dependent thinkingthat exclude the invocation of imaginaries aligned with the socially just application oftechnology. Science and technology studies provide several theoretical frameworks that we buildon to help us identify and understand the ways these social structures can narrow and constrainengineering practice. We draw on four frameworks that help us understand the different types ofrelationships STEM students typically have with technology: the types of solutions engineersrely on (i.e., technological fixes), who engineers think count as valid stakeholders and how theyconceptualize and develop relationships with them (i.e., deficit/threat models), the market-basedsystems and contexts that shape the imaginations of engineers (i.e
effective states [11]. Outcome Expectations answer thequestion: “If I do this, what will happen?”. They address personal beliefs about consequencesof a specific behavior. If someone has a high Self-Efficacy he or she should have positiveoutcome expectations due to this self-confidence in his abilities. This means that an individualwith low Self-Efficacy, low Outcome Expectations and therefore low interest in a certain area,is very unlikely to pursue that area. However, feeling competent and expecting valuedoutcomes directs the individual down the desired career path (or so the SCCT model says). Figure 1: Simplified display of the SCCT according to Lent et al. [9] incl. own additionBesides the mentioned application of the SCCT in career choice
in the classroom [22, 26] and/or sense of belonging [18, 26,27].LUC Program Structural SupportsIn contrast, LUC Department of Engineering is addressing the chilly climate through programstructural supports. “LUC’s B.S. Engineering program is a general engineering program withspecializations of biomedical, computer, and environmental engineering. Each specializationemphasizes a social justice application. For example, in biomedical engineering, students learnto design and test robust medical device software, in preparation for a medical device to becleared or approved by the Food and Drug Administration. All patients should receive high-quality medical devices, regardless of their ability to pay. All Engineering courses are taughtusing a
InstitutionAbstractPrevious work has described and evaluated a collaboration between a software projectmanagement (SPM) course and an introductory software development course. That collaborationhas successfully supported the experiential learning of SPM skills as well as skills to effectivelyinteract with a project manager. This paper further evaluates that collaboration framework byreporting its application at a second institution for two semesters. Overall, the learning outcomesand student experiences achieved at the second institution were similarly positive to thoseachieved at the first institution. The major components of the framework were fully implementedat the second institution with specific aspects customized to meet the institution’s educationaloutcomes
technical skills.Although these are necessary for career success and productive work, students must also developcapacities for authentic engineering practices within authentic engineering communities.Specifically, they must develop practices for engaging ill-structured, ambiguous problems, andnavigating complexity and uncertainty through careful, creative application of deep knowledgethat characterize engineering design1. And they must do so in collaboration with others,communicating successfully with diverse stakeholders in formal and informal settings2. Finally,they must cultivate the ability to reflect on the quality of their innovation and communicationefforts3.The NSF and other sponsors fund research experiences for undergraduates (REU
and they know how to manage people? This is our capstone, this is our prime moment, then you are off into the world and you should be proficient in everything. But all we have been taught how to do is take notes in class, learn how to do the problems in our text book and take a test. That is not working in a machine shop, working with outside buyers to purchase something, or filling out funding applications. I feel strongly that we should be able to do these things and I don't want someone to come in and baby step us or I don't think it should be someone's job to do it for us in any way, but someone needs to be empowering us to do those things. We aren't graduates yet, we are still
MATCP - Education, University of Rhode Island) is Assistant Professor of Spanish and Teacher Education and Director of the Spanish International Engineering Program at the University of Rhode Island. His research focuses on Spanish Golden Age Literature, interculturality and teaching methodologies. American c Society for Engineering Education, 2021 The Role of Study Abroad Curricular Interventions in Engineering Students’ Intercultural Competence Development1. Introduction As the world becomes increasingly globally connected and diverse, employees need to beable to “identify and communicate points of connection that transcend
