvi, University of Massachusetts, Boston c American Society for Engineering Education, 2016 Learning Engineering and Teaching Engineering: Comparing theEngineering Epistemologies of Two Novice Teachers with Distinct Pedagogies of DesignAbstractThis research paper describes the study
Paper ID #42603Transition to the Civilian Workforce: Themes and Lessons from MilitaryService and CultureDr. Alyson G. Eggleston, Pennsylvania State University Alyson Eggleston is an Associate Professor in the Penn State Hershey College of Medicine and Director of Evaluation for the Penn State Clinical and Translational Science Institute. Her research and teaching background focuses on program assessment, STEM technical communication, industry-informed curricula, and educational outcomes veteran and active duty students.Dr. Angela Minichiello, Utah State University Angela (Angie) Minichiello is a military veteran, licensed
Scholarly Publications. © American Society for Engineering Education, 2022 Powered by www.slayte.com Test Beliefs and Behaviors: A Case Exploration of One Instructor of a Fundamental Engineering CourseAbstract Tests tend to be the default assessment in fundamental engineering courses. Tests can beuseful for learning such as retaining information, but not for all learning outcomes likeconceptual change. In addition, tests can decrease student motivation to learn. Therefore,complementing tests with alternative assessments and being intentional in using and designingtests should be considered to address the problem test being the go-to
learning experience for all.Once the data collection was completed, the results were compiled and stratified in some cases, bydemographic information, by gender and other strata to identify patterns that may emerge alongthose factors. Likert-scale comparisons in such cases were managed by a comparison of the centralmeasures and data variability, accounting for the ordinal scale of the data pool.The qualitative data were manually binned into categories that emerged as the responses weretallied.13 Each of the student responses were individually sorted into groups based on howfrequently they occurred, and this frequency helped develop the charts seen in the results section.14
Paper ID #31340Health Stress and Support System Narratives of Engineering StudentsDr. Greg Rulifson PE, USAID Greg is currently a Science and Technology Policy Fellow at USAID. Greg earned his bachelor’s degree in Civil Engineering with a minor in Global Poverty and Practice from UC Berkeley where he acquired a passion for using engineering to facilitate developing communities’ capacity for success. He earned his master’s degree in Structural Engineering and Risk Analysis from Stanford University. His PhD work at CU Boulder focused on how student’s connections of social responsibility and engineering change
Paper ID #38513Challenging the Notion of Role Models in Engineering Outreach Programsfor Youth (Fundamental)Dr. Kelli Paul, Indiana University-Bloomington Dr. Kelli Paul is an Assistant Research Scientist at the Center for Research on Learning and Technology at Indiana University where her research focuses on the development of STEM interests, identity, and career aspirations in children and adolescents.Dr. Karen Miel, University at Buffalo, The State University of New York Karen Miel’s research focuses on PK-16 students’ reasoning and decision-making in collaborative engi- neering design and the ways educators facilitate
Paper ID #34587The Disconnect Between Engineering Students’ Desire to Discuss RacialInjustice in the Classroom and Faculty AnxietiesDr. Tracy Anne Hammond, Texas A&M University Dr. Hammond is Director of the Texas A&M University Institute for Engineering Education & Innovation and also the chair of the Engineering Education Faculty. She is also Director of the Sketch Recognition Lab and Professor in the Department of Computer Science & Engineering. She is a member of the Center for Population and Aging, the Center for Remote Health Technologies & Systems as well as the Institute for Data Science
National Center for Women in Information Technology (NCWIT) and, in that role, advises computer science and engineering departments on diversifying their undergraduate student population. She remains an active researcher, including studying academic policies, gender and ethnicity issues, transfers, and matriculation models with MIDFIELD as well as student veterans in engi- neering. Her evaluation work includes evaluating teamwork models, broadening participation initiatives, and S-STEM and LSAMP programs.Dr. Susan M Lord, University of San Diego Susan M. Lord received a B.S. from Cornell University in Materials Science and Electrical Engineering (EE) and the M.S. and Ph.D. in EE from Stanford University. She is
