and NS BD training grants at FIU. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2023Exploring Institutional Retention Support Initiatives for Retaining Women of Color STEM FacultyIntroductionAlthough women’s representation has generally increased in some STEM fields in theprofessoriate [1], Women of Color (WOC) still face unique challenges due to unfavorableinstitutional climates [2], microaggressions based on race and gender [3], and hostiledepartmental climates [4]. As a result, WOC experiences chilly work environments [5],including isolation and tokenism [6]. While the literature on the challenges incurred by WOCSTEM faculty is significant, these challenges are
representation, andmulti-object selection. We conduct an analysis of the two modes of VR interaction in a craftproduction task and show increased performance of using magic interactions.1. IntroductionManufacturing helps create wealth, provides jobs, and is vital to the economy. Because technologyis changing rapidly, manufacturing companies need to adapt and stay ahead of the competition.There is an imperative need to train future engineers in the manufacturing industries to help themadapt the latest technology to stay competitive. A hands-on curriculum that blends theory andpractical skills is needed to teach these essential skills. An integral part of such a curriculum is alearning factory, which is a simulation environment that is designed to provide
inundergraduate engineering courses. This paper summarizes a faculty’s first time implementationof mastery grading in an upper division software engineering course and presents a longitudinalstudy of students’ perspectives toward mastery grading. We review the perspective of the facultyand students. We surveyed students throughout the semester to understand (1) the change instudents’ attitude towards mastery grading, (2) if students understood the mechanics of masterygrading and (3) the extent to which students found this system helpful for their learning versustraditional grading. We found that while students initially had a strong negative reaction towardsthe new grading scheme, over time, they seemed to prefer this grading method. Mastery gradingmade
to make sure all competencies are coveredby the learning outcomes. The achievement of each competency and the associated learningoutcome were then discussed through associated assignments. MethodologyIn the first step, the current course syllabus for LEED Lab offered at Ball State University wasreviewed and the initial course outcomes developed for this class were placed in the left columnof a two-column table designed for this study. In the right column, the types of assignmentsstudents should work on as their attempts to achieve the outcomes in the left column were listed(Table 1).Table 1. Ball State University LEED Lab course learning outcomes and associated assignments Course Outcomes Course Assignments • Understand
algorithm. Utilizing machine learning predictionswith personalized user profiles, the web application solution efficiently compiles relevant andnecessary product information for consumers to decide between products in a centralizedlocation. The user interface of the web application has also been designed with usability in mindto serve a broader audience. The application specifically considers individuals who are visuallyacute and impaired through font size, color contrast, screen reader compatibility, and keyboardaccessibility. Through conducting user surveys, the team found that 79.2% of users foundMatilda to be user-friendly and 87.5% of users were satisfied with Matilda’s recommendations.1. IntroductionSenior capstone projects are an integral
the bodybalanced [3,4].Figure 1 shows a schematic of the VS located in the inner ear. It includes the vestibular labyrinth,which houses three semicircular canals (SCCs), referred to as the anterior, lateral, and posterior,and the two otolith organs, the utricle, and the saccule. The three SCCs located perpendicular toeach other detect angular acceleration with respect to the three axes. For example, the lateral SCC,located horizontally, detects angular rotations of the head turning left or right. The posterior andanterior SCC’s detect left and right head tilts and head movements up and down respectively. Theutricle and the saccule detect linear or translational motion, in the horizontal and vertical directions,respectively [3,4
(Hadzigeorgiou et al., 2012) and math education (James, 2006) to the informalstudy of literature (Stewart, 2014). Increasingly, IE is seen as a promising approach to supportingengineering students’ engagement with content, both by connecting to students’ emotions and byfacilitating the conceptual transfer of key engineering design concepts (Ellis & Thornton, 2011).IE is grounded in the development of five different and increasingly complex types ofunderstanding that correspond to theorized stages of language acquisition. Associated with eachtype of understanding is a set of “cognitive tools” or mental devices that have been characteristicof human cognition throughout time (see Table 1).Transmedia storytelling (Jenkins, 2006) is another approach to
