McDade, and countless other BIPOC-identifying individuals coupled with ongoing clearinequities in COVID-19 treatment, voting access, and the continuing water crisis in FlintMichigan brought attention to numerous other inequities historically perpetuated by the civilengineering profession. Such practices include district red lining; locating landfills, treatmentplants, and industrial facilities in economically disadvantaged communities; as well as mineralextraction and energy production, to name but a few. It will be imperative for future engineers toacknowledge the intersection between social and environmental justice and civil engineering,and to appreciate the role engineers can play in addressing long-standing systemic injustices.This study
Backyards and BeyondAbstractThis paper presents three models for integrating environmental justice topics into environmental/ civil engineering courses. The first model utilizes a qualitative perspective, based on a videorecording of the community panel at the 2019 American Society for Engineering Education(ASEE) Annual Conference. This panel provides numerous examples of environmental justiceissues from the lived perspective of residents, including issues associated with industrial airpollutants from Tonawanda Coke in New York and drinking water in Milwaukee, Wisconsin,and Flint, Michigan. Segments of this video were integrated into a fall 2020 course for first-yearcivil engineering students, in relation to the assignments on ethics and
cognitive understanding (theory-based knowledge) (Cresset al., 2001). Some additional areas of activities such as opportunities for service, experimentalactivities, and active learning through collaboration directly impacted student development. Inaddition, this study found that the activity that benefited students the most was well developedgroup projects. Overall, a very important aspect is that the students who involved themselves themost in leadership training and educational programs had the highest increase in skills andknowledge. From this study, it can be observed that across these 10 universities, common trendsemerged that indicated that active participation in group projects for longer durations improved astudent’s leadership skills and
in collaborative research between engineering education scholars and social scientists that focuses on the processes through which inequalities are enacted, reproduced, and/or challenged in various educational contexts. American c Society for Engineering Education, 2021An Analysis of Gendered Outreach Messages on the Engineer Girl Website:How Female Engineers Promote Engineering to Young WomenIntroductionWomen’s underrepresentation in engineering in the United States has been an ongoing area ofconcern to engineering educators and administrators [1], [2]. Despite the fact that women nowearn more undergraduate degrees than men, and girls now perform as well as boys in
University of North Carolina system. She joined the faculty in 2000 after earning her Ph.D. in Decision Sciences (with a focus in statistics) from Rensselaer Polytech- nic Institute. While at Rensselaer, she was awarded a Founders Award of Excellence and the Del and Ruth Karger Dissertation Prize for her work on multivariate analysis of rank order data. Her previous degrees include an M.S. in Industrial and Organizational Psychology from Rensselaer (1992) and an A.B. in Psychology from Harvard University (1990). Dr. Thomley has pursued diverse scholarly interests from high school through the present day, which currently center around applications of statistics and the for- mal scholarship of teaching, learning, and
and/or work in medical or pharmaceuticalfields post-graduation. Given the number of students who complete advanced degrees and workin lucrative industries assigned high class status in U.S. contexts, an examination of cultural andsocial capital in biomedical engineering education was particularly intriguing. The researchquestions for this study are:RQ1: What are the shared beliefs and assumptions about how teaching and learning areaccomplished within professional formation in the BME program?RQ2: How and to what effects do BME students draw on different forms of social and culturalcapital in their professional formation?MethodsThis project is part of a larger study funded by the National Science Foundation examining thelack of diversity and
Paper ID #26427Work in Progress: A Path to Graduation: Helping First-Year Low Income,Rural STEM Students SucceedDr. Carol S. Gattis, University of Arkansas Dr. Carol Gattis is the Associate Dean Emeritus of the Honors College and an adjunct Associate Pro- fessor of Industrial Engineering at the University of Arkansas. Her academic research focuses on STEM education, developing programs for the recruitment, retention and graduation of a diverse population of students. Carol also serves as a consultant specializing in new program development and grants. She earned her bachelor’s, master’s and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical
