Paper ID #16882Exploring Barriers in the Engineering Workplace: Hostile, Unsupportive,and Otherwise Chilly ConditionsRachel Yonemura , University of Washington Rachel Yonemura is currently working on her B.S. in Environmental Science and Resource Management at the University of Washington, Seattle, Washington. She has been working at the University as a Re- search Assistant under Dr. Denise Wilson on projects regarding the Engineering Workplace as well as E-waste Sustainability. Motivation for these projects stem from an interest in public discourse and the interrelationships that occur among people of different
) Water quality, ground and surface; basic tests (e.g., water,Environmental 6–9 wastewater, air); environmental regulations; water supply andEngineering treatment; wastewater collection and treatment Construction documents; procurement methods (e.g., competitive bid, qualifications-based); project delivery methods (e.g., design- bid-build, design build, construction management, multiple prime); construction operations and methods (e.g., lifting, rigging,Construction 4–6 dewatering and pumping, equipment production
accountability pressures for reading andmathematics3, 7. Integration of STEM subjects has been suggested as a way to address thechallenges of diminishing instructional time while providing students with the opportunity forengaging in realistic and multidisciplinary contexts that reflect real world problems. With manystates adopting the NGSS8, curricula for integrating engineering with an explicit focus onteaching science are needed.PictureSTEM is a curricular development project aimed at creating STEM integration moduleswith an explicit focus on engineering design, as well as standards-based mathematics andscience, for grades K-5. The PictureSTEM units were developed to meet this need for explicitSTEM integration modules that meaningfully teach each of
Science Foundation. As part of this validation study, the team ofresearchers has applied EPSA to test groups of students at Norwich University, the University ofIdaho, and Washington State University. A faculty member from Norwich University who ispart of the project team introduced other Norwich University faculty to the EPSA method. Thispaper describes how the EPSA scenarios and the EPSA rubric are being implemented in the“Ethics” section of a senior level “Professional Issues”.EPSA Customization at Norwich UniversityIn the Fall 2013 semester the EPSA Method was incorporated into two sections of NorwichUniversity’s EG450-Professional Issues. The EPSA method was utilized during two classperiods each followed by an all-hands review. In the first
projects and using an entrepreneurial mindset to further engineering education innovations. He also researches the development of reuse strate- gies for waste materials.Prof. Kurt Paterson P.E., James Madison University Kurt Paterson currently serves as Head of the recently launched engineering program at James Madison University. There he has partnered with faculty, students, and stakeholders to deliver a 21st century engineering education for 21st century needs. His scholarly interests include the genesis of innovative workplaces, contribution-based learning, and community-based design. He has served as chair of ASEE’s International Division, and was founding chair of ASEE’s Community Engagement Division.Prof. David O
learning community is best situated within a campus center for learning communities, as one of many learning communities under the guidance of dedicated facilitators and a director. 3. A learning community should incentivize membership, whether through stipends or reduced teaching requirements or by implying a selective status for members. 4. A learning community requires high commitment on the part of its members, including Page 26.1128.2 frequent meetings, yearly projects, and possible outreach, retreat, or social outings. 5. A learning community meets for a minimum of six months and ideally a year; and it has a
; Environmental Engineering Department, and an affiliate faculty of the Department of Engineering Education at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. She holds a B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. in civil engineering and a graduate certificate in engineering education – all from Clemson University. Until 2012, she was the director of the Savannah River Environmental Sciences Field Station. Dr. Simmons has nearly fourteen years of engineering and project management experience working with public utility companies, a project management consulting company, and a software company. She is a registered professional engineer, project management professional and LEED accredited professional. Her research interests are in
