graduate andundergraduate students across STEM disciplines. Dr. Peeples been an active member of the American Institute ofChemical Engineers (AIChE), the American Chemical Society (ACS), the National Organization for the ProfessionalAdvancement of Black Chemists and Chemical Engineers (NOBCChE). She received the Outstanding Service Award andPioneers of Diversity Award from AIChE Minority Affairs Committee. She received a Million Women MentorsTrailblazer Award from STEM Connector and is a member of the American Institute for Medical and BiologicalEngineering College of Fellows. Dean Peeples currently serves as a leader in the NSF INCLUDES Aspire Alliance and anAdvisory Board Member for The American Association for Advancement of Science (AAAS) Open
,experience, career plans, and overall goals. We received a total of 13 applications. We downselected these 13 candidates through 10 minute Skype interviews with the students, askingstudents to elaborate more on their academic interests and career trajectory. Following theirresponses, the faculty team independently ranked the students and through discussion came upwith the final selection. We opted for a 6 students in an effort to keep the gender ratio balanced.We also balanced for class level and broad general interest of the student. After selection, wesent our formal invitations to all 6 students. All selected students accepted participation in ourprogram.Two members of the faculty team returned to the Colonias community to personally meet
foster an environment where diverse and creative people are successful in the pursuit of engineering and computing degrees. Jean’s efforts have been recognized with numerous awards including the National Science Foundation Faculty Early Career Development award, the American Society for Engineering Education John A. Curtis Lecturer award, and the Bagley College of Engineering Service award. Jean earned her B.S. and M.S. in computer engineering from Mississippi State University, and her Ph.D. in engineering education from Virginia Tech.Ms. Lorena Andrea Benavides Riano, Mississippi State University Lorena Benavides-Riano, originally from Colombia, is a first-year Engineering Ph.D. student at Missis- sippi State
. Thisstudy fills these gaps with case study research on technology internships at two Floridacommunity colleges. In this research we explore, engineering and information technologyinternship structure; participation; and outcomes on program persistence, program completion,and self-efficacy in future technology and career engagement. Our case study research drawsfrom both qualitative and quantitative data from a range of perspectives including students,faculty/administrators and employers who provided the internships. Findings show that credit-bearing technology internships prepared students to be successful in technology careers,strengthened student self-efficacy and confidence towards their technology education and careergoals, and provided a
the past fiveacademic years, nearly 220 multidisciplinary engineering seniors have completed 36projects, controlling budgets totaling approximately $1.1 million.This paper describes our continuing effort to involve industry with engineering education.The projects are proposed, funded and ultimately delivered to industry. An industrycontact person is the leader in determining the goals, the acceptance criteria, and theproject requirements. Communication between faculty, industry contact person andstudents is vital to ensure success. The faculty advisor is a coach, consultant, andevaluator of the students. The students will not graduate until they meet the criteriaspecified by the customer, i.e. the industrial contact, as well as the
engaged in the project and appreciated the active learning approach. Students hadminimal prior experience with complicated devices and had many concerns about completingthe project. Based on faculty observations and students’ responses on surveys, studentsmaintained engagement in the cardiograph project and experienced a sense of accomplishment,even when they did not successfully produce a working cardiograph.IntroductionIn 2009, the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) surveyed 80 ME departmentheads, 1,404 industry supervisors, and 1,198 early-career MEs for their Vision 2030 project.Survey results revealed that the skills managers believed required strengthening in new graduatesdid not match the skills faculty and early-career MEs
and large scale struc- tures for aerospace applications. She is the founder and adviser for the Women of Aerospace student organization at MSU. Dr. Sullivan is an Associate Fellow of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics. She is the recipient of the 2019 Hermann Oberth Award and the 2014 SAE International Ralph R. Teetor Educational Award. Dr. Sullivan is a member of the MSU Bagley College of Engineering Academy of Distinguished Teachers.Miss Soundouss Sassi, Mississippi State University Soundouss Sassi is a Ph.D. student in Engineering Education at Mississippi State University. Her advisor is Dr. Jean Mohammadi Aragh. In 2016 she earned a Master in Aerospace Engineering from the same
