and mentoring philosophies);helping mentees become independent researchers and make appropriate plans for their futurestudies and careers; and fostering an environment that values inclusion, diversity and ethicalresearch practices.Discussions about ethics are woven throughout the CMSE 890 curriculum, in contexts that rangefrom the best practices for handling outlying data in experimental results to the implications ofhow unconscious biases about gender might impact opportunities for women in STEM. Allgraduate students at MSU are required to complete a minimum of 6 hours of discussion-basedtraining in the responsible conduct of research (RCR) prior to graduation. Given the emphasis onethics within this course and the interactive, discussion
questions were selected to provide a sense of what the GSIslearned. Further, these reflection questions encourage GSIs to consider how student learning intheir classes would be impacted by the pedagogical practices recommended. This combinationof questions has the potential to shift a senior learner to a more mature dimension on the TAdevelopment spectrum. Therefore, this research moves beyond program evaluation to focus onthe lessons GSIs’ glean from their professional development opportunities. Although there havebeen research studies designed to examine the types of teaching-related professionaldevelopment opportunities available to graduate students, 2, 5 this project is one that specificallyfocuses on examining the experiences of first-term
engineering design reasoning. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2024Design and Evaluation of a Multi-Institutional Virtual Engineering Education Graduate Program ShowcaseIntroductionThis Evidence-Based Practice paper seeks to present results of a multi-institutional virtual graduateprogram showcase by presenting evidence from the perspective of the prospective students.Over the last two decades, the engineering education community has accomplished the call byHaghighi [1] to orchestrate research efforts, program developments, and curriculum updates.Today, the engineering education discipline has grown substantially with close to two dozendoctoral education programs in the United States
condition. Thus,even though we see a difference between the cycles related to Attitudes, the impact of the VCPcycle on Attitude ratings is unclear, and could just be an artifact of the Attitudes differences theparticipants brought to each cycle prior to the start of the VCP. Additionally, the lack ofinteraction between Cycle and Time for Adoption indicates that both Time and Cycle impactedAdoption ratings. Therefore the VCP was likely leading to the Adoption of research-basededucation practices by the faculty, and even more so in Cycle 2. Cycle 1 was specifically designed to bring together faculty that had a shared interest in aparticular course. Therefore, F-VCP participants engaged in Cycle 1 were directly working withfaculty that were
emerge show how students conceptualize what isvaluable to the academic community. Last, our data set studies 50 documents, and—althoughthis is a large corpus for deep qualitative research—it cannot be intended to be generalizable.However, we do feel that the findings from this work add insight into the ways in whichbeginning graduate students are socialized as miniature stewards of their academic disciplinesfrom early stages—even from undergraduate experiences, which has important implicationsin theory and practice for graduate programs in preventing attrition from graduate school.ResultsAcross the corpus of personal statements, being an engineer appeared to overlap with eachparticipant’s sense of professional identity so long as it represented
mathematical and scientific tools of analysis,experimentation and design on which the practice of engineering is built. There were a total of11 Technical learning outcomes. The Social learning outcomes category neither means “hard tocharacterize” nor “non-essential but a good idea anyway.” These outcomes reflect the very realneed for engineers to have “soft” people skills in addition to the traditional “hard”cognitive/technical skills. The new global market place demands engineers that are ambassadorsfor the profession and who are able to convincingly communicate to diverse and non-technicalaudiences. “An understanding and experience dealing with engineering practices and principleswill only get you so far” comments Kerry Hannon in The Graduate
. However, CoPs are not without limitations that should becarefully monitored. One potential challenge is an imbalance of participation, both within thegroup and as a result of who received information about and volunteered to be part of the CoP.Time constraints further hinder engagement, as educators manage teaching, research, and serviceobligations. Sustaining a CoP can be a challenge, especially without institutional support orincentives. Institutional support, like we received from the funded Developing Equity-MindedEngineering Practitioners (DEEP) Center provided protected time from CoP participation.Measuring the impact of best practices for equitable teaching developed during the CoP can beanother challenge. Benefits like improved teaching