Rick for the idea. Itseems that not knowing how sensors are typically protected enabled Rick to suggest anunconventional way to solve that problem based on his experience, which the community thenadopted. Undergraduates’ ideas vary in practicality. Edward recounted Will’s innovative solutionto a problem with the group’s sensor system: “We had this issue with the wifi routers … Willwas saying, ‘Why not use powerline data communication [instead]?’” Edward was impressedthat Will knew about this emerging technology, about which Edward then read several researchpapers. He was less impressed with the technology’s limitations: “It is the trend, but it’s notreally established and there is a lot of noise in the powerline data.” He didn’t adopt
interviews were conducted betweenOctober 2016 and March 2017, an approach which allowed for clarification and follow-upquestions. All participants signed IRB-approved consent forms and were informed of theconfidentiality and anonymity of the data. Interviews ranged from 15 minutes to one hour in length.Once the interviews were conducted, the audio files were transcribed by an outside entity.Transcriptions were uploaded into Dedoose, an online web application, and the data was thenanalyzed through open and axial coding, looking for categories and emerging themes. Of particularinterest were themes associated with the challenges encountered, the strategies applied, and theexternal supports that women expressed having utilized in their job search and in
AC 2012-3180: USING STUDIOS AS A STRATEGY TO RESPOND TO IN-CREASING ENROLLMENTDr. Milo Koretsky, Oregon State University Milo Koretsky is a professor of chemical engineering at Oregon State University. He currently has re- search activity in areas related to thin film materials processing and engineering education. He is inter- ested in integrating technology into effective educational practices and in promoting the use of higher level cognitive skills in engineering problem solving. Koretsky is a six-time Intel Faculty Fellow and has won awards for his work in engineering education at the university and national levels.Dr. Kenneth J. Williamson, Oregon State UniversityDr. Jeffrey A. Nason, Oregon State University
questions by analyzing the responses of 525 practicing engineers whograduated from a large, public university in the southwestern U.S. and completed an onlinesurvey. We performed a cluster analysis to classify the engineers according to their acculturationattitudes. We also conducted Chi-square tests of association to evaluate the relationships betweenengineers’ acculturation attitudes and demographic variables. According to Romanenko [24],“attitudes (towards diversity) can be changed, primarily through awareness, information, andcontact, all of which can take place in awareness-based, skill-based, and mixed types oftrainings” (p. 98). Findings in this study are expected to reveal patterns in engineers’acculturation attitudes that enable future
Paper ID #9083Introducing an Instructional Model for ”Flipped Engineering Classrooms”-Part (II): How Do Group Discussions Foster Meaningful Learning?Dr. Jia-Ling Lin, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities Dr. Jia-Ling Lin is a research scientist in the STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathemat- ics) Education Center at the University of Minnesota Twin Cities. Her research is centered in areas of teaching and learning in engineering and physics. In particular, she focuses on establishing and examin- ing instructional models that facilitate problem solving and deep learning in physics and engineering for
pillar for EDI work—especially the E (equity)dimension since it requires that we address structural power imbalances in the profession.According to the National Equity Project, systemic inequities can be categorized as being eitherinstitutional or structural in nature, with institutional oppression being the oppression resultingfrom policies and practices at the organization level and structural oppression illustrating howthese effects accumulate historically across institutions [8]. Tackling systemic inequities requiresacknowledgement of their structural nature. The emerging body of literature addressing theimpact of structural inequity on engineers’ career paths has primarily taken place in a U.S.context, leaving a dearth of data about the
transportation engineering education. She teaches aDr. Frederick Paige, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University Dr. Frederick (”Freddy”) Paige is the founder of the STILE (Society, Technology, Infrastructure, and Learning Environments) Research Group, Assistant Director of the Virginia Center for Housing Research (VCHR), an Assistant Professor at Virginia Tech in the Vecellio Construction Engineering and Management Program, and a co-Founder of Virginia Tech Digging in the Crates (VTDITC). Starting as a student member of ASCE in 2010, Dr. Paige is now a full member of MOSAIC (Members of Society Advancing an Inclusive Culture). Dr. Paige’s main scholarship goal is to create the knowledge needed to develop an
