theirundergraduate education. The question is whether graduates have gained sufficient knowledge topass the PE exam upon graduation. The following study focused on how closely the curriculumfrom a statistically averaged EAC-ABET accredited civil engineering program aligns with thecontent on the five new civil engineering specific PE exams.The average civil engineering curriculum from a study of 87 EAC-ABET accredited programswas compared to the content (232 unique subtopics) on the revised CE discipline specific PEexams. The NCEES topic list for each exam was mapped to course descriptions in undergraduaterequired and elective courses. The results indicate that 1) the range of civil engineering topicsvaries significantly in each of the five NCEES civil
understanding of the fundamental concepts andpractical applications of energy conversion systems, which are critical for advanced research anddevelopment in mechanical engineering. According to a recent study by the American Society forEngineering Education (ASEE), students who take energy conversion courses are more likely tobe interested in pursuing graduate studies in mechanical engineering, as compared to those whodo not take such courses (Liang et al., 2021).To enhance student participation, engagement, and retention in the energy conversion course,novel teaching techniques have been proposed and implemented. These techniques focus oncreating an interactive and collaborative learning environment that enables students to applytheoretical concepts
participants can either completecoursework (to make a rigid STEM degree plan more manageable by taking multiple classes orto focus on one particularly difficult course) or conduct paid STEM research. RESP pays for on-campus housing and meal costs for all second summer participants, as well as any portion ofsummer school tuition not covered by Rice’s summer scholarship program.Current StudyFor this study, STEM was defined as the physical sciences, biological sciences excludingkinesiology (excluded because this major has fewer core STEM course requirements than allother STEM majors), math, and engineering. The RESP program has two primary goals: 1)graduate more students as STEM majors, and 2) graduate more STEM students with B- or higher(2.67 cumulative
Paper ID #13944Student Led Example Problems in a Graduate-Level Advanced TransportPhenomena CourseDr. Adrienne Minerick, Michigan Technological University Adrienne Minerick received her M.S. and Ph.D. from the University of Notre Dame and B.S. from Michi- gan Technological University. Adrienne’s research interests include electrokinetics, predominantly di- electrophoretic characterizations of cells, and the development of biomedical microdevices. She earned a NSF CAREER award and was nominated for Michigan Professor of the Year in 2014. Research within her Medical micro-Device Engineering Research Laboratory (M.D. – ERL
Paper ID #47104Retention and Graduation of Chemical Engineering Undergraduates at theUniversity of ArkansasDr. Heather Walker, University of Arkansas Dr. Walker is a Teaching Associate Professor and the Associate Department Head for the Undergraduate Program in the Ralph E. Martin Department of Chemical Engineering at the University of Arkansas. Her research interests include engineering education, increasing student engagement and student advising.Mr. Jay McAllister, University of Arkansas Jay McAllister is the engineering and honors college librarian at the University of Arkansas in Fayetteville, Arkansas. His
earned the BS and MS in Mathematics.Dr. Craig G Downing, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology Craig G. Downing is Department Head and Associate Professor of Engineering Management at Rose- Hulman Institute of Technology. His teaching responsibilities are focused on delivering graduate-level instruction related to Operations and Quality Systems. His interests are rooted in Academic-Industrial partnerships, Process Improvement, and Action Research in Engineering Management. He is a certified Lean Six Sigma Master Black Belt. Page 24.1001.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2014
focused curriculum at a pace that is suitable foreveryone? On top of this, graduate courses should aim to provide students with some means offurthering their professional development for future job prospects. One common theme between, experienced and non-experienced students, is the commongoal of advancing their education through a focused agenda. In a 2013 study, researchers foundthat most of the returning graduate students they interviewed were motivated by a utility value,or the students’ interest in expanding their skill set and creating better opportunities1.Alternatively, one could argue that non-experienced students who continued straight fromundergraduate already are motivated by a utility value, they want to further their
less thanmajority male counterparts across all occupations and industry sectors [3]. Moreover, PhDstudents are less likely to understand the range of career options available outside of traditionaltenure track professor roles [4]. These two problems, limited knowledge of career options, andentering professions at lower salaries, can undermine student confidence in their ability to besuccessful and their perceptions of the value of a graduate education.Educating Future STEM Leaders: An Innovative Career Readiness Program for STEM GraduateStudents, aims to create a blueprint for a public research institution to provide a rigorousprogram for graduate students in STEM disciplines, with focus on traditionally underrepresentedstudents in STEM, to
