lifecycle of their career, and provides links to internet sites containing furtherdetails. An analysis is done of possible areas of need not covered adequately by existingresources.Engineering Professional Societies and Engineering Education Related SitesProfessional societies for engineers provide scholarships, fellowships, awards, conferences,competitions, publications, and resources for students, parents, educators and professionalengineers. Table 1 shows a listing of engineering professional societies. The computer scienceand engineering technologies societies are included in this table because the computer scienceand engineering technology programs are often housed in the college of engineering. The tablealso includes architecture, because
theengineering and technology disciplines. This paper provides more than 500 links.IntroductionMany minority students and minority faculty do not take full advantage of the myriad ofprograms designed to promote their participation in engineering and technology disciplinesbecause they may not be aware of these opportunities, nor of how and where to apply.Opportunities range from programs designed to promote student interest in these fields, tosummer enrichment programs, scholarships, fellowships, research opportunities, awards,leadership programs, and career advancement programs. This survey organizes theseopportunities and resources, specially targeting those of particular interest to engineeringstudents and engineering faculty, and provides links to
college administration for 16 years prior to her enrollment at UC serving as Vice President for Student Development at Thomas More College for 10 years. She served for the three years as the Evaluation Coordinator for the STEP project.Kelly Obarski, University of Cincinnati KELLY J. OBARSKI, Doctoral Student in C & I Education/Technology, College of Education, Criminal Justice, and Human Services, UC. Along with teaching undergraduate and graduate education course work, Kelly is currently researching how participation in a NSF Fellowship affects undergraduate and graduate Fellows career choices once they leave the project. She serves as the Grant Coordinator for Project STEP.Anant
(simulated by breathing through a tube) ontidal volume and frequency of breathing empirically, and effects of exercise on the respiratorysystem. A&P modules discuss the mechanics of breathing, regulation of respiration, and furtherexamine the concepts of negative pressure in relation to respiration, pressure gradients and gasexchange in the lungs. B. Technical Elective: Principles of Biomedical Systems and Devices A new technical elective, taught during the senior year, has been developed for students whofind the BME topics interesting and stimulating, and therefore wish to consider a career orgraduate work in BME. All students will already have obtained some prior BME background andmotivation by their senior year, and therefore this
of Previous Experience and Attitudes on Capstone Project AchievementAbstractThis research was undertaken to see if there are any prior experiences or attitudes that studentsbring into the senior Capstone course that correlate with group Capstone project success. Avariety of assessment techniques were used to obtain both quantitative measurements andqualitative indicators in an attempt to find common factors students have coming in to the coursesequence that affect how well the projects succeed. There were several self-assessments by thestudents themselves, including pre-course survey of satisfaction with their achievement of andthe importance to their career of all ABET-ETAC Criterion 3 Student Outcomes, a
number of students who take higher level mathematics courses and pursue careers in mathematics and the sciences.Mrs. Shawn Raquel Watlington, North Carolina A&T State University Shawn Raquel Watlington is Director of K-20 Engagement & Professional Development within the NC A&T Office of University Outreach, where she is responsible for developing and implementing K-12 youth, teacher professional development, and parent/community events.Ms. Terrie Ruth McManus, Ragsdale High School, Guilford County Schools Terrie Ruth McManus is an earth/environmental science teacher at Ragsdale High School in Jamestown, N.C. Prior to moving to the Greensboro area, she was a lab instructor at NC State University where she
Paper ID #7257Mapping Rural Students’ STEM Involvement: Case Studies of Chemical En-gineering Undergraduate Enrollment in the States of Illinois and KansasMr. Joel J. Versypt, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Joel J. Versypt is a recent graduate of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign with a master’s degree in Higher Education Administration and Leadership. He also holds bachelor’s degrees in Psychol- ogy and Biblical Studies from Judson University. At the University of Illinois, Joel taught two courses, Introduction to Psychology and Career Theory & Practice, and worked in university housing. His
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
) inengineering,6 and exposure in the junior and senior years influences the career choices ofstudents away from non-engineering paths, back to careers in engineering.7 In the present effort, we’re building upon the CDIO approach to engineering education, anddeveloping educational approaches ane tools to the education of the aerospace engineers.Specifically, we’re developing modularized curricular materials around aeronautics PjBL. Ourultimate target audience is the students in undergraduate aerospace and related programsthroughout the country. The more immediate audience is the instructors and planner inaeronautics programs in and closely related fields.Pedagogic Foundation