effectiveness. The challenge is now to refinethe simulations so that the need for faculty facilitation is reduced, and the level of immersionincreased.IntroductionSimulations are somewhere between useful and necessary for teaching the behavior of complexsystems [1]. Simulations allow students to observe and manipulate systems, experience theiroften-non-intuitive behavior, and try out different approaches for affecting and/or improving thatbehavior. Integration of simulations into teaching allows theoretical lessons to be demonstratedand experienced by the students [2-4]. Giving the students a goal within a simulation can create a“game” which both motivates thinking and increases enjoyment and engagement [5, 6].Simulations are in fact widely used in
. Additionally, using this method, teachers self-organize,examine, assess, and orient learning for students both within and beyond the classroom. This goesbeyond merely transmitting knowledge to students.Calculus has many useful applications. This topic reveals itself in its numerous and significantapplications in practice and in many branches of science, particularly physics, which hashistorically been most closely associated with analysis. According to Kleiner [1] for three centuries(18th, 19th, 20th), the primary quantitative instruments for analyzing scientific issues have beencalculus, modern physics, and engineering. Calculus cannot, then, solely concentrate on solvingproblems of pure mathematics while ignoring the chance to show students the
novel dissemination process and asked students to create YouTube videos. Overall, thispaper is an ongoing effort to expand these active teaching usecases and include them in othercourses, especially Architectural Engineering courses, in the near future to enable students tobenefit from these functionalities in a digital twins domain.IntroductionAs we observed in the past three years, the COVID-19 pandemic has greatly influenced the abilityof faculty and instructors to teach, and students to learn, using conventional approaches [1–3]. Asudden adaptation of teaching and learning from home during COVID-19 has especially impactedthose courses that require hands-on learning activities, which suggests that our current curriculumdesigns for these
distance learning tools. These papers not only address experienceswith more traditional classroom formats, but also with laboratories and other activities that werethought to require a face-to-face setting [1-5]. Authors have documented lessons learned andhow to profitably apply these lessons to improve instruction when used with face-to-faceinstruction [6-18]. Several authors have addressed the student perspective [9-11]. The searchresults presented here are by no means exhaustive.While the need for video and other distance learning technologies diminished at someinstitutions, at others a need existed both before and after the pandemic. There is a long-recognized need for programs to reach students who cannot attend classes in a traditional
examined students’ creative mindsets.Specifically, creative mindsets refer to whether students believe their creativity is innate oradaptive. We measured engineering students’ creative mindsets because creative mindsets are animportant component in both engineering and entrepreneurship and are expected to be related tostudents’ entrepreneurial self-efficacy beliefs (Cropley, 2016; Walton, 2003). In the presentstudy, overall, we created the ESE-E following multiple iterations and theoretical and empiricalguidelines. Therefore, we expected that the scales would demonstrate high reliability andvalidity.Research Questions As such, we had three research questions: 1. What are the factors of the ESE-E scales? 2. Are students’ creative
). Before deployment of this module,students were presented with a Likert survey (5-point scale with 1 being strongly disagree and 5being strongly agree) to gauge their comfortability (as a measure of self-efficacy) withexperimental techniques, experimental design, data analysis, and their ability to describeapoptotic mechanisms. Students then participated in a series of “wet” and “dry” lab exercises topromote TDA competency in tissue characterization by real-time RT-PCR. Afterwards, studentscompleted a post-lab Likert survey to assess outcomes. Based on our analysis, students expressedenhanced self-efficacy in performing real-time RT-PCR (2.9 vs. 4.1, p < 0.01), analyzing gene-expression data (3.1 vs. 3.9, p < 0.05) and explaining the
spring 2019 therehave been over 900 confirmed attendees.Literature ReviewCareer readiness and post-academic success are significant goals of education. Graduate schoolstypically deploy a mentorship model, where disciplinary experts advise and guide students,preparing them for a career that mirrors their own trajectory into academia [1], [2]. In someSTEM disciplines as many as two thirds of graduate degree recipients leave academia forindustry [3], [4]. Ganapati and Ritchie found that there are gaps in the professional developmentfor PhD students who choose not to pursue a career in academics [5]. Learning resources,ranging from credit-bearing coursework to non-curricular mentorship programs are oftendeveloped to ensure students receive the
engineering may be presented to 1st-year students and how careerplanning might be better positioned for future engineers.BackgroundThe South Dakota School of Mines and Technology is a public engineering-focused university inRapid City, South Dakota. One of the largest engineering undergraduate programs at SouthDakota Mines is mechanical engineering (ME). According to the ME department, theundergraduate program “offers a premier project-based engineering design curriculum andprovides [the] graduates with superior educational experience through teaching and learning,research and development, and service & social responsibility” [1].Many engineering students are attracted to the automotive industry due to its continuedexcellence in innovation. The