in engineering, care ethics in engineering, humanitarian engineering, engineering ethics, and computer modeling of electric power and renewable energy systems.Ms. Ngan T.T. Nguyen, Texas Tech University Ngan Nguyen is a research assistant and doctoral candidate in the Department of Curriculum and Instruc- tion at Texas Tech University. Her research is focused on fostering the learning experiences of Asian international graduate students in higher education.Dr. Jeong-Hee Kim, Texas Tech University Jeong-Hee Kim is Chairperson and Professor of Curriculum Studies and Teacher Education in the De- partment of Curriculum and Instruction at Texas Tech University. Kim is a curriculum theorist, teacher educator, and
Session 2655 .— - ..-. .— —. A. Teaching Assistant Training Program with a Focus on Teaching Improvement and Graduate Student Development Peck Cho, William Predebon Michigan Technological UniversityABSTRACT This paper presents a case study of a teaching assistants (TA’s) training program in the Department ofMechanical Engineering and Engineering Mechanics at Michigan Technological University. This trainingprogram may be unique in that it is designed to achieve dual objectives: to improve the quality of
of leaders and change-agents in engineering education who can conduct high impact research. We will design and conduct three Engineering Education Institutes (at the University of Washington, Stanford University and Howard University) where engineering faculty and graduate students will 1) learn research methods, 2) define and conduct research studies linked to the ongoing scholarship in the Center, 3) create resources for dissemination, and 4) refine leadership skills.In the Scholarship on Learning Engineering program we are developing an understanding of howstudents come to engineering and what leads them to leave or stay. Halpern (2002) advocatesthat reform efforts should embrace what we know about how people think, how they learn
Paper ID #48859Empowering Engineering Graduates to Contribute towards Designing SaferGenerative AI Tools through an Ethics CourseSourojit Ghosh, University of Washington Sourojit Ghosh is a fifth year PhD Candidate at the University of Washington, Seattle in Human Centered Design and Engineering.Dr. Sarah Marie Coppola, University of Washington Sarah Coppola is an Assistant Teaching Professor the Department of Human Centered Design & Engineering at the University of Washington. Dr. Coppola is an educator and researcher whose work focuses on how technology and systems design affects people’s performance and health. She
and Development,Colonel, USAF, and even “Chief Skunk” (at the iconic Skunk Works at Lockheed Martin).Leaders from all but one but one of the ten companies participating in this study of innovation incorporations recommended that innovative engineering graduates have high levels of confidenceand/or attributes and behaviors that depend directly on such confidence. It is not enough that aninnovative engineer be competent. He/she must also have the confidence needed to behave andact in the following ways: Confidence-dependent Behavior/Attribute Mentioned by innovation leaders at: 1. Question the status quo enough to consider DuPont, IBM, Lockheed Martin, Pankow disruptive solutions
. Chubin, D. and Babco, E., “Walking the Talk” in Retention-to-Graduation: Institutional Production of Minority Engineers – A NACME Analysis, Commission on Professionals in Science and Technology (www.cpst.org/WalkingtheTalk.pdf), July 2003.6. Morrison, C., Griffin, K., and Marcutillio, P., “Retention of Minority Students in Engineering: Institutional Variability and Success,” NACME Research Letter, Vol. 5, No. 2, 1995.7. Peterson, L., Pinkham, S., and Jordan, C., “ALVA: A Successful Program for Increasing the Number of Minority Undergraduates who Earn Engineering Degrees,” Proceedings of the 2005 ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition, Portland, OR, June 2005.8. Morning, C. and Fleming, J., “Project Preserve: A Program to
Paper ID #14581A Holistic Student-Centered Approach to Retaining and Graduating Engi-neers at a Midwest UniversityDr. Ma Zenia N. Agustin, Southern Illinois University - Edwardsville Dr. Zenia Agustin is a Professor in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville. Currently, she is the Director of General Education and Integrative Studies for the university and Director of the Actuarial Science program for the department. Her research interests include reliability and survival analysis and in particular, goodness-of-fit testing for recurrent events.Dr. Marcus Agustin, Southern
fall semester.The remaining sections of the paper are organized as follows. In section II, we briefly describethe course and its objective. Section III presents course design and detail schedule of activitiesduring the residency week. In section IV, we present a case study on an animal healthcaredistribution company from a recent class. Section V describes the key findings of the project. Insection VI, we conclude the paper with some remarks from students’ survey.II. Course DescriptionThis is a project-based course designed to enhance students’ experience in quantitative researchand analysis. The main objective of this course is to provide students with sufficient exposureand training to perform applied research in their post graduation career
