in the pilot study, to refine potentialresearch design improve ● -We planned our word choice in the pre-interview questions for future interviewsthe fit between reality guide and interview prompts carefully so as not to -We implemented a pass system comprised of levelsand the theory generated? restrict or influence participants’ testimonies of reading transcripts, skimming transcripts, writing ● -We utilized meta-questions (asking for structured memos, listening to recorded interviews participants’ opinions and thoughts on answering and memoing, peer debriefing over memos and the questions
underrepresented or marginalized groups. We examine survey data for undergraduate students who were enrolled in the CSE’s engineering majors (comprised of Pre‐Engineering, Civil & Environmental Engineering, Electrical & Computer Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, and Computer Science) during the spring of 2018. Results are compared for female‐identifying students, URM students, LGBTQ+ students, and students with disabilities across factors including students’ feelings of preparedness, sense of community, satisfaction with their academic performance, and experiences of bias from both peers and faculty/staff. These findings will be used to inform the development of new policies and programs within the CSE to better support students from
AC 2011-2109: GIRLS EXPERIENCING ENGINEERING: EVOLUTIONAND IMPACT OF A SINGLE-GENDER OUTREACH PROGRAMStephanie S Ivey, University of Memphis Dr. Stephanie Ivey, Assistant Professor of Civil Engineering, is currently involved in several engineering and STEM education projects. She is part of the project team for the NSF funded MemphiSTEP: A STEM Talent Expansion Program (NSF DUE 0756738), where her responsibilities include coordination of the entire project’s mentoring activities, including the peer-mentoring, peer-tutoring, and STEM club mini-grant program. She is leading a project focused on service learning within the Civil Engineering curriculum and a project examining links between learning styles and freshman
they were administered prior to, during, and after the event. An analysis of the 185 responsesthat were received reflects the event’s success: 94 percent indicated that the department shouldsupport the event in the future, and all respondents stated that the showcase was valuable for thepresenters. In addition, 75 percent of presenters reported that they had plans to present or hadalready presented their research at a professional conference. Although the inaugural competitionwas successful in catalyzing graduate student research dissemination, future efforts are needed totranslate participation in the departmental event to presentations at professional conferences andpublications through topical peer-reviewed outlets.IntroductionA catalyst is
positively affect motivation [1]. At the root of the model is that behaviorscongruent with one’s identities are preferred and motivating, whereas behaviors incongruent arenot preferred and viewed as unimportant and meaningless. Moreover, what children and youngadults perceive as congruent for them is heavily influenced by what they see and experience. Assuch, role models (teachers, mentors, peers) who reinforce and share in a given identity make itfeel congruent. It can then be more readily adopted as a part of their identity – who they are.This is why having caring, dedicated and multiple mentors, for example, is at the heart of boththe CISTAR and NSBE SEEK parts of the REM program and is so critical for changing thedemographics of fields such as
addresses theseresearch gaps. We used critical collaborative ethnographic site visits to center TGNCpositionality and community-centered research ethics. The four-day site visits presented hereinvolved two mechanical engineering students at a prestigious private university on the EastCoast of the United States. Activities included formal semi-structured interviews as well as lessformal interactions with each participant, such as attending classes, visiting important campusand community spaces, and hanging out with the participants’ friend/peer groups. The visitingresearcher also explored the college campus and the broader community on his own to moredeeply understand the politics and context of the local environment. As predicted by
the workforce. An analysis of student reflections from exit interviews of graduatingstudents from 2018 and 2019 cohorts and journal entry data collected from students from therecent 2023 cohort is presented in this work. The themes emerging from this analysis show thatboth graduating students and current students seek to strengthen the RAMP community beyondthe summer program. Their recommendations point to the need for continuing support in bothpersonal achievement and for advocating the needs of their peers. With over a hundred RAMPparticipants now established across the engineering majors and the workforce, theserecommendations will be integrated in the participatory action research framework that anchorsthe design of RAMP. We will address
