, demonstrate howstory messages may be misinterpreted. Student misunderstanding of their ownmotivations and their ability to mobilize and engage others may occur due to: 1. Blurring Entrepreneurial level concepts with individual story phenomena. Many confuse the big picture definition of entrepreneurship with individual level entrepreneuring activity. Specifically, audiences sometime assume that the confident, clear entrepreneur’s delivery of his story indicates an equal strength of conviction, and clarity in their personal life. In fact, the reality may be something very different. During the first class meeting, Jon (introduced earlier) a graduate student and new company-founder, confidently shared his non
Academic Affairs. He also worked in the System Office of the Board of Regents of the University System of Georgia. He retired from SPSU in 2005 and holds the rank of Professor Emeritus of Civil Engineering Technology. Dr. Hornbeck served as Faculty Adviser to the ASCE Student Club at SPSU for 22 years, ASCE program evaluator for ABET for six years, and ASCE Commissioner on TAC for four years. He served on the ASCE Educational Activities Committee (EdAC) and was contact member to the Committee on Technology Curricula and Accreditation (CTC&A). Dr. Hornbeck holds a B.S. in Civil Engineering from the West Virginia Institute of Technology, an M.S. in Civil Engineering (Structural) from Vanderbilt
identity is related to how a person sees themselves in society.Intellectual identity is associated with the desire to become an engineer. The authors discussimplications of these identities to academic and social support systems.Significant bodies of research have focused on the masculine culture of engineering and itseffects on female-identifying students. Faulkner explores the dichotomous styles of thoughtpresent in engineering and their perceived hierarchy and relationship to gender [13]. The twodualisms explored are technical/social and abstract/concrete. The author suggests that thetechnical/social distinction of engineering maps to masculine instrumentalism and feminineexpressiveness. The relationship of abstract/concrete dualism of
c American Society for Engineering Education, 2015 ENGINEERING ETHICS IN TECHNOLOGY AND SOCIETY COURSESIntroductionUniversity technology and society courses provide students with the opportunity to studyprofessional or engineering ethics, but ethics seen in a different context from that of a formalengineering ethics course. Ethics can be the unifying core for such courses. The formalprofessional ethics course might follow one or more of several possible approaches: (i) use ofrelevant moral virtues as guides to making decisions, (ii) emphasis on consequences to allstakeholders, or (iii) application of rules or codes that must be followed. These approaches canlead to conflicting solutions. An
“university-industry cooperativeeducation” model4. All of these have proven that the involvement of industries andenterprises is an important part of cultivation of engineering workers. From theperspective of international engineering education experience, enterprises play animportant role in fostering students’ innovative, practical, and problem-solving abilitiesthrough participating in the development of training programs, curriculum and teaching,internships, graduation, and other areas. With the development of China's marketeconomy, the concept of training industry-oriented skills is recognized by universitiesand the community. Engineering skills training in colleges and universities alsoincreasingly relies on private enterprises. Thus, in recent
accrediting process, where aprogram is eligible for ABET accreditation upon graduating a student from the program. If aprogram applies for accreditation as soon as they are eligible, then there does not exist a body ofalumni from the program who are sufficiently removed from graduation (i.e., three to five yearsout) upon which to properly evaluate the degree of attainment of the program educationalobjectives. However, some programs report being cited for an item that is impossible for them toassess: • “Since we are a new department with new programs and only a few recent graduates just employed a year or two or three, we had no data as we did not launch any surveys due to such a small sample size. In a reply to the report, we
prerequisite course, and introducestime-varying filters. Reverberation also broadens student DSP background by covering combfilters and all-pass filters.Most students choosing this elective course play a musical instrument, sing, or are avid musiclisteners. Examples of historically significant musicians, instruments, and compositions arefrequently presented in class. As an end-of-term project, students create a two-minutecomposition using synthesis techniques learned throughout the quarter, and then present theirwork as a concert for interested students, faculty, and staff. Hatfield Hall auditorium is arelatively new world-class facility on the Rose-Hulman campus, and students enjoyed hearingtheir work in this setting.All ECE481 course material
. IECsupports both types of partnerships to the extent requested by its members. There is oneadditional type of partnership – organization to organization. All partnerships can benefit fromADEP concepts. The following are examples of presently active partnerships.Intel Funded Program Connected Students and Faculty from Two IEC MSI Schools withTheir Counterparts at an IEC Affiliate PWI School – Faculty from UCSD and IEC leadershipdeveloped a proposal to Intel to fund an Asset Driven Equitable Partnership to pilot a pathway tograduate studies for groups of 3 students from two different IEC Core members. Students wereengaged in research at their home institution during the academic year and at UCSD in thesummer. This program provided funding to support
