at the University of Maryland. She has expertise in physics education research and engineering education research. Her work involves designing and researching contexts for learning (for students, educators, and faculty) within higher education. Her research draws from perspectives in anthropology, cultural psychology, and the learning sciences to focus on the role of culture and ideology in science learning and educational change. Her research interests include how to: (a) disrupt problematic cultural narratives in STEM (e.g. brilliance narratives, meritocracy, and individualistic competition); (b) cultivate equity-minded approaches in ed- ucational spheres, where educators take responsibility for racialized
. This work draws on a growing body of research around effective engineering experiences for pre-K/K students and on what we know about theory of mind development. Following a design-based research approach, the team works in close collaboration with project stakeholders (e.g., teachers, curriculum directors, instructional coaches) to design and test integrated engineering and empathy activities and associated teacher professional development and to specify a more general set of design principles to guide development of integrated engineering and empathy activities for early childhood settings. Background This paper presents findings from the first two years of the NSF-funded (Award
journal articles published under her name. She has also written in thegenre of science fiction, and published books in the body-mind-spirit genre about her empathic encounterswith horses. She has taught courses in Nanotechnology Ethics and Policy; Gender Issues and Ethics in theNew Reproductive Technologies; Religion and Technology; STS & Engineering Practice; The Engineer,Ethics, and Professional Responsibility; STS and the Frankenstein Myth. Rosalyn regularly incorporatesmindfulness practices into her engineering school courses. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2018 Dimensions of Diversity in Engineering: What We Can Learn from STSIntroductionThe challenge of increasing diversity in engineering is
Health Promotion Director at Baldwin Wallace University and serves as an adjunct teaching Mindfulness and Meditation. She has experience in corporate, clinical and community based fit- ness and well-being programming. She is a certified Exercise Physiologist (ACSM), Koru© Mindfulness Instructor and a Stress and Resilience Facilitator. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2023 Redesigning Engineering 101: Promoting Student Wellness in Introductory Courses Jonathon Fagert Jacqueline Rodriguez Department of Engineering Dept. of Allied Sports, Health, and Wellness Baldwin Wallace University
the pre-K – 12 pipelines. Over 60 ETKs have beendeveloped and used in classrooms throughout the US and abroad.By the end of the workshop, participants will be introduced to engineering habits of mind, theengineering design process, and the educational promise and strength found in aninterdisciplinary approach to STEM subjects; be able to identify methods for integratingengineering design, social science, and humanities into STEM studies; and gain experience inusing interdisciplinary design activities to promote the development of creativity, systemsthinking, collaboration, and communication. Participants will have the opportunity to workthrough design activities from Surf's Up and Movers and Shakers ETKs. The activities includestories from
-Based Science Teaching (MBST). In MBST, if thelearner has not been taught a process for identifying a problem and constructing a model-basedsolution for the problem, the ability to strategize approaches to problem-solving and predictoutcomes will be underdeveloped, as they will lack particular habits of mind of noticing patternsor a set of relationships between problems and their solutions. Linton provides a conciseoverview of the epistemic approach based on focused inquiry, directed observation, and guidedpractice for science learning [6].Focused inquiry is an investigation into a set of skills or processes needed to engage in scienceand engineering. The purpose of focused inquiry is to generate student questions about thecomponents of the
into the discussion were included.The interview protocol is as follows. • Context Setting: For the record, in which discipline of engineering did you earn your bachelors degree? Have there been any research activities you’ve engaged in at any level that have brought you personal joy? If yes, please tell me more. What has been the toughest or most challenging research experience you had to date? Please tell me more. • Problem Definition Phase: How would you describe setting your mind to identify a worthwhile problem for research? How do you gauge whether or not the problem is worthwhile? What set of beliefs or attitudes would you say play a role in how you identify a research problem? • Literature
systems. STS Postures integrate three modes of doing: 1) Body/Mind fusion; 2)Data collection techniques; and 3) Systems thinking skills. STS postures takes a traditionallypassive educational environment and introduces movement and change making to theengineering curriculum. Instead of sitting in seats in the classroom, we encourage students tomove about. We try out different ways of holding ourselves and moving (literally our bodies) inrelation to each other, STS, engineering, education, and technological artifacts. This change inposture is key to having agency in directing the future of science and technology, whether intheir own education, their extracurricular work, or their careers. Body/Mind fusion is a correctiveto thinking in science and