Paper ID #37196Perceptions of shared experiences in mentoring relationships:a collaborative autoethnographyJulie Martin Julie P. Martin is a Fellow of ASEE and an associate professor of Engineering Education at The Ohio State University. Julie’s professional mission is to create environments that elevate and expand the research community. She is the editor- in-chief of Journal of Women and Minorities in Science and Engineering, where her vision is to create a culture of constructive peer review in academic publishing. Julie is a former NSF program director for engineering education and frequently works with
Education, 2022 Powered by www.slayte.com US-Sweden Bioinformatics IRES Year 1: Program Development and Initial Lessons LearnedAbstractThis National Science Foundation (NSF) project focuses on creating an immersive internationalsummer research experience for students enrolled in a primarily undergraduate institution (PUI).Over the course of a three-year grant period, this research seeks to: (1) train and mentor 18diverse undergraduate students from PUIs in Southern California in bioinformatics research in acollaborative and international setting; (2) disseminate the research outcomes at conferences andin peer-reviewed journals; (3) encourage and prepare undergraduate students
assistants, mentor faculty, and researchadvisors. There are online research seminars, faculty mentor/mentee meetings, regional directorcheck-ins, alliance team meetings, a summer institute, networking events, writing groups, andcontinued individual follow-up meetings. These activities feature research training and guidanceby leading experts, career preparation activities for faculty positions at HCBUs, cultivation offaculty mentoring relationships and peer networks, and ongoing advising for careeradvancement.Currently, a second cohort has been established while the initial 9 HBCU instructors areprogressing to an early career faculty track that focuses on establishing a research trajectory andprofessional development strategy to navigate the first
- branes. © American Society for Engineering Education, 2022 Powered by www.slayte.com Videos for Project Dissemination: Adopting Student-Written YouTube Problems in any CourseAbstractPrevious work established that YouTube videos can help with engineering student engagement.A major feature of our YouTube pedagogy centers on students’ writing homework problemsinspired by actions in videos. After using student-written problems as replacement for traditionaltextbook problems, three major facets were considered: problem solving, learning attitudes, andperception of problem difficulty. Research outcomes spanning from students creating problemsto solving
have creative skill and to get the attention of the students involves simpledrawing periods where students are asked to draw anything that comes to their minds at amoment’s notice. Usually the faster the better because they don’t have to fall into the feeling thateverything must be perfect. It really shocks the class to see all the material that is produced bytheir “creative” peers. Students are then asked to write a piece of poetry on a topic of theirchoice. If help is needed, they are given ample examples of verse that they could mimic orinvestigated. If asked why this exercise has any value to them as engineers, it is easy to respond.Investigating text helps one to look in a different way at what you want or need to say. Taking atopic and
semester, students presented a project charter on their thesis projects thatdemonstrated their knowledge learned about related PTM skills, approaches to utilizing theseskills in their thesis research, and their learning experiences at the GAPS course. Throughout thesemester they also engaged in reflective writing assignments focused on their application ofskills to their work. A copy of the course syllabus is included in Appendix 1.Purpose of the Paper/Research QuestionsAlthough COVID-19 altered our original intention of in-person course and networkingopportunities, we chose to develop an online course as a way to pilot test some of the materialand assignments. Given the novelty of our approach and project, it was critical to develop anassessment
first graduates in 2018, with class reflective writings serve to instill and reinforce theABET accreditation to follow. Civil Engineering is attributes of a master learner into the engineeringtentatively planned for startup in the 2018-19 school year. students.Incoming freshman class size has grown steadily, reaching a • Addition of the ‘Design Your Own Plan’ project:peak enrollment of 249 declared engineering majors in the Development of an individual success plan serves as the2015-2016 school year. culminating student development activity in Introduction From its inception, the entry point for the engineering to Engineering course
