seeking help – Felt trapped his office one day, and I really needed help on my project, um, and he had emailed us . and abandoned by instructor . . the wrong time that he wasn’t going to be in class, and when I went up there—that was the time that he wasn’t in class . . . I feel like he just kind of threw that on us, and ditched us with that specific project, or, um, whatever it was—the homework, I don’t remember”Theme 2: Felt shame in the disconnection between perceived skill and academic performanceWhile David felt confident about his abilities during the beginning portions of the semester, hestated that
psychology, and the learning sciences. Through in-situ studies of classroom and institutional practice, Chandra focuses on the role of culture in science learning and educational change. Chandra pursues projects that have high potential for leveraging sustainable change in undergraduate STEM programs and makes these struggles for change a direct focus of her research efforts. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2017 The Role of Empathy in Supporting Teaching Moves of Engineering Design Peer EducatorsAbstractEmpathy is a diverse and complex phenomena by which humans relate their experiences to oneanother. This work explores empathy as a resource for engineering
, many of the descendants of trust were interrelated (the levelof analysis of descendant “interrelatedness” varied by study). In several studies trust wasessential to mitigating conflict and enhancing communication and cohesion which in turnincreased the overall team performance27,28. Studies that observed the relationship between trustand knowledge sharing generally surveyed teams within industry. These teams required trustamong teams and companies in sharing pertinent project information.As noted previously, the most common antecedent of trust that was identified and measured wastransformational leadership. Transformational leadership is a leadership style defined by a leaderwho considers the input of her or his team members to identify where
Education, 2017 DEVELOPMENT OF A WEB-BASED DECISION TOOLFOR SELECTION OF DISTRIBUTED ENERGY RESOURCES AND SYSTEMS (DERS) FOR MOVING COLLEGE AND CORPORATE CAMPUSES TOWARD NET-ZERO ENERGYAbstractNet-Zero energy buildings are currently being built, and they no longer consist of smalldemonstration projects but rather large commercial and institutional buildings. However,achieving a “net-zero energy building” concept for existing buildings has its challenges in anurban environment where private and/or public space around the building considered is limited,in addition to the inherent energy challenges associated with urban multi-story buildings. Whilethe most achievable task would be energy efficiency improvements in the operation of thebuilding
programparticipants working to preserve and promote the legacy of the program. Counselors receivemany of the same benefits as camp participants, as they also attend the tours and mentor visits.Instructors for the high school offering of the summer program are primarily faculty membersfrom five disciplines: Civil Engineering, Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, ComputerEngineering, and Mechanical Engineering. Faculty prepare workshops with projects, typicallyincluding a design challenge, that introduce camp participants to each discipline. The faculty-ledworkshops generally last 3 to 8 hours, depending on the complexity of the project. Largerprojects are completed in a series of shorter sessions to maintain participant interest andengagement. As the
Paper ID #18111Entering the Engineering Pathway: Student Veterans’ Decision to Major inEngineeringDr. Catherine Mobley, Clemson University Catherine Mobley, Ph.D., is a Professor of Sociology at Clemson University. She has over 25 years experience in project and program evaluation and has worked for a variety of consulting firms, non-profit agencies, and government organizations, including the Rand Corporation, the American Association of Retired Persons, the U.S. Department of Education, and the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research. Since 2004, she been a member of the NSF-funded MIDFIELD research project on
. Vanessa Svihla, University of New Mexico Dr. Vanessa Svihla is a learning scientist and assistant professor at the University of New Mexico in the Organization, Information & Learning Sciences program, and in the Chemical & Biological Engineering Department. She served as Co-PI on an NSF RET Grant and a USDA NIFA grant, and is currently co-PI on three NSF-funded projects in engineering and computer science education, including a Revolutioniz- ing Engineering Departments project. She was selected as a National Academy of Education / Spencer Postdoctoral Fellow. Dr. Svihla studies learning in authentic, real world conditions; this includes a two- strand research program focused on (1) authentic assessment, often
to analyzethe downstream effects of technologies on unknown or silent users (Casper & Clarke 1998).These efforts can also be understood as a way of organizing others’ work (Suchman 2000),particularly when the users come from inside one’s own organization.In this paper we describe and analyze how early career engineers learn about users and theirneeds in the engineering workplace. We draw special attention to how users are conceptualizedduring product development and how notions of how users might employ technologies can shapedesigners’ plans. These data are part of a larger project that examines the workplace learning ofearly career engineers, and so several of our examples highlight the orientations early careerengineers hold toward
