trick.39Corporate visual identity (CVI) drives corporations to regularly purchase products to enhancetheir prestige.40 For example, corporate offices are built symbolically robust and tall (e.g. SearsTower, Chrysler Building) or surrounded by highly engineered and groomed landscaping inorder to project an identity message of prestige. The engineering and costs embodied withinthese design choices are clearly in excess of purely utilitarian alternatives. Corporations may alsopurchase prestige products unrelated to their primary business, such as sports arenas to enhancetheir CVI. These arenas are often purchased with a quasi-permanent time horizon; some are lesspermanent than others (e.g. Enron Field aka Minute Maid Park
of the School of Engineering (Santiago, Vi˜na del Mar and Concepci´on, Chile). She authored several manuscripts in the science education area, joined several research projects, participated in international conferences with oral presentations and key note lectures and serves as referee for journals, funding institutions and associations.Carolina Elizabeth Jerez, Universidad de Chile ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2024 Building shared visions on gender in an Engineering School with Lego® Serious Play®: a pilot study.AbstractIn the international context, Sustainable Development Goals 5 (gender equality) and 4 (qualityeducation) underscore the imperative of
I think are qualified. I… print them … redact the names, the personal information, gender or anything that is indicative of them… belonging to certain groups. Just trying to create a… buffer between the applicants and… my more senior PhD students… we usually have a sit down look through the applications together… to figure out if… a certain applicant… qualifies for [our] project.”If a professor made a positive assessment of a student at this stage, they would encourage thestudent to formally apply, if the student had not already done so, as the third step in the process.After the application deadline, when departmental lists were produced, professors would checkthe lists to see if the students that they had
to worry about food or having a placeto sleep. I’ve always lived like a princess.” His parents offer emotional and financialstability, creating a secure environment that allows him to focus on his studies. As far asacademic guidance goes, Phil appreciates the support provided by engineering faculty,describing a mentor’s role as pivotal in his personal and professional growth. He says,“Professor Patel is easily my favorite professor. I started doing [design] with him, and wedo research projects. You can just tell he's always looking out for his students. he's verypersonal. He, he's kind of, you know, he feels like a, like a family member in some ways.”Here, we can see that while Phil does not receive engineering support from his
model latent variables and relationships to other socioeconomic variablesin tandem. We identified that three latent factors, Parent Educational Involvement, HouseholdEducational Resources, and School Hindrances existed and that differences across the sample arean outcome of broader socioeconomic inequality driven by racism, sexism, and classism. Thispaper discusses the development of this model, our findings, and potential implications for futureresearch, including our larger project which uses the measure to predict engineering studentapplication to, and enrollment and persistence in, engineering.Keywords: low-income students, social inequality, Intersectionality Theory, student successIntroductionLow-income students, referred to henceforth as
their classrooms more inclusive and supportive for allstudents. This includes giving students tools to be aware of the impact of their projects,motivating students from diverse backgrounds, and ensuring that students feel safe in theclassroom. Building a community of equity-minded faculty and learning from peers are alsosignificant motivators. Participants value the opportunity to collaborate with colleagues whoshare a commitment to DEI and create systemic change within engineering education. They seekto center DEI as a driver of innovation and to change the mindset that DEI does belong inengineering. Participants showcase a strong desire to be agents of change by turning DEIawareness into action and addressing structural and societal issues
coalitions with the mission of advancing equity, inclusion, and jus- tice for military servicemembers and veterans. Renna obtained her B.S. from Clemson University and her M.S. from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Recognized as a 2021 Tilman Scholar awardee and 2023 Clark Doctoral Fellowship recipient, Renna also holds professional certifications in Project Management Professional, Lean Six-Sigma Green Belt, and LEED Green Associate. Additionally, Renna is a National Security Fellow with the Truman National Security Project. As a military veteran, Renna served honorably in the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers for over 8 years in multiple capacities.Emily Lawson-Bulten, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Paper ID #36775Specifications Grading in General Physics and EngineeringPhysics CoursesHarold T. Evensen (Professor of Engineering Physics) Hal Evensen has been a Professor of Engineering Physics at the University of Wisconsin-Platteville since 1999, where he has led ABET accreditation efforts and served as Program Coordinator. His research interests always involve students and range from carbon nanotube electronics and nanopatterned graphene to automated control of grazing dairy herds. He enjoys teaching courses in Sensors and Electric & Magnetic Fields, and has developed a new, project-based course for first
semester was another especially challenging one for our students. Providingmultiple low-stakes assessments, team projects, and in-person lab experiences helped ease thetension: “I enjoy working with people in groups for low stakes assignments. It helps me learnwithout pressure”. Our survey results indicated that almost 40% of our students had mentalhealth issues, 17% had medical issues, and another 11% had financial stress to cope with whiletaking challenging courses. Team activities, hands-on experiences, and multiple assessments ofthe key concepts are all proven methods that help with comprehension and retention, whilereducing the pressure of high-stakes exams. As one student noted:“Before exams, we saw the same information multiple times in
