teachers, K-7students and environmental professionals via 21st century technology. Our principal objective isto demonstrate that this technology-driven collaboration will enhance science learning as well asinterest in STEM careers among K-7 students.Keyword: STEM, K-12, inquiry-based, learning communities, student travel Partnerships across Academic and Geographic Boundaries: A Technology-Driven Transformation of 3rd – 7th Grade STEM Learning CommunitiesIntroduction“Partnerships” is a developing model that takes advantage of an innovative, technology-drivenenvironmental science and engineering shared program between K-7, specifically 3rd - 7th gradestudents, and college students from across disciplines and class standing. [Note
that make it challenging to gain entry and to persist in the workplace [2, 3].Reports from students unable to obtain employment note that passing the technical interviews isone of the biggest issues they face in starting their career [3]. However, understanding the fullimpact of the hiring process in computing, and in particular, how it affects groups alreadyunderrepresented in computing (women, Black/African American, and Hispanic/Latinx workers),is important to creating a workplace of diverse talent [4–6]. Given the paucity of rigorousresearch surrounding the steps in the process, our motivation for this work was to create acomprehensive assessment of what hiring in computing looks like from the perspective of the jobseeker. In addition, we
perception of littleopportunities for advancement. Conversely, a positive workplace climate also helps to explainwhy women stay in the engineering workforce.3,5For women in engineering careers, those who persist were found in one study to possess highlevels of self efficacy, to describe themselves in terms of their identity as an engineer, and to bemotivated by the innovations and challenges afforded by engineering. This study also reasonedthat those who persist possess an ability to adapt and thrive “despite working in a male-dominated culture characterized by difficulties associated with the workplace, includingdiscrimination”. In contrast to this, women who left the engineering profession were “less likelyto recognize options in navigating the
University of South Carolina, Watson worked in two different middle school classrooms as a NSF GK-12/Pi Fellow. While at the University of Tennessee, she participated in the co-op (industrial internship) program and was appointed a co-op ambassador to mentor undergraduate students pursuing industrial internships. She also has mentored undergraduate research assistants during her master’s and Ph.D. programs. Her primary research interests include preparing doctoral students for industry and academic careers and the rheology of ionic liquids and cellulose solutions.Dr. Jed S. Lyons, University of South Carolina Jed Lyons is a professor of mechanical engineering and the Faculty Director of the Center for Teaching
Science Education. Her research earned her a 2016 National Science Foundation CAREER Award focused on characterizing latent diversity, which includes diverse attitudes, mindsets, and approaches to learning to understand engineering students’ identity development. She has won several awards for her research including the 2021 Journal of Civil Engineering Education Best Technical Paper, the 2021 Chemical Engineering Education William H. Corcoran Award, the 2022 American Educational Research Association Education in the Professions (Division I) 2021-2022 Outstanding Research Publication Award, and the 2023 American Institute of Chemical Engineers Award for Excellence in Engineering Education Research.Dr. Linda DeAngelo
Engineering and co-founder of the Integrative Learning Portfolio Lab in Career Education at Stanford University. She earned her undergraduate degree from UCLA and her PhD in Communication with a minor in Psychology from Stanford. Her scholarship is focused on engineering and entrepreneurship education, portfolio pedagogy, reflective practices, non-degree credentials, and reimagining how learners represent themselves through their professional online presence.Prof. George Toye Ph.D., P.E., is adjunct professor in Mechanical Engineering at Stanford University. While engaged in teaching project based engineering design thinking and innovations at the graduate level, he also contributes to research in engineering education
regional university located in south Texas, an area ofHispanic/Latinx majority population [2]. The continuation of this summer program after the endof the NSF grant period has not yet been decided. Engineering-oriented programs such as thiscan be important tools for enhancing undergraduate student success, as demonstrated by otherresearchers [3-5]. Numerous challenges in the post-secondary education environment exist forHispanic/Latinx students attending community colleges [6, 7], universities [8, 9], and in graduatestudy [10, 11]. Challenges that Hispanics/Latinx face in their academic careers include a poorsense of belonging at the university level, cultural support deficiencies, and challenges inovercoming secondary education academic
