improved to support student mental health,reduce attrition rates, and bridge the gender and ethno-racial gaps in graduation rates, makingdoctoral education a more viable career path for engineers.Identity development in engineering doctoral students Research on identity development in engineering students has primarily focused onundergraduates, and only a handful have considered identity development in graduate students[1], [2], [3], [4]. Because engineering graduate students, and especially doctoral students, oftenmatriculate with professional experience, researchers have assumed that graduate students enterdoctoral programs with a ready-made professional identity as engineers. However, training indoctoral engineering programs requires
an aircraft engineer. Her research and professional interests include faculty development, innovations in engineering communication education, engineering student learning motivation, and narrative structure in technical communication.Dr. Cibele V. Falkenberg, Auburn University Dr. Cibele V. Falkenberg is a Research Assistant Professor in the Mechanical Engineering Department at Auburn University. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2016 “Give Me Every Idea You Have”: Building With Improvisation in Engineering EducationWe engineering educators, as a community, are very interested in active learning pedagogies.Active learning is a very good match to
Paper ID #29255Women in Engineering: Promoting Identity Exploration and ProfessionalDevelopmentDr. Maureen C Smith, San Jose State University Dr. Smith received her BA in Psychology from U.C. Davis and her Ph.D in Developmental Psychology from Cornell University. Dr. Smith is a Professor of Child and Adolescent Development in the Lurie College of Education at San Jose State University. She has significant experience with curriculum and program development, including the development of a combined BA-Credential for her department and a First Year Experience program for the university. Her research interests include development
, and she has co-authored three popular textbooks, most recently Digital Design and Computer Architecture: RISC-V Edition in 2021.Dr. Yingtao Jiang, University of Nevada - Las VegasChristine ClarkEd JorgensenTiberio Garza, Florida International UniversityNorma A Marrun, University of Nevada - Las VegasValerie L. Taylor ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2023 Promoting Success Through Building Community for Computer Science and Computer Engineering Undergraduates Sarah L. Harris, Christine Clark, Norma A. Marrun, Edward Jorgensen, Yingtao Jiang, Valerie Taylor, Tiberio Garza University of Nevada, Las Vegas (all except T. Garza), Florida International
persevering in engineering [11], [20].The development of identity is a social process. People’s thoughts and behaviors are shapedthrough relationships and reflected appraisals with others [4], [16], [21]. Identities are furtherderived through associations, affiliations, and identifications with groups [17], [22]. Tonso [23]observes that identity development is an enculturated process where identities are acquiredthrough "community-based interactions" and Beam et al. [20] concur that social contexts affectidentity. In engineering education, situated learning is central to identity development [23].Therefore, this social process of identity development can be realized through the culture of anengineering program. Cultivating a culture of doing
Paper ID #29338CAREER: Actualizing Latent Diversity in Undergraduate EngineeringEducationDr. Allison Godwin, Purdue University at West Lafayette Allison Godwin, Ph.D. is an Assistant Professor of Engineering Education at Purdue University. Her research focuses what factors influence diverse students to choose engineering and stay in engineering through their careers and how different experiences within the practice and culture of engineering fos- ter or hinder belongingness and identity development. Dr. Godwin graduated from Clemson University with a B.S. in Chemical Engineering and Ph.D. in Engineering and Science
science identity, STEM education, and participation in online communities.Mrs. Marissa A. Tsugawa-Nieves, University of Nevada, Reno Marissa Tsugawa is a graduate research assistant studying at the University of Nevada, Reno in the PRiDE Research Group. She is currently working towards a Ph.D. in Engineering Education. She expects to graduate May of 2019. Her research interests include student development of identity and motivation in graduate engineering environments and understanding creativity in engineering design processes.Ms. Jessica Nicole Chestnut, North Carolina State UniversityBlanca Miller, University of Nevada, Reno Blanca Miller is a Computer Science & Engineering Graduate Student at the University of
research projects focused on institutional environments and STEM identity development are sponsored by the National Science Foundation (NSF) and the Kapor Center. In recent years, she was selected as an Early Career Awardee and Faculty Fellow with the American Association of Hispanics in Higher Education (AAHHE) and a NASPA Emerging Faculty Leader. She also received the Barbara Townsend Early Career Scholar Award by the Council for the Study of Community Colleges (CSCC) and gave the distinguished ASHE-CAHEP Barbara Townsend Lecture. To learn more about her current projects, visit http://sarahlrodriguez.com/Paul Charles Bigby, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University Paul C. Bigby is a graduate student at
