Paper ID #35582Retention Strategies for Educators from Women STEM Graduates of the1970’s & 1980’sDr. Kathleen Buse, Advancing Women in the Workforce Kathleen Buse is a business leader whose work focuses on helping organizations be more successful through the development of engaged and inclusive work cultures. As President and Founder of Advancing Women in the Workforce, she helps employers recruit, retain, and advance women. Kathleen’s experience includes 25 years in industry, beginning as an engineer and advancing to executive leadership. She spent ten years in academia where she became an award-winning researcher and
.""The ImpactThe impact of this project on the students, faculty and departments was large. As stated aboveopportunity for visibility was high. The mentor was invited to speak at several occasions and thestudents received extensive exposure to the public policy decision making process.The FutureThe H2-Tractor project continues for a second design sequence in the ME department to addressproblems identified above and to extend a broadened research program. Although the skill set ofthe current team is not quite as serendipitous as the first team, these students are quite capable in Page 13.167.8the right. An added
activities related to interacting with stakeholders and conducting needs assessments.Dr. Shanna R. Daly, University of Michigan Shanna Daly is an Assistant Professor in Mechanical Engineering at the University of Michigan. She has a B.E. in Chemical Engineering from the University of Dayton (2003) and a Ph.D. in Engineering Edu- cation from Purdue University (2008). Her research focuses on strategies for design innovations through divergent and convergent thinking as well as through deep needs and community assessments using design ethnography, and translating those strategies to design tools and education. She teaches design and en- trepreneurship courses at the undergraduate and graduate levels, focusing on front-end
. Infographics and visual aidsEC is vital for presenting designs, concepts, and ideas using graphics and visual aids for a betteraudience experience. Audience requirements are also evolving, with enhanced expectations forinclusion and diversity, e.g., picture-capturing for the visually-impaired and meeting transcriptsfor the hearing impaired. EC skills require a vast array of tools and skills to employ theaccommodations and troubleshooting associated with creating documents that are enriched withgraphics and visual aids and are also in compliance with UX Design best practices [35].4. Field-specific TerminologyAs fields evolve and blend, staying current with field-specific terms is mandatory. For example,automotive engineering has seen a proliferation of
AC 2012-3761: CAPSTONE DESIGN FACULTY MOTIVATION: MOTIVA-TIONAL FACTORS FOR TEACHING THE CAPSTONE DESIGN COURSEAND MOTIVATIONAL INFLUENCES ON TEACHING APPROACHESCory A. Hixson, Virginia Tech Cory A. Hixson is a graduate student in engineering education at Virginia Tech. Previous experience is in audio/visual engineering and K-12 math/science education. His research interests are in faculty motiva- tion, entrepreneurship, design education, K-12 engineering/STEM education, and research to practice in engineering educationDr. Marie C. Paretti, Virginia Tech Marie C. Paretti is an Associate Professor of engineering education at Virginia Tech, where she co-directs the Virginia Tech Engineering Communications Center
and has resulted in many publications (see https://sites.google.com/view/chenderson). He is a Fulbright Scholar and a Fellow of the American Physical Society. Dr. Henderson is the senior editor for the journal ”Physical Review Physics Education Research” and has served on two National Academy of Sciences Committees: Under- graduate Physics Education Research and Implementation, and Developing Indicators for Undergraduate STEM Education. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2018A systematic literature review on improving success of UG woman engineering students in the USIntroduction Over the past three decades, women in the Unites States
author of more than 20 peer-reviewed journals and conference proceed- ings. She also serves on review, advisory, and scientific boards of various journals and conferences. Her current research focuses on identifying impacts of different factors on ideation of designers and engineers (funded by NSF), developing instructional materials for 77 cards (funded by NSF), and designing innova- tion workshops for students without design or engineering background and teaching them design thinking methodologies (funded by Procter and Gamble). She received her PhD degree in Design Science in 2010 from University of Michigan. She is also a faculty in Human Computer Interaction Graduate Program and a research faculty in Center for e
Jacobs Excellence in Education Award, 2002 Jacobs Innovation Grant, 2003 Distinguished Teacher Award, and 2012 Inaugural Distinguished Award for Excellence in the cate- gory Inspiration through Leadership. Moreover, he is a recipient of 2014-2015 University Distinguished Teaching Award at NYU. In 2004, he was selected for a three-year term as a Senior Faculty Fellow of NYU-SoE’s Othmer Institute for Interdisciplinary Studies. His scholarly activities have included 3 edited books, 7 chapters in edited books, 1 book review, 55 journal articles, and 109 conference papers. He has mentored 1 B.S., 16 M.S., and 4 Ph.D. thesis students; 31 undergraduate research students and 11 under- graduate senior design project teams
