external consultant has served on design teams for many leadershipdevelopment programs in industry and in academia including the ELATE (Executive Leadershipin Academic Technology and Engineering) leadership program. She is an executive coach andconsultant with an international clientele who range from multi-national corporations touniversities. This broader design team provides more experience, is more diverse, and workstogether by challenging suggestions and refining processes.The design of the second generation of ReDI responds to the evaluation of the first generation ofReDI (see Appendix II), and the specific feedback that faculty are prepared to spend time on anexperiential project that benefits the research environment. Since there was no
“Energy and Environmental Issues for China.”Each student was assigned to study selected sites in depth and present his or her findings to thegroup on the day of the visit. In addition, students were expected to keep a journal documentingtheir reflections on what they had witnessed and learned throughout the trip. After the study-tour, the GTI Study Program participants made presentations to 200+ students in the College ofEngineering about the information they had learned and the impact of globalization oneveryone’s lives.2.4. Study Program Site SelectionAs mentioned earlier, all participants were undergraduate students; most of them were juniorsand seniors. It was discovered that stimulating student interest was best achieved by selectingstudy
participantsIn bringing together women administrators from 17 US states and Canada (see Appendix C forParticipant List), the WEAAP workshop offered an extensively diverse perspective for its issue-driven agenda. Over 45 women in higher education administration were identified throughexhaustive networking. All were invited to participate, and 23 were able to attend. Institutionsrepresented included 18 public and 7 private institutions, ranging in enrollment from 2,300 to50,000 (Table 2) with great variation of graduate and undergraduate programs, demographics,research expenditures, and costs (Tables 3, 4 and 5). Details used to derive informationsummarized in these tables is presented in Appendix D.Workshop organizationThe workshop was organized into
AC 2007-1867: EXPERIENCE WITH AND LESSONS LEARNED IN A STEMSUMMER CAMP FOR TRIBAL COLLEGE STUDENTSWei Lin, North Dakota State University Dr. Wei Lin is an Associate Professor of environmental engineering in North Dakota State University. He also serves as the Director of the interdisciplinary Environmental and Conservation Sciences graduate program. Dr. Lin teaches environmental and water resources courses at undergraduate and graduate levels. His research areas include water and wastewater treatment technologies, wetland studies, and river water quality modeling and management. He has participated in the ONR, NASA and ND EPSCoR funded Native American educational outreach projects as
scientists involved in the aerospace industry, along with computer scientistsparticipated in this event, which was scheduled early in the program in an effort to energizeparticipants and open up the world of career possibilities in engineering and science and realizehow those professionals were engaged in solving important problems in the world. The feedbackreceived from this particular session, including participant comments in journals (some of whichare included below) indicated that the session was effective in meeting one of the overall goals ofSTEP UP—stimulating and nurturing interests in S & E careers.Another change in the 2006 program based on evaluation of the 2005 camp was to utilize moreand varied venues across campus. As discussed
in terms of gender, patterns in course-taking and offerings,and common pathways towards STEM careers such as medical and law school. The resultssuggest the structure of STEM undergraduate programs, professional training, and their links tocareers in the same field are themselves partially to blame for unequal participation by women.For example, women are more likely to take and excel in more diverse classes as students,including elective courses in non-STEM fields. They also appear to prefer departments where themajor can be selected later in the undergraduate career, and is less hierarchical than is commonwith STEM degrees. Unsurprisingly, this often translates into women pursuing traditionallyfemale-dominated majors instead of more male
developing faculty in the context of newteaching and learning paradigms, for the evaluation of the scholarship of teaching and for theresearch-teaching nexus.IntroductionDuring the 1990s there was a sustained global debate about reform in engineering education. TheEC 2000 developed by ABET typify the shift towards a broader set of measurable outcomes thatemerged from this process. Similar reforms have taken place in other countries. For instance inAustralia, the report of the national Review of Engineering Education entitled Changing theCulture1 lead to a change in the accreditation of Australian engineering programs based more onoutcomes with a particular emphasis on the demonstration of broader graduate attributes. Thischange has challenged