inventions as well as his paintings. Many engineering students think thatany time spent on non-technical subjects is not beneficial to their future careers. Over two years,the author assigned essays specifically inviting students to reflect on these attitudes. Fewer thanhalf expressed an appreciation for the value of their general education courses, especially in artsand humanities. This goal of this project was to explore Renaissance learning within a biologicaland agricultural engineering (BAE) program. The primary methods included weekly essayassignments and an annual departmental poetry contest. As a component of regularly assignedhomework, weekly essays were assigned to BAE seniors to give students the opportunity toreflect on various
challenge of representing the transformational learning that occurswhen students participate in high impact practices such as project-based, multi-disciplinaryactivities, or first year experiences. This paper illustrates the context and components of one suchmulti-disciplinary, first year experience called SUSTAIN SLO, at Cal Poly San Luis Obispo, anddescribes the use of qualitative narrative analysis done to gain insight into learning outcomesbeyond typical institutional measures like retention and grades. To research these lessquantifiable outcomes, 22 students were interviewed one year after their experience in SUSTAINSLO. A team of one faculty member, a recent graduate, and four undergraduate students usedqualitative analysis techniques to see
’ problemsolving and decision making skills (CRLT, n.d.). The curricula in business, law and medicalschools have been based for decades on the analysis of real world cases; however, this has notbeen the case in engineering. We believe that what-if case studies of social and societal issueshave the potential to not only bring URM and women students into the engineering fold, butalso to make our mainstream engineering students more involved and intellectually morecurious about social issues.We need to provide a ready-to-use platform for such explorations at the university level. Itshould help nudge engineering faculty members and students to become more open tocollaboration with colleagues in liberal arts. This ‘platform’ at our university has been a multi
students are different than the 2002 students. The students come to the universityknowing more about what engineers do and having more developed teamwork and technicalskills. This is an important consideration in evaluating the importance of the wow factor onoverall retention rates.Assessment of the “Wow Factor”A survey was administered to students who completed ENGR 10 during the previous 18 months,which explicitly explored why students originally chose engineering as a major, whether theyintend to continue in the major, and what factors were important in their decisions. The surveywas founded on work done by the NSF-funded Assessing Women and Men in EngineeringProject13 (AWE). The AWE project has developed assessment instruments for K-16
Air Traffic Manage- ment (NextGen). In addition to his university position, he has served as Visiting Research Associate at the Federal Avi- ation Administration, Faculty Fellow at NASA Goddard Flight Research Center, and Software Quality Assurance Manager at Carrier Corporations. He also contributed to the Software and System Engi- neering profession by serving as an author for Graduate Software Engineering Reference Curriculum (GSwE2009), Graduate Reference Curriculum for Systems Engineering (GRCSE), Systems Engineer- ing Body of Knowledge (SEBoK), and subject matter expert for IEEE Certified Software Development Associate (CSDA) training material. He is senior member of IEEE.Dr. James J. Pembridge, Embry
during the workshop: • An introduction to the broad field of engineering • Student panel discussion on what it takes to be an engineering student • Overview of the freshman Introduction to Engineering course at UMBC • High school preparation for an engineering career, including math and science • Future Scientists and Engineers of America (FSEA) program overview and competition • Tour of local engineering facilities at Northrop Grumman • Engineering faculty panel discussion on various engineering disciplines • Opportunities and rewards of an engineering career • Use of the Internet to learn about engineering • ‘Hands-on’ projects to help introduce high school students to engineering • Engineering alumni panel
]. It hasbeen demonstrated that students tend to believe that their peers are cheating as much, if not more,than they do [9], [3]. Students are also unlikely to report the cheating of other students [9]. Thesefindings, taken together, reinforce the importance of the established institutional culture onstudents’ academic integrity practices. Students believe that faculty carry the responsibility todissuade cheating - for example, by not reusing exams and assignments – and faculty memberswho fail to do so are perceived as permitting cheating behaviors [3]. While this may not be theway faculty members would wish for students to approach their courses, it does reinforce the factthat the opportunity exists for an individual faculty member to
a mass online education specificallyfor students and faculty from Tier 2 and Tier 3 colleges. MOOCs (Massive Open Online Course )are online courses which enable large numbers to participate via the web or other technologies.MOOCs have a long history and have primarily been asynchronous so that international studentscan also avail of this. In this article, we delineate how we modified that approach by piloting thissynchronously. The Covid19 situation was an added incentive to offer this course to students whocould not meet in person due to restrictions for in-person classes. Over 350 students from 20different engineering colleges from India were recruited for a pilot program along with the facultyfrom their schools. Each college recruited
