beginning of the ECIIA project togauge their knowledge about autism, and their attitudes towards autistic individuals, and to measure theiradvocacy for autistic individuals to be included in engineering education and industry. Research fromHuws & Jones (2010) and Obeid et al. (2015) informed the development of the semi-structured focusgroup that measures autism knowledge and attitudes24-26. The questions posed to CommunityCollaborators are presented in Table 1.Table 1Focus Group Questions for Community Collaborators 1. What comes to your mind when you think about autism? What are autism spectrum disorders in your own words? 2. How would you know if someone has autism? 3. Can you tell me how you got these ideas about autism
international language of business and the sciences.[6] They need to be purposeful when delivering information and instructions, and competent at interpreting information – verbal, non-verbal, written, visual and electronic;[7] cogent interpersonal skills – enthusiastic, collaborative workers who are open-minded and aware of their own perspectives and assumptions, and those of others.[2] They need to have cultural awareness, not just in terms of different ethnicities, but also the culture of organisations.[8]Earl Dowell, Dean of Engineering at Duke University stated “…engineers who are adept atcommunications have a considerable advantage over those who are not...”[9] Effectivetechnical and non-technical
Paper ID #5938The Converged ClassroomProf. Gregory L. Wiles P.E., Southern Polytechnic State University An assistant professor of industrial engineering technology at Southern Polytechnic State University, a four-year technical university in Georgia. He has a BS degree in Industrial Engineering at the University of Tennessee, an MS degree in Industrial & Systems Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology, and currently working on his PhD. Prior to teaching, he worked for Lockheed Martin, Union Carbide, nVision Global, Oracle, and Georgia Tech in various engineering roles from research, to technical sales
to me to help me succeed and do my best and to understand the way they seem difficult. ... But I made up my mind and I'm going to stick with engineering. And just because it’s a motivation knowing that this degree has many possibilities to provide me with a good career in the future. And I know that this is something that can be applied in so many diverse ways and it's a very much needed career right now. And so, I think with all those things and knowing that I can apply my passion, creativity into the engineering field, it gives me a hope and a motivation that I can continue moving forward with it, despite my previous doubts.Andrea's placement in a group of male peers that were both experienced in
Paper ID #6845What’s Trust Got to Do with It? Assessing a Research-Based Mentoring Pro-gram for Novice EngineersMs. Alyssa N Berg, University of Colorado Boulder Alyssa is currently pursuing a master’s degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Colorado Boulder. Her focus is primarily on energy and the environment.Ms. Janet Y Tsai, University of Colorado at Boulder Janet Y. Tsai is a doctoral student at the University of Colorado, Boulder, whose work examines and develops initiatives to encourage more students, especially women, into the eld of engineering. Currently, Tsai’s research focuses on understanding
Paper ID #35592Increasing Minority Student Applications to STEM Graduate Programs:Lessons Learned and Outlook for a New ProgramMr. Kingsley Nwosu Jr, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University Kingsley Nwosu is a Computer Science Master’s of Engineering student at the Virginia Polytechnic Insti- tute and State University’s (Virginia Tech) College of Engineering. He received his Bachelors of Science degree in Computer Science from Saint Leo University. Nwosu attends Virginia Tech as a full GEM fel- low, and serves as a graduate student for the Virginia Tech College of Engineering. He has also served as a
Paper ID #7243Introducing Software Defined Radio into Undergraduate Wireless Engineer-ing Curriculum through a Hands-on ApproachProf. Shiwen Mao, Auburn University Dr. Shiwen Mao received a Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Polytechnic Institute of New York University in 2004. Currently, he is the McWane Associate Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Auburn University in Auburn, AL. Dr. Mao’s research interests include performance analysis, optimization, and algorithms for wireless networks. He was awarded the McWane Endowed Professorship in the Samuel Ginn College of
authorscontacted the office of International Science and Engineering (OISE) at NSF. The OISE supportsprograms to expand and enhance leading edge international research and education opportunitiesfor U.S. scientists and engineers, especially at the early career stage. It specifically works to build Page 22.1264.3and strengthen effective institutional partnerships throughout the global science and engineeringresearch and education community, and it supports international collaborations in NSF's nationalpriority research areas 1.While keeping this objective in mind, a proposal was submitted to NSF office of InternationalScience and Engineering for holding