lessons from their curriculum with Page 26.1460.4students attending a voluntary summer camp. Teacher participants and coaches revised thecurricula based on their experiences during the pilot prior to classroom implementation. Teachersand coaches made additional revisions to their curricula after classroom implementation. Duringthis first year of the larger project, a total of 22 curricula were developed. The four curricula thathad completed their final iteration were selected for this analysis.Nine teachers worked either individually or in teams of two or four to develop the four unitswhich made up the cases for this study. All of these teachers
-time research or scholarship[,]… [and it] is viewed as preparatory fora full-time academic and/or research career,” among others. Although this is what is typicallythought of regarding postdocs, a consistent definition of what a postdoc position actually is, isstill lacking, which makes studying the postdoc experience a challenge2.Possibly due to the lack of a consistent definition of what a postdoc appointment is, there can bemany different responsibilities that characterize postdoc positions. Akerlind3 writes that there is“substantial variation within postdoc roles and responsibilities, even within the same disciplinaryarea.” These responsibilities, as listed by Akerlind3 include: being completely in charge of aresearch project and all it
amnions, that they all once had a tail and webbed fingers and primitivegill slits. Next they worked as a group on an interactive activity from NOVA called “Guess theEmbryo”5 that allows them to see how similar various vertebrate embryos appear in early stagesof development. Finally they individually worked on a project where they attempt to alignimages of embryos according to species and stage of development (Figures 1-3). At the end ofthe last activity they were told that the reason it is so hard to align the images correctly isbecause all these species came from a common ancestral species that had DNA instructions forearly development that all the different vertebrate species still share, and that what makes thespecies different are the
Paper ID #15322First Generation Students Identification with and Feelings of Belongingnessin EngineeringHank Boone, University of Nevada, Reno Hank Boone is a Graduate Research Assistant and Masters Student at the University of Nevada, Reno. His research focuses on First Generation engineering college students’ engineering identity, belonging- ness, and how they perceive their college experience.He is also on a National Science Foundation project looking at non-normative engineering students and how they may have differing paths to success. His education includes a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from University of Nevada
recruiting more young women and members of under represented groups intothe course, that is not the primary goal. Our goal is to develop and present the ENGR 102 HScurriculum in such a way as to inform and attract all the brightest, most creative young mindsinto the field of engineering.ENGR 102 for high school was fashioned after the on-campus university ENGR 102 course.The survey course introduces the student to various fields of engineering through a main lectureand hands-on lab sections. The primary project in the course is the design, test and build of asolar oven. This inquiry/project based learning is carried over to the high school version ofENGR 102. The primary difference between the two versions of the course is increasedclassroom time at
and the 2009 UW David B. Thorud Leadership Award. Dr. Atman holds a Ph.D. in Engineering and Public Policy from Carnegie Mellon University. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2016 Making an impact on engineering education communities: Learning from the past and looking forwardIntroductionThe field of engineering education is constantly evolving, and understanding the nature of itstransformation, as well as supporting related communities, has been the target of several studiesand projects. This study builds on these prior efforts, in order to contribute to the understandingof past transformation efforts as well as facilitating continuing transformation. The
psychologyAcknowledgementsThis work was made possible by an Innovative Education Grant from Shanghai Jiao TongUniversity in 2015-2016, a National-Level Practical Innovation Project Grant (IPP8160) in 2013-2014, an Innovative Education Grant from Purdue University in 2016, and a leave from teachingfor Rockwell Clancy from the University of Michigan-Shnaghai Jiao Tong Joint Institute duringthe Spring 2016 semester. Additionally, the authors gratefully acknowledge the support ofprofessors Yu Hui, Jian Yang, Liu Wenjing, and Yang Yang, who allowed them to administerthe surveys for this study in their courses, and Wang Yuchen and Leng Xubo, who worked asresearch assistants to help translate and administer the survey, as well enter data intospreadsheets.IntroductionThis