major universities and tribal colleges in the State worked together toconceive, design, and implement different STEM-enhancement activities for the tribal collegeand Reservation high and middle school students6. This effort culminated in continued fundingfrom the North Dakota Experimental Program to Stimulate Competitive Research (NDEPSCoR)program of the National Science Foundation since 2004 under the title Nurturing AmericanTribal Undergraduates in Research and Education (NATURE)http://www.ndsu.edu/epscor/NATURE/research.html. A research component, Tribal CollegeUndergraduate Research Mentoring (TCURMP), was added to NATURE in 2007 as a pilotprogram. It was later included as a regular component of NATURE7,8.Recent educational research has
diversity statement exercise is only one ofthe topics explored by program participants in the eight-week program. Two research questionsabout the diversity statement exercise guided the analyses and results reported here: 1) does thediversity statement exercise show promise as a means of enabling participants to engage withdiversity issues in engineering education?, and 2) how prepared are engineering graduatestudents to grapple with issues of diversity and teaching? The remainder of this paper is organized into background, methods, results, discussion andconclusion sections. We provide background information about diversity in engineeringeducation. Next, we provide a brief overview of our work including descriptions of the portfolioprogram and the
visualization skills into a pre-existing Page 22.819.5freshman seminar course, Undergraduate Studies (UGS) 001, also known as a First-YearInterest Group (FIG).ApproachTo identify high-risk groups and to streamline the implementation of the spatial visualizationworkshops in the first semester, the team targeted first year women, participating in FIGsorganized by the Women in Engineering Program (WEP) at UT Austin. All first year womenenrolled in FIGs were invited to take the Purdue Spatial Visualization Test: Visualization ofRotations (PSVT:R) prior to the start of the fall semester of 2010. Invitations were distributedin the form of email messages and
–women.BackgroundA. Previouse findingsIn the fall of 2013 Innopolis University conducted an extensive survey5 of groups ofstakeholders on what competencies they consider important for IT specialists. More than900 respondents participated in the survey. The groups of stakeholders included high-school students with an explicit interest in IT, students of IT specialties, IT professionals,top management of IT companies, and owners of IT businesses. By “explicit interest” inIT we mean that high-school students attend extra-curricular classes in IT (often for extrafees), for example, in programming, web and virtual design, robotics, etc.It was discovered among respondents over 18 years old, which represents students of ITspecialties and IT professionals of all
agents, but lag in other areas of the finance sector including commodities brokeringand trading (45.4%). Similarly, most clerical positions are also dominated by women, such ascollections (69.6%) and public relations (64.3%). Education (62.6%) and other health services(79.9%) also follow this trend [23]. In engineering, women also participate in the workforce atlevels that are far below gender parity. Industrial engineering boasts the highest percentage ofwomen at 23%, followed by computer hardware (18.9%), chemical (16.3%), mechanical(10.9%), and electrical (9.4%) [24]. And, despite the fact that mechanical and electricalengineering are among the most popular fields within engineering, these fields graduate thelowest numbers of female students
efforts are undergoing to attract minority students to engineering from K-20. STEMFellows in K-12 Education Program3, providing exposure, stimulating enthusiasm, training,promoting the value of engineering, and mentoring minority K-12 students4, are some of theapproaches that help to bring minority students into the engineering program. This effort mightnot be fruitful unless the minority students with the interest and preparation feel a part of the Page 23.615.2engineering class. 1.1 Hispanic Serving Institutions (HSI)Hispanic serving institutions (HSIs) are a group of minority-serving institutions established byrecognizing the fact that the
University, an American Indian tribal college, and the U.S. GeologicalSurvey (USGS) Earth Resources Observation Systems (EROS) Data Center, which operates theNational Satellite Land Remote Sensing Data Archive. All five states affiliated with UMAC alsoparticipate in the NSF Experimental Program to Stimulate Competitive Research (EPSCoR). Theintent was to provide students in the Upper Midwest EPSCoR states with research opportunitiesthat they could not experience at their home institutions. Figure 1. Upper Midwest Aerospace Consortium (UMAC) partner institutions.The original recruiting requirements are listed as follows, although they were modified each yeardue to program constraints and lessons learned: 1. Eight (8) undergraduate research
based on the analysis of quantitative (surveydata, data on participation to workshops) and qualitative (observations and interviews) data. Theanalysis supports the need for student champions to develop a community of practice andmentorship and structure for peer teaching topics and content in an extracurricular setting. Futurework suggests a more structured series of design workshops.BackgroundExtracurricular Design LearningResearch has shown the positive effect of extracurricular activities and projects on designlearning. Dukart indicated strong findings that extracurricular project-based experiential learning(EPBEL) experiences can have a positive impact on satisfaction in undergraduate engineeringstudents, enhance their experience, and give
