Paper ID #38303US Engineering Employment During the COVID-19PandemicHolden Diethorn Holden Diethorn is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) with research interests in labor economics and the economics of science and innovation. He earned his Ph.D. in Economics from SUNY Albany in 2020. His current work focuses on topics related to the STEM workforce including analyses of the returns to postdoctoral training, the impact of immigration policy on the career paths of foreign-born STEM doctorates, and the effect of the COVID-19 pandemic on the STEM labor market.James Creese Davis
Grant Funding and Mentoring OpportunitiesAbstractThe National Science Foundation Advanced Technological Education (NSF-ATE) program hasgrant funding opportunities available to support CTE and STEM technician programdevelopment. NSF-ATE grant funding opportunities are intended to help educators develop orimprove their 2-year technician programs. Proposals may focus on program, curriculum, andeducational materials development, program improvement, faculty professional development,teacher preparation, career pathways, outreach activities, undergraduate research experiences,internships, apprenticeships, and more. Partnerships with universities, colleges, and 7-12institutions in support of workforce development are encouraged. Industry partnerships
Paper ID #36915Developing an Integrated Environmental EngineeringCurriculumCraig R Woolard (Professor and Head)Catherine M Kirkland Assistant Professor, Environmental Engineering Montana State University Center for Biofilm Engineering (CBE) Energy Research Institute (ERI) Montana Engineering Education Research Center (MEERC)Kathryn Plymesser (Assistant Professor) Dr. Plymesser hold a B.S. (Case Western Reserve University ’01) and Ph.D. (MSU ’14) degrees in Civil Engineering. She began her academic career at Montana State University – Billings with a teaching and research tenure-track appointment. Dr. Plymesser
approach.Project-based learning is a student-centered approach that uses a constructivist method of teachingwhere the students are actively involved in the learning process [5].The study detailed in this paper is part of a larger, ongoing study. The goal of this larger study isto determine if project-based learning influences a student’s engineering self-efficacy. Self-efficacy is defined as a person’s perceived ability to perform a task [6]. The researcher’sexpectation is that a more hands-on experience through project-based learning will lead to animproved self-efficacy among the students which will better prepare them for a career aftergraduation. Studies have shown that improved self-efficacy can influence a person’s performance,intrinsic interest
future computer engineering curricula. Such curricula should meet the standards oftoday yet look forward to adapting to the guidelines of tomorrow, which are embodied by theIEEE/ACM Computing Curricula 2020 Paradigms for Global Computing Education.IntroductionAt our institution, like many others worldwide, it has been over a decade since we havereimagined and redesigned our engineering curricula. Since then, we have ensured andconfirmed compliance with accreditation agencies [1], perfected the delivery of courses, andassessed learning outcomes to ensure that our graduates can be successful in all the differentstages of their careers. The problem is that in the last ten years, the careers that await ourgraduates have changed fundamentally such
learning (PBL) can effectively foster their capability to deal with open-endedtechnical problems in their future careers. Additionally, the interactive nature of such methodscan facilitate knowledge retention of emerging and effective sustainability concepts. This studyhighlights how the PBL technique can develop soft skills during sustainability education toArchitecture, Engineering, and Construction (AEC) students at a minority-serving institution asan effort to promote professional skills of underrepresented groups, i.e., women of color,Latinos/Hispanics in a classroom. This study designed and implemented a PBL activity in across-listed Sustainable Approach to Construction course which introduced the students to: (1)sustainable infrastructure
curriculum development team to create innovative programs that address the needs of students and teachers in the K-12 community. Current projects include the NSF funded BIRDEE (Biologically Inspired Design for Engineering Education) curriculum, STEM-ID, and K-12 InVenture Prize. Prior to joining Georgia Tech, she had a successful career in marketing communications for Delta Air Lines, and has spent the past 14 years as an educator. Varnedoe graduated with a B.S. from Florida State University, an MBA from Stetson University, and an Ed. S. from Kennesaw State University in Instructional Technology.Michael Helms (Dr.) Dr. Michael Helms is a Senior Research Scientist at the Georgia Institute of Technology, where he is also Co
available atuniversities with EAC-ABET accredited programs (Table 3). Student-led group tutoring wasonly identified at two schools, but this was the most challenging category to identify online.Many of these resources may be on university-specific websites and apps or advertised in person.High School Graduation StandardsThe current Virginia Department of Education standards specify two high school graduationdiplomas typical for career and college readiness.5 The Standard diploma requires the completionof three math courses, where at least two are specified among a listing of approved coursesshown in Table 4. In this table and discussion a math credit is equivalent to one academic year ofmath instruction (two semesters). An Advanced Studies diploma