Engineering Education and Outreach at Tufts. His current engineering education research interests focus on community engagement, service-based projects and examining whether an entrepreneurial mindset can be used to further engi- neering education innovations. He also does research on the development of reuse strategies for waste materials.Dr. Daniel Knight, University of Colorado, Boulder Daniel W. Knight is the Program Assessment and Research Associate at Design Center (DC) Colorado in CU’s Department of Mechanical Engineering at the College of Engineering and Applied Science. He holds a B.A. in psychology from Louisiana State University, an M.S. degree in industrial/organizational psychology and a Ph.D. degree in
the ROTC, becomingwing commander. In this role she organized a range of service projects that included workingwith Veterans of Foreign Wars, as well as building a stronger mentorship program for youngercadets. Her senior design project was “working for the Air Force”. When asked in the fourth-year interview what factors would make a job personally rewarding, Jamie’s response included“What I am really looking for in a job is to wake up and want to go do what I’m doing... doingsomething that is valuable to somebody… that real tangibility of making something better getsme really excited… I guess it’s that internal belief that what I do matters that I’m really lookingfor.” When prompted to discuss social responsibility Jamie responded: I
to generate awareness of the LGBTQIA+engineering student experience and research on this community, while also highlighting areasthat are lacking or receiving insufficient attention. This work is part of a larger project that aimsto review engineering education research with respect to LGBTQIA+ students, higher educationfaculty and staff, and industry professionals. This literature review was conducted in two phases.First, works from non-engineering disciplines were reviewed to identify popular threads andmajor areas of research on the LGBTQIA+ student experience. This phase was not an exhaustivereview; rather, it was meant to establish specific themes of importance derived from the largerbody of literature on the LGBTQIA+ student experience
-world problem.Students work in groups of 4-5 members and are matched based on skill level in terms ofprogramming and design experience. There are four phases distributed throughout thesemester, during which students need to identify a problem and an appropriate client doing a“rapid spin” around the UX lifecycle (phase 1), conduct contextual inquiry and analysis(phase 2), design a solution (phase 3), and finally prototype and evaluate their best design(phase 4). The major motivation for a project-based syllabus is to create a pedagogy ofengagement, where students have the opportunity to engage with the disciplinary activitiesand practice the taught process like a UX professional [34].The main objective of the course is for students to get
Engineering of the UFRJ’sEngineering School at Rio de Janeiro [14], [15]. Its history blends with that of GE, at least in thefirst years of grassroots engineering. Indeed, for instance, the Engineering and SocialDevelopment Meetings, the arena that made GE’s emersion and polishing possible, is created bySoltec, which also hosted its first four editions [3].Currently, Soltec develops six different GE projects: • PAPESCA: offering a community that makes its living from artisanal fishing support related to management, solidarity economy, empowerment, environmental sustainability, etc. [16]; • TIFS: providing technical support on software engineering to social movements, building with them apps, programs, websites, etc. [17
Engineering and Mathematics from Seattle University, a masters in Civil Engineering from Stanford University with an emphasis on structural engineering, and a PhD in Civil Engineering from the University of Colorado Boulder.Dr. Chris Swan, Tufts University Chris Swan is Dean of Undergraduate Education for the School of Engineering and an associate professor in the Civil and Environmental Engineering department at Tufts University. He has additional appoint- ments in the Jonathan M. Tisch College of Civic Life and the Center for Engineering Education and Outreach at Tufts. His current engineering education research interests focus on community engagement, service-based projects and examining whether an entrepreneurial
a commongoal (a new way of being and relating requires imagining what non-hierarchical structures wouldlook like). The project of liberation is the project of daring to imagine.IntroductionTeaching takes place in a physical space with configured interactions of the instructor with thestudents. The traditional mode of education presupposes the instructor as an authority“depositing” knowledge into the “clean-slates” (students’ minds), who in turn regurgitate thatdeposited (memorized) knowledge in assessments. This is described as the banking concept ofeducation by Freire [1]. This model discourages creative engagement of the student with theworld and encourages uncritical acceptance of the oppressive power structures. This process