, which supports students pursuing undergraduate degrees in science, technology, engineering, and math- ematics (STEM). Before coming to SU, Tamara was at the University of Maryland, College Park where she was Assistant Director of the Center for Minorities in Science and Engineering. As Assistant Direc- tor of CMSE, Tamara was responsible for establishing retention programs for underrepresented minority STEM students including directing the NSF LSAMP and Bridge to the Doctorate Graduate Fellowship Programs. In 2012, Tamara and the rest of the members of CMSE were honored by the National Society of Black Engineers and ExxonMobil with the Impact Award for their successful efforts in the retention and graduation of
and how all of these must collectively inform decision making. This emphasisstands in contrast to discussions of systems thinking in other fields (e.g., [9], [10]) and morerecent work in engineering [11], which emphasize consideration of relevant broader contexts as acritical element of systems thinking. Our team’s work begins with an assumption that systemsthinking within engineering requires attention to technical, relational, contextual, and temporaldimensions. Research is needed to understand how engineers are trained, if at all, on all keyaspects of engineering systems thinkingA lack of attention to social and contextual aspects of engineering systems thinking may reflectan underemphasis on these dimensions in engineering education more
inclusion in engineering. Before coming to Stanford, she was a bilingual educator at low-income elementary schools in Texas. Prior to starting her career in education, Greses was an engineer project manager in the Caribbean. She holds a B.S. in Civil Engineering from Santo Domingo Technological Institute, a M.Eng. in Civil Engineering from the University of Puerto Rico at Mayag¨uez, and a M.Ed. in School Leadership from Southern Methodist Uni- versity. Her work seeks to improve education for students who experience a cultural mismatch between the ways of knowing and speaking in their communities and those in STEM.Dr. Sheri Sheppard, Stanford University Sheri D. Sheppard, Ph.D., P.E., is professor of Mechanical
specific goals were twofold: a) to providea reflective perspective on participants' institutional experiences related to gender, equality, androles within the School of Engineering, and b) to shed light on the challenges and barriersencountered in institutional life. Data was collected using the LEGO® Serious Play®methodology as an innovative and dialogic facilitation method. Twenty students and professorsparticipated. A phenomenological and qualitative analysis was conducted on the workshoprecordings to discern emerging perspectives. The results of the initial pilot workshops highlightthe significance that gender equality holds for both students and faculty within the realm ofuniversity education, as it is seen as the heart of institutional life
basic “grad school hacks” so that master’s students don’t need to reinventthe wheel in their short duration of time. In other words, Master’s students need to have full trust in thedepartment to support them until that trust can be transferred or extended to a research advisor, ideally onethat similarly is trustworthy from the point of view of the student.Confidence and competence cues are developed through several external and internal mechanisms.Because we focused on very early stage Master’s students, we highlight some of the emergent issues relatedto how students take in cues and information that affect their confidence, perceptions of competence andvalue, and, from literature, plausibly have downstream effects on belongingness. Master’s
necessary to explore and discuss how such universities establish theirown internal quality assurance mechanisms to continuously promote quality improvement,while also meeting accreditation requirements. This paper uses Purdue University as a casestudy of these processes. As valuable background information, relevant global literatures onquality assurance in engineering education are first reviewed in this paper. Then, the qualityassurance mechanisms in engineering education at Purdue University are then more deeplyanalyzed and presented based on data from interviews with ten key stakeholders involvedwith ABET accreditation at Purdue University. The stakeholders were interviewed using asemi-structured protocol which elicited their concrete
AC 2011-599: APPROACHES TO ENGAGING STUDENTS IN ENGINEER-ING DESIGN AND PROBLEM SOLVINGAnn F. McKenna, Arizona State University, Polytechnic campus Ann McKenna is an Associate Professor in the Department of Engineering in the College of Technology and Innovation at Arizona State University (ASU). Prior to joining ASU she served as a program officer at the National Science Foundation in the Division of Undergraduate Education and was on the faculty of the Segal Design Institute and Department of Mechanical Engineering at Northwestern University. Dr. McKenna’s research focuses on understanding the cognitive and social processes of design and innova- tion, design teaching and learning, the role of adaptive expertise in