Education Annual Conference & Exposition13 Beams, D. and Niiler, L., How Engineering Students Learn to Write: Fourth Year Findings and Summary of theUT-Tyler Engineering Writing Initiative, Proceedings of the 2009 American Society for Engineering EducationConference & Exposition.14 Daniell, Figliola, Moline and Young, Learning to Write: Experiences with Technical Writing Pedagogy Within aMechanical Engineering Curriculum , Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education AnnualConference & Exposition.15 http://wwwhomemorals.com/moral-value/honesty/why-is-academic-honesty-important.html16 Miller, F.P.,Vandome, A.F., McBrewster, J. (2010) Mind map. Mauritius: VDM Publishing.17 Craig, J., Writing Strategies for
strategies employed by higher educationinstitutions in recruiting and retaining minorities in engineering education. Some of thestrategies reviewed include early exposure of students to engineering topics, advising, studentparticipation in student competitions, teaching tools, recruiting packages, and scholarships.IntroductionA college education is an important career move for any young individual whose desires to livethe American dream. Such a move, while academic, on the whole has helped provide afoundation for establishing a successful life. While the importance of a college education ispreached to young adults, colleges and universities must be one step ahead of their recruitmentplan to acquire young minds by increasing and retaining student
thelight bulbs went off.Radical Disciplinary Mixing – Brain, Mind and CultureEngineers typically take some number of courses outside of the sciences to fulfilluniversity and ABET breadth requirements. Unfortunately, while they typically performwell, many engineering students do not take these courses seriously. They put on theirhumanities and social science “hats” on in these courses, but then quickly take them offagain once they are back to their engineering life. Those who do gain some lastinginsights keep them compartmentalized.The Brain, Mind and Culture course was co-taught by the author and a professor ofcomparative humanities. It was cross-listed in the departments of biomedical engineering,neuroscience and comparative humanities, with
), freshman students begin their studies within theirchosen major, typically taking an introductory engineering course specific to their discipline.For undecided engineering students, they have the option to start in a general engineeringprogram to help them select a major. FIT has had great success using this general engineeringmodel to improve student retention and time to graduation; however, improvement can be madein preparing students to be innovative, entrepreneurial-minded professionals. The purpose of thispaper is to describe the activities focused on exposing students to the entrepreneurial mindset andpreparing them for engineering careers. An introductory course in the General Engineeringprogram comprises both a lecture and a lab component
, three distinct themes evolved to provide a framework for discussion: 1)methodology, 2) communication, and 3) culture.A. MethodologyThe complex structure of the mind is not the subject of this paper. Relevant here are key ideasconcerning thinking across professions. For both the engineer and the psychologist new modelsof understanding methodology and innovative approaches to research have forever changed thenature of their research. Prior researchers [1, 2, 3] revolutionized thinking about thinking. Newmodels of thought recognize the importance of innovation, creativity, and culture. That inputinfluenced the new direction in the current collaboration and suggested that research also needsto be defined by innovation, creativity, and culture.A
person with an engineer's mind should be an engineer”Hidden Figures (2016) depicts African-American women working as “computers” at NASA’sLangley Research Center in the early years of Project Mercury, the first United States humanspaceflight program. Before electronic computers supplanted women’s labor, NASA and otherorganizations held spaces in which computation was women’s work, a fascinating reversal fromour contemporary situation. The central characters of the film—engineer Mary Jackson,programmer Dorothy Vaughan, and mathematician Katherine Johnson—encounter persistent andovert discrimination, but nevertheless enjoy a degree of professional opportunity and prestigeunusual for black women in the South. Their experiences provide some insight
likely to recognize them in this context.Situated cognition offers an explanation for each of these possibilities. The engineers were asked Page 26.1236.8to take the CI without using reference material to help them remember how to use concepts ifthey felt they needed it or in order to verify that their answers were correct before submittingthem. The theory of the extended mind is an important piece to situated cognition and mayexplain why asking engineers to not use reference materials could cause them to not performwell on the inventories. The extended mind is a theory that claims that the boundaries of acognitive system lie outside of the