Paper ID #38926Work in Progress: Using Participatory Design and Qualitative ResearchStrategies in the Development of a New Faculty Mentoring Program forUndergraduate Engineering StudentsDr. Constanza Miranda, Johns Hopkins UniversityMrs. Rachel McClam, Johns Hopkins University Rachel McClam is a doctoral student at Johns Hopkins School of Education. Her primary research inter- ests involve questions about how to support educators to make and sustain growth in their practice across the span of their career. In particular, she is interested in ways to better support educator development toward equitable outcomes for historically
Paper ID #9956Collaboration within Engineering Education Research’s Community of Prac-ticeScottie-Beth Fleming, Georgia Institute of Technology Scottie-Beth Fleming is an Aerospace Engineering PhD student and NSF GRFP Fellow in the Cognitive Engineering Center (CEC) at Georgia Tech. She graduated with honors from Georgia Tech in 2009 with a B.S. in Aerospace Engineering and in 2013 with an M.S. in Aerospace Engineering. Her research within the CEC examines training approaches for pilots, interdisciplinary teams within the engineering design process, and human interaction with technology
havinglots of low-stakes assessments and using proven team-based and hands-on approaches to learningwould work best for comprehension and retention of the course material [1,9]. In reviewingTable 3, note that 22.5% of the total grade for the course involved students working with eachother on problems, presentations, and in lab. Learning from classmates included team- basedlearning quizzes (6.5%), the lab reports (7%), team presentations (5%), and multiple classparticipation activities (4%). The course grading was designed to provide students with multiplesummative assessments which were completed after they had an opportunity to practice onungraded activities. Key concepts were repeated numerous times prior to the exams. Eachstudent posted a
piezoelectric structures for engineering applications. Educational research interests include engineering design education, developing better-equipped graduates for the workforce, bridging the core competencies gap, improving diversity and collaboration within disciplines ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2023 2023 ASEE Southeastern Section Conference Students’ Preference for a Capstone Design Project: An Examination of the Impact of Accidental Competencies Dr. Felix Ewere Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NCAbstractAerospace Engineering students
data to be collected rather easily. Data collection assignments Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering Educationcan be designed to encourage exploratory learning as students seek to reconcile collected datawith classroom lessons. In addition, the relatively low cost of our approach allows a number ofdevices to be used. This encourages a greater amount of data to be collected by a number ofstudents and assembled over multiple years. Furthermore, we have found this tool to be robustenough to be used in research and professional practice (as discussed later). This synergy is anadded feature of our tool
Paper ID #41104Instructor and Graduate Student Perspectives: Is Empathy a Needed DesignSkill for Future Engineers?Dr. Jennifer Howcroft, University of Waterloo Jennifer Howcroft is a Continuing Lecturer in the Department of Systems Design Engineering at the University of Waterloo. Her pedagogical research focuses on engineering design, holistic engineering education, stakeholder interactions, and empathy in engineering education.Dr. Kate Mercer, University of Waterloo Kate Mercer is an engineering liaison librarian, and is an adjunct and sessional instructor for Systems Design Engineering at the University of Waterloo
Advisory Board, representatives from industry, and thepublic were also invited to broaden the outreach of these presentations. Because capstoneprojects are a required part of the curriculum, all LEAP students who graduated participated inthis high-impact practice. The LEAP program provided support for the capstone projects throughfaculty mentors, materials for projects (which students otherwise have to pay for themselves orchose a less suitable project), and workshops on essential skills. The LEAP program also paid forsome students to present the results of their projects at professional conferences, and facultymentors worked with them to prepare papers for publication. The capstone research of at leastfifteen LEAP students was presented and/or
receivescholarships to help support the rest of their college career. The students typically save over$2500 during the summer.The wetlab training during ALVA gives students the opportunity to learn some basic molecularbiology techniques before beginning their undergraduate research experience in the researchlaboratory. GenOM staff have incorporated best practices and current research about teachingand learning into the wetlab curriculum using inquiry based teaching as a model for instruction58,59 . Bybee60 states that scientific inquiry is different from simplified scientific method in mostschools because inquiry does not proceed in a tidy, linear way. An inquiry-based classroom iswhere students are “capable of posing their own research questions