after struggling in asingle course or exam, believing that they would continue to struggle in future courses and not perform atthe levels required (Seymour & Hunter, 2019). These students often still met the requirements for theirprograms but felt as though they did not belong in their STEM program due to their beliefs about their 4abilities (Seymour & Hunter, 2019). In a report by Cabell (2021), it was shown that students with a highercareer search self-efficacy were more likely to persist in an engineering major. This report illustrates thatif a student has a lower career search self-efficacy, they may believe that they are being excluded fromengineering because they do not fit the
new research, policy, and/or interventionare needed.A planning committee composed of scholars and practitioners who do work in therespective research areas is appointed by the ARC Network PIs and is responsible fordeveloping a workshop agenda, identifying relevant background materials, andcurating a list of potential invitees. Members of the workshop planning committeenominate scholars working in the respective area who represent a diverse array ofdisciplines, research specialties, institution types, career stages, and socialdemographic backgrounds. Each workshop has between 20-30 attendees. During theinitial planning and throughout the workshop, we use an intersectional gender equityframework and build space such that multiple perspectives
doctoral student working as an administrator within the areasof Graduate Education and Admissions. Dr. Alexandra Coso Strong is an assistant professor ofengineering education who works and teaches at the intersection of engineering education,faculty development, and complex systems design.Study Process In the first phase of the study, the first two authors conducted an analysis of each other’sexperiences regarding the evolution of their professional and personal goals as they transitionedinto a doctoral program through deliberations of their statement of purposes. Each researcherread the others’ statement of purpose to isolate key areas that influenced their professional goalsfor pursuing a doctoral career. In a recorded collective
asked questions like why they arepursuing engineering as a career and how their current educational trajectory or pathway is goingto prepare them to become working engineers within the profession. The faculty and staff thenexplain why this unique program exists and how it accelerates a pathway to thrive as a workingengineer in industry. This sets the stage for participants to begin looking for ways that their goalsalign with the values of the program throughout the rest of the event.Food and games are also great examples of how this social event allows participants to networkwith faculty, staff, current students, and other participants from around the country. Local smallbusinesses provide catering for most of the events while the faculty and
receive mentoring assistance from many people at any one point in time, includingsenior colleagues, peers, family, and community members [7]. The developmental networkperspective mentor model identifies two key dimensions in its typology: (1) the diversity ofindividuals' developmental networks and (2) the strength of the developmental relationships thatmake up these networks. The two major types of support within these dimensions include: (1)career support, such as exposure and visibility, sponsorship, and protection, and (2) psychosocialsupport, such as friendship, counseling, acceptance, and confirmation, and sharing beyond work[7].Multifaceted university mentor programs have been successfully created at the university facultylevel to improve
. D. Jones et al, "An analysis of motivation constructs with first‐year engineering students:Relationships among expectancies, values, achievement, and career plans," J Eng Educ, vol. 99,(4), pp. 319-336, 2010.[2] V. G. Renumol, D. Janakiram and S. Jayaprakash, "Identification of cognitive processes ofeffective and ineffective students during computer programming," ACM Transactions onComputing Education (TOCE), vol. 10, (3), pp. 1-21, 2010.[3] S. Bergin and R. Reilly, "Predicting introductory programming performance: A multi-institutional multivariate study," Computer Science Education, vol. 16, (4), pp. 303-323, 2006.[4] M. Thuné and A. Eckerdal, "Analysis of Students’ learning of computer programming in acomputer laboratory context," Null
school, lack of encouragement andreticence about asking faculty for letters of reference or research opportunities. Women studentswho applied to graduate school were more likely to be motivated by intrinsic factors (e.g., loveof learning, interest in their field) than male students, who were more motivated by furtheringtheir careers. The authors noted that personal outreach and encouragement to apply to graduateschool were more important influences on women’s decision making than men.Once they transition into graduate education, women contend with experiences of sexism, genderstereotyping, delegitimization, and isolation [9]. To mitigate these challenges, women often haveto depend on their own resilience and capacity to cope with these
