girlsto study engineering at PSET. Through a survey of all past POWER participants that hadgraduated from high school (with a 37% response rate), researchers noted that surveyparticipants attended IUPUI more than other universities and that significantly more respondentsmajored in engineering than in other disciplines.Added to the literature discussed above, This State University has contributed two publications.The first1 discusses the integrated marketing approach used to study and then design the e-Girlsprogram. Based on the data collected for that study, four guiding themes were developed e-Girls, “1) Engineers help the world. 2) Engineers think creatively. 3) Engineers enjoy workingwith others. 4) Engineers earn a good living.” A second
1.5 1.0 0.5 0.0 Topics DiscussedFig. 4 Effectiveness of topics covered in the workshopsThe following are written comments in response to what was most helpful in the workshop: This workshop was instrumental in guiding me through the basics of teaching at UTSA and also helped me in learning about the rules and regulations. Also helped me in meeting other faculty members and learning from them Sharing about the real experience and some great tips for class was very helpful. Introducing about ASAP and blackboard app was very helpful
integration can show the students and teachers therelationships between different classroom topics and their relevance to real-world problems.Whereas randomized controlled studies or cohort studies rely on a statistically significantcomparison between groups to support claims or results of effectiveness, DBR studies typicallyforego such a methodology.2 For several reasons, such a methodology may not be feasible oreven desirable for certain educational innovations and contexts. The confounding factorsbetween classrooms or schools, which may serve as treatment and control groups (differentteachers, different students, etc.), are so pervasive that it may not be possible to correct for themin statistical analyses.3 Therefore, as an alternative, the
offeropportunities for student engineers to approximate engineering work environments, wherecollaboration is not only typical but necessary, producing written reports that communicate theresults of their projects [1]. These projects are often sponsored by an industry partner, providingstudents an audience outside of a school setting and a chance to contribute to solving a real-world problem that can prepare them for the workplace [2, 3]. Ideally, team projects allowstudents to develop skills that will be transferable to a workplace setting, where individuals mustwork and write with others within an organization [1, 4].These projects, however, may present challenges for women and other underrepresentedstudents. For one, students are frequently asked to
referred to as “OutstandingEngineers Plan”) in Tianjin City. The Outstanding Engineers Plan is to implement thestrategic deployment of the 17th National Congress of the Communist Party of China to takethe road of new industrialization with Chinese characteristics, build an innovative countrywith strong human resources, and implement the Outline of the National Medium andLong-term Education Reform and Development Plan (2010-2020) [2]. In addition, it is also akey measure to promote China from “a nation with great power”①in engineering education to① The data shows that the number of enrollment, registration and graduates of engineering majors inChina’s colleges and universities is more than that of other countries in the world, ranking first in
isolated activity with a focus solely on the resultingproduct. An engineering graduate must be able to understand that each decision made during thedesign of a system may influence the entire life cycle of the final product from raw materialextraction through disposal, and they should recognize that a solution to one problem may (andlikely will) precipitate whole new problems. 1 In other words, every system is a subsystem foranother system.The Department of Engineering at James Madison University (JMU) was created to be anengineering program with a different approach to teaching engineering—one that trains studentsto view the world as this aforementioned complex system of systems. 2 Functional abstraction isone of the techniques used in the
, and conceptions ofhow the world operates. In its simplest form, the mental model of change, prevalent at thebeginning of the FC and reflected in the action plan, focused on developing and perfecting a pilotcurriculum. It is depicted in Figure 1. Then a miracle happens and it is Implement adopted! pilot Develop curriculum and carefully
the proposed study.majority of African American engineers and even after 1969, in the period from 1969 to 1973,these same institutions continued to produce nearly half of all new black engineers despite thechanges in laws regulating access to higher education2. The six HBCUs were Prairie ViewA&M, North Carolina A&T, Howard University, Tennessee State University, Tuskegee, andSouthern University.The trend since the late 1970s in the relative percentage of engineering degrees earned bywomen and those earned by URMs is shown in Figure 2. As with Figure 1, these data are IPEDSdata that are publicly available via the National Science Foundation’s WebCASPAR databasesystem17. This is an interesting pair of curves showing that the real period