Paper ID #43952Head, Heart, Hands: A Rubric for Creating Inclusive STEM Learning EnvironmentsDr. Meagan C Pollock, Engineer Inclusion As an engineer turned educator, through her company, Engineer Inclusion, Dr. Meagan Pollock focuses on helping others intentionally engineer inclusion® in education and the workforce.Lara Hebert, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Serves as the Outreach and Public Engagement Coordinator for The Grainger College of Engineering. She brings to this position and this initiative expertise in teacher education and curriculum design.Dr. Lynford Goddard, University of Illinois Urbana-ChampaignDr. Luisa
viable.For us, this starts with developing a community of support to give faculty the confidence toeffectively introduce wicked problems into their existing courses. Through this community,faculty may leverage one another’s expertise in order to expose students to real-world wickedproblems. In the spirit of holistic engineering education, our hope is to enable instructors toconfidently develop their students’ non-technical skills which are integral for generatingsustainability-minded leaders of the future.5,6Research MethodsIn this paper, our primary research objective was to develop a valid and reliable psychometricinstrument that measures a series of sustainability-related learning objectives that are central toWPSI. Our second objective was to
empathetic communication. A systematic review found that simulation-basedinterventions that are both immersive and experiential were the most effective method ofempathic education [32]. In a scoping review of empathy in nursing students, simulationincreased empathy levels and confidence, and is deemed beneficial for enhancing empathyawareness, sensitivity, and decreasing negative emotions [31].Empathy is central to the nursing role, fostering and promoting the therapeutic nurse-patientrelationship. Empathetic nursing care requires self-reflection, mindfulness, giving of oneself, andviewing the patient as a whole. Empathy allows patients to feel validated, understood, andrespected. Collaboration and communication between nursing and engineering is
so different, and there isn’t one correct way to ‘be an engineer.’…As an engineer, we aren’t locked into any specific company or industry or lifestyle. It’s comforting to hear that, as someone who has thought about changing my major to a different discipline of engineering more than once.” • “It helped me realize that the first job out of college isn’t a permanent position and there will be many opportunities that will fit my desired lifestyle and passions for working….It made the field seem more obtainable to me.” • “I like how it gave a broader view of engineering. As classes get really technical, it can be easy to get stuck in a one-track minded approach to my future, but these videos show
technicalcomponents (Arduino, servo motor, speaker, LEDs). Simple block coding via mBlock was usedto add mobility, sound, and light to the robotic animals. During the final collaborative session, anengineering student from each team provided guidance on the robot’s design. In particular, theengineering students’ assistance was sought when building and coding a mechanism to addmovement to the robot.This study, while intended to directly impact the coding knowledge and interprofessional skillsof education and engineering students, is also part of a larger movement to broaden participationin STEM fields, particularly engineering. The interventions were designed with this wider goalin mind. All of the preservice teachers were female, as were half of the
mindfulness and its impact on gender participation in engineering education. He is a Lecturer in the School of Engineering at Stanford University and teaches the course ME310x Product Management and ME305 Statistics for Design Researchers. Mark has extensive background in consumer products management, having managed more than 50 con- sumer driven businesses over a 25-year career with The Procter & Gamble Company. In 2005, he joined Intuit, Inc. as Senior Vice President and Chief Marketing Officer and initiated a number of consumer package goods marketing best practices, introduced the use of competitive response modeling and ”on- the-fly” A|B testing program to qualify software improvements. Mark is the Co-Founder
Paper ID #30742A Qualitative Analysis of How a Student, Faculty, and PracticingEngineer Approach an Ill-structured Engineering ProblemSecil Akinci-Ceylan, Iowa State University Secil Akinci-Ceylan is a PhD student in Educational Technology in the School of Education at Iowa State University.Dr. Kristen Sara Cetin, Michigan State University Dr. Kristen S Cetin is an Assistant Professor at Michigan State University in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering.Dr. Benjamin Ahn, Iowa State University of Science and Technology Dr. Benjamin Ahn is an Assistant Professor at Iowa State University in the Department of