participation consistent, reliable sources of support, information andincreased each year; from 20% to 30% to 50%, but we inspiration. The mentors are trained in a 2-hour session instill expect more. which their roles and responsibilities, including ethics, are stressed. They are also provided a 7-page manual that drawsIndex Terms – Mentorship program, senior-first-year, from the College of Engineering Peer Advocates manual.student-student The mentors are enthusiastic students and for the most part Introduction
advising, career guidance,and faculty support are frequently reported by students who leave an engineering program(Seymour et al., 1997, Meyer et al., 2014). Regardless of these challenges it is important forengineering programs to be aware of these realities when developing and implementing retentioninitiatives.Temple University’s Project SOARTraditionally, Temple University has responded to the issue of low rates of success and retentionin its engineering courses and programs by providing support interventions for strugglingstudents. In fact, at Temple we have robust student support services, including tutoring, examreview sessions for select courses, peer assisted study sessions, coaching on academic skillsdevelopment, a writing center, and
Paper ID #25386WIP: Common Practices in Undergraduate Engineering OutreachDr. Joanna K. Garner, Old Dominion University Dr. Garner is the Executive Director of The Center for Educational Partnerships at Old Dominion Univer- sity in Norfolk, VA.Mr. Michael Alley, Pennsylvania State University, University Park Michael Alley is a professor of teaching for engineering communications at Pennsylvania State Univer- sity. He is the author of The Craft of Scientific Writing (Springer, 2018) and The Craft of Scientific Presentations (Springer-Verlag, 2013). He is also founder of the popular websites Writing Guidelines for
stand-alone course available to all undergraduates that highlights the roles scientists andengineers can play in promoting social justice.The first offering of “Science and Engineering for Social Justice” was in Fall 2018 with31 students from both STEM and non-STEM majors. The is a 5-credit, writing-intensive,discussion-based course. For more information on instructor background, motivation fordesigning this course, enrollment, curriculum, and course logistics, please see our mostrecent work [3]. Example curricular materials for will be provided at the conference.Course OverviewStudents explore the impact of science and engineering in society through in-classdiscussions, assigned readings, and weekly written reflections. Students explore
analyze the case in theirnewly formed teams. Teams were assigned by the instructors using the “team application” tocreate teams that were interdisciplinary (based on the three engineering majors in the class),diverse and mixture of traditional and non-traditional students.Creativity and ideation were the next topics covered. Following brief discussions regardingmethods of increasing creativity, the students participated in in-class exercises demonstrating thecreative process. In-class activities included writing a story about an abstract picture, as a team,devising answers to hypothetical questions and using dissimilar fields to solve a commonproblem
stepping up to this challenge by introducing the new focus area to give the studentsof Electrical Engineering Technology program the opportunity to learn and experience the designand implementation of computer-based application. Industry’s commonly used softwaredevelopment tools are used in several courses of the program. Through industry standardapproaches, the students learn state-of-the art problem solving and development techniques.Currently, the number of courses offered in Computer Engineering Technology represents ashortage of coverage. It is much less coverage than similar programs at peer institutes. Tostrengthen the area of Computer Engineering Technology, more courses need to be added to thecurrent curriculum, the paper suggested a list
Bethune, France Dr.David Jouglet is currently serving as an Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering at the IUT Bethune,University d'Artois, France. He is an associate member of the LGI2A, a research lab at the University d'Artois. Dr.Jouglet served as the Department Head of Electrical Engineering, IUT Bethune, from 2005 to 2008. He is a peer reviewer of several scientific and engineering journals. Page 13.91.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2008 A Project-Based International Collaboration in Engineering EducationAbstractThis manuscript
humanities, social science, physical science, and engineering courses, Page 1.93.1 ., . ..- - {~:$~ 1996 ASEE Annual Conference Proceedings ‘..+,13TyL.~ ● modifing existing pedagogical practices (primarily passive lectures in most courses) to —- - include extensive use of active learning and cooperative learning strategies, team teaching, and writing as a learning and inquiry tool. - - - - - ● developing a comprehensive peer study group system to encourage interpersonal growth and support among freshmen in the Connections