anddifficult to scale up.An alternative model is to develop the skills of engineering faculty so that they can effectivelyincorporate writing instruction and practice into their existing technical courses. The DavisEducational Foundation has supported a project following this faculty-development model forengineering curricula at the University of New Haven. The first cohort to go through thisprogram just graduated in 2016, so assessment of its effectiveness is not complete [55]–[57].However, this approach is less resource-intensive and therefore may be more amenable to scalingup for universities having larger student bodies. An interdisciplinary team of researchers atPurdue is working to adapt techniques for writing in large-scale engineering classes
. Reamon, University of Colorado, Boulder Derek Reamon is the Co-director of the Integrated Teaching and Learning Program (ITLP) and theEngi- neering Plus (e+) degree program, and a Teaching Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineer- ing. As ITLP co-director, he coordinates 19-22 sections of First-year Engineering Projects, a course that has a proven benefit on retention within engineering and is also a nationally recognized model for freshman design courses. The e+ program has created a flexible engineering degree and a pathway to sec- ondary math and science teaching licensure, to increase the numbers of STEM teachers that have strong c American Society for Engineering Education
College of Civic Life and the Center for Engineering Education and Outreach at Tufts. His current engineering education research interests focus on community engagement, service-based projects and examining whether an entrepreneurial mindset can be used to further engineering education innovations. He also does research on the development of reuse strategies for waste materials.Dr. Nathan E. Canney, CYS Structural Engineers Inc. Dr. Canney conducts research focused on engineering education, specifically the development of social responsibility in engineering students. Other areas of interest include ethics, service learning, and sus- tainability education. Dr. Canney received bachelors degrees in Civil Engineering and
. As one of the broadestengineering majors, mechanical engineering offers training in areas that range from thermal fluidsciences to mechatronics to machine design. In the ideal program, students are also given a tasteof industry work through team activities, project-based course content, or a required engineeringwork experience. Mechanical engineering graduates have the opportunity to join any number ofindustries, and are indeed highly sought-after for their problem solving skills and technicalbreadth. Yet, mechanical engineering students are generally not provided with guidance onmatching their interests with one of the multitude of jobs or non-traditional career paths availableto them.Students are also lacking direction on skills so
, nontraditional, and veteran undergraduates in engineering.Mr. Matthew Paul Jouffray c American Society for Engineering Education, 2018Communicating Findings about Online Forum Use among Undergraduates in Distance-delivered Calculus: Developing a Help seeking Usage ModelAbstractThis paper reports on the synthesis of multiple user-centered design (UCD) tools to develop amodel for student help seeking in STEM courses. Data used to construct the model was gatheredamong science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) undergraduates enrolled indistance-delivered calculus. The resultant help seeking “usage model” serves as a final projectoutcome of an NSF sponsored TUES Type I project entitled “Online Learning Forums
Paper ID #23045Development and Testing of an Instrument to Understand Engineering Doc-toral Students’ Identities and MotivationsHeather Lee Perkins, North Carolina State University Heather entered the Applied Social and Community Psychology program in the fall of 2014, after com- pleting her Bachelor of Science in Psychology from the University of Cincinnati. She has participated in various research projects examining the interaction between stereotypes and science interest and confi- dence, their influence upon womens’ performance in school and the workplace, and their presence in the media and consequences for viewers
obscured the effect of class year that might only be salient in the final years, as studentsget closer to graduation. Senior status could be taken as a proxy for more “life experience”which ideally give individuals more world and self-knowledge with which to navigate theircareer.We also see that more career certain students are more sure about staying in engineering oneto ten years post-graduation (though the difference in commitment to engineering betweencertain and uncertain students becomes less pronounced the longer the projection time fromgraduation). In addition, their stronger expressed desire to stay in engineering is consistentwith their greater engineering task self-efficacy, an observation which supports the SCCTmodel. According to SCCT