help society 26 Innovate such as more efficient computers, technologies that encourage sustainability, or improved medicine." Problem Solving "Engineers help solve problems and work to improve aspects of society. 7 Everything from the design and construction of structures to machines to energy to food, engineers are the problem solvers of society." Leaders "They can play the role as leaders because engineers tend to be open minded 1 and usually are full with ideas that they could apply to society not only by helping but by also encouraging others as well." Table 3. Participants comments about
for multiple classes. The life of an engineering undergraduate can be extremely demanding and stressful. Although never an excuse for sub-par performance, this should always be kept in mind by faculty. Aim for both effective and efficient use of time in education and a maximum rate-of-return in learning with respect to time, money, and energy invested by students. Avoid busy work assignments that are redundant, trivially plug-and-crank, or cumbersome in ways not directly related to learning course material. Students and faculty should plan, organize, streamline, and work smart as well as work hard. Design questions, assignments, tests, and class activities to maximize the learning experience relative to a reasonable degree
science. And engineers and scientists would do well to passon this mindset to their students by creating an environment that genuinely encourages thisskeptical attitude in students. This encouragement does not mean paying lipservice to the idea.The attitude can only be adopted in practice. Students need a safe environment and enough timeand resources to question and reject received explanations and to attempt to find better ones.Second, Dewey argues that all inquiry involves transforming the environment; it is an activity.Knowledge making is by definition transformative. The type and extent of transformation, ofcourse, has to do with the goals of inquiry. For Dewey, an inquiring mind is going to change theenvironment in some way, disrupt the old
students'narration of their experience with EPAL. In the future I will make sure to take advantage of what EPALs (Engineering Peer Advising Leaders) has to offer to underclassmen students like me (Student 2). During my visit I came in with three questions in mind to ask the EPAL advisor….. All in all, I found my visit with the EPAL to be very thought provoking and useful as I was able to get multiple questions concerning answered about my major answer from the EPAL (Student 2).Challenges with Peer AdvisingDifficulty with advising students from different majors.One primary difficulty EPALs encountered was advising students who were in a different majorfrom their own. An EPAL noted “I couldn’t talk
many people to turn to for help besides counselors and faculty. The S-STEMProgram would be very helpful in this aspect through the guidance and mentoring they offer tostudents in an effort to help them succeed in the field of engineering.”Students also wrote about hopes to build a community of like-minded peers, as one male Whiteenvironmental engineering student states, “I also hope this program can help introduce me tolike-minded individuals going into engineering-related fields. I would love to help build upon theSTEM community at UCI and positively impact my campus.” Several students believe a diversecommunity can provide immense support as they transition into a new and overwhelmingenvironment as, one male White mechanical engineering
entire session,sponsored by the Minorities in Engineering Division (MIND), was devoted to discussing howresearch experiences for undergraduates could promote interest in graduate education.36,37,38,39,40The number of such programs has increased greatly, especially with the support of the NSFResearch Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) program, which specifically encourages the Page 13.706.5involvement of students drawn from underrepresented minority groups "…(African Americans,Hispanics, American Indians, Alaska Natives, and Native Hawaiians or Other Pacific Islanders.)"and which recommends involving students at early stages of their college
pedagogical goals in mind. One goal is to provide an opportunity for students todeepen their learning of science and engineering concepts. Another goal is to experienceactivities that mimic those of an engineer. In both cases, ambassadors seem to be refining theircapacity to convey technical content in ways that appeal to specific (non-technical) audiences,which is very much aligned with the overall goals of the ambassador program. The activity design process demonstrated the potential for this aspect of ambassadortraining to further undergraduates’ thinking as subject matter experts and communicators to non-technical audiences. Most of the ambassadors gave specific examples of how the content of theirpresentation was manifest in the hands-on
