University of Washington’s Center for Engineering Learning & Teaching (CELT). His research and teaching interests include engineering design, major choice, and professional portfolios. He completed an A.B. in computer science at Dartmouth College and a Ph.D. in computer science and engineering at the University of Wash- ington. When he finds the time, he enjoys cooking, photography, bicycle repair, and cycling (instead of owning a car). Page 23.380.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2013 Designing for Communities: The Impact of Domain Expertise
institutions, such as applying educational theories in acourse design [13], implementing an intervention [14], [15], [16], and redesigning a streamlineof curriculums [17], [18], [19]. There is a lack of comprehensive, evidence-based researchdepicting the overall experiences of sophomore engineering students and how these experiencesinfluence retention and other academic success indicators.In reviewing the literature, we found Tinto’s Model of Student Departure offers a valuabletheoretical lens for examining the sophomore experiences of engineering students and theirimpact on students’ decision to drop out vs. persist [20], [21] (Appendix A). This model positsthat student retention is influenced by the interplay of academic and social integration
Paper ID #43995Outsiders: Pathways and Perspectives from Engineering Education PhDsOutside AcademiaDr. Meagan C Pollock, Engineer Inclusion As an engineer turned educator, through her company, Engineer Inclusion, Dr. Meagan Pollock focuses on helping others intentionally engineer inclusion™ in education and the workforce.Dr. Hoda Ehsan, The Hill School Hoda is Chair for Engineering and Computer Science Department and the Director of Quadrivium Design and Engineering at The Hill School. She holds a Ph.D in Engineering Education from Purdue University, M.S. in Childhood Education from City University of New York, and B.S. in
Paper ID #33692Revolutionizing Grading: Implications on Power, Agency, and EquityDr. Melissa Ellen Ko, Stanford University Dr. Melissa Ko comes to the engineering disciplines with a unique background in computational cancer biology research, discipline-based educational research, and teaching roles across multiple institutions and audiences. Melissa Ko earned an S.B. in biology from MIT and a PhD in cancer biology from Stan- ford University. Her graduate research developed novel computational pipelines to visualize single-cell high-dimensional data and infer patterns of change from snapshots collected across time. After
Paper ID #14934Instructional Strategies for Incorporating Empathy in Transdisciplinary Tech-nology EducationDr. Colin M. Gray, Purdue University, West Lafayette Colin M. Gray is an Assistant Professor at Purdue University in the Department of Computer Graphics Technology and a Faculty Fellow in the Educational Research and Development Incubator. He holds a PhD in Instructional Systems Technology from Indiana University Bloomington, a MEd in Educational Technology from University of South Carolina, and a MA in Graphic Design from Savannah College of Art & Design. His research focuses on the role of student experience
@temple.edu.Tammy VanDeGrift, University of Portland Tammy Vandegrift is an assistant professor in the Computer Science department at the University of Portland. She holds a PhD in Computer Science & Engineering from the University of Washington. Along with her dissertation research in media delivery protocols, her interests include supporting the teaching and learning of software design and introductory programming. Email: vandegri@up.edu.Matt Eliot, University of Washington Matt Eliot is a doctoral student in the Department of Technical Communication at the University of Washington. His interests include user-centered design, interaction design, ethnographic research, and accessible media. Email
, humanitarian engineering, and computer modeling of electric power and renewable energy systems.Dr. Ken Yasuhara, University of Washington Ken Yasuhara was a research team member for the Center for the Advancement of Engineering Educa- tion’s Academic Pathways Study and is currently a Research Scientist at the University of Washington’s Center for Engineering Learning & Teaching. His research and teaching interests include engineering de- sign, major choice, gender equity, and professional portfolios. He completed an A.B. in computer science at Dartmouth College and a Ph.D. in computer science and engineering at the University of Washington. When he finds the time, he enjoys cooking, photography, music, bicycle repair
education.Joanna Li Joanna Li is an engineering science student at the Faculty of Applied Science and Engineering, University of Toronto, Canada. She enjoys learning about particle physics and astrophysics. Outside of her studies, she is interested in education research and development directed towards improving the learning experiences of engineering students.Jenifer Hossain Jenifer Hossain is a third year undergraduate student currently studying computer engineering at the University of Toronto. Her academic interests consist of learning about higher level computer software, engineering business, and engineering education. © American Society for Engineering Education, 2022