startedif it does not spark spontaneously: • Why do you think your fulfilment/cost performance is deteriorating? • How do your station’s inventory/backorder levels compare to the supply chain as a whole? • Are your ordering/shipping policies impacting performance? • What is preventing you from achieving better performance? If multiple teams are participating in a competition, the instructor can project a progress sum-mary of the teams’ performance using the “Monitor games” option in the XSG advanced menu, asshown in Figure 5. Experience shows that running multiple teams in a competitive environmentsignificantly improves players’ experience and challenges them to find better ways to coordinatewithin their teams by “borrowing” best
Paper ID #11157WHY DO UNDERGRADUATE WOMEN PERSIST AS STEM MAJORS?A STUDY AT TWO TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITIESDr. Ronald Brandt, Seton Hall University Ronald Brandt teaches physical science at the high school level, emphasizing Project Based Learning and inquiry based lab activities. Brandt seeks to inspire his students, especially young women, to develop a passion for STEM studies and consider a career in science and technology. Prior to entering the education profession, Ronald Brandt was an executive in the chemical industry serving as senior vice president at two multinational firms as well as President & CEO of an
listed above, are being measured. Evidence that may be used includes, but is not limited to the following: student portfolios, including design projects; nationally normed subject content examinations [emphasis added]; alumni surveys that document professional accomplishments and career development activities; employer surveys; and placement data of graduates.2, 17-19The FE Examination is the only nationally normed, engineering-specific examination that couldsatisfy that statement. Notably, the entire section quoted above has been struck from the ABETCriteria beginning with the 2004-2005 version.20-23 In addition, starting with the 2004-2005ABET Criteria, all such lists of suggested accreditation methodologies were
2006-979: REASONABLE EXPECTATIONS: UNDERSTANDING THE LIMITEDPOWER OF TITLE IX TO TRANSFORM STEM EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMSCatherine Pieronek, University of Notre Dame Catherine Pieronek, J.D., is Assistant Director of Academic Programs and Director of the Women’s Engineering Program at the University of Notre Dame College of Engineering. She has worked as a senior systems engineer on NASA spacecraft projects at TRW Space & Defense Sector, and as Director of External Relations for the Notre Dame Law School. She serves as a faculty advisor and editorial referee for the Journal of College of University Law, a student-edited legal journal published by the Notre Dame Law School and the National
hearing what [they] had to say and interacting with people’s opinions that differed from my own such as theirs. I recognize this is a major hindrance and flaw in myself, as I believe one of the great problems of our world today is not listening and hearing what others have to say, which often differ than our own opinions. By the end of our class, I gained a new respect for [named student] and [their] viewpoints. I believe that the T-Group has helped me to become a significantly more effective leader, in that I’m attempting to more fully consider everyone’s needs and working styles as the project goes on. It is nice to know that I can be influenced in positive ways like that. That could also explain why I have influence in the
the dialog between problems andsolutions could affect the solution space.Identification, development, and pursuit of alternative problem definitions are skills that arerarely taught, developed, or assessed, but are essential to engineering excellence.17 In a study byCross and Clayburn,18 each of the expert designers explored the problem from a particularperspective in order to frame it in a stimulating and productive way, challenging themselves toinnovate. In another study, the time spent on problem definition – particularly at higher levels ofabstraction - was positively associated with client satisfaction in students’ design projects.19 Thissupports the claim by Adams and Atman20 that problem scoping tended to be positivelyassociated with
improving it (Kolodner et al.,2003; Sadler, Coyle, & Schwartz, 2000; Schauble, Klopfer, & Raghavan, 1990), effectivelyavoiding failure, at least initially. In another approach, many published curricula feature asubstantial amount of scaffolding, including task-specific fill-in worksheets and prescribedexperiments (e.g., Engineering is Elementary, Cunningham, 2009; Learning by Design, Kolodneret al., 2003; Project Lead the Way, 2014). Indeed, the National Academy of Engineering reporton K-12 Engineering Education, based on its investigation of literature and curricula, warns:“Although it may be tempting to allow students to direct their modeling themselves, thesuccessful interventions reviewed here highlight the importance of the teacher
achievementsand their self-perception as a STEM learner. Marcus mentioned during the interview, I don’t think I only have a STEM identity ‘cause I also have a creative identity. My own projects, whatever I’m into. Personally, I’m really into music, so as of now I’m a math and music major, so I find it difficult to balance those things ‘cause on one hand, STEM takes a really long time to do. Music also, in its own sense, takes a long time to do with having to practice every day, and going to concerts and rehearsals and stuff like that. I think they balance out each other nicely though since one is very analytical and one is very theatrical. I think it’s important to not just study, study, study. You have to do
. Figure 2. Online Exercise corresponding to Module on Two Force Bodies (edited and reformatted forprinting here). Multiple attempts with hints are permitted, though with modest penalties for each attempt.3.2 Lectures. In general, the Instructor begins each Lecture by projecting thecorresponding Module (PowerPoint slides and/or Moodle pages) onto the screen at thefront of the room. During the first two weeks of the semester, the Modules are reviewednearly in traditional lecture style to ensure that students are exposed to all of the material.However, once the students have become accustomed to downloading and completing the Page