threat; [8]), and lowering their aspirations for careers in STEM fields [9], [10].Even more troubling is that academically qualified high school girls rarely choose STEM-relatedmajors in college. Further, women who choose STEM majors are almost twice as likely as mento leave that major due to an unwelcoming culture or lack of engaging introductory courses [11].While it appears that some sex- and racially-based barriers have been removed as students movefrom secondary school through the university, the shortage of women and minorities in STEMcareers remains relatively intractable.There is a growing body of evidence that hidden biases in the workplace contribute to theleakage of women and minorities from STEM-related industries [2]. A report by
evidenced by marked improvements in communities such as clean water,safe access via bridges, and sustainable energy systems, but also by the high level of commitmentfrom the students and professionals involved. Of the approximately 340 alumni from theengineering college at Lipscomb, at least 155 participated in a HEP through the program duringtheir college career. Many of these students have continued their participation in the projects asalumni serving as team leaders or technical professionals. Unlike other universities where facultyare not supported or motivated to participate in service-learning [15], Lipscomb encourages facultyparticipation and considers it as a valuable part of faculty development. With over 16 years ofcompleted work, this
drawingsmainly focuses on critical thinking and developing creative solutions (problem-solving,writing, visual arts, communication skills, and open-mindedness) to problems.One goal is to first introduce students to different areas of engineering and how each of theseareas is connected to different applications of advanced manufacturing, to help students shapetheir career and select a discipline program that best suits their goals.This article aims to discuss the virtual teaching experience from the perspective of studentsand teachers. We will discuss the virtual activities carried out during this summer camp. Aswell as the modifications made to this course to make it more suitable for online teaching.Virtual teaching was an opportunity to share
) scholars program, and for WiSE (Women in Science and Engineer- ing). As a Research Assistant, she is gaining valuable experience working with the School of Education at ISU, and with Iowa 4-H at ISU Extension and Outreach for STEM youth programming. Prior to her academic career, she served in the U.S. Navy.Dr. Mani Mina, Iowa State University of Science and Technology Mani Mina is with the department of Industrial Design and Electrical and Computer Engineering at Iowa State University. He has been working on better understanding of students’ learning and aspects of tech- nological and engineering philosophy and literacy. In particular how such literacy and competency are reflected in curricular and student activities
[2] referenced because many states have adoptedthem to provide guidance on what should be covered in each grade level.Geographic Location:The aspects of the educational process differ based on geographical location and socioeconomicstatus of the occupants in that region. Students from highly populated areas have moreopportunities in the educational system to explore in-depth access to STEM versus students frommore rural areas. This is related to the availability of qualified staff and resources in the ruralschool system. Socioeconomic status has an influence on how students pursue STEM.While the opportunities for students in lower socioeconomic areas are less, they are more likelyto pursue higher education and careers in STEM fields. [3] The
that created Cyber2yr2020, curriculum guidelines for two-year cybersecurity programs.Dr. David Gibson, United States Air Force Academy David Gibson is Professor Emeritus of Computer and Cyber Science at the United States Air Force Academy. During his 34-year career in the U.S. Air Force, he worked in electronic warfare, computer security, space systems, intelligence, and cyber operations. Prior to retiring, he served as Professor and Head of the Department of Computer Science at the Air Force Academy where he led development of the Academy’s cyber education, training, and research programs. He was a member of the ACM’s Joint Task- force on Cybersecurity Education. Since 2000, he has volunteered as an ABET program
Paper ID #34794The Role of All-Female STEM Spaces in Encouraging High School Girls toPursue STEM (Fundamental, Diversity)Dr. Mariel Kolker, Morris School District Dr. Mariel Kolker is a second-career teacher of high school physics, engineering and nanoscience. She earned her B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Rutgers University, and her MBA in Finance from Ford- ham’s Gabelli Graduate School of Business, and worked for a decade in the Power Generation, Trans- mission & Distribution Industry before entering teaching in 2000. She earned her Ed.D. in Educational Leadership in STEM from UMass Lowell. Her interests are in