the Politecnico di Milano (2013), a MSc in Building Management and a BSc in Architecture from the same institution. He is also an alumnus of the Collegio di Milano, a residential interdisciplinary honours programme with a competitive admission process and extracurricular activities. Whilst completing his PhD, Dr. Martani was appointed MIT-Italy fellow at the Senseable City Laboratory of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT|SCL) and became a visiting researcher at the Virtual Development and Training Centre (VDTC) of the Fraunhofer Institute (IFF). In the course of his academic career, Dr. Martani has worked in the areas of future-oriented design optimization, risk and resilience analysis, uncertainty
UTA model. He is an active member of Gulf States Math Alliance and serves on its board of directors and co-organized the annual Gulf States Math Alliance conference in 2017-2020. Currently he is the PI on an NSF Math bridge to doctorate program at UTA. He also serves as a PI on a large UTA USDA-HSI collaboration project on smart agriculture data and mentoring students to research in data science and to pursue agricultural related career. His information can be found in https://www.uta.edu/academics/faculty/profile?username=su ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2023 The S-STEM program for mathematics majors at the University of Texas at
/ ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2023Preliminary Reflections and Assessment of the 2022Chemical Engineering Summer SchoolAbstractThe ASEE/AIChE Chemical Engineering Summer School (ChESS) is a week-long, roughlyquinquennial over the past nearly 100 years, faculty development event bringing togetherearly-career and seasoned faculty for workshops and community building [1]. The most recentChESS took place July 25-29, 2022 at the Colorado School of Mines in Golden, CO, witharound 160 participants and 80 presenters. The two core outcomes for the Summer School are1) to build the Chemical Engineering education community and 2) to provide useful knowledgeand tools for teaching, scholarship, and service for those early in their careers.A typical
, participants also mention interviewing skills and career preparation. Two examplesfrom participants follow: ... for interviews, for thinking about my resume, for thinking about how I talk about my experience, the things that we learned in EML have been super helpful. [It was also helpful to learn] what to expect in terms of an industry career. (ABET 7) … the [SMART goal] tool has been very helpful ... if you're talking about something in an interview. I know I've used that. (ABET 7)Discussion This qualitative study explores how undergraduate students apply what they learn in theEML course in curricular and non-curricular ways. This study demonstrates an effective way tohelp achieve many ABET student outcomes
]. Metacognitive and self-regulation strategies can help students be moreeffective learners. The affective element of learning refers to student attitudes and mindsets thatcan influence their thinking and behaviors, ultimately impacting their learning and academicperformance.Learning and persistence in higher education, and engineering education specifically, areinfluenced by many internal and external factors [5], [6], [7]. For example, Geisinger and Raman[7] identify six factors driving students to leave engineering: classroom and academic climate,grades and conceptual understanding, self-efficacy and self-confidence, high school preparation,interest and career goals, and race and gender. The first three items are fundamental to theclassroom experience
traditionally marginalized engineering students from an asset-based perspective. Homero’s goal is to develop engineering education practices that value the capital that tra- ditionally marginalized students, bring into the field, and to train graduate students and faculty members with the tool to promote effective and inclusive learning environments and mentorship practices. Homero has been recognized as a Diggs Teaching Scholar, a Graduate Academy for Teaching Excellence Fellow, a Global Perspectives Fellow, a Diversity Scholar, a Fulbright Scholar, a recipient of the NSF CAREER award, and was inducted into the Bouchet Honor Society. Homero serves as the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) Chair for the
. This major would have students take an Introduction to Engineering Design class,Statics, Materials, complete an external project, and do a one-semester capstone. Thisengineering curriculum would be supported by math, physics and chemistry courses, includingelectronics and thermodynamics through the physics department. The initial engineering sciencedegree was not meant to be an ABET-accredited degree but a pathway for students interested inengineering to gain engineering training while integrating other interests such as business,environmental science, and data science. This degree was intended to provide strong preparationfor careers in areas such as entrepreneurship, project management, architecture/design,government technology policy