AC 2010-1495: POWER CONVERSION COURSEWORK USING A SOLID STATETESLA COILJustin Reed, University of Wisconsin, Madison Justin Reed received the B.S. degree in electrical engineering from the University of Washington, Seattle in 2005 and the M.S. degree in electrical engineering from the University of Wisconsin, Madison in 2008. He is currently working towards the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering at the Wisconsin Electric Machines and Power Electronics Consortium (WEMPEC), where he has experience as a teaching assistant for several electrical engineering courses. His interests include engineering education, power electronics, motors and renewable energy applications.Daniel Ludois
Gender and Grade,” Res. Sci. Educ., vol. 45, no. 2, pp. 275–292, Apr. 2015.[32] B. M. Capobianco, B. F. French, and H. A. Diefes-Dux, “Engineering Identity Development Among Pre-Adolescent Learners.,” J. Eng. Educ., vol. 101, no. 4, pp. 698– 716, 2012.[33] B. M. Capobianco, E. D. Deemer, and C. Lin, “Analyzing predictors of children’s formative engineering identity development.,” Int. J. Eng. Educ., vol. 33, no. 1A, pp. 44– 54, 2017.[34] B. M. Capobianco, B. F. French, and H. A. Diefes-Dux, “Engineering Identity Development Among Pre-Adolescent Learners,” J. Eng. Educ., vol. 101, no. 4, pp. 698– 716, 2012.[35] G. J. Kelly, C. M. Cunningham, and A. Ricketts, “Engaging in identity work through engineering practices in
, veneration of engineering’s “hardness” persists, including as symbolically yetpotently represented through the endurance of weed-out culture. At our institution, discoursearound engineering’s inherent difficulty, a celebration of our students’ “grit” in the face ofacademic adversity, and a hazing-like narrative around student “suffering” all endure despiteextensive, systematic attention to student mental health and the importance of “work-lifebalance” across the university community. Research indicates that emotionally unsafeenvironments lead to stress, lower attendance at school, and less engagement in learning,whereas emotionally safe environments are related to more positive identity development, betterlearning experiences, and greater feelings
success in technicaleducation.ConclusionThe findings indicate that to increase diversity in technology and engineering education,programs should be designed to (1) build community college students’ technical capital and (2)help them develop professional identities.Moving students from very well-structured problems to ill-structured problems allows studentsto gradually build the knowledge and skills that they need to deal with problems that aretechnically more sophisticated and ill-structured. Such a gradual approach provides students whodo not have technical capital, or a background with doing hands-on activities or tinkering, anopportunity to acquire it upon joining technical or engineering programs.Students develop professional identities for
students have declaredMechanical Engineering.Both engineering programs share nine engineering courses and have common general educationrequirements. The first three semesters of engineering coursework are identical and include © American Society for Engineering Education, 2023courses such as Introduction to Engineering, Engineering Graphics, and Engineering Mechanics.In addition, first semester university students are encouraged (during advising) to enroll in a one-credit University Life 100 (UL100) course. This is first-year seminar course whose objective ishelp students transition from high school to university. The official course description is as fol-lows:Students will be introduced to skills and strategies for
focuses on communication, collabo- ration, and identity in engineering. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2023 Investigating Graduate Students’ Perspectives of Influences on Interdisciplinary Scholar Identity Development: An Ecological Systems Theory ApproachAbstractSpanning hundreds of higher education institutions, the surge in interdisciplinary graduateprograms designed to prepare the future STEM professoriate for the grand challenges, big ideas,and demands for convergence is difficult to ignore. These interdisciplinary graduate programspose great opportunities for expanding the professional skills and knowledge base of STEMgraduate students, but they exist
-traditional students.Yeny Jimenez, Miami Dade Community Collegeantonio delgado ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2024 Building an AI Certificate and a Computing Identity: Broadening Participation in Computing & Artificial Intelligence at a Hispanic-serving Community College1. Introduction The development of the computing field creates a need for a robust and skilled computingworkforce. However, there is a lack of postsecondary students in computing majors ordisciplines. This project, funded by the NSF DUE/HSI Program seeks to develop artificialintelligence (AI) courses and an interdisciplinary certificate that will expose community college(CC) students to AI and