AC 2008-1586: CAMP CONCRETE – GROWTH OF A GRADUATE PROGRAMChris Ramseyer, University of Oklahoma Ph.D., P.E. is an assistant professor at the School of CEES at OU. He has spent 5 years as a structural steel designer. His research interests include cold formed steel, structural stability, bridge issues and concrete materials. His educational interests include undergraduate research in engineering and alternative learning paradigms. He received the OU-CEES George W. Tauxe Outstanding Professor Award in 2004. Page 13.272.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2008 Camp
the Applied Leadership sphere. As researchers, we are able toconsider how other forms of data collection means might assist with program evaluation,especially for other areas of the program model. References1. Dropout from higher education: A theoretical synthesis of recent research. Tinto, V. 1, s.l. : Review ofEducational Research, 1975, Vol. 45.2. Impacts of good practices on cognitive development, learning orientations, and graduate degree plansduring the first year of college. Cruce, T., Wolniak, G. C., Seifert, T. A., & Pascarella, E. T. s.l. : Journal ofCollege Student Development, 2006, Vol. 47.3. Kuh, G. D. High-impact education practices: What are they, who has access to them, and
Bioengineering from Clemson University in December 2006. He has worked for over 25 years as a biomechanical research engineer, and has co-authored over 200 peer-reviewed conference or journal publications in the areas of biomechanics, biomaterials tribology, engineering education, biomed- ical design and mechanical testing. He directs the Laboratory of Orthopaedic Design and Engineering on the main campus of Clemson University, and in his 7 years since joining the bioengineering faculty, he has graduated 4 PhD students and 15 MS students, and has led or has been a co-PI on numerous multi-disciplinary research teams funded through NASA, DoT, DoD, NIH, NSF, the Gates Foundation, biomedical industry and other regional non-profit
-reviewed journal articles, book chapters, and conference papers. He is the lead editor of the book on Triboluminescence (Triboluminescence: Theory, Synthesis, and Application), published by Springer in 2016. He has co-authored several book chapters including a chapter in the book, Nan- otechnology Commercialization: Manufacturing Processes and Products, published by Wiley in 2017. At the RBASOE, he is taking a leading role in the design and implementation of the DesignSpine sequence and the development of entrepreneurial mindset in engineering students. He combines practical technol- ogy commercialization experience from co-founding two technology startup companies and serving as a consultant for others. He is also a
Graduate Research Assistant on the VT PEERS project studying middle school students regularly engaging in engineering activities. Drawing on previous experiences as a mathematics and engineering teacher, her current re- search interests include studying the disconnect between home and school, with a specific emphasis on prekindergarten students. She will continue to pursue these research interests in the coming years with the support of the NSF Graduate Research Fellowships Program. In addition, she dedicates her spare time to exhibiting at the Virginia Tech Science Festival and hosting several sessions for the Kindergarden-to- college (K2C) Initiative.Ms. Ashley R. Taylor, Virginia Tech Ashley Taylor is a doctoral
meet the demands of STEM industries for qualified workers at all levels. While there has been a drastic increase in the number of advanced degrees awarded in STEMin the U.S. in recent years, research and development, a key component of increasing nationalcapacity for innovation, largely requires a population with advanced degrees, and specificallymaster’s degrees (NSF, NSB, 2022). Creating a sustainable pipeline and institutionalizing best practices for the recruitment,retention, and timely graduation of master’s students who will directly go into industry aftergraduation is crucial. To expand this pipeline, an environment that attracts, supports, and retainshistorically or traditionally marginalized or minoritized and diverse
ADVANCE ReDI program is designed to incorporate best practices in leadershipdevelopment to address the specific needs for women, aligned with institutional needs andprocesses. The remainder of this paper describes the first two iterations of the ReDI program,the initial development process, the program evaluation, and the redesign process.Research Leadership Development InitiativeADVANCE, the Senior Vice Provost for Research and Graduate Education, and the GordonEngineering Leadership Program in the College of Engineering collaborated to design ReDI.These three groups drew equally on needed research, expertise, and skills sets. ADVANCEbrought the gender lens and analysis of the barriers for women. The Senior Vice Provost forResearch and Graduate
setup and boundary conditions. This greatly cuts down on the time requiredto troubleshoot an experimental apparatus and allows for a more efficient use of time. Since the design project is a continuation of all the past years of research, the saved timeallows for things such as automation and novel techniques to aid in the conducting of the currentresearch. Additionally, side research areas and problems can be developed that, at this point,should be entirely original and worthy of a graduate thesis. To this end, the senior level projectshould far exceed expectations and be at a leading level. Additionally, as there has beenextensive practice on technical writings through the writing of grants and publishable results, thetechnical reports
