conductingresearch, writing grants to secure external funding, and managing a research team [11], [12].Advice on more concrete aspects of successfully applying to faculty positions, such as preparingan application package, interviewing, and negotiating an offer, are more commonly reported astaught during professional development events (e.g., future faculty workshops), though these areoften aimed at students and postdocs from groups historically excluded in engineering [19]. Although there has been research on the frequency and satisfaction of PhD studentsreceiving career advice from their advisors, less is known about what types of advice is given.This study seeks to fill that gap.2.2 | Framework: Leader-Member Exchange Theory In an academic
Wisconsin, Milwaukee. Papadopoulos has diverse interests in structural mechanics, sustainable construction materials (with emphasis in bamboo), engineering ethics, and engineering education. He is co-author of Lying by Approximation: The Truth about Finite Element Analysis, and after many years, he has finally (maybe) learned how to teach Statics, using an experiential and peer-based learning ”studio” model. As part of the UPRM Sustainability Engineering initiative to develop a new bachelor’s degree and curricular sequence, Papadopoulos is PI of A New Paradigm for Sustainability Engineering: A Transdisciplinary, Learner-Centered, and Diversity-Focused Approach, funded by the NSF HSI program. Papadopoulos is active in the
Paper ID #48021Using student-led case studies in engineering to build cultural awareness,self-knowledge, and ethical engagementKelsey McLendon, University of Michigan Kelsey McLendon is a Lecturer in the Program in Technical Communication in the College of Engineering at the University of Michigan. Her research interests are technical writing, social and emotional learning, and DEIJ in engineering education.Dr. Katie Snyder, University of Michigan Dr. Snyder is a lecturer in the Program in Technical Communication at the University of Michigan. She teaches writing and presentation strategies to students in the College of
professor access to students of anymajor on campus and the students can stay with the VIP team for multiple semesters. VIP teamstypically have 10 to 20 students. The Electronic ARTrium VIP team is co-instructed by Prof.Weitnauer and Dr. Thomas Martin, Chief Scientist of the Electro-optics Systems Laboratory atthe Georgia Tech Research Institute. Enrollments in the Electronic ARTrium team since itsinception to the time of this writing have been 22, 15, 21, and 24, for Fall 2021, Spring 2022,Fall 2022, and Spring 2023. Many if not all the computer science (CS) students on the VIP teamwere using VIP to satisfy their junior capstone design requirement, but this is transparent to theVIP instructors. Engineering students also have the option to use VIP
engineers capable of solving the grand challenges this new century brings.Reviewing the LiteratureStudent engagement theory pioneer Alexander Astin hypothesized that the more involved astudent is socially and academically in college, the more he or she will learn due to increases inmotivation and interaction with faculty, fellow students, and other campus activities. 4,5,6Unfortunately Astin found that choosing an engineering major had “negative effects on a varietyof satisfaction outcomes: faculty, quality of instruction, Student Life, opportunities to takeinterdisciplinary courses, … the overall college experience, … writing skills, listening skills,[and] Cultural Awareness.”6 He did find that engineering majors reported the highest growth
. Experimental testing of the mathematical model is anessential component of the learning process, and allows the students to collect data and perform astatistical analysis of their model. At first, the process of making assumptions, writing equations,developing an experimental protocol to test the model, and analyzing the results is daunting. Bythe final independent project, 88% of students felt exploring their own topic was an “excellent”or “good” learning experience and valued presenting their results at a final poster session. Notonly do the freshmen benefit from the course, but the upperclassmen lab managers believe theyhave gained valuable leadership and professional skills, such as providing constructive feedbackand public
capstonedesign course is a single-semester course offered to seniors who have taken courses on design [1]and other required engineering courses that involve background and preparation for writing andpresenting technical content to technical audiences. The students at this stage have not receivedstandardized formal training on effective communication strategies for persuading the public orpeople with non-engineering backgrounds. Engineers communicate in numerous genres, formats, and modes to convey vital information to diverse types of
further evidence of competency. For example, Lauren, a senior studentwho is active in the engineering makerspaces, stated, “Probably one of my greatestachievements, I organized that entire bike lab.” She then goes on to note, “and actually [myprofessor] said, not to me but to my parents, he’s like, ‘yeah, I’ve never seen that bike lab soorganized in my entire time doing this project.’ So that was cool,” In this instance, Lauren is notonly experiencing pride in the quality of her work, but the recognition she received from herprofessor affirmed her understanding of herself as competent.Students compare themselves to peers when ascertaining their competency. Students alsoexpressed that opportunities to demonstrate capabilities to others was an