Paper ID #27578A Mixed Methods Analysis of Motivation Factors in Senior Capstone DesignCoursesElisabeth Kames, Florida Institute of Technology Elisabeth Kames is a graduate student working on her Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering at Florida Institute of Technology. Her research focuses on the impact of motivation on performance and persistence in mechanical engineering design courses under the guidance of Dr. Beshoy Morkos. She also serves as a graduate student advisor to senior design teams within the mechanical engineering department. Elisabeth is a member of ASME, ASEE, Tau Beta Pi Engineering Honor Society and Pi Tau
solutions in a global, economic, environmental, and societal context (j) a knowledge of contemporary issues.In this research, we define contextual competence as an engineer's ability to anticipate andunderstand the constraints and impacts of social, cultural, environmental, political, and othercontexts on engineering solutions.How can engineering programs best develop their students' ability to integrate context anddesign? This paper reports results from two national studies, funded by the National ScienceFoundation, which are exploring educational practices and outcomes at diverse institutions.Prototype to Production: Processes and Conditions for Preparing the Engineer of 2020 (P2P)surveyed faculty members, students, alumni
and Associate Director of Graduate Education in the Department of Biological Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology at Harvard Medical School and as a Visiting Scholar- in-Residence at Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering. At Harvard Medical School, Dr. Venkatesh works with faculty on improving the first-year PhD courses in molecular biology and biochemistry, trains teaching assistants, expands programming to build community among graduate students, and researches the best ways to train and assess PhD students in skills such as experimental design and science com- munication. Her other work includes contributing to dance performances that raise awareness about the human impacts on marine life and designing and
Senior Scholar principally responsible for the Preparations for the Professions Program (PPP) engineering study, the results of which are forthcoming in the report Educating Engineers: Designing for the Future of the Field. In addition, she is professor of Mechanical Engineering at Stanford University, and served as Chair of Stanford's Faculty Senate in 2006-2007. Besides teaching both undergraduate and graduate design-related classes at Stanford University, she conducts research on weld and solder-connect fatigue and impact failures, fracture mechanics, and applied finite element analysis. Dr. Sheppard was recently named co-principal investigator on a National Science Foundation (NSF
research and praxis in engineering and design. To achieve thisgoal, we designed a course for STEM students that leverages a common STEM experience—adesign project—to help students understand the relevance and application of disability studies(and the liberal arts more broadly) to engineering and design.Previous scholarship addressing STEM and disability studies has most prominently addressedthe importance of redesigning STEM curricula to correct the underrepresentation of studentswith disabilities in STEM fields5,6. The goal of our course is to bring a disability studiesperspective to engineering tasks for all students, including needs assessments, concept sketches,and prototyping for an original design. This design experience—which we discuss in
the National Environmental Engineering Research Institute (NEERI) in Nagpur, India where she worked on biodegradation of azo dye intermediates. Jablonski served as Co-chair of UWM’s student chapter of Engineers Without Borders for two years since its inception in 2007 and continues to help design and implement water distribution projects in Guatemala. Jablonski was a 2008 recipient of the NSF Graduate Fellowship Honorable Mention, the 2008 Wisconsin Water Association Scholarship, and the 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, and 2011 UWM Chancellor’s Graduate Student Awards. Marissa is a member of ASEE and EWB. She received her B.S. degree in natural resources and Spanish from the University of Wisconsin, Stevens Point, in 2003
Laboratories and an adjunct faculty member in Electrical and Computer Engi- neering at the University of New Mexico. His broad research interests include engineering education, as well as control and optimization of nonlinear and hybrid systems with applications to power and energy systems, multi-agent systems, robotics, and biomedicine. He is a recipient of UCSB’s Center for Control, Dynamical Systems, and Computation Best PhD Thesis award.Ms. Alejandra Hormaza Mejia, University of California, Irvine Alejandra Hormaza Mejia is a PhD student in the department of mechanical and aerospace engineering at the University of California, Irvine. She received her B.S. in chemical engineering and M.S. in mechan- ical and aerospace