followed andthe design skills employed more accurately reflect traditional design for technology. Thedomain of application may be in poor communities in dire need, but the solution itself has notbeen designed to accommodate the communities’ actual contextual circumstances—do theywant it, will they be able to support it, and does it even address the problems that arise intheir everyday lived experiences?B. Design for social justiceIn stark contrast with the design for technology case described above, a group of engineersfrom Canada and Australia designed a press to use recycled material collected by garbagepickers in Buenos Aires, Argentina. The phases of their design work are telling. First,mindful of their positions of privilege in academic
) data, only 9% of respondents changed majors from physical science and engineering to life sciences. Interestingly, 18% of the students that changed majors, switched from pure sciences into engineering. Some commented that they were looking for a more practical application of their science studies. Academic Preparation and Self Confidence Academic preparation begins with advanced math and science courses in high school. The foundation for advanced courses starts with algebra courses taken at an early age, often in middle school (Table 7). Most of the respondents (76%) had taken algebra 2 by the 10th grade. A large majority of the respondents (88%) followed algebra classes with pre-calculus. AP calculus was taken in high school by 55
of the most important skills forengineers, yet this skill is among the least developed for recent graduates [8].This disparity is equally recognized by employers. Reports in the media [9–11] and academicresearch literature [12–15] almost universally show strong and widespread employer dissatisfactionwith new graduates’ communication skills.We may hypothesize that the disparity between academic preparation and real-world expectationis even greater with postgraduate degree recipients. This hypothesis is based on a variety of fac-tors: 1. Formal communication training typically slows during graduate school (and informal train- ing varies enormously across advisors); 2. At the same time, graduate students’ expertise becomes
central to the Standards for thePreparation and Professional Development for Teachers of Engineering developed by Farmer,Klein-Gardner, and Nadelson. Two aspects of this engineering design knowledge for teachers toknow and be able to teach are that engineering: “involves solving problems via an engineeringdesign process (e.g., involving design under constraints, iterative design, optimization,improvement);” and “uses failure as a learning experience (e.g., when designed solutions fail,engineers learn from this failure and improve based on this new knowledge).”5 Additionally,elementary-level Engineering, Technology and Applications of Science (ETS) performanceexpectations within the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) involve students
2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition.Samnani, S. S., Vaska, M., Ahmed, S., & Turin, T. C. (2017). Review typology: The basic types of reviews for synthesizing evidence for the purpose of knowledge translation. Journal of the College of Physicians and Surgeons—Pakistan, 27(10), 635–641. Retrieved from https://link.gale.com/apps/doc/A648235627/AONE?u=umuser&sid=bookmark- AONE&xid=c966ca75Saravanan, C., & Wilks, R. (2014). Medical students’ experience of and reaction to stress: The role of depression and anxiety. The Scientific World Journal, 2014, 1–8.Schuyler, S., Briseno, J. S., Natarajan, M., Sista, A., Wilkins-Yel, K. G., Arnold, A., Bekki, J. M., Bernstein
collected and graded than a student’s design process4. One author has suggested that“engineering education might be insisting on truth at the expense of conceptual thinking”4. EN’soffer a concrete way to allow students to move beyond finding “truth” or the “right answer”. TheEN carries a high level of real-world relevance, and allows for an assessment that is both“authentic” and “performance” based8. Engineering Notebook Usage, Successes, and Challenges: Use of EN’s at variouseducational levels and within multiple educational contexts has been described and evaluated inthe literature. At the middle school level, EN’s have been used in design process instruction inscience classrooms9 and across various design challenges for grades 5 – 97. At
. More details on the M&M program (e.g., application process for both programs and matching of 2829 pairs in the Pair program) can be found in previous publications and program annual reports which are available upon request from WIEP. For the academic years comprising this study, there were 78 and 179 participants in Pair and Group respectively in 201415; there are currently 84 and 253 participants for Pair and Group (201516). Overview of history of diversity awareness efforts in M&M programming In order to meet these objectives, the M&M LT, under the supervision of the WIEP Associate Director, created two positions titled “Diversity Chairs” to
work into the curriculum.250 When given a chance to answer open-ended questions, responses exemplified the diversity in what251 students consider successful attributes to groups. Most students wanted the ability to choose their252 groups while others felt that having random groups lead to better networking and realistic253 experiences. Many respondents felt that group members need to be held more accountable by either254 holding weekly meetings with professors or letting peer evaluations hold more weight in the grade.255 Others focused on better preparing students for post-graduation by giving projects that relate to256 real-world processes and teaching soft skills like effective communication that do not come257 naturally to