of Georgia. Her research interests include STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Art, and Math) education, narrative inquiry, and interdisciplinary studies. She is also the founding director of the Double Helix STEAM School in Athens, GA.Dr. Joachim Walther, University of Georgia Dr. Walther is an assistant professor of engineering education research at the University of Georgia (UGA). He is a director of the Collaborative Lounge for Understanding Society and Technology through Educational Research (CLUSTER), an interdisciplinary research group with members from engineering, art, educational psychology and social work. His research interests range from the role of empathy in engineering students
such as course outlines, program descriptionsand course syllabi provide valuable insight, particularly in the context of program evaluation [2],it offers limited opportunity for deep experiential investigation [7].Theoretical ContextThis in-progress study is informed by Nerad’s [8] Input-Throughput-Output (ITO) framework ofFit-For-Purpose Research Doctoral Graduates and Benjamin’s [9] conceptualization of doctoralresearch program quality, later inspired by Nerad. Figure 1 illustrates Benjamin’sconceptualization of PhD program quality [9] across the I-T-O framework of doctoral programs[8] that underpins the design and development of this current study. Input Throughput
provide hands-on, real-world learning; a combination of technicaland professional skills; and opportunities for new experiences and coursework. Improvementscan be made in community building, access to possible career information, better marketing toemployers, and more mentoring opportunities.IntroductionThe demand for engineers and other STEM related occupations is increasing [1], yet therecruitment and retention of students to their engineering programs continue to be a source ofpressure for universities [2, 3]. Currently there is limited research concerning how and whystudents choose certain engineering degrees, which becomes an issue as universities compete todraw in more students through innovative engineering programs. More recently, there
familiarity with alternative forms of capital beyond financial resources (including natural, human, social and physical) and awareness of emerging economic systems intended to promote environmental and social responsibility in economic thinking (e.g., doughnut economics, circular economy, etc.)Environmental Impact Measurement 21. Is familiar with high-level environmental impact measurements (e.g., basic life-cycle assessments and life-cycle hazards; i.e., how they work, what information they require, how to incorporate their findings into their work) 22. Is able to understand eco-labelling systems and certificates (i.e., EPEAT, Energy Star) for sustainable production and consumption 23. Is able to assess
given information The intention is for students to notice that forces F2, F3, and F4 intersect at a common point, leading them to consider the moment equilibrium of the entire wrench. Trusses “How are these members distributed among tension, compression, and zero- force?” ● 1 Tension, 4 Compression ● 2 Tension, 3 Compression ● 3 Tension, 2 Compression ● 4 Tension, 1 Compression ● 2 Tension, 2 Compression, 1 4606/ Zero-force member 4756
to inform the development and evaluation of engineering education initiatives in various contexts.Dr. Darryl Dickerson, Florida International University Dr. Darryl A. Dickerson is an Assistant Professor of Mechanical and Materials Engineering at Florida International University (FIU). Dr. Dickerson’s research focuses on transforming multiscale mechanobi- ological insights into biomanufacturing processes enabling the creation of personalized, fully functional engineered tissues. His research group, the Inclusive Complex Tissue Regeneration Lab (InCTRL), does this through multiscale characterization of complex tissues, fundamental studies on biophysical control of induced pluripotent stem cells, biomaterial development
enjoyed the tour and gained a lot of new information from this trip.”The students are also able to witness firsthand the design and construction of the structuralmembers of the building. The outcome has been very encouraging as students have been able tolink theory with practice. The field tour is part of the experiential learning initiative of STEM field.As it has been noted that students become more engaged when learning experientially- hands-on,inquiry-based and project-oriented. Experiential learning connects content to real-worldapplication and integrates technology and 21st Century skills. Experiential learning of this kindwill broaden the participation of underrepresented students in STEM field. The instruments thatwere used to assess the