programs. This work (which was inspired by my own experiences as a graduate student in astronomy) built upon my background in physics education research from my undergraduate days, when I began working as a Learning Assistant (LA) with Dr. Chandra Turpen. My experience as an LA introduced me to PER, and gave me the opportunity to get involved in curriculum design and research as an undergraduate. After my PhD, I returned to Dr. Turpen’s group as a postdoctoral researcher, and have since redirected my focus to the study of ethics and institutional change in STEM higher education.David Tomblin (Director/Senior Lecturer) UMD College ParkAmol Agrawal Amol Agrawal is an undergraduate student at the University of Maryland
entire class. The instructor is a facilitator who assists Page 26.1727.7 in defining appropriate topics and serves as one of many resources in the learning process.Survey DisseminationThe Instructional Environment Survey was disseminated to engineering graduate studentsenrolled at the Georgia Institute of Technology, a large, technical, research-intensive university.Students from all engineering departments were invited to participate (aerospace, biomedical,chemical and biomolecular, civil and environmental, electrical and computer, industrial andsystems, materials, mechanical). The survey was
over a decade in higher education. She has designed, developed and managed degree, and certificate programs, and has experience as an online instructor, and mentor and trainer of other online instructors.Dr. Jeffrey E. Froyd, Texas A&M University Dr. Jeffrey E. Froyd is a TEES Research Professor in the Office of Engineering Academic and Student Affairs at Texas A&M University, College Station. He received the B.S. degree in mathematics from Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis. He was an Assistant Professor, Associate Professor, and Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Rose-Hulman Institute of
responsibility; that study isdescribed more fully in Rulifson et al.34 The 21 students were majoring in civil engineering (8),environmental engineering (1), architectural engineering (1) mechanical engineering (7),computer science (2), and chemical engineering (2). Twelve women and nine men wereinterviewed. They attended a large public university (5), a technical university (8), a medium-sized, public, research university (2), a private university (5), and a small public undergraduateuniversity (1). The interviews were conducted over the phone in spring 2015, when the studentswere at the end of their third year in college. The full interviews were about 1-hour in duration.Prior to the start of the interviews, the students read, signed, and emailed the
teachprofessional skills, helping students develop these skills is more difficult than it may seem. Manyeducators view professional skills as important aspects of practice. However, there is sometimesresistance from engineering students and educators to emphasize these skills in the curriculum.There are many reasons engineering faculty still struggle with teaching these skills. Cajander etal. suggest “that many educators have an intuitive grasp of what professional skills are, butstruggle to give a clear definition of them and to define rubrics for their assessment. (p. 1)” 20Other reported reasons from computer science include limited room in the curriculum, lack ofexperience or familiarity with professional skills, and a view that professional skills are
Community of Practice and social learning initiatives, their collaboration with the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation’s Frontier Set, a network of 31 post-secondary institutions working to close the student opportunity gap, and the NSF funded Pathways to Innovation program, a network of 50 post-secondary institutions working to embed innovation and entrepreneurship into undergraduate engineering.Cynthia Anderson, Alula Consulting Cindy Anderson (she/her/hers) is the founder and CEO of Alula Consulting. Cindy specializes in in- novative sustainability- and online-focused research and curriculum projects for academic institutions, non-profits, government and corporations. Cindy has taught thousands of people through
Residential College InitiativeAbstractWith support from the National Science Foundation, the College of Engineering (COE) atSouthern Illinois University Carbondale (SIUC) has implemented an Engineering ResidentialCollege (ERC), which consists of a series of academic and non-academic programs targetingfirst- and second-year retention rates. The academic programs include engineering studentdesignated (ESD) sections of core curriculum courses and revisions to the math curriculum. Thenon-academic programs include requiring first- and second-year engineering students to live inEngineering Student Designated (ESD) residence halls and providing Peer Mentor and PeerTutor Programs. The project focuses on freshman and sophomore students because the