early stages of student development and progress. Her core engineering educational background is Mechanical Engineering and doctoral work is in Engineering Education, both from Purdue University.Dr. Leo H McWilliams, University of Notre DameMs. Catherine F Pieronek, University of Notre Dame Catherine F. Pieronek is Associate Dean for Academic Affairs in the College of Engineering at the Uni- versity of Notre Dame. She holds a BS in Aerospace Engineering and a JD from Notre Dame, and an MS in Aerospace engineering from UCLA. Her research focuses primarily on the reasons that affect the persistence of women in engineering, as well as on the application of Title IX to collegiate STEM programs
projects that by 2006, 50 percent of all U.S. workers will bewomen, and that 44 percent of the U.S. workforce will be employed by industries that areengaged in producing or using information technology products and services (DeVoe, 19989;Newton, 200138). This is not surprising given that information technology accounted for morethan a third of the nation’s real economic growth from 1995 to 1997 (U.S. Department ofCommerce, 199947). In addition, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reports that approximately137,800 new jobs in information technology (IT) occupations have been and will be producedeach year from 1996 to 2006 (U.S. Department of Commerce, 199947). Adding to this problemis the fact that these occupations are experiencing a significant
) .Project-based Learning as a Vehicle for Social Responsibility and Social Justice in Engineering Education.Silvia de Freitas, C. C., Beyer, Z. J., Al Yagoub, H. A., & DeBoer, J. (2018). Fostering Engineering Thinking in a Democratic Learning Space: A Classroom Application Pilot Study in the Azraq Refugee Camp, Jordan.Smith, J. M., & Lucena, J. C. (2018). Social Responsibility in Engineering Education and Practice: Alignments, Mismatches, and Future Directions.Svihla, V., Hubka, C. A, & Chi, E. (2018). Peer Review and Reflection in Engineering Labs: Writing to Learn and Learning to Write.Tang, X. (2018). From 'Empathic Design' to 'Empathic Engineering': Toward a Genealogy of Empathy in Engineering
which they can best contribute to the business and most effectively develop their own potential; f. experience in carrying out engineering tasks to build confidence in the application of knowledge to the solution of real problems.ContextIt is important to state that the authors’ accept the essentially orthodox position that the value ofinternships within the engineering degree is high. However, there are critics of sandwicheducation, notably Smithers6 who sees the industrial training period as purely experiential, andno different to the traditional three-year full-time student who takes a vacation job as a forklifttruck driver or a gardener. Smithers argues that work undertaken by students on sandwichcourses bears
among students in terms of computer resourcesand Internet access. The current work hopes to show that not only is it possible to create andadminister hybrid or remote labs involving physical experiments successfully, but it is alsopossible to use the lessons learned when returning to completely on campus lab courses.Course details and COVID related adjustmentsThe lab course which is the focus of this paper is entitled Measurements and Analysis withThermal Science Application. It is a required junior level lab course in the MechanicalEngineering department at Northeastern University. The goal of this course is to teach studentsthe principles of design of experiments (DOE) and introduce them to sensors, data acquisition,and data analysis
implicitly addressed throughthe process that aims to include participants with both age and gender diversity.4. 2020 Co-Creating Symposium: Specific Objectives and ContentThe development of a virtual co-design workshop embodied the need for adaptation that wasbrought by the new coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2). Flexibility and real-time adaptation throughoutthe event was necessary for successfully completing the workshop and building trust amongparticipants. At the same time, our co-creative event was directly addressing the need forcommunity and interaction that had been growing due to lock-down measures and physicaldistancing.4.1. ObjectivesWe established the following objectives for the 2020 Co-Creation Symposium: 1. To support community resilience
in designthinking, which were traced to the Understanding phase of the course. Ash talked about the user-centered design approach taken by her team and how having that as her mindset impacted all oftheir design decisions. Ash remarked that bringing design thinking into the course was “sopowerful” and that “this needs to be integral to how we all think and work; it’s the real world.”Gavin said that the reason that their team chose their project idea—a neuromechanical handorthosis—is that they had a user at the center of it, an idea of the parts of a successful design, theneeded skillsets, and confidence in their abilities to go the mile. Gavin explained that theirmeetings with their customer helped instill ownership in the project for the