Americantechnical competitiveness in a global economy. Ralph Cicerone, the President of U.S. NationalAcademy of Sciences, has also advocated improving the STEM “pipeline” and science educationsaying: The reinvigorated research community must also engage the interests of new science students, so that U.S. science can maintain leadership in certain fields and be a strong, reliable partner in many critical international research efforts. That means becoming more deeply involved in improving science education at all levels, including working with pre- college students and their teachers and exposing many more students to real science and scientists. Such interactions can raise the career aspirations of young people. 4Thirty
. Page 15.347.7 There are at least two excellent examples of national level programs spanning across multipleinstitutions. The Preparing Future Faculty (PFF) program, started in the early 1990s, seeks toprepare graduate students for academic life by exposing them to the “real lives” of faculty in awide variety of academic settings (e.g., research university, comprehensive university, liberalarts college, historically black college or university)8. In addition to providing graduate studentswith this exposure to diverse institutions, the program seeks to provide forums in which graduatestudents and faculty can communicate about life at these various institutions, and also to increasethe extent to which graduate programs embrace their role in
interests and values as well as how it could be applied in realworld context. Thus, faculty discussed the importance of their role in providing students withexposure to real world application, making course content engaging and relevant, andencouraging students to pursue research, co-ops and internship opportunities. Many faculty whoexpressed this view discussed the impact of their own research and internship experiences inhelping them to solidify why they had chosen engineering and what they could do with anengineering degree.The role of faculty in engaging students in relevant course content and encouraging engineering-related experiences was not only discussed in relation to undergraduate engineering students. K-12 engineering outreach, although
successful in incorporating writing into a junior-level technical course,suggesting that the exercise could aid in extending writing further across the engineeringcurriculum to include courses often devoid of written communication. During the semester,students wrote responses to a variety of prompts including “explain a concept” questions,opinion pieces about large engineering projects, and “give an example” questions, which askedstudents to provide real-world examples of concepts and seemed effective in motivating studentsto find relevance in material being taught in class. Current work seeks to develop a set oftransferrable guidelines for how to craft writing prompts in order to achieve different outcomes.Many students struggled with the lack of
enhancement, but is effectively uncalibrated from real-world engineeringleadership outcomes. Findings from this approach were only interpreted in a relative sense (i.e., whichobjectives' achievement appeared to be in greater need of addressing relative to other objectives).Prior literature has pointed to the benefits of a longitudinal approach to EL program assessment [4,8]. In a longitudinal approach, assessments conducted at an early stage in a timeline (such as priorto the start of a course or program) can be linked to intermediate and outgoing assessments as wellas to post-graduation assessments [17]. Here, same-student changes and achievements can beexamined while controlling for initial conditions (e.g., a lower incoming assessment or a lack
, preferences, and previous experiences on one’s cognitive, emotional, and behavioral responses. • Social monitoring: During a social interaction, paying attention to the other's body language, verbal, and nonverbal behaviors, and others’ responses to one’s own actions and signals. • Perspective taking: The ability to actively take consideration of others’ potential viewpoints, or actively refrain from allowing preconceived cultural schema to interfere with information processing. • Cultural knowledge application: The ability to consider a broad range of information, including culture-general and culture-specific information, as well as historical and geopolitical information, in one’s decision
competence prior tograduation. Cultural competence describes “a set of congruent behaviors, attitudes, and policiesthat come together in a system, agency, or among professionals and enable that system, agency,or those professionals to work effectively in cross-cultural situations” [7]. Accomplishing this incomputing requires more intentional and innovative approaches, where students explore identity-inclusive computing (i.e., how identity impacts and is impacted by computing [8]).MotivationA person’s identity is shaped by the relationships, experiences, and values that create their senseof self [9]. While identity development (including feeling, thinking, decision making, andengaging with the world) is continuous [10], late adolescence (ages 18-24