sustainability. The Civil Engineering Technology program at Rochester Instituteof Technology is well poised to incorporate curricular changes that incorporate sustainability andinnovation. This project focused on introducing students in the Civil Engineering TechnologyProgram to sustainability concepts using the EOP framework. Curricular adaptations wereimplemented for two courses: Introduction to Civil Engineering and Structural Steel Design,both in the Civil Engineering Technology Program reaching 102 students. The two pilot coursesserved as examples to incorporate sustainability concepts into other technical courses within theprogram to ensure the students are well-grounded and prepared to be sustainability change agentsin their future careers in the
Paper ID #38076Data Acquisition for Collegiate Hybrid and Solid Rocketry -An Undergraduate Research ExperienceSanjay Jayaram (Associate Professor)Hunter Michael PritzlaffAndrew Stack Andrew Stack is a junior at Saint Louis University studying mechical engineering. He is involved in FSAE and is looking forward to starting a career in the aerospace industy. Currently an intern at Boeing in St. Louis as a tooling engineering working on a variety of military aircrafts. © American Society for Engineering Education, 2022 Powered by www.slayte.com
, inclusive, and supportive academy.The main features of this NRT – the main goal of which is to generate an innovative model forSTEM graduate student training by identifying and implementing the most effective tools for thetraining of STEM professionals – have been described in a previous publication [1]. A morerecent manuscript has described the first three interventions within this NRT, namely, anonboarding and orientation event, a career exploration symposium, and a multidisciplinaryintroductory course, along with the assessment and outcomes of each of these interventions [2].In this and future contributions, we intend to continue showcasing data from the NRT, focusingon the evaluation of its constituent parts. Against this backdrop, this
inkindergarten and elementary school to pursue a career in the STEM fields by exposing them tosimple, age-appropriate engineering projects such as building a jet-toy cart and designing andtesting a skimmer. Since its conception in 2019, this program has served about 150 to 200 girlsfrom Kindergarten through 4th grade in the Franklin, Indiana school district. This work-in-progresspaper will describe in detail the specific objectives of the AWIM program, the curriculumdevelopment strategy, and outlines our future plans to assess the effectiveness of the pedagogiesemployed in achieving the program outcome of encouraging young women to continue developingtheir science and engineering skills and eventually gravitate towards STEM careers
of belonging in science, instructor access, collaboration importance, and a better understanding ofthe research process. They also felt that it was very enjoyable and personal, hands-on, and keeping clarityon career-related paths.UC, Davis despite their limitations, through these courses was able to provide authentic researchexperiences to around 300 students who otherwise would have not engaged in research. These students byand large also represented the rich diversity of the undergraduate student body at UC Davis. Thus, even atthis relatively small scale, the implementation of CUREs in the First Year Seminar Program hascontributed to UC Davis’s goal of providing all interested students with research opportunities.Furthermore, the initial
participation in higher education, and the educational attainment and schooling experiences of Mexican descent youth in the mid-20th century.Dr. Valerie Martin Conley, University of Colorado at Colorado Springs Valerie Martin Conley is dean of the College of Education and professor of Leadership, Research, and Foundations at the University of Colorado Colorado Springs. She previously served as director of the Center for Higher Education, professor, and department chair at Ohio University. She was the PI for the NSF funded research project: Academic Career Success in Science and Engineering-Related Fields for Female Faculty at Public Two-Year Institutions. She is co-author of The Faculty Factor: Reassessing the American
2013 to August 2018. He earned BS degrees in Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mathematics from the University of Pittsburgh, and Masters degrees in Mechanical Engineering and Learning Sciences (School of Education and Social Pol- icy) and a Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from Northwestern. His research interests include charac- terization of multifunctional nano-reinforced polymer systems, multiscale modeling of nanocomposites and materials, vibration energy harvesting/scavenging, and engineering pedagogy and instructional tech- nologies. Awards that he has received include the NSF CAREER award, the 2016 Alexander Crombie Humphreys Distinguished Teaching Associate Professor award (Stevens), the 2014 Distinguished
Paper ID #33068Remote Versus In-Class Active Learning Exercises for an UndergraduateCourse in Fluid MechanicsMr. John Michael Cotter, University of South Florida John M. Cotter is a Philosophical Doctorate candidate at the University of South Florida. He began his career by attaining a Bachelor of Science in Civil Engineering from the University of Central Florida. He continued his career through employment as an engineer at Freeport-McMoRan, a copper mining com- pany. Through his employment at Freeport, he attained roles of gradually increasing importance, starting as Mechanical Engineering Intern and finishing as a