in environmental engineering. She is also active in K-12 STEM initiatives. Page 24.105.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2014 A standards-based tool for middle school teachers to engage students in STEM fields (Research-to-Practice) Strand: K-12 Engineering Resources: Best Practices in Curriculum Design!Middle school teachers play an instrumental role in promoting student interest in science andengineering fields. Studies have shown that engaging students early on can inspire students topursue degrees in STEM fields for higher education. This work
Technical Skills – Faculty are all faced with an ever increasing amount of information and limited time in designated courses. Faculty members with professional practice experience are able to help guide curriculum development toward topics of greatest relevance to engineering graduates. The ARCE faculty developed five new courses as the ARCE program offered a Master’s program for the first time this year.10 As the course objectives and nature of topics were discussed for these courses the researcher and practitioner members of the master’s committee engaged in healthy and productive debate to create courses that contained both technical rigor and practical usefulness
,qualitative analyses may provide more detailed information on the quality of interdisciplinaryresearch conducted within this program. Further, qualitative analytical strategies would also beuseful for providing evidence regarding how each student’s prior experiences (e.g.,undergraduate training, prior work experience) and learning engagement in program activities(e.g., learning and writing communities) impact individual interdisciplinarity. Thus, furtherstudies are needed in order to best understand these processes within engineering doctoralstudents.AcknowledgementsFunding for this research was provided by the NSF NRT program (NSF-DGE-1545403).Data-Enabled Discovery and Design of Energy Materials, D3EM.References[1] C.H. Ward, and J.A. Warren
problem framing ability. We describe the coding scheme we developed andimplementation of the DST to assess guide and assess the impact of curricular changes. We thenshare the approaches we have taken to making coding feasible, from assessing the reliability todeveloping a new self-directed training for coders. We address the following research questions:• To what extent are DSTs valid for informing faculty of the development of problem framing skills, using validity-as-argument dimensions?• To what extent is the coding scheme, which measures factual/conceptual design problem representation, design practices, and design style, able to be applied in a feasible yet reliable manner across coders?Developing an assessment of design problem
enough time todistract from their other courses. Student projects are sponsored by a faculty research advisor, andeither the faculty member or a post-doctoral researcher or graduate student mentor act as their day-to-day point of contact. By providing students with opportunities for immersive learning in their first college semester,FIRE seeks to engage freshmen in engineering in a more accessible manner, supplementing theirrequired coursework. The research projects are carefully selected and framed not only to cover abroad range of mechanical engineering topics (from biomechanics to combustion to 3D printing)but also to provide opportunities for undergraduate researchers to exercise creative problemsolving, design and hands-on skills, self
Stakeholder Engagement during Engineering Design,” Journal of Engineering Education, vol. 109, no. 4, pp. 760-79, 2020.[6] M. Bennett, and H. Gadlin., “Collaboration and Team Science Field Guide.” [https://www.cancer.gov/about-nci/organization/crs/research-initiatives/team-science-field- guide/collaboration-team-science-guide.pdf], 2020[7] H. Lipmanowicz, and K. McCandless, The Surprising Power of Liberating Structures. Charleston, NC: Liberating Structures Press, 2013.[8] M. Bennett, R. Maraia, and H. Gadlin, “The ‘Welcome Letter’: A Useful Tool for Laboratories and Teams,” Journal of Translational Medicine and Epidemiology, vol. 2, no. 2, 2014.[9] D. Nicol, A. Thomson, and C. Breslin, “Rethinking Feedback Practices in Higher
- due Graduate School. Ms. Lynch is a registered veterinary technician, focusing on animal behavior. Her research focuses on doctoral student engagement and assessment of doctoral student learning outcomes in identified best practices, including mentoring, developing effective writing strategies, recruitment, reten- tion, and transition courses, and doctoral student professional development. Ms. Lynch instructs Purdue’s Preparing Future Faculty course and the Preparing Future Professionals course. Page 24.201.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2014
AC 2010-2139: IMPACT OF A UNIVERSITY-SCHOOL DIVISION PARTNERSHIPON PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT OF GRADUATE STUDENTSRajesh Ganesan, George Mason University Rajesh Ganesan is an assistant professor of systems engineering and operations research at George Mason University, Fairfax, VA. He received his Ph.D. in 2005 and M.S. in 2002 both in Industrial Engineering, and M.A in Mathematics in 2005, all from the University of South Florida, Tampa, FL. His areas of research include stochastic optimization, and wavelet analysis in air transportation and statistical applications. He is a faculty member at the Center for Air Transportation Systems Research at George Masson University. He is also the Principal