Massachusetts public high school students attended a school that offered atleast one CS course, only 7.9% were enrolled in such a course [5]. This enrollment number waslower among students of color, female students, and high needs students1 [11].In mid-2023, in order to understand the scope of a potential graduation requirement, theMassachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education (DESE) commissioned anindependent research team via a competitive process to study the opportunity and implicationsfor a CS graduation requirement, and make recommendations to DESE about the appropriatenessof a graduation requirement and any design considerations. As part of the recommendationprocess, DESE expressed a desire for broad community engagement through
in the program, as we believeit will take the active participation of all parties to achieve the goals of the program. Former andcurrent graduate fellows found that making a difference in the community, broadening theircollege experience, and being a role model were reasons for joining RAMP-UP. When thesefellows were surveyed, they all “strongly agreed” that RAMP-UP has had a positive impact ontheir graduate experience, and that involvement in the program is rewarding.Previous studies have highlighted concerns about “sidetracking” the research focus of studentswho have GK-12 fellowships as opposed to a more traditional assistantship. The departmentswhere RAMP-UP graduate fellows devote their scholastic hours have varying opinions onRAMP-UP
Paper ID #38397Supporting Graduate Women in Engineering: The Approach and Findingsof aYear-Long Program at UIUCMs. Aadhy Parthasarathy, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign Aadhy Parthasarathy is a Ph.D. candidate in Aerospace Engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana- Champaign (UIUC). Her Ph.D. research is focused on understanding the effects of spatially- and temporally- varying pressure gradients on turbulent boundary layers. She is committed to Diversity, Equity, and In- clusion, and is involved with various related efforts around the UIUC campus.Rupal Nigam, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
company which employs both engineers and engineering technologists and a Technology educator atUniversity of Houston. These suggestions also come from one who also spent a number of years as anEngineering Technology faculty member at a major university and well understands the challenges of quicklyadapting educational programs to meet the needs of industry.Background It has been said that Science-Engineering-Technology is a spectrum or perhaps a continuum. On oneend are the scientists working to understand the fundamental building blocks of nature or the development ofbasic sciences through research and study. Engineers are typically characterized as those that apply the resultsof the scientists basic research into products beneficial to
, data structures, and algorithms designed explicitly for non-computingcollege graduates. Additionally, during the first two semesters, the curriculum incorporates aninnovative excursions component that provides students with breadth in computing by readingand discussing CS research papers, participating in hands-on activities with core computingtools, and engaging with guest speakers in the field. The final semester serves as an off-rampfrom the iCAN program. The coursework includes a capstone experience (or individual study)and a graduate-level CS elective. Capstone projects can be research experience, a softwaredevelopment project, or an internship. iCAN students are paired with faculty mentors for thecapstone project. Overall, we have had 20
from the RISE Scholars S-STEM ProgramIntroductionThe National Science Foundation’s Scholarships in STEM (S-STEM) program fundsscholarships and support for the recruitment, persistence, graduation, and placement ofacademically talented low-income students into STEM careers [1]. Beyond directly supportingindividual S-STEM Scholars, the program seeks to identify curricular and co-curricular activitiesimproving STEM persistence and career placement that can be applied more broadly.The S-STEM funded RISE Scholars Program at Roger Williams University examines the effectsof engaging undergraduate students in a structured practice of science communication [2].Recent studies have shown that instruction in science communication can improve
research assistant. Primary funding to support graduate students in engineering, science, and technology usuallycomes from the sponsored research program activity of the faculty in their fields of study. Thecurrent source of funding for graduate education with a research focus is usually federal orprivate. This funding supports student salary stipends, tuition waivers, and other expensesassociated with their educational objectives, which in most cases may have a strong researchcomponent. This funding model has steadily evolved as a response to a basic research model,which is at the core of the mission of major public research universities [1] (Boyer or othercitation).In the past few years, some states have recognized that funding of the research