engineers’contributions in real-world environments and applications. Addressing complex challengesfacing society today requires collaboration incorporating tools, techniques, and insights fromacross the social, natural, and engineering sciences.Education in formal and informal learning settings can provide opportunities to exploreconnections across seemingly distant ideas, thus sparking new creative solutions to complexsocietal challenges. In thinking about what engineering education might look like in communitycontexts, it is particularly important to consider how ideas are presented. In informal learningsettings, public audiences are especially likely to enter with widely varying knowledge andinterest in specific topics; and they may have priorities and
). Communicativevalidation, concerned with the knowledge that is co-constructed in the social context [23],member-checking was used to ensure that her experiences were retold correctly, i.e., handling thedata.Positionality of the ResearcherBerger [25] posited three significant ways a researchers’ position impacts their study: 1) access tothe field, 2) shapes the nature of the researcher-researched relationship, and 3) the researchers’worldview and background affect how they “construct the world, use language, pose questions,and choose the lens for filtering the information gathered from participants and [to] make meaningof it” [p. 220]. Access to the field entails having a shared or unshared connection with participants,e.g., researcher and participants could have
(accessed May 31, 2021).[21] J. L. Lehr, “ES 350: Gender, Race, Culture, Science & Technology - Winter 2021.” California Polytechnic State University: Department of Ethnic Studies, May 31, 2021.[22] S. J. Van Wart, S. Vakil, and T. S. Parikh, “Apps for social justice: motivating computer science learning with design and real-world problem solving,” in Proceedings of the 2014 conference on Innovation & technology in computer science education, Uppsala, Sweden, Jun. 2014, pp. 123–128. doi: 10.1145/2591708.2591751.[23] R. Abebe, S. Barocas, J. Kleinberg, K. Levy, M. Raghavan, and D. G. Robinson, “Roles for computing in social change,” in Proceedings of the 2020 Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency
mobility disabilities move and exercise so they can explore their world, independently.Prof. Robert Gettens, Western New England University Rob Gettens is a Professor and Chair of Biomedical Engineering at Western New England University.Dr. Denine A Northrup, Western New England University Denine Northrup, Ph.D. is a Professor and Chair of the Department of Psychology at Western New Eng- land University. Dr. Northrup’s research interests surround factors that promote student success and resilience with a special interest in underrepresented populations in STEM fields. American c Society for Engineering Education, 2021 Using Rapid
century [64]. Additionally, he argues that there are more images [65] and objects [61]than ever before in human history, which also are in constant motion. The purpose of his philosophy of movement(POM) is to create new ontological (being) and epistemological (knowing) frameworks in Western philosophy thatare a better fitting lens through which to re-view historical events through their materiality, motions, and processes.The historical re-viewing is crucial to Nail’s contribution and purpose to uncover hidden, misunderstood, andignored elements that are entangled with our conceptions and perceptions of ourselves and how we come to knowand experience the world today. QLO theory [61] is therefore a good fit for examining not only the material
continued, would require the engagement of both “engineering educators and practicingengineers” in the redesign of “engineering curricula and related educational programs to preparetoday’s engineers for the careers of the future, with due recognition of the rapid pace of changein the world and its intrinsic lack of predictability” (p. 51). Although The Engineer of 2020 does not specifically treat the role of the liberal arts inengineering education, the new vision that is articulated suggested what Gravander (2004)described as “a fundamental reconceptualization of the role of the liberal arts in engineeringeducation. . .possible. . .only recently because of a revolutionary transformation of engineeringeducation that is being driven by new
on the country and the world sometimes.” The hydraulic fracturing activity helped thisstudent understand the potential implications of his future career and this was an importantoutcome since he planned to pursue employment in the oil industry.The narrow technical focus of individual courses in the engineering curriculum can obscureconnections between, and implications of, engineering concepts. One student described thatSustainable Energy as a whole course supported the broader integration of engineering conceptsand their practical applications. It helps put all the other classes into the wider focus and give more perspective… It helps us see the connections between everything, and Sustainable Energy definitely helps with that.An
are over 100 full-time and part-time faculty and more than 1,100undergraduate and graduate students. In addition to rigorous technical educations where theory isbalanced with hands-on, laboratory-based work, our students experience emphasis on leadership,teamwork, and oral and written communication.All engineering and computer science students participate in a year-long senior design project which issponsored by local industry. Teams of students mentored by a faculty member and a liaison engineersolve real-world engineering problems. Students design, build and test their own solution, writeproposals and reports, and present the result to their sponsors. By bridging the gap between academiaand industry, the senior design project prepares
