challenges at the same time: abruptly changing their workstrategies and habits, learning new technologies, job insecurity due to the economic challenges ofhigher education, worries about the health and well-being of their families as well as students,losing collaboration opportunities. The Chronicle of Higher Education’s survey, however, didnot explore the experiences of the faculty members from a teaching perspective.The experience of faculty members after this rapid switch to remote instruction was captured byblog posts and reports. These reports observed that faculty members lectured in the remoteenvironment much more than in in-person environment [5-6], experienced a decreasedinteraction with students during class time and students’ engagement
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Paper ID #36442The SO-What Analytical Analysis for Virtual Decision TeamsRashmi Mohansingh Solanki Master's student at Arizona State UniversityChad Kennedy (Graduate Chair of TEM Program) Chad Kennedy’s experience spans entrepreneurship, engineering research, project management and advanced technology application in industry. His expertise stems from spending the last 25+ years working in the field of engineering. His early career began working in various engineering design, testing, and astronaut training capacities at NASA Johnson Space Center. After, Kennedy joined the start-up, VI Technology Inc., an
. SNA allows students to examine how they participate in an informalatmosphere by equal participation [4]. Bruun et al. explored how self-reported studentinteractions can be viewed as meaning-making processes and use this to understand howquantitative measures that describe the position in a network, called centrality measures, can beunderstood in terms of the interactions that occur in the context of a university physics course[5]. Applying social network analysis (SNA) to measure student experiences, Dou et al. found acorrelation between the role of the students in their social network classroom and enhancedproduction of self-efficacy [6].Social media has been an immense influencer for making decisions nowadays [7], [8]. People arenot only
Paper ID #37192Professional merit in engineering career advancement:Student perspectives and critiquesRobert Loweth Robert P. Loweth is an (incoming) Visiting Assistant Professor in the School of Engineering Education at Purdue University. His research explores how engineering students and practitioners engage stakeholders in their engineering projects, reflect on their social identities, and consider the broader societal contexts of their engineering work. The goals of his research are 1) to develop tools and pedagogies that support engineers in achieving the positive societal changes that they envision and
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.Ms. Leah Paborsky, University of Michigan Leah is a graduate from the University of Michigan with a B.S.E. in Mechanical Engineering and minor in Space Sciences and Engineering. She served as an undergraduate research assistant in the Daly Design and Engineering Education Research Group focusing on engineers’ beliefs about social aspects of engineering work. She is currently pursuing a M.S. in Aerospace Engineering Sciences at University of Colorado- Boulder.Dr. Sara L. Hoffman, University of Michigan Sara Hoffman
rural communities support and promote engineering as a career choice for theirstudents. Therefore, this study explored the ways in which rural communities provide support tohelp students make fully informed decisions about engineering as a college major.The findings presented here come from Phase 2 of a three-phase study exploring engineeringcareer choice among rural students. Using interview and focus group data collected from currentengineering students in Phase 1, Phase 2 turned to community members, including high schoolpersonnel, local industry leaders, members of local governments, and members of keycommunity organizations (e.g., 4-H). Using interviews with 16 participants across 3communities, we address the following question: What
from data analysis: To transition from their current career path into an academic career path; To change the focus of their industrial career into a new specialty area; To advance further along their current career path.In this paper, we discuss these categories and the students who chose those paths. We alsoaddress the implications for graduate schools regarding the recruitment and support ofreturning students.IntroductionReturners are those with undergraduate degrees who work outside of academia for at least fiveyears and come back to the academic setting to earn a graduate degree. However, little researchexists on this group, and in STEM fields especially, to shed light on the reasons why they makethe decision to return