fill out thesurvey. This practical design course concentrates on need finding, product definition,conceptual design, detail design, prototype manufacture and public presentation of outcomes.A large portion of it is hands-on and involves creating your own product as part of the ProductRealization Lab, which is comparable to a Maker’s Space. The course is key in theMechanical Engineering Curriculum at Stanford since the students can directly apply theirknowledge in practice.A total of 2,730 alumni took part in the course between 2001 and 2016. There was contactdata available for 2,617 of them. Some 465 completed our survey which is described in thenext chapter. This sample is 56.3% male, and 42.6% female (with one person selecting“other” and
global matters” (p. 8).12 However, programs such as EWB and EWHare not equally viable global competency training mechanisms for students from all fields ofengineering. For example, biomedical, environmental, and mechanical engineers participate atgreater rates in these organizations than those students with training in aerospace engineering,computer engineering, or materials science engineering.For engineers currently working within the corporate world, formal training programs viaprofessional/continuing education are significantly less visible, but include the Certificate inGlobal Integrated Systems Engineering at the University of Washington (jointly offered by theUW College of Engineering and the UW Foster School of Business in collaboration
25.497.12Approximately half of the elementary teachers interviewed hold B.A. degree in fields such asEnglish, Early Childhood Education, Interdisciplinary Studies, and Government (see Figure 4).Twenty-eight out of 29 B.S. degrees held by the teachers are in non-STEM fields like Education,Advertising, and Photography. Nine teachers have Masters Degrees, three of which are inSTEM-related fields. One of the teachers holds an Ed.D. in Curriculum and Instruction with a focuson math education. MA MEd MS EdD MPH BS(STEM) MBA 3% 4% 3% 1% 1% 2% 1% BA 47% BS(Non- STEM
and K-12 levels. Dr. Realff is the founding director of the Effective Team Dynamics Initiative (ETD) which delivers on the vision that Georgia Tech will be a community where everyone’s unique contributions are recognized. ETD cultivates a supportive, productive, and harmonious learning community grounded in strengths-based collaboration. Her operational leadership and strategic oversight has resulted in the initiative impacting 6500 undergraduate and graduate students and 1600 post docs, faculty, and staff in just the past five years. The initiative partnered with the Center for Teaching and Learning to develop the curriculum and train faculty and staff as certified facilitators to deliver its content. Dr
Paper ID #43089Corsi-Rosenthal Box Learning Module: How Can We Make Clean Air Accessiblefor Schools? (Resource Exchange)Aaron Richardson, University of Connecticut Aaron Richardson studies and teaches with a focus on social and racial justice, accessibility, and creating relevant curriculum that will make use of students’ lived experiences and knowledge to help them bring their own personal meaning to their education and into the classroom. Aaron Richardson’s interest in the Corsi-Rosenthal Learning Module project revolved around accessible, relevant science and engineering education for students by using phenomena that
alternatives to prevalent educationalpractices. For example, a variety of educational approaches were presented in the plenarysession of the 2011 ASEE annual conference. Examples of some of the approaches presentedincluded active learning, formative assessment as a strategy to support learning, and problem-based learning. Each description of an approach included a summary of research-based evidenceon specific educational impacts. The National Science Foundation, which funds projects forimproving STEM education through its Course, Curriculum and Laboratory Improvement(CCLI) and Transforming Undergraduate Education in STEM (TUES) programs, has sponsoredforums in which panels of practitioners and scholars were commissioned to investigate the issueof
roommates, au�s�c students report a built-in social circlethat helps with isola�on but also opportuni�es to improve their social skills (Pesonen et al., 2020). Toaddress the social struggles of neurodivergent students, research shows that students benefit fromdisability community building like disability cultural centers that help create a sense of belonging (Cuelleret al., 2022; Long & Stabler, 2021; Pesonen et al., 2020; Ward & Webster, 2018), which can help build 9self-understanding and how to navigate the “hidden curriculum” of social and professional expecta�onsthat are not usually explicitly taught (Dwyer et al., 2023; Long &
can be used by various engineering mechanics courses in order toallow students an observable and ideally, measurable model for various learning modules.SolidWorks ModelTo help design the units, the team used SolidWorks CAD (computer aided design) models tovisualize the systems and to verify geometric constraints. The original CAD models were createdto give inspiration as far as visualization of the 3D space, as well as provide information abouttolerances between parts. Still, prototypes of each of the customized module parts are developedfirst in CAD to ensure good tolerance. The SolidWorks models are shown in Figure 2 and Figure3, and the current prototype of the single unit is shown in Figure 4. Figure 2: 3D Rendering of Single Unit