8 average value 6 Series1 4 2 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 question number Figure5. Academic skills resultsBelow we have included the survey given to the students at the end of the semester. Survey of Academic Skills2 ECE412 Power ElectronicsPlease write a number inside the box for each question. Please use the scale from 0 to 10
in the field of materials and advanced manufacturing and has attracted a high level of research funding ($5.5M). She has graduated six Ph.D. and five M.S. students. She has co-authored a textbook (Intelligent Systems: Modeling, Optimization and Control, CRC Press, 2008) and written four book chapters. She has published about 50 peer-reviewed journal articles and 30 refereed conference proceedings. She has nine US patent applications. Dr. Xu won the Office of Naval Research (ONR) Young Investigator Award and was awarded the Society of Manufacturing Engineering (SME) Outstanding Young Manufacturing Engineer Award in 2011. She was the only recipient of the IEEE Education Society Teaching Award in 2015, chaired NSF
thecomputer science, art, and English departments, begin designed an interdisciplinary project-based computing curriculum that uses Hummingbird Robot Kits to bring merge creative art andexpression through writing with engineering design [16]. With the Hummingbird kits used in agender-specific informal learning activities, learners use art and other supplies to create the‘shell’ for a robot that they later program.The Bulldog Bytes summer camp program at Mississippi State University is an important link inthe MS Alliance for Women in Computing that places particular emphasis on increasing thenumber of women on computing pathways. Established in 2013 with funding from the NationalCenter for Women and Information Technology (NCWIT), the program has
. PHASE2 PHASE1 PHASE3 Quantitaitve PHASE4: PHASE5: Delphimethod (electronic Qualitative (electronic (interview): Grounded Instrument questionnaire): questionnaire): Student& Theory Development Student& Industry Faculty FacultyFigure 1: Study designData collection for Phases 1-3 is complete. Phase 4, the focus of this paper, is ongoing at thetime of writing. The preliminary grounded theory model has been developed and will bedescribed. Phase 5 is ongoing during
6 60-64 3 Below 60 0 * Percentage toward final grade. See Table 2 below. Participation in Weekly Online DiscussionsA series of discussion questions are posted during the course. Students are required to participateregularly with their course instructor and other students in online discussions. Each student is expectedto use online course tools (Discussion boards and Chat rooms) to interact with peers and workcollaboratively to improve his/her understanding of underlying course ideas and issues.Table 2 below shows weights assigned to each of the above activities: Table 2 – Weights assigned to each activityIn this
demographics of our country are changing at a rapid pace. According to thelast American Community Survey (ACS) from the Census Data (2015), 71.81% of schoolage individuals, who are speakers of languages other than English, identified themselvesas Spanish speakers. Soon, Hispanics and Latinx will become the largest minority in ournation. In this population, 60% of the households are considered by the system as LimitedEnglish Proficiency with low levels of college attainment (US Census, 2015). Yet, yearsof educational reform have no resulted in educational gains for students who are Englishlearners. For instance, during the 2011 NAEP writing assessment, 99% of eighth- andtwelfth-grade students classified as English language learners (ELL) performed
include gender in engineering education research, interdisciplinarity, peer review, engineers’ epistemologies, and global engineering education. Page 26.626.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2015 Engineering Faculty Members’ Discussing the Role of University Policy in Addressing UnderrepresentationIntroductionDespite over thirty years of research and outreach to recruit and retain female engineeringstudents, women remain significantly underrepresented in engineering.1 While a large amount ofliterature has been generated on gender inequalities in faculty careers, no
presentations and technical writing are excellent methods to lay theground work for future interactions with their industry peers. However, they cannot replace theactual experience students gain when writing technical reports, participating in design reviewsand daily interaction with other professionals that the co-op experience provides.This improved communication has allowed the capstone sequence at Grand Valley StateUniversity to take on challenging projects. Projects centered on product development, testingand automation have all benefited from the improved skill set that a student gains during co-op.The instances where the students have a capstone project sponsored by their co-op employerallows a much smoother flow of communication. Teams with