by the individual, nor is it imposed from the outside, ‘it is constituted as an internal relation between them. There is only one world, but it is a world we experience, a world in which we live, a world that is ours’. The seminal research that developed phenomenography as a research methodology, forexample, investigated students’ understanding of velocity in a physics class[9]. Velocity was theconcept or “the thing”, but the researchers were actually interested in how students understoodvelocity, which is “the thing as it appeared”. It was the students’ understanding that was thephenomenon of research interest. In aerospace engineering, Subject Matter Experts are important assets to projects, andSMEs have deep
, gender, and human rights in Niger (West Africa) and American global human- itarian and service engagement of students and nonprofits. She has published her work in a variety of col- laborative book projects and peer-reviewed journals: http://www.mtu.edu/social-sciences/department/faculty/henquinet/.Prof. Richard Jason Berkey, Michigan Technological University Rick Berkey is a Professor of Practice in the Pavlis Honors College (PHC) at Michigan Technological University. His teaching responsibilities and research interests include continuous improvement (Lean and Six Sigma), quality engineering, and design methodologies. Since 2015, Rick has served as Director of The Enterprise Program, a multi-year, multidisciplinary
development, assessment, and program evaluation. She teaches in active teaching environments, such as project-based learning and flipped classrooms. She aims to bring in engineering education research into practice.Dr. Vinod K. Lohani, Virginia Tech Dr. Vinod K. Lohani is a Professor of Engineering Education and also serves as the Director of education and global initiatives at an interdisciplinary research institute called the Institute for Critical Technology and Applied Science (ICTAS) at Virginia Tech. He is the founding director of an interdisciplinary lab called Learning Enhanced Watershed Assessment System (LEWAS) at VT. He received a Ph.D. in civil engineering from VT. His research interests are in the areas of
broader societal perceptions of what is “appropriate” for women, or related to otherfactors that have not yet emerged in USA-centric research.Malaysia is one of three cases in our larger project studying women’s participation in engineeringin three predominantly Muslim Countries (PMCs): Malaysia, Tunisia, and Jordan. We chose thesethree countries because they represent three cases with distinct geographical regions, cultures,economies, socio-cultural, legal, political, and education systems in the Muslim world. Moreover,these three countries boast a much higher representation of women in engineering compared toUnited States, with Malaysia having the highest representation. Within each country, we partneredwith the major flagship public university
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 Mathematics from Seattle University, a masters in Civil Engineering from Stanford University with an
of North Carolina at Charlotte, she was employed as a project engineer at SKA Consulting Engineers, Inc. in the building solutions group for 7 years. Her job responsibilities included performing forensic investigations to determine condition of building structural components; including concrete, masonry, wood and steel; preparing remedial designs; and performing construction administration. She is currently a third year PhD student in Educational Research, Measurement, and Evaluation at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2020 Exploring the Educational Experiences of Women Who Persisted in Engineering: A
Paper ID #31562Fostering Reflective Habits and Skills in Graduate Engineering Educationvia the Arts and HumanitiesDr. Ryan C. Campbell, Texas Tech University Having completed his Ph.D. through the University of Washington’s interdisciplinary Individual Ph.D. Program (see bit.ly/uwiphd), Ryan is now a Postdoctoral Research Associate at Texas Tech University. He currently facilitates an interdisciplinary project entitled ”Developing Reflective Engineers through Artful Methods.” His scholarly interests include both teaching and research in engineering education, arts & humanities in engineering, interdisciplinary
traditional values of a Land Grant universityby participating in its cause and upholding its mission.2. Project prospectus2.1. The journey of OSU IAC from 1982 until now and the role of the US DOEThe OSU IAC program is fully supportive of the land-grant mission of OSU. This programintegrates the three important objectives: community service, teaching, and research of the LandGrant mission. The IAC provides the public service of industrial energy audits at no cost to helpreduce energy and waste and to increase productivity, at the same time training students to makethem capable of becoming the next generation of energy, sustainability, and productivityprofessionals. In addition, the IAC works with utilities, manufacturing extension programs