, led, and managed a number of multimillion dollar federal grants for STEM teacher professional development for Baltimore County Public Schools and NAPE, with resulting publications and professional learning. She began her career as a faculty member at the Community College of Baltimore County working with smart, capable, hardworking, and appreciative minority students who had somehow fallen through the educational cracks. That was her first glimpse into the failure of the education system from teacher training to student learning. Morrell’s quest has always been to answer the question, how do we as a country improve student outcomes in STEM for all students? How do we finally recognize and close gaps in performance
Department of Energy’s Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico. An active member of American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE), he has a strong interest in creating new student-centered, engaging approaches to STEM education. As an Innovation Advisor to Elsevier’s Academic Engineering Solutions Library Advisory Board (AES-LAB), he has been the lead content developer for the 2016 Elsevier Engineering Academic Challenge and the 2015 Knovel Academic Challenge.Mr. Jay J. Bhatt, Drexel University (Eng. & Eng. Tech.) Jay Bhatt is responsible for building library collections in engineering subject areas, outreach to fac- ulty and students, and teaching information and research skills to faculty and students in
area and not general or introductory engineering. These, among otherfactors, make designing an effective introduction to engineering courses challenging. Landis [1]recommends five course objectives for introduction to engineering courses: community building,professional development, academic development, personal development and orientation.Design projects apply to many of these. In community building, the team aspects of numerousprojects help students develop professional skills and build a support network for their collegeexperience. Teaching the engineering design process and engineering’s role in a better society isexcellent professional development. Productive interactions with peers and faculty, as well aslearning to prioritize important
commit to academictasks, as well as persevere during challenging academic tasks. Research has connected efficacybeliefs to educational processes and outcomes such as academic major selection, scholasticachievement, persistence, and long-term, post-graduation career decisions.20-24 2Most of the literature on academic self-efficacy comes from the field of educational psychology.However, engineering education literature has embraced the value of promoting high academicself-efficacy, especially when promoting engineering students’ academic goals, success, andcareer interests. For example, based on findings from an engineering education study
challengesin Puerto Rican communities, compounded by the additional constraints and threats imposed bythe COVID-19 pandemic. This led to a decision to recraft a planned summer conference as partof a sponsored research project “Cultivating Responsible Wellbeing in STEM: SocialEngagement through Personal Ethics” (NSF 1449489) into a virtual symposium consistingprincipally of community designers. Thus, we launched the 2020 Co-Creating Symposium, inwhich we aimed to prototype a new model of solution-seeking at the community level which, asnoted previously, would break the pattern of the paternalistic, outsider-driven power dynamics.3. Co-Creating Guiding PrinciplesIn conceiving the Symposium, we asked the following questions: ● How might we create an
for high school faculty to bring energy training into their classrooms, developing programming around emerging energy technologies, promotion of career awareness activities, and working on diversity challenges in the energy industry workforce. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2019 Managing a Multi-Institution Block Grant for Renewable Electricity Research1. BackgroundThe Renewable Development Fund (RDF) was originally established in 1994 by the State ofMinnesota. Funds are provided by Xcel Energy ratepayers in exchange for an allowance to storespent nuclear fuel from two nuclear generating plants in the state. The RDF funds are intended“to increase renewable energy market penetration
writing, and those pursuing careers in industry are equally unprepared for thegenres of writing required in the workplace. Prior work in engineering writing by the authors andothers study writing in a “static” context: That is, final documents are analyzed in order tounderstand argumentation structure through a genre lens. Other work has sought to understand theways in which writers may struggle with the writing process from an affective dimension.However, very little is known about the cognitive patterns of engineering writers writing inauthentic disciplinary contexts.In this paper, we present the methodological approach and data visualization of time-resolvedwriting data. For the purpose of this paper, we focus on one graduate student, Fred, as