provider.Operations and Energy ManagementThe Director of Plant Operations Maintenance and Engineering Department acknowledged thatenergy management systems are lagging, compared to other best practice organizations.However, the department uses Energy Star® appliances throughout the laboratory installations,the office spaces, and the lavatories. There are plans, in the form of capital projects, whichinclude the acquisition of an automated Energy Management system. Costs are currently beingcalculated for the present Administration Wing building, since allocation plans intend to capturethis facility as a stand-alone profit center rather than a standard expense center.Workplace Design and Interior Space PlanningThe workplace is designed, keeping in mind the
mathematics at three different institutions. Mr. Wong has extensive industrial experience in applied research, systems de- sign, as well as leading large consumer and industrial product programs through all phases of the product development process.Henry Griffith, Wright State University Henry Griffith holds both a B.S. and Ph.D. degree from Wright State University in Electrical Engineering. In addition, he has obtained an M.S. degree in Management Science from the University of Dayton, as well as post-graduate certificates in Quality Assurance and Design of Experiments. He has 6 years experience as a full time research engineer working in the development of radio frequency systems for the defense industry. In addition
instruments and workflows associated with generation of these models. A greatexample of applied laser scanning hands-on classroom module, from the perspective ofinstructional design and best practices, is provided by Sauer et. al. [8] in 2018, through theirpedagogical views and approaches implemented in their undergraduate CM curriculum. Theexposed method concluded with findings and best practices based on student feedback andinstructor reflections. The present article partakes the intent to elevate and complement now theirfindings introducing a novel, practice-based, hands-on, undergraduate- and graduate-level T-LiDAR course not only for CM, but also for Civil and Construction Engineering students.Goal and ObjectivesThe main goal of this work is
graduate students and early career scholars to broaden their expertise andskills to conduct rigorous research on STEM [4], and 3) a research institute with year-longtraining of two cohorts of 20 Quantitative Research Methods (QRM) Scholars [5]; these scholarswere PhD students with research foci on issues of access and equity of underrepresentedpopulations in STEM within either K-12 or postsecondary settings.In response to faculty interest expressed on our campus for how to best conduct STEM-Heducation research, we developed a brief, focused introductory workshop series designed forSTEM-H faculty and professionals. These disciplinary STEM-H researchers sought not only tobetter understand and evaluate their teaching practices to benefit students
experiences. Incorporating HIPs into courses canincrease student engagement and learning. The only way HIPs can significantly impact a courseis if the faculty are equipped with the proper pedagogical tools to adopt them in theirclassrooms. Towards this goal, the New York Institute of Technology Center for Teaching andLearning conducted a 5-day summer Course Design Institute (CDI). During the CDI, facultyparticipants read the book [3], designed or redesigned courses built on learner-centered designprinciples, developed a revised final or near-final syllabus, and learned how to apply research-based teaching and learning principles to course design. Nine faculty members from theDepartment of Electrical and Computer Engineering and the Department of
curricularmaterials consistent with the state requirements for their discipline, state standards relevant to theaudience they serve, and material appropriately scaled and pitched for their audience. That iswhy this project was planned with four interconnecting areas of emphasis (Figure 1), researchexperience, curriculum development, professional development, and curriculum implementation.A group of high-impact practices for higher education were selected for integration into the fourareas of activity: project-based learning, collaborative assignments, hands-on experiences,mentoring, research experience, and forming a learning community [12], [13]. The mentoringincludes input from peers (cohort members), near peers (graduate students conducting researchin the
become a communication point that begins discussions withfaculty and students across campuses, breaking the ice and creating communication channels thatdid not exist for potential transfer students.DiscussionInitial evidence suggests the S-STEM scholars experience additional supports that shepherd theirtrajectories within computer science, including access to mentors, clear pathways from two- tofour-year schools, research opportunities, and conference participation that further professionaldevelopment. The design of the S-STEM project is congruent with best practices for building acommunity of computer scientists with strong, positive identities in the field. While participantdata is abundant regarding students’ opportunity to build competence