as how the payment will take place, when it will take place,types of credits, roles of the banks involved, etc. Program and Course DesignThis ongoing collaborative project started on October 2020. Figure 1 shows the overall structuredesign of this collaborative project. First, entry level course modules are developed, and will be usedin current freshman introduction to engineering and business courses to increase students’ awarenesson standards. Second, an interdisciplinary undergraduate minor program on supply chainmanagement (SCM) and logistics standards has been created with an aim to improve undergraduatestudents’ career readiness. At last, an interdisciplinary graduate certificate program will
/Country) do you call home? 3 4. Do you have a particular engineering industry that you are already focused on? No big deal if not as we will explore career options during the semester. Just let me know. 5. When you begin your career (post-college), do you have a particular location around the planet where you would like to be working? 6. How well-versed are you in all things about this university? Grew up in a university family, or new to all the traditions and lore? Just trying to understand the audience here. 7. What are some concerns and fears that you have about the semester ahead? 8. What are some passions that you are bringing to your engineering career? 9. What level of
population and the education system [5]. Thus, low-income studentswill soon make up a more significant proportion of students in the nation’s schools and STEM-related careers [5]. Quality education must be made available for low-income students tostrengthen the workforce [5], [6]. Identity research, therefore, provides a lens to explain howstudents identify with a particular field and seek to improve their persistence [11], [12] as well asprovide a way to address system-level opportunities for change. The purpose of this researchstudy is to help educators develop a more inclusive engineering education environment andpromote cultural change that leads to positive and fulfilling college experiences for low-incomestudents. We believe that cultural
, Technology, Engineering, and Math) students,change their major at least once while in university [1]. However, much of the research on thistopic focuses on the ‘why’ of major changes rather than the ‘where’ [2]–[5]. Such studies employframeworks like expectancy-value theory or social cognitive career theory to explain studentrational for changing majors, often highlighting the role elements like grade point average [6],salary expectations [7], or engineering identity [8] play in the decision-making process.Just as important as knowing why students change majors, however, is knowing what majorsstudents are leaving and entering. To this end, a historic dataset was used to examineundergraduate engineering student degree program changes. The following
findings of an exploratory study on the use of e-textiles and potentiallyextended reality (XR) technologies for intergenerational engineering learning.Rationale The role of families in STEM learning. Although families are often an overlooked factor in thepositive engagement of students in STEM topics, family relationships and dynamics have a large bearingon student achievement, interests, enthusiasm, and beliefs surrounding ability [1]. When considering howto engage students with engineering topics, family members, especially those in a parental or senior rolecan act as a catalyst for engagement. Individuals acting in a parental role are the main contributors to astudent’s career aspirations, and support behaviors related to science from
into manufacturing engineeringcurriculum. The goal of this project is to establish a structured framework comprising of lectures,labs, and industrial experience, to enhance experiential learning about robotics and additivemanufacturing standards among engineering students.Program and Course DesignThis two-year project started from spring 2022 and will complete in spring 2024. To achieve thegoal of this project, there are three objectives: 1) Innovate course modules (lectures, labs, andprojects) to advance students' experiential learning of standards, 2) Produce virtual learningmaterials to improve students' career readiness, and 3) Establish a sustainable online coursestructure to enhance the impact of education.The courses involved in this
transformers are requiredto convert low voltage AC to an appropriate voltage level for To enable the integration of maximum PV power generationgrid integration. To develop a utility-scale PV solar power into the grid, the existing utility company must conduct anplant, various design criteria must be considered. [3] interconnection and integration study. An energy yield study is conducted to estimate the total energy generation expected The knowledge of utility scale PV model has the potential during the project's operation period, which is equivalent to theto benefit numerous students pursuing a career in renewable revenue
willpresent a theoretical framework of systems-thinking, describe the prior state of engineeringoutreach in our College, outline how our shared vision for community engineering outreachdeveloped, recount how our team formed, and outline several successful outcomes from ourefforts using this innovative approachFirst, we want to define outreach as we see it. We believe that outreach is a form of experientiallearning for both the K-12 students and the college students involved in the process. As weengage in outreach, we try to connect the dots between what a K-12 student might be interestedin and the potential future possibilities that pursuing a degree and career in engineering mightafford them. We are not there to convince students they must become