, 3) Do not ask students to disclose their disabilities, 4) Considerthe implications of language used, 5) Apply principles from Universal Design for Learning in theclassroom, 6) Proactively provide accessible materials, 7) Upload notes and class slides and/orrecordings, 8) Remove attendance requirements, 9) Solicit feedback from students on howaccommodations are working in your class, and 10) Include content from those in the disabilitycommunity in the curriculum. Adopting these guidelines is just the first step in starting to createa more inclusive and accessible educational environment. In conclusion, accessible educationfor all is within our power, but resources are needed for 1) disabled individuals and 2)educators. This paper provides
curricula to make education more all-inclusive and effective is too important to ignore [1].To enhance imaginative and creative thinking skills of undergraduate students in industrial andsystems engineering, poetry-writing assignments were incorporated into a required upper-levelcourse that focused on the modeling and analysis of inventory and supply chain systems in alarge public university’s industrial and systems engineering curriculum [4]. An assessment ofstudent perceptions of these assignments revealed that poetry writing not only provided thestudents with an opportunity to practice their imaginative and creative thinking skills as expectedbut strengthened their conceptual understanding of the technical material as well [5]. To this end
-methods research on and for people at work, ensuring that organizations intentionally center the human experience. Sreyoshi has spoken at over 100+ global venues, addressing diverse audiences ranging from academics, NSF PIs, in- dustry leaders, entrepreneurs, and professionals to students or high-schoolers starting out with Computer Sciences, helping them strategize and broaden participation, as well as explore, understand, and apply emerging technologies. Sreyoshi is committed to broadening participation among underrepresented mi- norities in engineering and serves as a Senator at the Society of Women Engineers. She is also part of the Advisory Board at the College of Engineering at Virginia Tech and serves as an
workshops held at WPI’s Makerspace and Prototyping Lab, while collaborating with clubs and organizations on campus to bring new workshops into the space.Cameron Wian, Worcester Polytechnic Institute Robotics Engineering and Computer Science Student Makerspace Workshop CoordinatorSydney Kerivan, Worcester Polytechnic Institute Sydney Kerivan is an Environmental Engineering student at the Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) in Worcester MA. Her position as Workshop Coordinator at the WPI Innovation Studio focuses on leading a team of facilitators to develop and teach educational workshops for the WPI community. She is currently focusing on the training systems for the workshop team and is responsible for weekly events and
professional. In particular, there has beenan increasing industry expectation for leadership competencies as the nexus of professional andtechnical skills [3], [4]. For example, Simmons et al. [5] identified a set of leadershipcompetencies from the perspective of industry professionals that included communication,assertiveness, quality control, computer skills, critical thinking, ethics, people focus, andmanagement. These competencies have also been shown in other work to be important forengineering students’ leadership development and career preparation [4], [6], [7]. Leadershipdevelopment is particularly important in the workplace when an employee needs to improve ateam’s affective and behavioral outcomes [8]. These outcomes are dependent on an
for the development of project workduring virtual collaboration in on-line classes. This leaves less room for spontaneous time andthe fun of getting to know each other or to leave a space for the unexpected story in project work.Invite Micro- ObservationInstructors may shorten collaborative length of tasks and reduce requirements to increasesuccessful fulfillment of the course. Instructors may also leave a space and build in emptyspaces to iterate and elevate attempts to iterate (whether during times of uncertainty or not) intheir curriculum. This could also provide time to encourage the women and men students willingto take the lead; and to encourage those that tend be observers. In support of findings thatwomen are showing a readiness for
equitable engineering environments.Dr. Shanna R. Daly, University of Michigan Shanna Daly is an Associate Professor in Mechanical Engineering at the University of Michigan. She has a B.E. in Chemical Engineering from the University of Dayton and a Ph.D. in Engineering Education from Purdue University. Her research characterizes front-end design practices across the student to practitioner continuum and studies the impact of developed front-end design tools on design success.Dr. Lisa R. Lattuca, University of Michigan Lisa Lattuca, Professor of Higher Education and member of the Core Faculty in the Engineering Education Research Program at the University of Michigan. She studies curriculum, teaching, and learning in college