thestudents in learning about their discipline. However this engagement must be done in a way thatpermits multiple instructors and multiple sections to be taught to offer uniformity in computingexperiences. “Scale” is important at lower level classes simply due to the number of studentsand the limited teaching resources. During the second offering (Fall 2006), a formal anonymoussurvey by our director of assessment was performed to ascertain the impact of our approach (SeeAppendix A for the entire set of questions and results). The questionnaire represents a 90%return from both sections. The questions were designed to ask their confidence with Excel andVBA, opinions of the class, course components as well as homework and project assignments. Afew
Minnesota. He has co-written eight books including Cooperative learning: Increasing college faculty instructional productivity; Strategies for energizing large classes: From small groups to learning communities; and Teamwork and project management, 3rd Ed. Page 12.1162.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2007 Portraying the Academic Experiences of Students in Engineering: Students’ Perceptions of their Educational Experiences and Career Aspirations in Engineering.AbstractUnderstanding better the experiences of students pursuing an engineering degree is an importantissue for the
University and a Ph.D. from N.C.S.U.Kenneth Ports, QTS, Inc. Dr. Kenneth A. Ports is currently Senior Scientist at QTS, Inc. in Cocoa Beach, Florida. Until recently, Dr. Ports was a Professor in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department and Associate Dean in the College of Engineering at Florida Tech. Prior to Florida Tech, Dr. Ports spent 25 years in the microelectronics industry in technical, management, staff and internal consulting roles. He led several corporate programs, including project management, product to market, technology roadmapping, and strategic planning. He was corporate director of University Relations, and his duties included overseeing the research pipeline. He has over
project management, product to market, technology roadmapping, and strategic planning. He was corporate director of University Relations, and his duties included overseeing the research pipeline. He has over 40 publications and papers, numerous company-private handbooks and documents, and 11 patents. He has a B.S. in Physics from Penn State and an M.S. and Ph.D. in Physics from Purdue University. Page 11.373.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2006 Critical Success Factors for Technopolis Creation Carmo D’Cruz, Clifford Bragdon, Dennis Kulonda
classroom. Many students are definingsuccess as the act of submission of an assignment, while showing little concern for its content orpresentation. A learning tool is proposed with the immediate goal of meeting higher standards instudent assignments, while lasting goals are to foster a greater sense of ownership and pride inany work that is submitted.This paper presents the results of three independent research projects to explore the use of theprofessional practice of peer review in engineering courses. This methodology was originallyinstituted as a system of mandatory collaboration in two structural analysis courses offered at theUnited States Military Academy (USMA), through forced peer review of all individualhomework. Based on the assessments
of leadership in changingorganizations.The assumptions that we see as central to our ideas about leadership are:a. Leadership definitions and practices are similar across different organizational settings (e.g.,academic, political and sport). The exploration of leadership practice will include considerationand suggestions for the use of quantitative, qualitative, projective and action research tools.b. Subtle but dramatic forms of distinction exist between the definitions of leadership andentrepreneurial leadership. Page 11.591.2c. An important challenge exists in the way the research is designed and reported when theconcept of gender is
Paper ID #6396Global Portrayals of Engineering Ethics Education: A Systematic LiteratureReviewJustin L Hess, Purdue University, West Lafayette Justin L Hess is a Ph.D. student at Purdue University’s School of Engineering Education. His research focuses on the role of individual values in engineering decision making, such as the role of empathy in stakeholder perspective taking, motivating student interest in sustainability, and deconstructing dominant worldviews within engineering. He currently is a research and teaching assistant for an NSF-funded project which uses reflexive principlism as an ethical framework for
occurduring the design, collection, analysis, and discussion phases. Some even argue that the extent ofmixing in a research project directly relates to the quality of the research.4 & 11 Collecting,analyzing, and discussing the qualitative and quantitative strands of a study through mixing canstrengthen a study when one set of data is inadequate, can provide further insight if needed toexplain an observed phenomena, can allow exploratory findings need to be generalized, or canhelp explain contradictory findings.8Like the Crede and Borrego6 article, our research initially emerged from the final project of adoctoral level methodology course taught by the second author. Following the class, the projectwas pursued further as the findings seemed