, professional development, and both peer and facultymentoring [3, 6, 10, 14, 20, 21]. A typical summer bridge is four to six weeks long and takesplace in the summer after high school and preceding the students first fall semester. Students areselected at a certain math SAT range, enter the program as a cohort, and live in a residentialcommunity on campus. Days are filled with math-intensive course work and team orientedprojects. Bridge programs are typically offered at a deeply discounted cost (or none at all) to thestudent’s family. A pseudo college environment is created to prepare the student for the skillsneeded to be successful as a first-year student in engineering or other STEM fields. Uponcompletion of this program, students continue their
able to make the most impact. 5DATA CONSTRUCTION & COLLECTIONWe studied our experiences across one semester as faculty apprentices. At the beginning of thesemester, we decided to write individual weekly reflections and meet monthly via videoconference to co-write joint reflections. In addition, we co-created a list of guiding writingprompts focused on our learning experience and metacognitive reflections.In our monthly meetings, we discussed and reflected on our experiences. These meetingsallowed us to have the unique perspective of a peer who was in the same space. We recordedthese Zoom meetings, which served as a primary data source for our
education, listening,not self-aggrandizing male efforts, and practicing what you preach. Ng, et al. [2] also providesguidance for allies; they note that allies should show empathy, understand their own identity andprivilege, and also highlight listening. It is also important for allies to recognize intersectionality[5]. Anicha, et al. [10] also discuss the importance of acknowledging privilege and power. Theseacknowledgements are especially important for male faculty allies who are more senior or whohave more secure employment positions (e.g., tenured faculty).Success in the academic environment requires balancing multiple demands (teaching, research,and service) and is dependent on peer review. Allies can help ensure that members of an out-group
yearprogram. Faculty from multiple disciplinary backgrounds stressed the need for students to beexposed to multiple ways of thinking and making meaning, noting that the benefits of liberaleducation far exceed the writing, presentation, and teamwork skills often considered sufficient toaugment technical content in preparing students to work in industry.The group planned to merge pedagogical approaches traditional to the humanities (seminar) andvisual and performing arts and design disciplines (studio). Each of these approaches would beused to help students integrate knowledge from both technical and liberal education domains.Faculty members’ own experience with these models informed our initial vision of the learningexperience. The initial intention
successful peers (e.g., Refs. 22, 23). These differences have beenassociated with performance on classroom assessments24 and problem solving measures.2 Taken together, this body of research suggests that one way in which an instructor couldimprove students’ problem solving is by helping students to develop a well-organized knowledgebase and showing how this knowledge applies to specific problems. In a later section, wediscuss ways to promote high quality knowledge organization amongst students inthermodynamics.Procedural Knowledge In our theoretical framework, procedural knowledge includes both the skills andstrategies a student knows. Automated skills include knowledge such as how to applyalgorithms and construct diagrams. Strategies
, larger-scale, quantitative scientific studies. Brown4points out that criteria against which to measure success of interventions or guide iterations ineducational DBR should consist of development of traits which the school system is chargedwith teaching, e.g., problem solving, critical thinking, and reflective learning.In this paper, we test the hypothesis that the flexibility and hands-on nature of a roboticsplatform will support different audio, visual, verbal (read/write), and kinesthetic learningstyles,5,6 offering teachers more versatility within lesson plans while effectively teaching STEMconcepts to students. Despite a lack of agreement7 within the education research communityregarding categories or, in some cases, the existence of
ofsenior undergraduate engineering students. Our interpretive analysis of this data outlinedsignificant differences in care-ethical responsibility as viewed through each lens. For example,one group demonstrated little paternalism and considered several key, influencing stakeholdersin their report, while the other group employed a more paternalistic approach and consideredfewer key influencing stakeholders. In the interest of broadening ethical awareness inengineering, the findings and outcomes of this work can be used by educators to inform thedesign of course materials, exercises, and evaluation/grading criteria, such as by adapting theselenses for use in self- and/or peer-assessment. This work can also be used by researchersinterested in care