levels of thinking [1]–[5].While team-based design projects are widely used in first-year introductory engineering courses,implementing these team-based experiences can be logistically challenging. Introductory coursesoften have large class enrollments with constraints on the availability of faculty instructors,especially at large, research-focused universities [6]. Our institution uses a cadre ofundergraduate TAs to mentor student teams and facilitate small group discussions in our large-enrollment (ca. 700 students) introductory engineering course with a TA-to-student ratio of 1:25[7]. Teamwork in this course is structured around two summative interdisciplinary projects [8],[9]. We have previously identified the need to provide support to our
©American Society for Engineering Education, 2023 Implementing Integrated Project-Based Learning Outcomes in a 21st Century Environmental Engineering CurriculumAbstractEngineering education research and accreditation criteria have for some time emphasized that toadequately prepare engineers to meet 21st century challenges, programs need to move toward anapproach that integrates professional knowledge, skills, and real-world experiences throughoutthe curriculum [1], [2], [3]. An integrated approach allows students to draw connections betweendifferent disciplinary content, develop professional skills through practice, and relate theiremerging engineering competencies to the problems and communities they care about [4], [5
students who begin with Calculus I has slowly grown to around 24%.Please see Figure 1 for the trend of Calculus I enrollment over the last eight years.Figure 1. Enrollment in Calculus I over the past eight years 900 30.00% 800 25.00% 700 600 20.00% 500 15.00% 400 300
use in the world and equating knowledge of technology to knowledge of readingand writing from the past [1]. In contrasting appeals proponents have called to broaden the engineeringcurriculum to include more liberal arts, and in turn learn more engineering on the job or in graduateschool [2]. However, as we stand currently in 2023, we have not witnessed such extreme shifts in eitherdirection in a majority of programs across the United States. Instead and perhaps a more fortunatephenomenon that we have seen in undergraduate education is joint liberal arts and engineering programswhich have existed for a few decades now. For example, the Engineering Studies program at LafayetteCollege which was established in 1970 and brings together in its
disciplines. Translating these grading practices to the STEMfields may draw concerns from many faculty that the academic rigor will be reduced. Yet, whenthe focus of assessment shifts toward proficiency with the content and skills being taught,learning can actually be enhanced, not diminished. With mastery grading, rather than earningpoints, the students are assessed on their level of mastery on a variety of content outcomes.Mastery grading allows for learning to be student-centered and focuses on the understanding ofcourse content on the student’s timeline. Mastery grading promotes the growth mindset [1] andhighlights the learning process as a continuum rather than focusing on fixed high-stakesassessments.Making the switch to a non-traditional
laboratory equipment (self-efficacy) and the ability totroubleshoot or “debug” equipment. The motivation for considering these two outcomes is ourobservation that students’ troubleshooting abilities are limited and a hypothesis that students whoself-report higher self-efficacy may demonstrate better troubleshooting ability. This paper takesthe first step in determining how we might measure the two variables of interest: self-efficacyand troubleshooting ability.Engineering laboratory course objectives often include the use of engineering equipment tocollect data, to analyze data relative to engineering concepts, to correct for deviations in theexperimental procedure, and to identify experimental problems and intervene when appropriate[1]. Assessment
concentrations, and in-hand increase therevenue. In addition, the faculty members involved in this initiative would be going throughprofessional development efforts, which can help in their promotions and tenure down the lane.There are few opportunities for the construction faculty to do the internship/field experienceduring the full-time semester. However, every year, the Associated General Contractors (AGC)Faculty residency program provides opportunities for junior faculty to perform summerinternships. Very few works of literature exist on the impact of faculty externships onconstruction education[1], [2]. This paper aims to lay out the strategies, course outcomes, and aknowledge transfer methodology utilizing the faculty residency performed in the