instruction in select junior and senior level MAE courses. 3. Designing a two-to-five-year educational research project with the objective of assessing students’ improved ability to communicate. This research should provide both quantitative (most important) and qualitative evidence of the success (or not) of that course and should be useful for continuing assessment into students’ third and fourth years and beyond graduation.Our plan allowed us to teach ENGRC 2250 during the spring 2016 and 2017 semesters to a self-selecting subset, 20+ students, of MAE undergraduates also enrolled in MAE 2250. At the sametime, we conducted quantitative and qualitative educational research, commonly referred to asmixed methods research. As
; society program in the De- partment of Engineering and Society at the University of Virginia. He is the principal investigator at University of Virginia on the ’4C Project’ on Cultivating Cultures of Ethical STEM education with col- leagues from Notre Dame, Xavier University and St. Mary’s College. He is also the co-leader of the ’Nano and the City’ thematic research cluster for the Center for Nanotechnology in Society at Arizona State University. Rider is a Research Collaborator with the Sustainability Science Education program at the Biodesign Institute. His research focuses on wicked problems that arise at the intersection of society and technology. Rider holds a Ph.D. in Sustainability from Arizona State University
-socioeconomic students as an often understudied population. Justin has served as the ASEE Student Division Co-Program Chair and is a current Director of Special Projects for the Educational Research & Methods Division.Dr. Allison Godwin, Purdue University, West Lafayette (College of Engineering) Allison Godwin, Ph.D. is an Assistant Professor of Engineering Education at Purdue University. Her research focuses what factors influence diverse students to choose engineering and stay in engineering through their careers and how different experiences within the practice and culture of engineering foster or hinder belongingness and identity development. Dr. Godwin graduated from Clemson University with a B.S. in Chemical
action research project to learn about the student courseexperience and help the faculty improve the course. This project methodology uses a simple andefficient formative approach that incorporates strategic and continuous open-ended surveyquestions in optional feedback assignments to gauge the student experience across the course.Data were collected in the course learning management system (LMS) for multiple sections in afreshman Introduction to Electrical and Computer Engineering (first circuits) course using aflipped pedagogy across four years and with three different instructors. These assessmentsfocused on identifying challenges to learning, or “Muddiest Points” and student perceptionsabout classroom strategies and general learning/academic
Paper ID #14821Best Practice for Incorporating STEM into Rural Schools: Train and Investin Teacher Leaders (RTP)Ms. Julie Steimle, University of Cincinnati Julie Steimle received her Bachelor of Arts in English and Secondary Education from Thomas More College. She served as development director and managed academic programs in two non-profit organi- zations, Pregnancy Care of Cincinnati and the Literacy Network of Greater Cincinnati, before coming to the University of Cincinnati in 2009. Ms. Steimle initially coordinated UC’s Supplemental Educational Services Program. Currently, she is the Project Director of the
, master planning, management for energy conservation/renewable energy projects and space planning for campus expansion. As a senior administrative leader, I have facilitated climate action planning in com- pliance with the American College and University Presidents’ Climate Commitment (ACUPCC) and re- ceived the Outstanding Climate Leadership award that recognized successful carbon reduction strategies, innovative curriculum and the dynamic engagement faculty, staff and students in a the pursuit of carbon neutrality. Although my primary formal training has been in the field of architecture, recent doctoral studies at the University of Pennsylvania were focused in the field of higher education management. As part of an
structural engineering courses, en- joys working with the students on undergraduate research projects, and has research interests in concrete bridges, materials, and engineering education.Dr. Kacie Caple D’Alessandro, Washington & Lee University Kacie Caple D’Alessandro obtained her B.S. and M.S. degrees in Civil Engineering at Clemson University before obtaining her Ph.D. in Civil Engineering at Virginia Tech. Kacie is currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of Physics and Engineering at Washington and Lee University. She teaches engineering mechanics, engineering design, and materials science courses at W&L, and her research interests include ultra-high performance concrete, concrete structures, and
Paper ID #15360Enhancement of Sustainable Manufacturing Engineering Education for SmartGeneration through Workshop and SeminarsProf. Tzu-Liang Bill Tseng, University of Texas, El Paso Dr. Tseng is a Professor and Chair of Industrial, Manufacturing and Systems Engineering at UTEP. His research focuses on the computational intelligence, data mining, bio- informatics and advanced manu- facturing. Dr. Tseng published in many refereed journals such as IEEE Transactions, IIE Transaction, Journal of Manufacturing Systems and others. He has been serving as a principle investigator of many research projects, funded by NSF, NASA