literature, which hasgenerally focused upon asynchronous online learning environments, by considering developmentof student community in a synchronous online environment. While the underlying strategies aresimilar, the particular solutions vary. This paper describes a recently developed online learningenvironment for engineering education and student use of the tools of that environment to forgebonds with one another, their faculty instructors, and the broader engineering community. Thestrengths and opportunities for improvement from the perspective of the student were captured ina survey administered to students participating in the online engineering program. This surveyserves as a baseline from which to measure the development of community and to
empathy, andmake use of Design Heuristics in generating concepts.MethodParticipantsParticipants in this study include eight engineering and industrial design students from a largeMidwestern university, interacting in dyads. Participants included five males and three females,with all females appearing in the two industrial design dyads. Students were identified andselected to represent two programs focusing on design, with two undergraduate dyads and twograduate dyads. The undergraduate dyads included students in a junior-level industrial designcourse (n=2) and students in a sophomore-level mechanical engineering course. The graduatedyads included students in an engineering design studio (n=2) and an industrial design studio(n=2
resonated personally and enabled them to connect an outside interestwith ethical principles and methods of analysis they learned in the class. This item met courseobjectives related to critical thinking and acting reflectively in the world.Table 2: Student topics for action essays (left) and resultant actions (right)Should the college’s design clinic accept projects from Interviews with and recommendations to Designdefense contractors who place restrictions on the Clinic and Program Directors; personal decisionparticipation of international students? about participating in project when fellow team member was excludedHow should the town community
independent data to confirm the most important outcomes. The teamcreated its own survey using our definitions to find relative importance of the fifteen outcomesdefined in Table 2. The survey was created through Qualtrics, an online survey instrument.Qualtrics provides a convenient way for participants to complete surveys on their cellular phonesor computers and on their own time. Results are automatically and anonymously submitted andcompiled [8]. The survey was distributed to industry representatives who serve as advisors orclients for engineering capstone programs at various universities. The survey asked industryrepresentatives to rank order learning outcomes required for successful and productiveemployment. Results from eighty-nine
engineering disciplines (biomedical/bioengineering, chemical, civil, electrical, industrial, and mechanical). All faculty members,program chairs, and sophomore, junior and senior students at participating institutions were Page 22.430.3invited to participate in web-based surveys. The student surveys solicited respondents‟background and demographic characteristics, self-assessments of selected learning outcomes,and future career plans. The survey also queried students‟ perceptions of classroom practices,out-of-class interactions with faculty, and extracurricular experiences. Chairs were askedquestions about their curriculum, educational support
and the preparation for professional development andspecialized study that will benefit our graduates. The undergraduate program in chemical engineering builds a strong foundation for the professional development of its students and prepares them to meet the technological challenges of the future . . . students are well equipped for a wide variety of positions as practicing chemical engineers or for graduate studies in competitive engineering and scientific disciplines. The intensive program promotes continued learning and professional development . . . The program draws on the scholarly accomplishments of its faculty to integrate traditional chemical engineering
high school students, supporting the teacher for some phases of theprogram and leading lectures and hands-on activities in later phases. The graduate students are in turnsupported by undergraduate students, who help prepare lab materials and lesson plans.In addition to the UAS program’s STEM program, UAF has received a separate line of STEM fundingto teach basic UAS operations in Alaska Native Villages. Page 26.1613.7Modern Blanket Toss. The Modern Blanket Toss is a STEM program administered by Alaska UpwardBound and the National Science Foundation (NSF) Experimental Program to Stimulate CompetitiveResearch (EPSCoR) program[5]. The program