Paper ID #19169Engineering (verb) Diversity: Using the Engineering Design Process to Defineand Intervene in the Issue of Undergraduate Diversity at the Institution LevelProf. Jenni Buckley, University of Delaware Dr. Buckley is an Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering at University of Delaware. She received her Bachelor’s of Engineering (2001) in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Delaware, and her MS (2004) and PhD (2006) in Mechanical Engineering from the University of California, Berkeley, where she worked on computational and experimental methods in spinal biomechanics. Since 2006, her research
Paper ID #17997Implementing Design Thinking into Summer Camp Experience for High SchoolWomen in Materials EngineeringMs. Kaitlin I. Tyler, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign Kaitlin is currently an Education Fellow with the Granta Education Division. She received her PhD at the University of Illinois Urbana Champaign under Professor Paul Braun. Her research was split: focusing on manipulating eutectic material microstructures for optical applications and examining how engineer- ing outreach programs influence participants’ self-perceptions of engineering and self-confidence. Her interests lie in materials education
. Again, ASEE was the full sponsor for the booth.4. Highlighting Scholarly ActivityIn 2017, the Diversity Committee introduced traditional publish-to-present paper sessions at theASEE Annual Conference. This was in part a response to the papers nominated for the BestDiversity Paper award. The Diversity Committee maintains a position of supporting a broaddefinition of diversity and recognized a need to provide a space for papers on diversity-relatedtopics that were not the historical focus of other divisions within the organization. That year,twenty-two papers were accepted for presentation at the annual conference; this was above andbeyond the papers submitted to the Minorities in Engineering Division (MIND), the Women inEngineering Division
Paper ID #17016Combined Contribution of 12 REU Students to the Development of the LEWASLabDebarati Basu, Virginia Tech Ms. Basu, is a PhD student in Engineering Education, advised by Dr. Lohani in the LEWAS Lab. She holds BS and MS in Computer Science and Engineering. For her dissertation, she is interested in analyzing user tracking data to examine students’ learning of environmental monitoring concepts facilitated by a cy- berlearning system. As a graduate teaching assistant, she has experience in teaching engineering problem solving and design process to freshman students in a project based environment at VT. She has
, master’s from the University of New Orleans, and bachelor’s from Louisiana State University.Dr. Rochelle L Williams, Northeastern University Rochelle L. Williams, Ph.D. is the Chief Programs Officer at the National Society of Black Engineers. She is a former Chair of the MIND Division and ASEE Projects Board.Ahlam Alharbi, Imam Abdulrahman Bin Faisal University ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2024 Engagement in Practice: A Roadmap for Academia and Non-profit CollaborationAbstractUnderstanding collaboration strategies among university researchers, non-profits, and industryorganizations is crucial for developing robust research networks that will contribute
17 articles in numerical analysis and education in peer reviewed journals.Mr. Ramesh Hanumanthgari, Texas A&M International UniversityMiss Sri Bala Vojjala Page 25.457.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2012 Development of a Virtual Teaching Assistant System Applying Agile MethodologyAbstractThis research describes a case study of a project to develop a web-based Virtual TeachingAssistant System (ViTAS) for college students and instructors. ViTAS, a digital homeworkassignments submission and grading system, is an innovative idea to provide
and spray physics. Page 26.69.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2015 A Module to Introduce the Entrepreneurial Mindset into Thermodynamics - a Core Mechanical Engineering CourseAbstractThe work proposed here consists of an educational module designed for thermodynamics (a coreMechanical Engineering course) that promotes entrepreneurially-minded problem-solving bylinking the application of theory with economic and environmental costs. It was designedspecifically to provide students with a hands-on approach to learning, while giving themexposure to integrating
Paper ID #38257Youth Engineering Solutions (YES) Out of School:Engineering Opportunities in Out-of-School Programs forEnglish LearnersChristine M Cunningham (Professor Education and Engineering) Dr. Christine M. Cunningham is a Professor of Practice in Education and Engineering at the Pennsylvania State University. She aims make engineering, science, and computational thinking education more equitable, especially for populations that are underserved and underrepresented in STEM. Christine is the founding director of Youth Engineering Solutions (YES), which develops equity-oriented, research-based, and field-tested