engineering calculus course taught via synchronous broadcast at a mid-size,Western, public university. The instructional innovation required first year calculus students toparticipate in an asynchronous, online discussion forum for graded credit. Data, consisting ofwritten reflections and transcribed interviews, were gathered from three STEM faculty memberswho each played a different role in the change process: a mathematics instructor implementingthe online forum within his course; an engineering faculty peer-mentor assisting with theimplementation of the online forum; and a STEM education faculty member evaluating theimplementation and observing the process of change. Situated within the interpretive researchparadigm, this study uses exploratory
for undergraduates)in the academic year before the capstone project. This is to obtain buy-in from the appropriatefaculty mentors and allow them to socialize it with their students. This way the team can largelybe in place and know what to expect before the end of the spring semester. This would reducethe 2-4 week “ramp-up” time resulting from different schedules and team assignment practices indifferent engineering programs.It took longer than expected for the students to leave the comfort of their own discipline andinteract in an interdisciplinary way with their peers to develop a thorough understanding of thechallenge at hand and develop conceptual solution alternatives at the system level. We have alsohad challenges in aligning the
statics.21 The organization of knowledge is constructed at the time of learning and can beinfluenced by instruction8 and study behaviors.13 In fact, studies comparing the knowledgeorganization of successful and struggling students in postsecondary classrooms shows that moresuccessful students’ express an organizational structure that more closely resembles that ofexperts than do their less successful peers (e.g., Refs. 22, 23). These differences have beenassociated with performance on classroom assessments24 and problem solving measures.2 Taken together, this body of research suggests that one way in which an instructor couldimprove students’ problem solving is by helping students to develop a well-organized knowledgebase and showing
of their experiences withand reactions to engineering coursework. In particular, differences between experiences ofpersisters and non-persisters in their first two years of study are compared to identify factors thatmay strongly influence non-persisters to switch out of engineering.Prior research on the same data set has found that at the onset of their first year, non-persistersare already less intent on finishing an undergraduate major, and they experience a sharp decreasein intrinsic psychological motivation to continue studying engineering after their first year. Thecurrent work shows that non-persisters do not take significantly less engineering courseworkthan their peers during their first year, and students who ultimately choose non
edition36, and the TechnicalInnovation Center published The Innovation Algorithm: TRIZ, Systematic Innovation and Page 24.1177.8Technical Creativity, 2nd edition2. The guest lectures were provided on innovation, design anddevelopment of a business plan, marketing and selling, and technology entrepreneurship infinance.The course was assessed by means of surveys, individual and team interviews, journals,examinations, performance-based assessment, informal conversations with students and mentors,and email and oral feedback from mentors. The surveys included pre/post student assessment oftheir learning gains (SALG), peer evaluations, student course
generally have for lab coursework. Anotherissue students experience is developing a thorough understanding of what the lab is teaching andretaining that knowledge. Nowhere is this more apparent than in the discipline of manufacturingprocesses and the study of material properties in material science.Material properties lie at the heart of many engineering disciplines, as materials are whatengineers incorporate in their disciplines. The study of material properties can be greatlyaccelerated in engineering courses by integrating a hands-on approach to the creation and testingof laboratory experiments through inquiry-based experiential learning. This approach will beachieved by allowing students to create, design, test, and write their own laboratory
engagedin a workshop hosted by the EERC to develop detailed learning objectives for their courses based onBloom's revised taxonomy [12]. Faculty were informed on how learning objectives were integral to theproject and the importance of writing them to cover the depth of learning for both assessment andindustry use. Faculty were then instructed on Bloom’s revised taxonomy and provided step-by-stepinstructions for writing clear objectives, practice examples, and in-workshop time to revise specific courselearning objectives. The exercise yielded 96 learning objectives across the six topics. Each outcome waslabeled so that SMEs could identify which course it belonged to (e.g., Transport: Split PDEs into two ormore ODEs and solve them via separation of
widespread uptake of this intervention effort with faculty to promoteinstitutional transformation.Despite decades of explicit effort by institutions and faculty to provide Black, Latinx, andIndigenous (BLI) students in STEM with equitable access to educational opportunities andsuccess, considerable gaps in achievement remain [2], [3]. Black and Latinx students have beenshown to have higher interest than their White peers in STEM majors, including in engineering[4]–[6], yet despite this strong interest, they are less likely than their White peers to enroll or persistin the degree path. One factor that has been shown to help lessen this gap in student representationis positive interaction with faculty [7]–[10]. Positive faculty interaction promotes