Proposal for a New Interdisciplinary Graduate Program Master of Engineering:Lessons learnedDevi KallaDr. Devi K. Kalla received a PhD in Industrial Engineering from Wichita State University in 2008. He isthe Program Director of Mechanical Engineering Technology and Professor in the Department ofEngineering and Engineering Technology at Metropolitan State Univeristy of Denver. He has a strongexperience on composite manufacturing, machining and modeling. His research interest includesenvironmentally conscious manufacturing, green manufacturing/Sustainable Engineering, energy efficientmanufacturing processes and automated design and product development.Zsuzsa BaloghJulio ProanoJeno BaloghFred Barlow © American
Virginia Tech, Clemson, Utah State,Arizona State, Ohio State, and others formalizing in the years since then. Other less formalized PhDpathways in engineering education have also appeared, expanding the possibilities of PhD study. Thus,the process of graduate school, while familiar to many academics, is also always becoming new. Whilesharing strategies and insights about graduate school has been done several times before [4], [5], it isimportant to update and reiterate those pieces of advice in new realities.Furthermore, while an intense and specific experience, most people only ever complete the PhD processonce. Each step of the process— coursework, qualifying or comprehensive exams, dissertation proposal,research, dissertation writing, and
variousteaching roles (labs, tutorials and design projects), who contractually can undertake a maximum of 6hours of teaching per week. Our GTA cohort is somewhat heterogenous made up of a mixture ofrecent graduates and those with industrial experience, with some being entirely new to teaching whileothers have limited prior experience.The central research question guiding the study reported here is: whether there are any currentmechanisms that are illustrative of (potential) decisional capital, and how these could be furtherenhanced. As this paper is a work in progress (WIP) piece, we are deliberately focusing on one aspectof a much wider study, that considers how professional capital [3][4] can be used to enable individualGTAs to professionalise their
enterprises and entire communities.The authors propose a multi-level multi-dimensional perspective for assessing the effectivenessof entrepreneurship education programs while introducing a measurement model as a criticalcomponent. The effectiveness of entrepreneurial education programs is difficult to measureprecisely, particularly in a shorter time, due to the nature of entrepreneurship education programoutcomes which researchers need to wait years before students graduate and then contribute tothe creation of innovation or new venture in their later carrier. According to Rouse and Morris[2], mental models are the mechanisms whereby humans generate descriptions of system purposeand form, explanations of system functioning and observed system states
engineering education. Kitana is an active member of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE) at WSU, and serves as their Graduate Student Chair for the 2018-19 academic year.David B. Thiessen, Washington State University David B.Thiessen received his Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from the University of Colorado in 1992 and has been at Washington State University since 1994. His research interests include fluid physics, acoustics, and engineering education.Prof. Bernard J. Van Wie, Washington State University Prof. Bernard J. Van Wie received his B.S., M.S. and Ph.D., and did his postdoctoral work at the University of Oklahoma where he also taught as a visiting lecturer. He has been on the Washington State
AC 2011-1606: DEVELOPMENT OF A NEW GRADUATE COURSE INSUSTAINABLE TECHNOLOGY ENTREPRENEURSHIP FOR SCIENTISTSAND ENGINEERSAnthony Marchese, Colorado State University Anthony Marchese is an Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Colorado State University and a PI at the Engines and Energy Conversion Laboratory. He holds a Ph.D. and M.A. in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering from Princeton University and B.S. and M.S. degrees from Rensselaer Polytech- nic Institute. He is currently funded by NSF to study pollutant formation and combustion chemistry of algae-derived biofuels and is the fuel conversion/characterization team leader for the National Alliance for Advanced Biofuels and Bioproducts, a $48 Million
instructors) teach a course. They could discuss teachingtechniques and skills after class, which would help the mentee cultivate his or her teachingphilosophy. The PhD student should be required to write a teaching philosophy before and afterthe mentoring experience.References1. Dreher, G. P., & Ash, R. A. (1990).A comparative study of mentoring among men and women in managerial, professional, and technical positions. Journal of Applied Psychology, 75, 539-546.2. Gerstein, M. (1985). Mentoring: An age old practice in a knowledge-based society. Journal of Counseling and Development, 64 (2), 156-1573. Council of Graduate Schools. (1990). Research student and supervisor: An approach to good supervisory practice. Washington, DC