in the context of rural Haiti, and also through the related efforts to provide technical education and training to community members (capacity building). Personal Remark from Joann Rodríguez: My work with the GREAT IDEA project is the best professional and personal opportunity of my life. We, as engineering students, need courses and research experiences focused in the development of skills to work with and for the community. Engineers should work to solve problems in the simplest way and always keep in mind what the user really needs, rather than the creation of new products to make the user depend on it. For example, with the IBSF, the basic need of safe water can be provided without sophisticated technology and
). Ms. Sandekian joined the Engineering for Developing Communities Program (now known as the Mortenson Center in Engineering for Developing Communities) in spring 2004, just as the first EDC graduate track was approved. With MCEDC, her main duties have included student advising and academic program development. In ad- dition to her management role in the Mortenson Center, Ms. Sandekian has taught an Engineering Projects course around the theme of appropriate technology and conducted research on social entrepreneurship and sustainable community development in Nepal in 2008. Ms. Sandekian earned a Specialist in Education (Ed. S.) degree in Educational Leadership and Policy Studies from the University of Northern
22.768.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2011 Helping Freshmen Develop a Personal Identity as an EngineerAbstractFreshman retention is a top priority in nearly all engineering schools. Increased retentionoptimizes new-student recruitment dollars, decreases students‟ time to graduation, impactsschool rankings, and helps to meet industry‟s increasing demand for engineers. Most researchersand experts in the field agree on a number of basic tenants of retention. Topmost are the tenantsof creating community amongst freshmen, bonding freshmen with returning students, creatingopportunities for meaningful interaction between freshmen and faculty both in and outside of theclassroom, helping freshmen
Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright ©2004, American Society for Engineering EducationBullis and Bach found 14 turning points to be pivotal in graduate student socialization. Theseare outlined below, in order based on frequency of reports (with those marked by asterisksindicating a tie in frequency of reports). 1. Sense of community (an overall sense of identification with the department) 2. Approaching formal hurdles (completing courses, jumping through “hoops”) 3. Socializing (informal conversations with graduate students or faculty outside the classroom) 4. * Disappointment (when organization or its members were less than perfect than originally perceived) 5
, 174undergraduate and graduate multidisciplinary engineering students completed this course in thenew online format during the summer and 131 students took the course in the fall semester of2020. In this paper, we will begin by discussing the face-to-face version of the course with theworkaround online option for a handful of students each semester. We then discuss informalstakeholder interviews that in addition to the aforementioned literature helped to develop therequirements of the online course. The goal of the transition was to develop an online version ofthe course that provided an educational equivalence to the in-person version of the course, whilecontinuing to encourage the community element present in the face-to-face version.2. Course
, identity building, and coping for boththe producer and the consumer [27], [28]. Moreover, social media and memes have beenidentified as an important medium through which minoritized graduate students, especially atprimarily white institutions, can build social support, challenge racialized stereotyping, solicitadvice, and practice self-care [28], [29].Meme-producers often leverage techniques such as hyperbole, humor, and dark humor toexaggerate their lived-experiences in the quest for “relatability,” likes, and retweets. While manyindividuals [27] including the present authors, have associated graduate school memes withfeeling less alone in their programs and development of their identity as graduate students, thesesame memes may serve to
-authorship development because she went through aprocess of trusting, building, and securing an internal identity, which Baxter Magolda describesas path toward self-authorship.Emily: Uncomfortable sharing, validated by sharing portfolio, gained confidence in experiences.In the context of the portfolio activity, Emily recognized and acknowledged the importance ofothers’ perspectives, both those in authority positions (such as parents and educators) and thosein more peer positions (such as other students), and how others’ views were significant to herpersonal beliefs and validation. While developing the portfolio, she wanted to know the “rightstuff” that should be included in the portfolio. The freedom of the portfolio activity contributedto her