entrepreneurial activities? 3. For engineering alumni who have been entrepreneurs in the past, what activities led them to either become more entrepreneurially-minded or divert to a non- entrepreneurial career path?The participants in this study were 484 alumni who received their undergraduate engineeringdegrees in 2007 from four different universities in the United States. Our research aims to helpengineering educators understand the factors that promote and contribute to entrepreneurialpursuits among engineering alumni. In addition, by identifying what factors or circumstancesinfluence entrepreneurial activities, engineering schools may design programs and identifypotential opportunities for intervention.1
. Page 15.280.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2010 CLEERhub.org: Creating a digital habitat for engineering education researchersAbstractCLEERhub.org uses HUBzero architecture to create a digital habitat for engineering educationresearchers. Wenger has stressed that community needs should be explored before a digitalhabitat is created. With this in mind, this paper discusses the features of CLEERhub envisionedby a sample of engineering education researchers. These features are mapped to three polaritiesWenger identified as existing within virtual communities. Features which allow forasynchronous connections are favored by this sample of the engineering education researchcommunity and
; Smith et al.2017). This activity combines with an added emphasis among engineering programs to developan entrepreneurial mindset among their engineering students with the belief that this will lead tothem being more productive and innovative whether their career path leads them into establishedindustry (becoming “intrapreneurs”) or later as entrepreneurs.While this trend toward developing more entrepreneurially minded engineering students issupported by global economic trends and a rapidly changing work environment, one factor hasbeen largely overlooked in this process. Statistically, most entrepreneurial ventures fail, withdisproportionately large value being created from a minority of entrepreneurial endeavors (Coats,2019). Given this fact
Session 1606 Digital Technology and its Effect on Pedagogy in Architectural Engineering Technology James E. Fuller, AIA Ward College of Technology University of Hartford West Hartford, ConnecticutAbstractDigital technology is rapidly changing the way teachers teach throughout academia. This isespecially true in Architectural Engineering Technology. The effect of technology on teachingfalls into three areas: - Curriculum Supplement- How traditional subjects and methods
Judging. Judging types have a need for closure and prefer to live in anorganized manner. In contrast, the types underrepresented among engineering studentsmake decisions with personal or social ethical values in mind (Feeling), and in a flexiblemanner, considering all the information before making a decision (Perceiving). Several implications for library instruction based on the Thinking and Judgingcharacteristics emerge. 1. Lecture. Thinking-Judging types prefer lectures over group activities, although engineering students’ regular instructors may want to include group activities in order to inculcate “people skills.”4 2. Outline. Provide a detailed outline. Judging types like
of the workshop (Figure 2A). Question6, “I am interested in engineering/science that is relevant to sub-Saharan Africa,” showed overthree-quarters of students rating a ‘4’ or ‘5’ post-workshop (Figure 2B). Question 7, “Iunderstand how to design with the cultural setting in mind, and I am comfortable working ondesign projects for settings with varying resources,” was rated as a ‘4’ or ‘5’ post-workshop byall students (Figure 2C). All three questions demonstrated significance between pre- and post-workshop responses.Figure 2. Bar charts representing the ratings (1-5) given to the questions (A) “I am interested indoing engineering/science that is relevant to global problems,” (B) “I am interested inengineering/science that is relevant to sub
, scientist, and engineer identities and perceptions of task difficulty. 2. Demographic markers (e.g., gender identity) moderate the effect of salient identities on perceived task difficulty.Theoretical Framework: Identity-Based MotivationIdentity-based motivation (IBM) is a theory “that explains when and in which situations people’sidentities motivate them to take action towards their own goals” [10]. Particularly, IBM explainshow the identities that come to individuals’ minds influence how individuals perceive taskdifficulty in different contexts to pursue goals [10]–[12]. For example, Oyserman and colleaguesused IBM theory to examine how students’ demographic identities (e.g., race/ethnicity,socioeconomic status, gender) matter
Page 9.556.8 “Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering”1793conceptualised as ‘ways of seeing’ and it is assumed that every way of seeing contributes to ourcollective understanding of any phenomenon 1.Bowden and Marton1 go further to discuss the ‘phenomenographic’ way of understandingteaching and learning as presented in this paper. Not only do they consider the model of thelearner’s mind and the relationship with the knowledge but they consider a non-dualistic model.‘A phenomenographic way of looking at learning involves a non dualistic ontology, a relationalposition. ..We do not see subject and