at a problem or subject from different majors allows us to come to a more dynamic solution. I really think that working with other people with other majors made me a more well-rounded person and allowed me to experience what it was like in the real world when you do work with other people from different academic and job backgrounds.”Lessons LearnedMany Honors College students are accustomed to being group leaders on projects. In manyother courses, the top students will often take charge of a project and convince other teammembers to fall into place behind their ideas and their work plan. In a class like this where everystudent is an Honors College student, such strong personalities often clash. Proper coursemanagement
experiences (Eliot &Turns, 2011). Reflection activities may enable students to do things such as consolidate theirlearning and think critically about how their current course material can be applied to futurework in the real world. Moreover, armed with insights from student responses to reflectionactivities, educators may be able to do things such as better attune to areas of student confusionand adjust their teaching style to help improve students’ understanding of course material.However, there is little data on how students experience reflection activities and even less dataon how educators perceive such activities. How do we go about broadly appreciating theknowledge gains that can and do result from engagement in reflection activities?We
effects, and applicable regulations (e.g.the National Ambient Air Quality Standards).A total of 4 flipped classes were integrated into the course curriculum (full descriptions availablein Appendix A). Topics for flipped classes were selected by the instructor to cover a range ofsubjects that were both conceptual and quantitative in nature. The instructor also considered thefollowing factors in selecting topics for flipped classes: availability of literature (i.e. recentlypublished relevant journal articles), perceived student interest in the topics, and placement of theflipped class in comparison to other interventions. Of the four topic areas selected, the PMproblem-solving lesson was the most quantitative and the indoor air pollution in
[20], [21]. While goodcolleagues might easily agree-to-disagree and move through some of the philosophicaldifferences in an interdisciplinary setting (e.g., the role and value of qualitative research), ourteam has come to believe that laying within the nuances of the paradigm differences is the key totruly studying the brain in the authentically complex environments of the real world. To thispoint, we will briefly discuss experimental designs.Drawing both from historical psychological research and conforming to the temporal resolutionlimitations of fMRI as the current dominant methodology in neuroimaging, experimental designfor the cognitive neuroscientist usually involves a commitment to either a blocked or eventrelated design. Blocked
good. The nature of the product supports that because it's a software tool. We do a lot of stuff that's very theoretical where people who are book smart are useful because the reality is, in the software world, you can get away with that more than if you're building hardware.Julian similarly described the organization-specific ideas about the usefulness of doctoratetraining. He suggested that most engineering firms felt that applied experience was typicallymore useful, with limited exceptions: Basically, in engineering when people actually have to get their job done, they really don't care what your degree is because they want somebody who has experience and can get it to work. The difference is if there's
integration [2] ofundergraduate students of color. Research has shown that cultural enclaves, such as ethnicstudent organizations, aid students of color in navigating unfriendly campus environments [3].While support for ethnic student organizations is often mentioned in the engineering educationliterature, the influence of ethnic student organizations upon students’ engineering journeys hasbeen understudied.Founded in Los Angeles in 1974, the Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers (SHPE) is oneof the largest Hispanic engineering organizations in the United States. Today, SHPE’s missionfocuses on changing “lives by empowering the Hispanic community to realize its fullest potentialand to impact the world through STEM awareness, access, support and
Page 26.756.1 areas of Systems and Product Design Methods, Medical Devices, Regulations, Complexity Assessment, Decision Support Systems, Manufacturing, Automation, Real-Time Process Control and Engineering Ed- ucation. Dr. Medina is the IDEAS (Improving Design Decisions in Engineering and Applied Systems) Research Group Leader. This group is dedicated to innovating the development process of products and c American Society for Engineering Education, 2015 Paper ID #12765 processes. Dr. Medina has been the recipient of several fellowships such as the GEM Ph.D. Engineer- ing Fellowship, NASA