in the industry. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2019TEAM MENTAL MODELS IN ENGINEERING DESIGN CONTEXTS 1 A systematized literature review of the characteristics of team mental models in engineering design contexts AbstractDesign tasks are characterized by high levels of complexity and uncertainty. Accordingly, inengineering design practices, engineers communicate, share, and integrate their differentviewpoints and orientations to develop a deeper understanding of the problem space and tobroaden the solution space. In this context, engineering design is usually taught
studentsin meaningful ways in ongoing research programs or in research projects specifically designedfor the IRES program. Such experiences expose U.S. students to the international researchcommunity at a critical early stage in their careers.Eight undergraduate and graduate students participated in this program during the past summerof 2015.(Figure 5) This program spanned four weeks, with the first two weeks spent in theNetherlands and the following two weeks in Egypt, providing the students a unique learningopportunity. Spending the first two weeks of the program in the Netherlands, a country that hassome of the most sustainable and smart cities in the world, provided the students with a muchbroader view of what sustainability and sustainable
), the transfer of these skills to isolated or collaborative PBL contexts may presentsubstantial challenges. However, beyond the issues of transfer and acquisition of thesecompetencies, there is little scholarship that explores how students may be disincentivized frombuilding appropriate individual competencies in design environments that are largely group-oriented.Purpose of the ResearchIn this paper, we will present results from an undergraduate transdisciplinary degree program inwhich students spent the first two years of their core degree experience working almostexclusively in groups, although they were expected to develop an individual set of disciplinaryinterests and competencies. The instructional strategy shifted during the first
, he developed the capstone course sequence in the newly-formed Bio- engineering department and has been responsible for teaching it since. Todd also serves as a Director for the UTDesign program, which facilitates resource sharing and corporate sponsorship of projects for all engineering disciplines at the university. He attended the Capstone Design Conference in 2014 and 2016, and is an active member of IEEE and EMBS.Prof. Margaret Garnett Smallwood, University of Texas, Dallas I am a Senior Lecturer II in the Jindal School of Management at the University of Texas at Dallas. I teach three business communication courses to undergraduate students. I have an MBA in international management and marketing from UTD and
from the University of Dayton and a Ph.D. in Engineering Education from Purdue University. Her research focuses on idea gen- eration, design strategies, design ethnography, creativity instruction, and engineering practitioners who return to graduate school. She teaches design and entrepreneurship courses at the undergraduate and graduate levels. Her work is often cross-disciplinary, collaborating with colleagues from engineering, education, psychology, and industrial design.Dr. Kathryn Jablokow, Pennsylvania State University Dr. Kathryn Jablokow is an Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Engineering Design at Penn State University. A graduate of Ohio State University (Ph.D., Electrical Engineering), Dr
instances where this type of course is not executed properly, students are overcome withthe ambiguity of the project and are unable to attach themselves to the project and ultimatelylearn.1Hackathons are an interesting example to look at as they are similar to PBL in many aspects. Atypical hackathon approach to PBL follows an unconventional route when compared to theclassroom setting. Their primary structure is a short-form programming sprint that takes placeover 24 to 48 hours in which teams of participants focus on making a working product fordemoing at a showcase. In this environment, demoing is a mark of success as it demonstrates thatthe team has created something they are willing to show to the public. While the structure andtimeframe differ
with a between-subject factorial design-based surveythat mainly involves an idea generation task with two different problem framings, i.e., come upwith a new idea to preserve or to change a certain situation. We elaborate on the survey study inthe next section.6. Method6.1. Participants178 Japanese and 239 American college students of engineering majors participated in our onlinesurvey. The Japanese engineering students were undergraduate and graduate students from aprivate engineering university in Tokyo, Japan, and the American students were recruited fromProlific1 based on the screening requirement of U.S. citizens and current students of engineeringmajors such as mechanical engineering, electric engineering, computer science and
, the resultant information was organizedaccording to the researched population (Appendix): K-12 students and teachers, collegestudents (undergraduate and graduate), and non-formal students (communities andprofessionals).K-12: Students and teachers In total, six articles represent the research around the education of students enrolled inthe K-12 ranks, principally 5th grade and secondary school, to foster social justice. In the firstcase, I found that the researchers used design as a means for learning (problem-based learning),associating the concept of social justice with how the participants addressed or solved social 10problems. For