status as a graduate student and expert in his area. For his part, Daren alsoarticulated this sentiment: “It’s not really an engineering kind of thing; it’s more just a[program] . . . you know, if you’re in [the program], you need to learn how to do this.” Thesefindings all suggest that program competence is distinct from technical competence and isassessed differently by team members. Clearly, the members of this team see program andtechnical competence as different kinds of resources within design work.Ethical Network The ethical network differed the most from the previous two in several ways. As anetwork-level measurement, the low density for this network indicates that individuals were notcommunicating with one another as frequently
decision to come out during a job interview, career counselors atWPI help prepare students to think about taking jobs in states that have fewer or noprotections for LGBTQ+ people. “If they’re going to Oklahoma,” this person told us,“they need to understand the legal protections they don’t have there, that they do havehere.” LGBTQ people are “a group that you can legally discriminate against in certainparts of the country still in terms of employment,” our source told us. In ResidentialServices, one of the professional staff organized a 5-week course on social justice and 11diversity for university employees and student Resident Advisors. He was recognized
continue on tograduate school7 compared with non-participants. Male and female REU students show the samelevel of interest in continuing on to graduate school.5,8,9 Undergraduate research participantsreport their faculty mentor as being highly influential in their decision to continue on to graduateschool or in their career choice compared with non-participants.10 The primary motivation forfaculty who mentor undergraduate researchers is to have a positive impact on the careers oftalented students11.REUs provide student interns a pathway to explore their sense of “becoming a scientist” and toestablish a career identity which is often inextricably bound up with personal identity.12 Themost frequent student-reported gains of participating in a REU
data mining, and the modeling and analysis of manufacturing systems. She holds a bachelor’s degree in Bioengineering and graduate degrees in Industrial Engineering, all from Arizona State University.Dr. Samantha Ruth Brunhaver, Arizona State University Dr. Samantha R. Brunhaver is an Assistant Professor within The Polytechnic School, one of six schools in the Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering at Arizona State University. She is a mixed-methods researcher with focus on the preparation and pathways of engineering students. Her specific research interests include engineering student persistence and career decision-making, early career engineering practice, faculty pedagogical risk-taking, and entrepreneurial mindset
visitors to the site with a unique opportunity to engage thematerial for quick answers to vexing questions or to learn essential and advanced skills that maybe used now and throughout the entirety of their careers. Page 23.427.2IntroductionProjects in the interdisciplinary CareerWISE research program, supported by the NationalScience Foundation, have two goals: (1) to better understand and explain the interplay betweenthe person and environmental conditions that affects attrition amongst students enrolled inengineering and sciences graduate programs, and (2) to strengthen personal and interpersonalskills identified as significant in assisting women
-run group whose objective is toinspire graduate students to develop their leadership skills as they contribute to the schoolcommunity and beyond. They realize their objective by empowering individuals, cultivating apositive environment, and making an impact. The group is led by an executive team of studentswho are passionate about personal growth and leadership. The team consists of two co-chairs,administrative directors, event coordinators, communication directors, treasurer, and webmaster.Each year, they host eight to ten events open to all graduate students and postdoctoral fellows,and typically reach between 250 to 500 participants. Some examples of events include panels onleading your career exploration, entrepreneurship, and law, skill
three personas have been developed using the 2020 application pool. While thetarget personas used for the rubrics were developed using the process noted above, thesepersonas were developed using the student responses to the applications. For a more in-depthdiscussion of the method used, see our prior work [19].General Applicant Persona: Mark JohnsonMark is from North Carolina. He didn’t attend a community college before coming to thisuniversity. Both of his parents are college graduates. Mark is a second-year student in themechanical engineering concentration. Making the leap from an easy high school career to amuch more difficult undergraduate engineering career and learning how to effectively study isthe biggest academic challenge Mark has
program.The program relies mainly on faculty research funds to employ graduate students. Recruitinggraduate students to partner with faculty on research is an essential part of developing newleaders in the field and maintaining a high quality BME PhD program. Excellent students notonly assist with current faculty projects, but are also producers of their own innovative research,which they carry with them into their careers post-graduation. To this end, the department seeksto recruit a diverse group of students from leading undergraduate engineering institutions eachadmission cycle.Historically, the UT Austin BME PhD program has not enrolled as many students as desiredfrom certain student populations. While the program has been successful enrolling a
