[Shannon] was very cooperative throughout the semester and rightly understood the importance of the effort I am putting from busy graduate schedule…She tried hard to make up the education she was lacking for the research. Based on this I felt she was very helpful for the research and also showed the correct attitude.Generally Drake takes an evaluative tone of his mentee Shannon, as he calls her attitude“correct” and her understanding “rightly” to indicate alignment with his expectations as asupervisor. By describing her education as “lacking” and explaining the importance of his effortsin the research mentoring relationship in the context of his busy graduate student schedule, he ispositioning himself as superior to Shannon
cooperative” with their interactions (Table5). As such there is a need for “mutual respect among the members” of the committee to ensurethat meetings are productive and that the dissertation work continues with the full support of thecommittee. While “diverse disciplines” was listed in the top 4 for overall committeecharacteristics, panel feedback from earlier rounds indicated a split view on having a committeewith diverse disciplines. Several participants saw the benefit in a committee with diversedisciplines as a way to refine the students’ knowledge, identify gaps and oversights in the study,and explore the research as a whole from different perspectives. This opportunity led to making
is an Undergraduate Mechanical Engineering student at Cal State LA. Joseph is an undergraduate research assistant, the Vice President of CSULA’s Robosub team, and he recently began an internship at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Outside of engineering education, his research interests are in the field of trajectory planning and control for potential future Mars exploration aircraft.Mr. Jorge Diego Santillan, California State University, Los Angeles AUV Mr. J.Diego Santillan is an Electrical Engineer employed at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, cur- rently pursuing his Master’s in Computer Engineering. Diego acted as the President for the Robosub team as well as the senior design team lead for the same project in
, collaborate, and completeproject deliverables.Purpose of StudyThe goals of this study were to (1) identify common communication challenges faced by studentsworking on virtual teams and (2) present strategies based on students’ experiences and theliterature that students and faculty can use to address the common communication challengesidentified. Our work was guided by the following research questions: 1. What were the key limiting factors for reaching project milestones and overall project success on a virtual team? 2. What strategies did students adapt to address challenges unique to virtual teams?MethodsWe collected open-ended survey and interview data using institutional review board (IRB)approved procedures. In total, 51 open-ended
Paper ID #29977Student Perspectives on Navigating Engineering PathwaysDr. Atsushi Akera, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Atsushi Akera is Associate Professor and Graduate Program Director in the Department of Science and Technology Studies at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (Troy, NY). He received his M.A. and Ph.D. in the History and Sociology of Science, University of Pennsylvania. His current research is on the history of engineering education reform in the United States (1945-present). He is a the current Chair of the ASEE Ad Hoc Committee on Interdivisional Cooperation; Chair of the International Network for
. Joachim Walther, University of Georgia Dr. Walther is an assistant professor of engineering education research at the University of Georgia (UGA). He is a director of the Collaborative Lounge for Understanding Society and Technology through Educational Research (CLUSTER), an interdisciplinary research group with members from engineering, art, educational psychology and social work. His research interests range from the role of empathy in engineering students’ professional formation, the role of reflection in engineering learning, and interpretive research methodologies in the emerging field of engineering education research. His teaching focuses on innovative approaches to introducing systems thinking and
solving—efforts Page 26.616.4likely requiring cooperation and collaboration among diverse, international experts.primarily as one of having too few US students entering STEM higher education, the solution issimply a matter of making STEM attractive enough to interest students early on and keep themsufficiently engaged to apply to and enter STEM higher education programs: The hook is therebybaited.Interrelated with efforts intended to recruit more students (in aggregate) to STEM highereducation are concerns specifically over the lack of women and underrepresented minorities inSTEM fields. In both education policy and STEM
experiences.Dr. Marie C Paretti, Virginia Tech Marie C. Paretti is an Associate Professor of Engineering Education at Virginia Tech, where she co- directs the Virginia Tech Engineering Communications Center (VTECC). Her research focuses on com- munication in engineering design, interdisciplinary communication and collaboration, design education, and gender in engineering. She was awarded a CAREER grant from the National Science Foundation to study expert teaching in capstone design courses, and is co-PI on numerous NSF grants exploring com- munication, design, and identity in engineering. Drawing on theories of situated learning and identity development, her work includes studies on the teaching and learning of communication