, engineering students make use of internship opportunities totry on several different occupational settings, and by reflecting on and juxtaposing theirexperiences in these settings they discern what kind of job they want after graduation. Ourinductive analysis generated three types of fit: personal fit, career values fit and intellectual fit,which we operationalize below.Cech et al.8 have operationalized a set of concepts that are similar to our concept of self-assessment of fit. Their analysis builds the concept of professional role confidence, which iscomposed of career fit confidence and expertise confidence. These measures are developed fromlongitudinal survey data measuring students’ confidence, based on their engineering coursework,in a number
AC 2011-2323: EXPERIENCES OF SCHOLARS IN THE REINVIGORAT-ING ENGINEERING AND CHANGING HISTORY PROGRAM: A CASESTUDY OF THE FIRST GRADUATE STUDENT COHORTJiabin Zhu, Purdue University, West Lafayette Jiabin Zhu is a Ph.D. student in the School of Engineering Education at Purdue University. She obtained a B.S. in Physics from East China Normal University, a M.S. in Optics from Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), and a second M.S. in Biomedical Engineering from Purdue University. Her primary research in- terests relate to comparative study methods and frameworks in engineering education, global engineering, professional development and mentoring of engineering graduate students. She is a student member of American Society
skills, community,self-confidence, and engaging these students in visualizing themselves in a science andengineering career. We use a tiered mentoring system in which students mentor more juniorstudents as they themselves advance along the career pathway. The pathway includes: Intensive residential summer program for incoming college freshmen Undergraduate research experiences, focused advising/counseling, career development, training in science literacy and laboratory techniques, and sponsored travel to national science conferences. Retaining graduate students in science and engineering through recruitment efforts with academic departments and training grants, mentoring opportunities, community
Curriculum at UC Berkeley Executive Education, a division within the Haas Business School at UC Berkeley. Until the fall of 2020, she was the Associate Director for University Teaching and a Lecturer at Caltech. © American Society for Engineering Education, 2022 Powered by www.slayte.com A Model for Student-led Development and Implementation of a Required Graduate-level Course on History, Ethics, and Identity in Aerospace EngineeringAbstractEngineering is often treated as apolitical fact, removing historical context, ethical responsibility,and human subjectivity from the field. As such, engineering programs, especially at the graduatelevel
interests focus on early P-12 engineering education and identity develop- ment. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2017 Session W1A Development of Engineering Professional Identity and Formation of a Community of Practice in a New Engineering Program Lee Kemp Rynearson, Anastasia Marie Rynearson Campbell University, rynearson@campbell.edu, amrynearson@campbell.eduAbstract – In 2016 Campbell University added a School of advances. Some previous works have reported on CampbellEngineering, offering a general engineering degree
emphasis within the engineering education community (see Table 1). Of 34 total paperswith interventions for communication education, the vast majority tried to incorporate communi-cation principles into students’ coursework, either through dedicated courses or integration intotechnical courses. The same survey indicates that the majority effort has focused on undergraduateeducation, with only six total interventions targeting graduate students.Particularly conspicuous is the absence of writing center research at ASEE and FIE for the pastthree years. This absence is consistent with the observation that writing center studies have re-ceived relatively little attention outside the Writing Center Journal (WCJ), even in written compo-sition studies let
. Page 26.368.8The program requirements align with the disciplinary idea of combining engineering andeducation disciplines. In general, the coursework comprises of core engineering courses allowingthe students to develop a graduate level of understanding of engineering content, as well as,understanding different educational theories. To build a background about engineering educationas a field of inquiry, these programs require students to take foundational engineering educationcourses which cover the history and philosophy of engineering education, relevant theoreticalframeworks, assessment and evaluation techniques, current research and future trends, etc.Lastly, to develop the ability to conduct educational research, the programs require the
, likes, and dislikes towards various aspects of STEM [7]. Persistenceis defined as a passion for persevering through long-term goals [24] [25]. The process of conceptmapping that was used in the development of the tool involved a participatory framework,whereby participation was by consultation, including functional and interactive participation[26]. The STEM stakeholders worked collaboratively as part of a community as they developedmeasures based on their experiences and knowledge from working in the field of STEM andSTEM education. Their professional identities and experiences validate their role, whileproviding representation for their voices on an instrument that was developed in this uniquemanner.FIGURE 1: Conceptual framework for the APT