Invention Bootcamp at Portland State University. Invention Bootcamp is a four-week summer camp designed to expose high school students to the invention process and thereby stimulate their interest in attending college to prepare for a career in STEM and entrepreneurship. The camp serves 25 students that are recruited with help from Oregon MESA, and actively seeks participants from populations traditionally underrepresented in STEM. Eight undergraduate engineering and computer science students are near-peer mentors and technical problem-solvers for the camp participants. © American Society for Engineering Education, 2022 Powered by www.slayte.com
and extracurricular activities wereattributes of the learning community [12]. The instructor role had evolved fromlecturer/evaluator to learning facilitator, professional development leader, career/life advisor, andpartner in life as extracurricular activities grew in diversity to spring break vacations, basketballleagues, and summer picnicking/camping. These deep relationships emerged between peers aslifelong friendships as relationships developed. What started as physical access to campus spacebecame a vibrant community whose members shared the goal of becoming practicing engineers.As can be seen in Figure 2., persistence to a degree was quite high. Through participation in thiscommunity, students learned the importance of inclusion and
engineering education written for a graduate-level NDM class that was taught by thesecond author (Tyler) in Spring of 2020. From a review of 22 peer-reviewed journal articles andconference papers, the student suggests that there is evidence that: 1) practitioners need to teachabout a broader range of NDM, 2) universities need to clearly identify and articulate their role indeveloping NDM theorists versus technicians, 3) universities need to facilitate partnerships inindustry that provide both entities the resources they need to proceed with high-level NDMeducation and methodological-execution, 4) researchers need to find meaningful ways to educateadministrators and faculty about NDM and its benefits in order to support growing NDMprograms, and 5
them as individual assignments, and the last one as acomprehensive group project. Individual projects accounted for 30% of the total course grade,and the group project accounted for 10%. Like labs, projects were submitted online throughWebCAT. 50% of the project grade was based on passing WebCAT testcases, and writing cleancode observing styling standards. The other 50% of the grade was assigned manually by the TAsfor the implementation approach including the degree the approach was flexible, maintainable,and well-documented.After the transition, the group project was changed to be merely a design assignment with nocoding. Students were required to submit a UML (Unified Modeling Language) class diagram ofa COVID-19 real-time data visualization
Professor of Women’sand Gender Studies and Africana Studies at Rutgers University and co-founder of the popularCrunk Feminist Collective. Also planned are a President’s Panel, workshops by the NationalCenter for Faculty Development & Diversity, a Multicultural Career and Graduate School Expo,and a post-conference writing retreat offered by Inkwell Academic Writing Retreats. Weanticipate having up to 500 women enroll in the 2018 event.The FWCA conference has proven to be both professionally useful, as well as personallyenriching insofar as it created a space for women of color to share their common concerns andfind support from one another. Evidence of the remarkable impact of the conference on thewomen attending is apparent in these testimonial
audittrail available in the tools used for these activities—Github/git, Trello, and Slack, respectively. Inaddition to peer evaluations that are done mid-project and end-of-project, the instructor uses thisevidence to make individual positive or negative adjustments to team grades based on anindividual student's contribution. The mid-project peer evaluations are mostly consideredformative and do not affect the student's grade immediately. The instructor provides feedback toeach student individually at that point. After the end-of-project peer evaluation, the instructorwill compute the individual adjustment factor for each student, if needed, and apply it to theentire project grade for the student. Our experience is that after the first peer
of therequired criteria for accreditation of engineering colleges [2]. Micheaelsen et al. [3] argued thatteam-based learning transforms the classroom experience into one that is enjoyable for bothinstructors and students.At the core of this pedagogy is the creation of effective teams to exploit the benefits of peer-to-peer interaction and instruction. Team formation is a complex task that has been extensivelystudied in psychology [4], management [5], and related fields [6]. In these studies, severalcharacteristics including prior knowledge, student’s skills, motivation, competence, homophily[4], diversity, familiarity with other students, personality, and scheduling, have been suggested tosignificantly influence the effectiveness of the team