influences are clearly visible in the global ecosystem: species extinc-tion; exhaustion of depletable resources; geopolitical conflict over ownership of renewable re-sources; and degradation of the planetary commons (atmosphere, oceans). Civil engineering can-not by itself “solve” these problems; yet it must embrace a proactive, professional stance andcontribute an accompanying distinctive competence toward their resolution.The ASCE definition was adopted in November 1996: Sustainable Development is the challenge of meeting human needs for natural resources, industrial products, energy, food, transportation, shelter, and effective waste management while conserving and protecting envi- ronmental quality and the natural resource base essential
expertise include qualitative and mixed educational research methods, adult learning theory, student development, and women in education.Cynthia Atman, University of Washington CYNTHIA J. ATMAN is the founding Director of the Center for Engineering Learning and Teaching (CELT) in the College of Engineering at the University of Washington and the Director of the NSF funded Center for the Advancement of Engineering Education (CAEE). Dr. Atman is a Professor in Industrial Engineering. Her research focuses on design learning and engineering education. Page 12.321.1© American Society for
Technology Enterprise Institute (MTECH). Mr. Magids is the primary architect of the VentureAccelerator program. Mr. Magids is a serial entrepreneur and private equity investor in the technology and marketing industries. Mr. Magids received his B.S. (with highest honors) from the University of Maryland.David Barbe, University of Maryland David Barbe is Executive Director of the Maryland Technology Enterprise Institute (MTECH), Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Faculty Director of the CEOs Program. He received B.S. (’62) and M.S. (’64) from West Virginia University and the Ph.D. (’69) from The Johns Hopkins University in Electrical Engineering. He is a Fellow of the IEEE. His
capstone designs, has been the adoption of project-basedlearning models and student-centred, experiential teaching/learning mechanisms7. A widespectrum of project-based design instruction has been implemented, from case study to reverseengineering, to studio-based design, to full-scale projects tackling realistic (industry-customer) orsemi-realistic (faculty-customer) problems. An excellent review is provided by Sheppard andJenison8 (up to 1997) and Dym et al.7 (recently). These courses, which have been created overthe past two decades, demonstrate a great diversity in terms of implementing project-based,team-centred approaches. Nonetheless, they share two major features7: a) they are scheduled inone semester (or two quarters); and b) they tend to
. Ultimately, students must create a processvalidation for laboratory scale ethanol production based on the previous module’s ethanollaboratory manual. Pre- and post-tests have been created for both of these modules that includethree types of questions: terminology, problems and skills from the unit, and a near-transferquestion. Results of ethanol module's pre- and post-tests indicate a statistically significantgrowth in knowledge.Project Introduction and ObjectivesEast Carolina University (ECU) is a large regional university that serves eastern rural NorthCarolina and the southeast region of the United States. The industries and businesses locatedamong the small towns of eastern North Carolina have a need for a broadly skilled generalengineer. The
from Xena’s interview above were included in categories suchas ‘industry experience’, ‘values’, ‘multidisciplinary research’, ‘applied work’, ‘engineeringdefinition’, and ‘peers’. Themes emerged across categories, such as themes of feeling isolated,social and cultural definitions of engineering, and the importance of significant and meaningfulwork. The fourth and final step is very similar to the third; however, it calls for thesecomparisons and connections to be made across individuals and is often referred to as theidentification of ‘superordinate themes’. It is this level of thematic analysis that is presented inthis paper, focusing on discussions that appear in the interviews of multiple participants and aresupported by existing
had experience being recognized as good at technology and saw himself asmore skilled in math and science than in the humanities. He was confident that mechanicalengineering was the right major for him citing, “it’s very versatile” and would allow him “thefreedom to pursue what [he] want[s] to do […] especially because in Japan […] they have apretty strong automobile industry.” He stayed connected to family and friends through soccerand connected with Ezekiel through the sport.Xander identified as a straight white male industrial engineering student who was born and grewup in the Midwestern United States. He talked about how he was good at math and science, butEnglish did not “really interest” him. He chose industrial engineering because he
Paper ID #21322Characterizations and Portrayals of Intuition in Decision-Making: A System-atic Review of Management Literature to Inform Engineering EducationDr. Emily Dringenberg, Ohio State University Dr. Dringenberg is an assistant professor in the Department of Engineering Education at Ohio State University. She holds a BS in Mechanical Engineering (Kansas State ’08), a MS in Industrial Engi- neering (Purdue ’14) and a Ph.D. in Engineering Education (Purdue ’15). Her research is focused on decision-making within the context of engineering design. She is working to leverage engineering edu- cation research to shift the
Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, leading the Foundation’s engineering study (as reported in Educating Engineers: Designing for the Future of the Field). In addition, in 2011 Dr. Sheppard was named as co-PI of a national NSF innovation center (Epicenter), and leads an NSF program at Stanford on summer research experiences for high school teachers. Her industry experiences includes engineering positions at Detroit’s ”Big Three:” Ford Motor Company, General Motors Corporation, and Chrysler Corporation. At Stanford she has served a chair of the faculty senate, and recently served as Associate Vice Provost for Graduate Education. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2019
drawn to educational outreach because she herself had received so little career advice. She eventually ran the educational outreach program at Exxon. After 25 years, 20 at Exxon and 5 in the high tech industry, an unexpected layoff came at a bad time, she was also newly widowed. Job offers that were once plentiful were nowhere to be found. The first, and only, offer to finally appear was to teach physical science at Bayonne High School, for a significant pay cut. A new adventure began. In the ten years since then, she got to start up a research program, an engineering program, a science club, two FIRST Tech Challenge robotics teams, and brought in several new programs such as Technology Students Association, Young
Engineering and Science (writing.engr.psu.edu), which receives more than 1 million page downloads each year.Ms. Christine Haas, Engineering Ambassadors Network Christine Haas brings ten years of experience working in marketing and communications with a focus on the science and engineering fields. She’s held positions as the director of marketing for Drexel’s College of Engineering and director of operations for Worcester Polytechnic Institute - Engineering. Now, as CEO of Christine Haas Consulting, LLC, Christine travels around the world teaching courses to scientists and engineers on presentations and technical writing. She has taught clients across gov- ernment, industry and higher education, including Texas Instruments
Paper ID #17073Engineer of 2020 Attributes and the Black Male Future Engineer: A Reviewof LiteratureDeLean Tolbert, Purdue University, West Lafayette DeLean Tolbert is an Engineering Education doctoral candidate at Purdue University. She earned a B.Sc. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Michigan–Dearborn and a M.S. in Industrial Engineering from the University of Michigan. Through her dissertation, DeLean investigates the ways that Black boys develop Engineer of 2020 attributes in their precollege out-of-school time lived experiences. This work will serve as a foundation for her future research, through which
. [935_Interview_Kahn_F1_Deidra_2011]There were very few instances where participants reported negative or failed mastery experiences;in fact, given the positive spin on one of these experiences shows that in this particular case,students rarely had negative experiences in this course.Practical or Transferable ExperiencesThe focus of the mastery described by DE students included practical and transferable skills. Theseskills were identified more specifically with regard to communication, transferability to coursesother than their DE course, conducting research, and applicability to the industry of their major.Similarly, GE students from other studies described the focus of their mastery with regard totechnical and professional skills and computing. The difference between the
little differently, our study is built aroundspeaking with individual students about the history of their encounters while attending college,with a focus on distinct (memorable) moments in their college experience. We then trace howthis produces a unique set of educational pathways.MethodThis paper is based on an NSF REU supplement secured on top of a larger qualitative study offaculty and academic administrator perspectives on engineering education reform (NSF-SES-1656125, SES-1655750, SES-1656117, collaborative). Eager to ascertain whether the facultyperspectives on student experience that we gained in our data were consistent with actual studentexperiences, we secured an REU supplement to conduct a pilot study for this purpose. Based onthis
C om mittee Figure 2: The undergraduate curriculum review process showing the four cycles of course validation, outcome assessment, attribute appraisal, and objective evaluation.Objective EvaluationData to determine whether the objectives are being met can be acquired in a number of ways. AtUSU, we conduct a telephone survey of newly graduated students and alumni that graduated twoyears prior. The corrective action committee and the department staff developed the surveys.The department staff, who maintain close contact with alumni, conduct the telephone surveyseach summer. If, based upon the objective assessment matrix, specific objectives are notachieving their benchmark then those outcomes are flagged for action. The industrial