engineering, and the responsibility of engineers. The interviewemployed critical incident techniques [26] to prompt students to give specific examples andmoments. Expressions and experiences related to emotion emerged in response to the question“What feelings come to mind when you think about your future responsibility as an engineer?”and organically throughout the conversations.At the end of the interview, the participants were asked to select a pseudonym. If they chose notto, they were assigned one with a random name generator using the gender and race/ethnicityinformation they provided. The participants were given a renumeration of 10 euros. The researchwas approved by the Ethics Committee for Human Sciences at the university where datacollection
mbiswas@uttyler.edu 1 psundaravadivel@uttyler.edu2, and aadityakhanal@uttyler.edu3,AbstractEngineering professionals are expected to conduct various methods of communication when theyenter the workforce. Video presentations are emerging as a preferred mode of communication formarketing and employment processes. However, such communication is uncommon for project-based learning (PBL) assignments in engineering education. Engineering professionals areexpected to bring some level of entrepreneurial-minded learning (EML) skills to solve social orcultural problems with responses rather than solutions. Moreover, the latest industry trend showsthe incorporation of video presentations to showcase and pitch entrepreneurial endeavors.However, such
the challenges inengineering education. This paper presents the efforts to improve a core undergraduate industrialengineering course, Designing Value in Supply Chain, to infuse entrepreneurial thinking amongstudents using an internally funded grant by Kern Entrepreneurial Engineering Network (KEEN).For this purpose, three new course modules are designed and their effectiveness on studentlearning is evaluated. This course is ideal for establishing entrepreneurially minded learning(EML) as a systematic approach is required for managing the chain of supply, especially sincethe impacts of the decisions are not isolated and will be spread out through the entire chain. Inaddition, creative multidisciplinary knowledge is required to address most of
thousands of pre-college students are now being introduced to engineering throughengineering academies, through dedicated year-long engineering courses and through integrationof engineering concepts into science and mathematics courses1. New K-12 science educationstandards, proposed by the National Research Council, urge even more widespread inclusion andintegration of engineering into K-12 science education2. Teachers participating in theseinitiatives will need to be familiar with engineering as a profession, engineering methods andhabits of mind, and the application of science and mathematics in engineering design andproblem solving. Pre-service teachers, preparing to become the next generation of middle andhigh school Science, Technology
his B.Tech (Ed.) and Ph.D. in Technology Education from the University of Limerick in 2008 and 2011 respectively. He spent six years in the metal fabrication industry developing engineering craft based skills prior to pursuing his studies in technology education. He currently holds a faculty position at the University of Limerick where he teaches engineering graphics courses to under- graduate and postgraduate students of initial teacher education. He was the program chair for the 67th MidYear Engineering Design Graphics Division (EDGD) Conference in Limerick, Ireland in 2012. He has been awarded the EDGD Chair’s Award in 2010 and 2011 in addition to the prestigious Oppenheimer Award in 2012. He is the current
education is critical to thisprocess of improvement. Engineering, like other disciplines, has unique ways of thinking andknowing (habits of mind) and particular practices of teaching and learning3. These uniquepractices, called ‘signature pedagogies’, organize how future engineers are educated in theprofession.4 Lucas, Hanson and Claxton5 propose that the predominant pedagogy of engineeringdoes not align with true engineering habits of mind (EHoM). This work in progress aims todefine the surface characteristics of engineering education pedagogy by analyzing topicspresented at recent ASEE international conferences. The results of this study will inform a largerstudy which looks at potential disconnects between the way we teach engineering
of moderntechnology in the form of computer-aided symbolic and numerical manipulations. It is tobe hoped that we have succeeded in pointing out the need for integration and balance. Page 1.18.5 wheneverfeasible), fundamental laws of physics as applied to mechanical engineering, both generaland ad hoc st rat egies for the formulation of problems or models, as well as associated ex-amples and exercises. As mentioned before, a student is expected to keep all these toolsof survival firmly in mind, clear and straight, WITHOUT RESORT TO ANY (30 M-PUTER AID. Instead of trying to commit everything to memory, the student is urgedto