anengineering program. Cultivating a culture of doing engineering can result in graduates who notonly are prepared technically and professionally with a practical, realistic understanding of whatit is to be an engineer, but also who identify with and are committed to the engineeringprofession.ObjectiveThe project’s objective is to develop a mechanical engineering program where students andfaculty are immersed in a culture of doing engineering with practicing engineers from industrythat in turn fosters students’ engineering identities. The culture of a program plays a significantrole in effective, innovative STEM education [25], [26]. The culture of “Engineering withEngineers” is being built through the interactions of students, faculty, and industry
high school and then considerpursuing a technology-related field in college. In the place of longitudinal data, researchers haveoften relied upon one-time measures meant to predict persistence with no follow-up evidence ofhow students’ intentions actually played out. In our study we examined how survey responses byhigh school girls predicted persistence three years later defined as being tech and computerscience majors [or minors] in college. We also examined other factors that may be influential inthat choice of major. A number of studies exploring field persistence from education to career have used theSocial Cognitive Career Theory (SCCT) model which holds that personal, behavioral, andenvironmental factors play a role in career decision
Distinguished Member status (2019); the CRA A. Nico Habermann award (2018); and the Richard A. Tapia Achievement Award (2017). He is originally from San Juan, Puerto Rico.Dr. Debarati Basu, Embry Riddle Aeronautical University Dr. Debarati Basu is an Assistant Professor in the Engineering Fundamentals Department in the College of Engineering at the Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University at the Daytona Beach campus. She earned her Ph.D. in Engineering Education from Virginia Tech (VT). She received her bachelor’s and masters in Computer Science and Engineering. Her research is at the intersection of Engineering Education (EE) and Computing Education Research (CER) to advance personalized learning, specifically within the
and navigational capital are less likely to know they should pursueprofessional opportunities or how to do so. FGC students often have less knowledge ofuniversity resources [15], and fewer mentors [22]. The lack of mentoring is a predictor of URMstudents’ decision not to pursue graduate work in STEM [23]. For students with the navigationaland academic capital that enables them to apply for these opportunities, the benefits multiply.From knowing to reach out and how to reach out, they develop relationships with faculty thatlead to letters of recommendation, referrals, or industry contacts. This knowledge can become a‘rich get richer’ effect, where students who did not know the importance of an opportunitydiscover it too late and do not develop
disciplinarities ofher own research and teaching. Her graduate training is in STS, and her research has analyzedinter- and transdisciplinary collaborations between engineers, artists, and scientists [19]. She ismotivated by the potential for interdisciplinary engagement to change engineers’ outlooks ontheir education and profession. Her experiences as an instructor of STS-based core courses forengineering and computer science students have helped to shape her outlook on teaching and herapproach to this paper.Lastly, Dr. Desen Ozkan’s graduate background is in engineering education, specifically inunderstanding how faculty developed and maintained interdisciplinarity amid universitystructures. She focused on interdisciplinary design courses that used human
this new curriculum in 1997.10 The program was successful inincreasing retention and graduation rates in our engineering disciplines. Recently, we updated theIEC in order to address several factors described by the National Academy of Engineering’sreport: The Engineer of 2020.11 The newly implemented curriculum relies on a concept entitledLiving With the Lab (LWTL).The Living with the Lab ConceptIn the traditional laboratory and shop settings, faculty members or technical staff mustensure that the required equipment is ready and that supplies are on hand so that project activitiescan be performed and/or data can be collected. While it’s possible for energetic faculty membersto guide students through creative design projects and laboratory
employees’ Position Descriptions. Position Descriptions represent aclear opportunity in our efforts to empower faculty and staff to identify, agree upon, and carryout responsibilities that can be outside of the traditional norms in the academy. Our School willidentify Change Leaders and formally allot 10% of their effort toward shifting the School’sculture to re-situate learning and instruction. More broadly, all faculty will be expected toadvance and equalize undergraduate and graduate student success across demographics throughcommunicating clear expectations and holding people accountable to these expectations. Thisapproach places responsibility for culture transformation on each community member asopposed to relying on a dedicated few. Such an