graduate educationand research. This Summer Institute also provided an opportunity to establish effectivemechanisms for communicating advances and cooperation in geospatial technology andnovel GIS applications in a wide range of research areas. The authors attended the 2006Carver Summer Institute, and have integrated the geospatial technologies in graduateeducation and research.The research project discussed in this paper is on the investigation of potential electricpower generation capabilities and determination of appropriate windmill sites by usingGIS, and spatial analysis technologies. With the increasing demand for energy in theworld, and soaring fuel price, investors and industry are increasingly interested inalternative energy sources
experiences of undergraduate en- gineering students and engineering educators. In addition to teaching undergraduate engineering courses and a graduate course on entrepreneurship, she also enjoys teaching qualitative research methods in the Engineering Education Systems and Design PhD program at ASU. Recently, she and her colleagues pub- lished a book, Transformative Teaching: A Collection of Stories of Engineering Faculty’s Pedagogical Journeys. American c Society for Engineering Education, 2020 Understanding how Novice Indian Faculty Engage in Engineering Education ResearchAbstractUnlike engineering research, engineering education
STEM” project in Puerto Rico, and the Latin and Caribbean Consortium of Engineering Institutions’ (LACCEI) ”Women in STEM” forum. Tull is a Tau Beta Pi ”Eminent Engineer.”Dr. Alexis Y. Williams, University of Maryland Baltimore County Dr. Alexis Y. Williams serves as a member of the Department of Human Development and Quantitative Methodology teaching faculty at the University of Maryland, College Park. She is Assistant Director for PROF-it (Professors-in-Training), a University System of Maryland teaching professional development program housed at UMBC, designed for STEM graduate students and postdocs, and open to any who are interested in academia. Her research, teaching, and service address achievement motivation
): p. 738-797.7. Adams, R.S., J. Turns, and C. Atman, Educating effective engineering designers: the role of reflective practice. Design Studies, 2003. 24(3): p. 275-294.8. Duschl, R.A., H.A. Schweingruber, and A.W. Shouse, Taking science to school. 2007, Washington, D.C.: National Academies Press.9. Corcoran, T., F.A. Mosher, and A. Rogat, Learning Progressions in Science: An Evidence-Based Approach to Reform. 2009, Consortium for Policy Research in Education: Philadelphia, PA. p. 86.10. Schwartz, D.L., S. Varma, and L. Martin, Dynamic transfer and innovation, in International Handbook of Research on Conceptual Change, S. Vosniadou, Editor. 2008, Routledge: London, UK.11. Duncan, R.G
found to be challenging and required rigorous evaluation andrefinements for effective training across disciplines and skill levels. A comprehensive programevaluation over five years found that the strongest learning and skills outcomes were linked toseveral “best practices”. Early provision of depth in fundamentals in R programming andreproducible research was found to be critical to “jump start” students without programmingbackgrounds. Addition of an overview of microbiome experimental design and analysis addedimportant context as to how and where in the research process informatics fits into designprogression and was highly motivating to students. Course modality was found to impact traineeoutcomes with in-person classes that included hands
AC 2011-1392: TEMPERATURE ALARM LABORATORY DESIGN PROJECTFOR A CIRCUIT ANALYSIS COURSE IN A GENERAL ENGINEERINGCURRICULUMLoren Limberis, East Carolina University Dr. Limberis joined the Engineering faculty at ECU in August 2006. He earned his B.S. in electrical engineering and Ph.D. in bioengineering from the University of Utah. Dr. Limberis taught for several years as an Assistant Professor at The College of New Jersey and was a research analyst with Southwest Research Institute prior to his academic career. His research interests focus on designing techniques to utilize nature’s highly complex and sophisticated biological systems to develop biohybrid devices for use in biotechnology applications.Jason Yao, East
in Engineering and Technology Education (CREATE) group at Cal Poly. His research interests include critical pedagogies; efforts for diversity, equity, and inclusion in engineering, engineering design theory and practice; conceptual change and understanding; and school- to-work transitions for new engineers. His current work explores a range of engineering education design contexts, including the role of power in brainstorming activities, epistemological and conceptual develop- ment of undergraduate learning assistants, as well as the experiences of recent engineering graduates as they navigate new organizational cultures.Dominick TrageserDr. Ricardo Cruz-Lozano, California Polytechnic State University - San Luis