settings are applicable in the setting of the United States Air ForceAcademy than was available by using only one source.10 For example, understanding themotivators of engagement may not allow for policy changes on the part of the USAFAadministration without knowing that the type of engagement being encouraged was having thedesired effect on officer development. Correlating both qualitative and quantitative analysis intoone set of findings can assure analysis of the appropriate motivators and the appropriateoutcomes desired for the Air Force Academy. Page 24.486.8 Although the data from the quantitative NSSE tool were originally collected
, assessing gains in institutional efforts to advance equity an inclusion, and the use of data science for training socially responsible engineers.Dr. Anne M. McAlister, University at Buffalo Anne M. McAlister is a Postdoctoral Associate in the Department of Engineering Education at the Uni- versity at Buffalo. Her research focuses on engineering identity, social justice, and equity with the goal of broadening ideas about who engineers are and what they do in order to empower students to tackle the big issues in today’s world through engineering. Dr. McAlister has a PhD in Education and a MS in Systems Engineering from the University of Virginia. She has a BS in Chemical Engineering from The Ohio State University.Nichole
). As a research area, it is grounded in certainontologies, epistemologies and methodologies (Evans et al., 2010). A widely quoted definition ofstudent development is as follows: “the application of human development concepts inpostsecondary settings so that everyone involved can master increasingly complexdevelopmental tasks, achieve self-direction, and become interdependent” (Miller and Prince,1976, p. 3). There are at least two assumptions behind the discussions about studentdevelopment. One is that student development is a positive growth process, which isconceptually different from change or growth (Sanford, 1967). The other is that studentdevelopment is conceptualized and evaluated on the basis of the changing societal conditions(McEwen
biography on Marie Curie. And she had two children, and she did not get her Ph.D. until she was 35, so that became my goal. I was going to have my Ph.D. when I was 35, and I did finish that, had my Ph.D. at 35. She had two children; I had two children when I finished my Ph.D….I sought out role models who have been successful mothers and careers, including the first woman who was prime minister in Norway, Dr. Gro Brundtland, who coined the sustainable definition – sustainability definition that everybody uses. She was I think the founder and first director of the World Health Organization, and I got to talk to her about her having five kids and what she did when she had five kids to still be successful
. Specifically, she focuses on divergent and convergent thinking processes in design innovations, including investigations of concept generation and development, exploring problem spaces to identify real needs and innovation opportunities, and approaches to integrate social and cultural elements of design contexts into design decisions.Charlie Michaels Charlie Michaels is the Director for Experiential Learning and a Lecturer at the University of Michigan's Center for Socially Engaged Design (C-SED). He leads C-SED’s experiential learning programs including a design fieldwork course which places students with global, cross sector partner organizations. Charlie actively works with faculty from across the university to build
more complex ways after you use it in the context of a project. have used them in the context of a project. What are they These questions will help you These questions let you show designed to gauge how well you can deeper levels of understanding assess? demonstrate individual and procedural knowledge by knowledge and skills you will strategically combining multiple need in the course, and give you a concepts and/or skills to solve chance to identify topics that may real-world coding problems. require
groups more than individualperformance or merit (refer to [23], [24]).Internships can offer a window into organizational practices like assignments, but it is not certainthat they equip students with ways to challenge inequitable assignment practice—they can belargely reinforcing mechanisms, introducing students to normative engineering workplaceprocesses (e.g., [25]). Nor is everyone selected for those internships to begin with [26]; in onerecent study, Campero [27] finds racial disparities in the screening of software engineering interncandidates that favor White applicants. There is, in short, the likelihood of informationaladvantages accrued to people already “in the know” as they enter the labor market andworkplace (refer also to [26
might encounter in engineering. It is recommended to openlydiscuss these elements, and point the students to consider participating in co-curricular groupslike the Society of Women Engineers (SWE), the Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers(SHPE), and the National Society of Black Engineers (NSBE). These groups can help thestudents network with professionals and gain advice to prepare them for real-world conditions.It is also notable that a few students did push back on what they read. As an example, a whitemale student in reference to the NSPE article wrote: “The second piece that stood out to me inthis article was the idea of that we’re discriminating against white males in the EngineeringIndustry. I felt like this statement was