AC 2009-919: SELF-ORGANIZING UNITS TO PROMOTE INTERDISCIPLINARYTEAMING IN A COURSE FOR PERVASIVE COMPUTING DESIGNLisa McNair, Virginia Tech Lisa McNair is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Engineering Education at Virginia Tech, where she co-directs the Virginia Tech Engineering Communications Center. She received her Ph.D. in Linguistics from the University of Chicago in 2002. Her research explores collaboration in interdisciplinary and distributed settings, and institutional structures that encourage transformational learning.Chad Newswander, Virginia Tech Chad Newswander is a graduate student in the Center for Public Administration and Policy at Virginia Tech, studying
completeindependence in the decision-making as long as the predetermined milestones and objectives arebeing met. The faculty's role is among the many similarities between independent study andundergraduate capstone experiences. Since the expectations of the faculty are different fromregular courses, students have the opportunity to explore a scientific topic or hypothesis in-depth.This is in contrast to the constrained depth of material in other engineering courses. Theseconstraints are in place to maximise the information that can be passed along in the timeallocated for the course. Moreover, they provide clear expectations and accountability in theclassroom. In most undergraduate engineering education, the grading system is clear-cut andoutlined in the
discipline. Additionally, the currentadministration of advising distributes a small number of advisees to each faculty member. However, thatmodel would likely work in the shift to interdisciplinary team advising. From a collaboration standpoint,concerns arose regarding how students are grouped and the potential disparity regarding the number ofstudents across the disciplines. For example, the feasibility of having more than one person in a disciplineon the same team, with most discouraging this option. There were two faculty who thought that disciplinespecific teams might be nice given building challenges for certain disciplines rather than multi-disciplinaryteams. The alumni open-ended feedback on teamwork regarding accountability focused
subgroups are used to develop decision-making input: • Mechanical Engineering Undergraduate Curriculum Committee (MEUCC) which consists of members from the faculty and academic staff and student constituent groups • Mechanical Engineering Undergraduate Continuous Quality Improvement Program External Review Board (UG/ERB) which consists of members from the alumni and employer constituencies • Department Faculty Meetings which consist of the entire department facultyThe department chair appoints a faculty member to serve as the ME 2000 coordinator tochampion the effort and to interact with the department chair and constituent groups. Anindication as to how the stakeholder groups interact
Page 11.45.6to stay. During an internal study at Tennessee Tech, it was determined that success or failureduring the first math class (whatever it may be) was the most useful indicator of Engineeringstudents sustaining to graduation. Accordingly, we wanted to address any potential math concernsearly in the semester. About half of the class stayed back and, depending on the course, differentchemical engineering faculty worked with that group. Additionally, details on the Math Lab oncampus were provided to students who required some extra help.Class 4: I Finish My B.S. in Chemical Engineering and I Can Do What?A popular book used in Introduction to Engineering classes at various institutions (includingTennessee Tech) is “Engineering your Future
2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2002, American Society for Engineering EducationOn-site visits are necessary to promote opportunities for cooperative education. Also,engineering technologists and other experts from industrial organizations are invited to campusto share their expertise with students and faculty as a standard practice in courses and seminars inthe program. The budget also shows a requirement to purchase specialized equipment to beginthe program. An annual operating budget for educational supplies to support all of the myriadactivities associated with laboratory courses and travel to maintain close ties with members ofthe industrial advisory
skin, convenient accessibility, and prox-imity to blood vessels and systemic circulation make skin an obvious candidate for a route of drug admin-istration. In this module, students will explore the permeability of porcine skin, easily obtainable at a gro-cery store and cost-effective. Porcine skin has been shown to be histologically and biochemically similar 9to human skin, and have a similar permeability[ ]. In parallel, students will measure mass transfer across Page 24.963.6biomaterials using artificial skin and also determine the effects of various permeation enhancers on themass
abilities within agroup so that less able students might take on tasks that would be viewed by others asmeaningful, thus furthering the group activity. Concerning disabled students, a virtual field tripto anywhere, and in particular to the job site, can be as easy as pressing a key on the student spersonal computer. This provides persons with disabilities an opportunity to visit theconstruction site.Graduate students will also benefit greatly from the plan, particularly those pursuing a career ineducation. In academia, it is widely recognized that junior faculty are often ill-prepared for theirroles as instructors3. Graduate students will be invited to participate in the reform and in writingsoftware modules. Advanced students will be invited to