Paper ID #36073Modeling of Electric Vehicle Charging Effects on Existing GridInfrastructureDr. Tony Lee Kerzmann, University of Pittsburgh Dr. Tony Kerzmann’s higher education background began with a Bachelor of Arts in Physics from Duquesne University, as well as a Bachelor’s, Master’s, and PhD in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Pittsburgh. After graduation, Dr. Kerzmann began his career as an assistant professor of Mechanical Engineering at Robert Morris University which afforded him the opportunity to research, teach, and advise in numerous engineering roles. He served as the mechanical coordinator for
Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Prior to graduate studies, Erica joined Teach for America and taught high school chemistry in Las Vegas. While her primary research involves water and wastewater, she has strong interests in engineering education research, teacher professional development, and secondary STEM education. In 2021, Erica received the ASEE Pacific Southwest Early Career Teaching Award and two awards at UNLV for mentoring undergraduate and graduate students. She also received the Peter J. Bosscher Outstanding Faculty Advisor Award in 2019 from Engineers Without Borders and was recognized as a Nevada Woman in STEM by Senator Jackie Rosen.Cory Budischak, Temple University Cory is a teacher and researcher who
. Broadly categorized, students’understandings of success related to career preparation and opportunities—an expected theme forthose in technical degree programs, happiness or enjoyment in life, and living a life of purpose—what some might call “the good life.” Edwin’s response to our questions related to successreveals such understandings of success are not necessarily exclusive: “To me, [success] meansbeing able to fulfill your own personal purpose, while at the same time, enjoying it and making agood living out of it, I would say. That’d be success.”Though student participation in specific majors clearly shapes notions of success, students’insistence that the profitability of a future career is not the only—and sometimes not even theprimary
this pedagogical practice is implemented on first-year engineering students, it will have a significantimpact on their ability to organize, streamline and communicate an idea, provide a quick overview of aproject, or even showcase their academic and professional accomplishments through a resume, coverletter, elevator pitch and other persuasive technical documents. From their freshmen year, they willdevelop confidence to write and present simply, concisely, accurately, and coherently. This skill willcarry on with them in their future careers, aiding them in successful articulation of ideas, technicalinformation, and research to a global audience.
forthe Bridge students and their parents/guardians/siblings. Bridge instructors and college anduniversity administrators are invited. Meritorious Bridge student scholastic performances arerecognized in various categoriesE-Portfolio: The students will be coached in using an E-Portfolio system to document theirexperiences. Each student will prepare and upload a reflective essay documenting theirprofessional career aspirations and its relationship to the college education.Collaborative Courses: These are intended to support learning in Calculus and Physics, thehistoric 'weed-out' courses for engineers and are attended by all selected Bridge students. TheSCLC courses meet twice a week for 2 hours in addition to the regular Calculus or Physicscourse
-integrated learning experiences andteaching material through collaborative and digitally supported STEMlabs. In the following,we present the reasoning behind the project, its organizational and methodological approach,as well as the first phases of establishing virtual STEMlabs in the Northern region of Denmark.We discuss preliminary findings, potentials, and challenges related to the ongoing developmentof regional collaborative learning communities for teachers across disciplinary and institutionalboundaries to facilitate change and diversity in the local K-12 system and support pre-collegestudents’ interest in engineering and STEM-related educations and career paths, in particularwomen and minorities.The LabSTEM North projectTo identify crucial
Powered by www.slayte.com An Empirical Study of Programming Languages Specified in Engineering Job PostingsAbstractAdvancements in information technology have driven a demand for computer literacy and agrowing need for engineers to develop computer programming skills. Given the shift in demandfor these skills in engineering, educators must assess the learning outcomes of current curriculaand the selection of programming language utilized to develop students’ foundational knowledgeof programming in order to prepare students for their future careers. One way to approach thiscourse content decision is to teach based on industry needs. The purpose of this study was toidentify the programming languages desired by
)IntroductionThe diversity of the U.S. population is changing with predictions indicating that by 2050 therewill be no “majority race.” Already, Latino and Black communities make up 30% of thecountry’s population [1]. However, this current level of diversity is not reflected in the STEMfields. In engineering, there has only been a small increase in Hispanic graduates from 8.5% in2011 to 11.9% in 2019 and almost no increase in Black graduates (4.2% to 4.3%). Over 50% ofthe engineering graduates nationwide continue to be White [2]. Increasing diversity in STEM isrequired to solve important problems faced by society through a wider array of solutions [3].Unfortunately, Black, Latino, and Indigenous youth often close the door to STEM careers earlyin their