voice,” in which students provide feedback on what they learned, and this feedbackshapes curricular decisions [17], [18]. In contrast, our work focuses on a partnership model ofco-creation. According to [10], co-creation via partnership is defined as all parties being activelyengaged in collaboration and standing to gain from the collaboration. In some partnershipmodels, students and faculty work together to address pedagogical concerns [19]. However, inour project, co-creation teams of undergraduates, graduate students, faculty and industry mentorswill work together to create a learning module for undergraduate students in an introductoryengineering class. Levels of technical expertise differ significantly in these groups, but this
) Joyce B. Main is Assistant Professor of Engineering Education at Purdue University. She holds a Ph.D. in Learning, Teaching, and Social Policy from Cornell University, and an Ed.M. in Administration, Planning, and Social Policy from the Harvard Graduate School of Education.Michelle M. Camacho, University of San Diego Michelle Madsen Camacho is Professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of San Diego. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2018 Exploring the Experiences of First-Generation Student Veterans in Engineering AbstractUnderstanding the experiences of first-generation students is important for expanding diversityand inclusion
within academic structures such as departmental siloing andconflicts in policies, procedures, and budget models across disciplines that often impinge uponinterdisciplinary student development [1][2][3].Previous findings based on faculty perspectives on facilitating interdisciplinary programs revealthe ways in which multiple differentiated layers of the academic environment impact graduatestudent development, but students’ perspectives have often been left out, leaving an incompletepicture. Additionally, existing literature tends to focus on levels of the academic environmentthat students interact with directly, with less attention to external influences at or beyond theinstitutional level that are also relevant to the interdisciplinary graduate
definitions,retrieved from the EPRA tool [35], are as follows: social justice relates to the distribution of theadvantages and disadvantages in society, including the way in which they are allocated; socialresponsibility is an obligation that an individual (or company) has to act with concern andsensitivity, aware of the impacts of their action on others, particularly the disadvantaged.3. Results and DiscussionRelationships among student responses were explored across three major categories, whichfocused on how the course students were enrolled in affected their (1) sense of belonging inengineering (i.e., feeling included and/or connected to the community of engineering); (2) viewsof the relationship between social justice and engineering; and (3
theory and facilitating interdisciplinary graduate programs; the identity development and experiences of interdisciplinary engineering graduate students and faculty; and the decision-making processes and factors impacting implementation of interdisciplinary graduate education initiatives. She works as a graduate research assistant for the Virginia Tech Disaster Resilience and Risk Management interdisciplinary graduate program, as well as for the VT Center for Refugee, Migrant, and Displacement Studies.Dr. Marie C. Paretti, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University Marie C. Paretti is a Professor of Engineering Education at Virginia Tech, where she directs the Virginia Tech Engineering Communications Center
needs improvement. Employment inSTEM fields grew by 23% between 1994 and 2003, compared to only 17% for non-STEM fields;nonetheless, the US is now struggling to meet the rapidly increasing demand for STEMworkers.2 The continued need to remain globally competitive and the fact that 39% of people inthe US under 18 are persons of color (U.S. Census 2000) underlie the urgent need for collegesand universities to improve their efforts to graduate minority students in STEM disciplines.3Along with an increased interest in undergraduate degree attainment, there is significant interest Page 24.492.2in increasing the number of graduate degrees awarded in
, couldhelp increase the retention of STEM degree attainment for every group [4]. Multiple theoriesand models deduce the factors associated with retention, success and learning [9]-[12].Numerous previous studies have used an Input-Environment-Output model, which uses students' 2sociocultural and personal background characteristics (sex, race, gender, values) to betterunderstand how students interact with faculty and peers within an academic institution. Fromthese studies, it was demonstrated that students' engagement in curricular and co-curricularexperiences with their peers and faculty has an impact on their general success and ability tolearn. Within