is tensionbetween the perspective of a curriculum as a unified whole that is intended to shape thecharacteristics of its graduates and the perspective of the curriculum as a collection of individualcourses for which individual faculty members accept responsibility. Fisher, Fairweather, andAmey described this as “the tension between collective responsibility and the boundaries ofacademic freedom”2. Understandably, faculty concern regarding curriculum tends to focus moststrongly on courses related to their area of professional expertise that they teach. Secondly,faculty members focus on courses that are prerequisite to courses of interest (specifically thedegree to which students emerging from these courses are prepared for the next course in
navigate anxiety and culture shock that mayaccompany undertaking a new endeavor in an unfamiliar place. Additionally, the advisor canhelp students network by making new contacts and gaining exposure to other faculty, advancedstudents, and members of their broader professional community.6,7 The advisor-advisee relationship is complex and life-changing; one’s advisor can help togenerate ideas about and support for postgraduate career choices, and help influence students’professional identity.8 In fields like engineering, where the academic advisor may also serve as astudent’s research supervisor,8 the advisor-advisee relationship includes myriad power dynamics.As a result, the advising relationship could have positive and/or negative effects
request, two faculty membersgained approval for a new course entitled Materials Innovation. The purpose of this course was tointroduce MSE students to problem solving, the engineering design process, and technologycommercialization. Students designed a project based on design constraints, materialrequirements, and user needs. Students made team decisions, developed prototypes, and presentedtheir solutions to Industrial Advisory Board members to receive expert feedback. This paperdiscusses what worked well in the course, and lessons learned from our first attempt.KeywordsTeaching innovation, materials science and engineering, engineering design process, creativeproblem solvingIntroductionMany undergraduate students choose to study engineering
inproviding transformational educational experiences for students, and that it is an excellent way toattract and retain diverse students to STEM disciplines. It is also one of the best places to embedinformation literacy education; PBL is an established method of bringing both disciplinary skillsand lifelong learning skills together in ways that are engaging for students, and in the case ofservice learning, impactful to communities or individual stakeholders.4,5 WPI, as well as otherinstitutions aiming to graduate future engineers across specializations, use student projectoutcomes to support professional as well as technical skills development for a wide variety ofaccreditation standards, including but not limited to those of ABET in the U.S.A
otherindividuals. These assignments and assessments were developed to not only help students betterexplore possible career and course options, but to help them discover how they can find thisinformation and expand their network.While this initial “What is Engineering?” module helped students to explore courses, engineeringprofessions, and get advice on their future, it lacked a deeper, more contextual understanding ofengineering practice. Thus, the engineering faculty utilized the strong liberal arts foundation atWFU to begin a mutual partnership with the Department of History, noting that several studiesdemonstrate that history and engineering are a good match for interdisciplinary pedagogy [4,6].Dr. Monique O’Connell, a historian specializing in
Calculusupon college entrance were significantly more likely to graduate with a degree in engineeringthan students who were not Calculus-eligible [15]. They also noted, however, that there could beother factors acting upon this relationship that could explain more of the variability in persistence[15]. These findings were further evaluated through a follow-up investigation in which Bowenand colleagues [9] explored the impact of Calculus-readiness upon engineering persistence todegree completion along with the potential mediating effect of students’ “at-risk” status. Theresearchers discovered that indeed Calculus-readiness upon college entrance was a significantpredictor of engineering degree completion and accounted for 11% of the overall variance
instructor decisions and student support during COVID-19 and impact the pandemic is having on engineering students. She also recently won the prestigious CAREER award from the U.S. National Science Foundation to study increasing the fairness of engineering assessments. In total, she has been on the leadership of more than $24 million dollars in research awards. Her research on evaluation of online learning (supported by two NSF awards #1544259,1935683, ) has resulted in more than 20 peer-reviewed conference and journal publications related to engineering learners in online courses. She was a FutureLearn Research Fellow from 2017-2019; a 2018 recipient of the FIE New Faculty Fellow Award and was the 2021 Program Chair for the