a largerproject. Next, we establish the criteria for quality, ethics, and equity that we considered. Then,we step through the purpose, theory, sampling, and instrumentation sections in light of thecriteria established. Finally, we present the decision we came to in light of those criteria and ournext steps. In making this process transparent, we hope to help new engineering educationresearchers understand the complex considerations that come with executing a research project. 2. Positionality & ContextThe research team is composed of the Principal Investigator (PI) who submitted the originalgrant proposal to the National Science Foundation (NSF) and received the CAREER grant inwhich this work is situated; and four graduate students
AC 2007-1459: WATERS NETWORK’S POTENTIAL TO TRANSFORMENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING EDUCATIONElizabeth Eschenbach, Humboldt State University Beth Eschenbach is a Professor of Environmental Resources Engineering at Humboldt State University. Beth left civil engineering as an undergraduate at UC Santa Cruz, and graduated with honors in mathematics and in psychology. She obtained her MS and PhD at Cornell in Environmental and Water Resources Systems Engineering. She completed a postdoc at the Center for Advanced Decision Support in Water and Environmental Systems (CADSWES) at UC Boulder. Beth’s career goals include increasing the diversity of engineering students and improving education for
them to drawconclusions at multiple levels of analysis: 1) the underlying biophysical substrata of the cognitive systemand 2) how students are experiencing and regulating their emergent emotional states. Similar to the Lorenz system example, Hilpert and colleagues (2013, 2014) have used differentialequation modeling to produce simulations of how students plan for a future career in engineering as theyenter young adulthood. Their work is an example of how dynamic modeling can be used to examinestudents planning, self-regulation, and problem solving. They integrate interviews, surveys, and studentdrawings of timelines of their lives to produce dynamic models for how students’ goals shift with regardto 1) what they value in the future
method, systems engineering, creative problem solving, reverse engineering,team building exercises, and an overview of the engineering disciplines and applications. Eachtopic includes introductory notes, a glossary of terms and vocabulary quiz, problem sets, at leastone project, and documentation. Since a textbook is not used, students are expected to build areference binder for notes, handouts, and assignments, and maintain an engineering notebook fortheir small projects. In the second year engineering class, students select their own projects andbuild a personal portfolio. Lightly structured, the Engineering class comes with a FIRST TechChallenge robotics team, a chapter of the Technology Students Association, and access to localprograms and
Computer Science. Dante is an adjunct faculty member at the Chicago School of Professional Psychology with Graduate level teaching credits in Psychometrics, Data Management and as a Visiting Scholar at the University of Science in Tokyo. Dante’s dissertation research spans several specializations in psychology including: Organizational, Social, Cul- tural, Developmental, Cognitive, Performance, Sports, and Positive Psychology. Dante is also an active member of American Psychological Association (APA) Division 46 (Society for Media Psychology and Technology), Division 14 (Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology), Division 13 (Society of Consulting Psychology) and Division 47 (Society for Sport, Exercise and
society. Leslie is a founding member of the Aula Fellowship for AI Science, Technology, and Policy.Dr. Sreyoshi Bhaduri, ThatStatsGirl Dr. Sreyoshi Bhaduri is an Engineering Educator and People Research Scientist. She employs innovative and ethical mixed-methods research approaches to uncover insights about the 21st century workforce. Sreyoshi has a doctorate in Engineering Education, and Masters degrees in Applied Statistics (M.A.) and Mechanical Engineering (M.S.), from Virginia Tech. She earned her Bachelors degree in Mechatronics Engineering from Manipal University in India. Sreyoshi has been recognized as a Graduate Academy for Teaching Excellence (VTGrATE) Fellow, a Global Perspectives Program (GPP) Fellow, a
[Lent etal., 2002]. The SCCT explains that several factors such as person background, self-efficacy,outcome expectation, and environmental supports and barriers either directly or indirectly impactstudents’ career choice and future work performance. In this study, we utilized SCCT tounderstand how CE students perceived environmental supports and barriers is related toparticipating in research, which in turn may impact research career decision makings. Forexample, Dolan (2016) reported that proving an UG research opportunity for engineeringstudents benefits them to explore the research and pursue research career. Thus, supportingundergraduate students to participate in research can be one way of supporting students to pursueresearch career
perform coordinated tasks. Other NASA projects include high altitude ballooning experiments and payload design for sounding rockets flown out of Wallops Island Flight Facility.Prof. Won H Suh, Bioengineering Department, College of Engineering, Temple University Dr. Won H. (Jon) Suh is an assistant professor in the Bioengineering Department at Temple University, Philadelphia, PA. Prior to joining Temple as a faculty member, Dr. Suh was an assistant project scien- tist and postdoctoral fellow at the University of California, Berkeley (2009-2012) in the Department of Bioengineering. He was an Otis Williams Postdoctoral Fellow in Bioengineering at the University of California, Santa Barbara (2008-2010), which is where he