Technology 7/ Western Carolina University 8 AbstractThis is the fourth paper in the special panel session focusing on issues driving reform of faculty rewardsystems to advance professional engineering education for creative engineering practice and leadership oftechnological innovation to enhance U.S. competitiveness. This paper explores the conceptual beginningsof a template for improved faculty reward systems that better reflect the practice of engineering for full-time, tenure track professionally oriented faculty in schools of engineering and technology.1. Background and HistoryThe United States has built an excellent system of research-oriented graduate education that is second tonone for the
overall identity in the community of practice of graduate school. This work contributesto the limited number of studies on engineering doctoral students’ identity, and may haveimplications for persistence and representation amongst engineering doctoral students.Introduction Doctoral students develop multiple role identities as they enter the community of practiceof academia through their graduate school experience [2]. Identity is the “kind of person” one is,derived from one’s performance in social contexts, rather than from one’s internal state [6]. Arole identity, specifically, is how an individual relates to the characteristics and expectationsassociated with a role or position they are enacting [7]–[9]. For example, how an
examination. Following each coding session, reflections, emotions, impressions, andinterpretations were recorded in a memo document to note emerging trends. After thepreliminary coding, a second-pass axial coding was conducted on the Excel sheet to identifycommon themes related to the control/treatment group and the decision to stay/leave. Theseemergent codes were discussed with the second author to refine the claims made from the dataand for coding consensus.The authors of this paper have varied experiences with engineering and as members of thegroups we interviewed. The research team of faculty, postdoctoral scholars, graduate students,and undergraduate students included researchers from higher education and engineeringeducation. Three of the
the case study. Mostgraduate students, especially domestic graduate students, did not perceive there to be an ethicalissue present. Most domestic graduate students deflected the issue of foregoing a family and onlysaw an issue with the situation if the mentor explicitly made it clear that the student could notpursue a family and articulated that it was normal to feel pressure to pursue similar researchinterests. International graduate students had highly variable opinions with some ignoring theissue of foregoing a family and focusing on possible negative career impacts, while anotherfound the situation completely unethical because of the influence on personal life decisions. Allfaculty saw this case study as having ethical issues mostly
AC 2012-4065: ACCESS AND DEFINITION: EXPLORING HOW STEMFACULTY, DEPARTMENT HEADS, AND UNIVERSITY POLICY ADMIN-ISTRATORS NAVIGATE THE IMPLEMENTATION OF A PARENTAL LEAVEPOLICYMr. Corey Schimpf, Purdue University, West Lafayette Corey Schimpf is a Ph.D. student in engineering education with interests in leveraging virtual environ- ments for learning and using sociological thinking for human centered design.Ms. Marisol Mercado Santiago, Purdue University, West LafayetteDr. Alice L. Pawley, Purdue University Alice L. Pawley is an Assistant Professor in the School of Engineering Education and an affiliate faculty member in the Women’s Studies Program and the Division of Environmental and Ecological Engineer- ing at Purdue
Compass course designations, not EGR, should be established. • A designated, on-campus, class period per week should be assigned for Career Compass activities.Future Program GoalsOn January 25, 2021, an internal long-range Career Compass Planning Meeting was held whichincluded the Dean College of Engineering, the Associate Dean for Academic Affairs, TheDirector of Professional Development & Experiential Education and the Associate Director ofUndergraduate Student Services & Program Operations. The following long-term goals wereidentified for implementation. These goals reflect the ‘Lessons Learned’ shown above as well asinput from the Career Compass Advisory Board, faculty members and students. 1. Revise, update and modernize
available to students in Houston. He also served on the Texas State Board of Education committee preparing the standards for career and technical education. In addition, Dr. Nelson served as the chair of the academic advisory committee for the Texas Board of Registration for Professional Engineers, and chaired the task committee to enhance faculty licensure.Celeste Arden Riley, Texas A&M University - Kingsville Dr. Celeste Riley is an Assistant Professor of Practice in the Department of Psychology and Sociology at Texas A&M University-Kingsville, RELLIS Campus. She earned her bachelor’s degree in Psychology ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2025