manufacturing engineering coursedeveloped and implemented. A summary of two offerings of this course is briefly described. Itprovided high engagement for students that has been observed through the learning processinteractions. It also provided a platform to implement IIoT, digital cloud, and real-time datacollection to help with the detection of unplanned events and behavior. The setup also providedtools for fast correction response and documentation.1. IntroductionSustainably managing input resources such as energy, material, and other supplies to operatefriendly environmental production will result in not only economic improvements but also aslowdown and reduction in natural resource utilization [1]. Interoperations’ complexity of amanufacturing
Paper ID #36957Fortitude in frustration, failure: Exploring emotional responses withinan at-home elementary engineering program.Peter N. Knox, University of VermontAmber Simpson, State University of New York at Binghamton Amber Simpson is an Associate Professor of Mathematics Education in the Teaching, Leaming and Edu- cational Leadership Department at Binghamton University. Her research interests include (1) examining individual’s identity(ies) in one or more STEM disciplines, (2) understanding the role of making a.11d tinkering in formal and informal learning environments, and (3) investigating family engagement in and
1.Prior to the formation of GradWIE, we developed and distributed a pilot survey to all graduatestudents in the College of Engineering to gauge (1) the need for community and (2) studentinterest in creating a group for women who are graduate students in the engineering field. Ourprocess of assessing community needs prior to organizing within the community couldpotentially benefit the thousands of university student organizations in the United States.Students’ valuable time and energy during very challenging years at university [1] could bedirected towards creating more effective, meaningful outcomes of their extracurricular activities.Such experience may enhance professional appeal. Student organizations, especially thoseintended to support
how marginalization andinclusion in communication operates both at the level of students and teachers, but also through physicalclassroom settings and the larger educational context. However, there is still a need for further research tocreate more equitable STEM classrooms. To that end, our study seeks to gain firsthand insight fromwomen and gender-diverse students and faculty members regarding their experiences in academia.Participants share perspectives and strategies for overcoming experiences of marginalization and creatingmore welcoming and inclusive learning environments in introductory engineering courses. Thisqualitative study seeks to answer the following questions: (1) What types of marginalization do womenstudents experience while
; calls forrelevancy and public engagement; the environmental movement; and rallying calls for citizenscience and activism” (Pedretti & Nazir, 2015).STSE: The currents frameworkPedretti and Nazir (2011) reinforced the idea that there is no single, widely accepted view ofSTSE, and as a response to the complexity of STSE and its diverse approaches represented by 40years of discourse, mapped the field of STSE through the identification of six “Currents”. TheseCurrents serve as a heuristic, a way of examining STSE discourse and practices amongsteducators. The six Currents are not necessarily discrete; they sometimes intermingle or change,and include 1) Application/Design; 2) Historical; 3) Logical Reasoning; 4) Value Centered; 5)Sociocultural
application of sustainable platforms for the purification and detection of biomarkers. Has made research internships at the Michael Smith Laboratories at the University of British Columbia and the Water Center for Latin America and the Caribbean. In 2018 she was Coordinator at the Writing Lab of the Institute for the Future of Education. She is the co-author of 29 ISI indexed scientific publications, 1 book, 2 book chapters, and co-inventor of 4 intellectual properties. She is a member of the Mexican National System of Researchers. Her contributions in the field of sustainability have been in biotechnology, cereal sciences, energy efficiency; and active learning in education. https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1568-4954Vianney Lara
Paper ID #38480Fostering Inclusive Department Climates: A Workshop for DepartmentChairs at the University of XDr. Shawna Vican, University of Delaware Shawna Vican is an Assistant Professor of Sociology and Criminal Justice at the University of Delaware. She received her Ph.D. in Sociology from Harvard University. As a scholar of gender and organizations, Dr. Vican’s work seeks to understand why gender inequality in the workplace persists and how orga- nizations can affect change, with three main research streams: (1) how organizational practices shape workplace gender inequality, (2) explaining heterogeneity in employer
and beyond” (Paris & Alim, 2014, p. 13). As such, FDP activities should enablefaculty to authentically design, develop, and implement intended outcomes that are intimatelyconnected to the multiple realities and worlds that faculty in engineering face (Mejia et al.,2022).In this full paper, five diverse Latiné/x 1 engineering faculty reflected upon their stories and howthey use their experiences to situate their existing in- and out-of-classroom practices for theirstudents. By sharing their stories, the authors were able to situate threads that weaved theirbackgrounds to suggest further refinements for FDPs that could include other minoritized groupsin engineering. Note that due to the narrative nature of this work, sections of the