between teams. This work is incredibly important for thecompany, but doesn’t count much toward individual career progress. According to productivity logics, this is actually how it is supposed to work. Media studiesscholar Melissa Gregg [1], in her analysis of self-help literature, points out that people seekingcareer success are encouraged to identify the types of work that are most important and eliminatenon-essential tasks or delegate them to others. The small team leader is doing what he knows isnecessary for his own career progress. The central tension in this story, however, arrives whenwe consider those to whom the non-essential tasks are delegated, the ability of those individualsto resist or otherwise exercise agency in response, and
amateur radio license in 1975.Mr. Chuck Clayton Bland, Cal Poly, SLO Electrical Engineering Department Prof. Chuck Bland graduated from the Cal Poly electrical Engineering Department in 1982 to start a career with Motorola Solutions implementing Public Safety Communications systems. Thirty-five years later he returned to Cal Poly as a Lecturer in the Electrical Engineering Department. Chuck is a long time member and supporter of the Cal Poly Amateur Radio club. He and his wife Darla have two kids and a granddaughter.Mr. Marcel Stieber, Cal Poly Amateur Radio Club Marcel Stieber is an Electrical Engineering alumnus of California Polytechnic State University in San Luis Obispo. He was a former President and is current
invite engineering educators to carefullyexamine how temporality might matter when considering the connections between previouslyconducted studies with their own ongoing projects. Our survey also asked students to provide anexample of unethical behavior in engineering and possible ethical problems they anticipate intheir future careers. Finally, we asked students to list three most important values for defining agood engineer. Such a question on professional ethical values responds to a gap in theengineering ethics literature, namely, that engineering students’ perceptions of professionalvirtues and values are not sufficiently addressed (especially among first-year students). Thispaper is part of a larger project that compares how students
assignments with lower stakes were duethroughout the week: a reading/lecture quiz, a survey to submit questions, and a shortenedhomework assignment. Finally, we changed some content near the end of the course to allowstudents to connect the course to their own career aspirations, which we expect can aid in long-term retention. Specifically, students chose among several possible topics to cover in the finalweeks, covered via typical pre-recorded lectures and reading, and also guest lectures. They wrotean abstract-length reflection on how they could use what they learned in this course later in theircareers. Overall, students remained engaged with the course throughout the semester andprovided favorable comments and evaluations of the course, including
) and desired personal characteristics for the graduatestudents (e.g., critical thinking, problem-solving approach, data preparation, analytics, andpresentation). The contributions from the advisory board were the driving force for the newdirection and strategy for the graduate program. Industry professionals suggested and inputsfrom the board were successfully incorporated.A study by Stelyn (2019) suggested the perception of students played an important role in thestructure for the new course providing a learning experience. The student feedback and studentfocus group were used in generating new course structure, operations, and the course impact fortheir career. Student evaluations of teaching and learning and student suggestions on
autistic adults often have difficulty joining or remaining in theSTEM workforce [5]. With the goal of creating maker programming to enable autistic youth toengage in the EDP with peers and to prepare autistic youth for future careers, a multidisciplinaryteam created the Inventing, Designing, and Engineering for All Students (IDEAS) MakerProgram. IDEAS brings together experts in maker education, autism inclusion, engineering,co-design, and research to bring interest-driven maker clubs into autism-inclusion public schoolsin New York City. The following paper describes the ways in which IDEAS supports autisticlearners in both in-person and online formats, and how IDEAS teachers responded to adversityby redesigning the curriculum for remote learning
divided among fourresearch mentors.WorkshopsAs part of the Research Scholars Program, the following workshops were developed to introducestudents to different aspects of research: 1. Formulating Your Research Vision 2. Submission & Review Process 3. Getting Your Paper Noticed 4. Academic vs. Industry Research 5. Research Next Steps: Building into Grad School and/or Entrepreneurship 6. Promoting Undergraduate Research on Your ResumeThe first workshop is aimed towards students just starting on their research journey while most ofthe other workshops are aimed at showing students how they can use their research experience toadvance their academic and professional careers. The workshops are organized and hosted by theauthors with guest