Page 24.1102.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2014 STEM High School: Does multiple years of high school engineering impact student choices and teacher instruction? (Research to Practice) Strand: K-12 Engineering Resources: Best Practices in Curriculum DesignK-12 engineering programs are rapidly increasing around the nation, particularly at the highschool level. Integrating opportunities for high school students to repeatedly practice engineeringskills has been suggested to increase students’ interest in pursuing a career in engineering.However, little research exists to show the real impacts on the students’ attitudes towardsengineering and where they end up after high school
nonbinary students, ultimately contributing to their success in STEM fields.Project BackgroundLarger StudyIn summer of 2022, a team of six nonbinary graduate students and early career faculty, with thesupport of two engineering education faculty, conducted a qualitative study on nonbinary STEMindividuals’ social capital. Participants were recruited from a variety of online STEMcommunities such as LGBTQ+ focused social media websites (e.g., Ace in Stem Discord, 500+Queer Scientists Twitter’s page and Pride in STEM Twitter’s page), small and large professionalLGBTQ+ STEM societies (e.g., International Society of Nonbinary Scientists Twitter and Slack,oSTEM global Discord, Trans and Gender Nonconforming Fieldwork Alliance) and emailcommunities (e.g
Educa. Currently, I am developing a blended learning strategy to bring high-quality STEM education to remote and rural communities. This initiative aims to spark students’ interest in STEM subjects and careers, fostering local talent and opportunities. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2025 From Pilot to Practice: Expanding Remote STEM Education Across Remote Communities (Evaluation)AbstractFollowing the success of an initial pilot project aimed at addressing educational inequities in ruralareas through a blended remote learning approach, this paper presents the outcomes of its secondand expanded implementation across 11 remote schools in Latin America
promotion. The tenure andpromotion process in academia is complex and challenging, particularly for Black women, whoface unique structural and institutional barriers throughout the process related to race, gender,and intersectionality [1]-[3]. Throughout this journey, many Black women experiencemicroaggressions from faculty and students, invalidation of their research, and a devaluation oftheir service contributions. Thus, coaching has evolved into a proactive tool for career andleadership development and has gained momentum in both institutional settings, such asAAC&U’s Project Kaleidoscope’s STEM Leadership Institute and Office of UndergraduateSTEM Education’s Center for the Advancement of STEM Leaders. Coaching is designed toempower and
student mentors, starting with the 2024 summer cohort.1.2 Near-Peer Mentorship Between Undergraduate Students and K-12 StudentsMentorship experiences are known to play a crucial role in the professional development of STEMstudents, especially those from under-resourced school districts [25]. Effective mentorship canhelp keep such students in STEM, which can strengthen and diversify the future STEM workforce.Mentoring is often hierarchical [26], but may take different forms. Peer or near-peer mentorshipcan be defined as “mentoring relationships formed between individuals who are at approximatelythe same stage of career development” [25]. Mentors and mentees with shared identities andperspectives may find peer or near-peer mentoring particularly
content (e.g. economics, ethics) and skills (e.g. writing, oral presentations) that are usefuland necessary for both personal and professional development. However, students can often seethese courses as not useful or unrelated to their future careers. In this study, a first semestercourse in Civil Engineering was designed and delivered to make deliberate and clear theconnections between the general education portion of the curriculum and students’ future careersas civil engineers. An existing instrument was adapted to measure student aptitudes towardsdifferent skills and knowledge typically presented in general education courses and given to thestudent pre and post instruction, revealing statistically meaningful increases in the
’ perspectives on nature, particularly the incorporationof biology into engineering courses, which are often taught as electives. The insights,experiences, and beliefs they hold about this integration play a crucial role in shaping theircourse selection and career choices, ultimately influencing the future of innovation in both fields.Background & Literature ReviewStudents’ Perceptions of NatureStudents' perceptions of learning, encompassing their views on the process of acquiringknowledge, their self-assessed abilities, and the significance of education, can impact theirmotivation, engagement, and overall academic success [15-17]. A variety of factors, such aspersonal experiences, social dynamics, educational settings, and cultural norms, influence
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