AC 2012-4659: CHALLENGES TO ENSURING QUALITY IN QUALITA-TIVE RESEARCH: A PROCEDURAL VIEWDr. Joachim Walther, University of Georgia Joachim Walther is an Assistant Professor of engineering education research at the University of Geor- gia (UGA). He is Co-director of the Collaborative Lounge for Understanding Society and Technology through Educational Research (CLUSTER), an interdisciplinary research group with members from en- gineering, art, educational psychology, and social work. His research interests span the formation of students’ professional identity, the role of reflection in engineering learning, and interpretive research methods in engineering education. He was the first international recipient of the ASEE
serves in the HUB-Empowered Cyber Reach Engineering Commit- tee and the Colombia-Purdue Institute for Advanced Scientific Research Committee. Juan has published several articles on the application of best-matching protocols in production settings (industrial engineer- ing) and collaborated in the publication of Springer’s Handbook of Automation (Springer, 2009).Ms. Lindsey B. Payne, Purdue University Lindsey Payne received her M.S. in ecological sciences and engineering from Purdue University while working as a Graduate Teaching Assistant for CIE. She is currently a Teaching Assistant for civil engi- neering. In the fall of 2010, she took on the role of Assistant Campus Coordinator for Service-learning, providing
AC 2012-3661: PREPARING STUDENTS FOR WRITING IN CIVIL EN-GINEERING PRACTICEProf. Susan Conrad, Portland State University Susan Conrad is a professor of applied linguistics at Portland State University, where she teaches discourse analysis courses and collaborates with civil engineering faculty and local practitioners to study writing in civil engineering.Mr. Timothy James Pfeiffer P.E., Foundation Engineering, Inc.Mr. Tom Szymoniak, Portland State University Tom Szymoniak is a Civil Engineer with 28 years of professional experience. He is currently a full-time instructor at Portland State University in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering. His main area of focus is teaching the underclass students
MIT). Dr Jensen has authored over 140 refereed papers and has been awarded (with collaborators) approximately $4.5 million of consulting and research grants.Elijah CicileoJonah Kai SwansonGregory Reich ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2024 A Weighted Design Matrix Approach for Informing Digital vs. Physical Prototyping Options Jensen, D.1, Reich, G.2, Cicileo, E.1, Swanson, J.1, Loh, T.1,Wozniak, J.1, Jensen, L.3 1 Engineering - Westmont College, Santa Barbara, CA 2 Air Force Research Laboratory, Wright Patterson Air Force Base, Dayton, OH
interplay betweenengineering education and external influences. From participant reflections and interpretations ofthese spaces, we find that such symbols may inadvertently align students' perceptions ofengineering with specific industrial and militaristic values—an idea that we further develop inthe sections below.Furthermore, in other curated spaces, students engage with key historical figures and can readnarratives of UMD past engineering achievements. These visual representations serve as atangible connection to the discipline's legacy, yet they also raise questions about inclusivitywithin the engineering community--potentially leaving students from diverse backgroundsstruggling to see their own identities and, by extension, the contributions
Paper ID #42120Navigating the Mystery: An Approach for Integrating Experiential Learningin Ethics into an Engineering Leadership ProgramDr. James N. Magarian, Massachusetts Institute of Technology James Magarian is a Sr. Lecturer with the Gordon-MIT Engineering Leadership (GEL) Program. He joined MIT and GEL after nearly a decade in industry as a mechanical engineer and engineering manager in aerospace/defense. His research focuses on engineering workforce formation and the education-careers transition.John M. Feiler, Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyLeo McGonagle, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Leo McGonagle
, training of entrepreneurs, development of strategic projects , national and international academic links . He is currently part of the team developing a draft international links for the development of scientific and technological activity in Yucatan from the local government with the Texas A & M University and the government of France with crosscutting issues such as the training of human resources senior , teachers and scientists, among others.Ing. Martha Elena Ortega, CANIETI Martha Ortega is Attetion to Principal Partners and Special Projects Director of the Mexican Electronics Telecommunications and Information Technologies Industries Chamber(CANIETI, for its acronym in Spanish) She, along with CANIETI
structures and processes to rapidly produce a novel but dependabletechnological artifact within a predictable budget.”17 One can see that all the groups are presentin this definition; the customer seeking rapidability, scientists seeking novelty, engineers seekingdependability, and managers seeking predictability of budget (cost and schedule) 17. Systemsmanagement seems to be surviving in today’s aerospace industry because of two major reasons;first because it emerged unconsciously by the various groups, and second because everyone ispresent in its processes17.Design iterations impact cost and schedule iterations Iteration has been found to impact the time required to complete a development cycle21,28.Thus, to accelerate the design development