practiceand application with weekly faculty cohort meetings, coaching, and reflection.Introduction and BackgroundThe importance of undergraduate research is well understood, as it increases student self-efficacy, introduces new career opportunities, and encourages persistence to degreecompletion [1, 2]. The merits of multi-year research experiences and the influence of mentorsare also well-documented [3, 4]. The benefit of research experiences for undergraduates(REUs) is so significant that the National Science Foundation (NSF) supports multipleannual summer REUs through annual grants. Students have the opportunities to apply toREUs nationwide and, if selected, have the opportunity to travel to another campus, workwith a faculty researcher, and learn
Paper ID #33165Implementing a Virtual Surveying LabDr. John Tingerthal P.E., Northern Arizona University John Tingerthal joined the Construction Management faculty at Northern Arizona University in 2007 and was appointed as a Distinguished Teaching Fellow in 2015. His engineering career spans a variety of design and forensic engineering experiences. He spent the first eight years of his career performing structural consulting engineering in Chicago. He earned his Doctorate in Education and is currently the Associate Chair of the Civil Engineering, Construction Management and Environmental Engineering Department. His
Paper ID #34434Improving Programming Content Delivery in an Introductory BiomechanicsCourse Using a Blended Classroom ApproachMr. Jeffery Ethan Joll II, Vanderbilt University Ethan is in the final year of his Ph.D. in Biomedical Engineering at Vanderbilt University where he works under Dave Merryman. His laboratory work investigates the mechanobiological underpinnings of cal- cific aortic valve disease and post-menopausal osteoporosis. His education research focuses on blended learning strategies to improve content delivery in undergraduate biomedical engineering courses. He is investigating careers in educational research
, biology, and engineering. For the past three years, Melissa has been a content specialist for CTE where her role is to support and advocate for all CTE teachers across the Tempe Union High School District and teaching engineering part-time. Melissa’s undying passion and love of science, technology, and mathematics are what drives her in her teaching career. Melissa has a bachelor’s of science education from New Mexico State University and a Master’s in Education from the Teachers in Industry program at the University of Arizona. During her Master’s degree program she discovered her passion in education by becoming apart of Career and Technical Education. She started the engineering program at Mountain Pointe High
Foundation CAREER award and the NIH New innovator award.Prof. Pinshane Y. Huang, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Pinshane Y. Huang is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. She holds a Ph.D. in Applied and Engineering Physics from Cornell University, as well as a B.A. in Physics from Carleton College.Prof. Andre Schleife, University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign Andr´e Schleife is a Blue Waters Assistant Professor in the Department of Materials Science and Engineer- ing at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He obtained his Diploma and Ph.D. at Friedrich- Schiller-University in Jena, Germany for his theoretical
learning.Keywords: NSSE, high impact educational practices, engagement IntroductionResearch shows that engineering majors lose talented, capable individuals to other non-engineering majors and careers [3]. Despite ongoing efforts to improve science, technology,engineering, and mathematics (STEM) undergraduate persistence and success, the attrition ratesamong women and students in underrepresented minority groups have increased over the pastdecade. A recent report suggests that nearly half of college students starting in STEM majors leavethe STEM field before the fourth year of their degree program [13]. Over the years, researchershave developed innovative ways to increase engagement among engineering students
not see the relevance of such coursework in advancing their studiesand careers. Students generate coursework motivation when they see the relevance to their careers.Coursework overload could have a negative effect on academic success, especially among first-year students, because they might develop overwhelming feelings. Also, faculty must be aware ofthe diverse background of E/CS students, which means that some students are less equipped tohandle overloaded coursework than others.Academic achievement is also a marker for persistence, admission, and further studies in agraduate school in an engineering major. Academic achievement is powered by a students'deliberate practice, willpower, interest, love of learning [11]. Over the recent years
. C. Flanagan, “The Critical Incident Technique,” Psychol. Bull., EDP careers poems. Phase 2 will uncover the experiences and contexts critical to Figure 3: Data analysis sequence with purpose of each phase vol. 51, no. 4, 1954. the development of engineering teacher professional identities forFigure 1: Superstar elementary teacher of engineering superstar teachers using the fourth step of the critical
Paper ID #32668Quality Improvement Using a Stage Gate Approach in EngineeringProgrammes and CoursesDr. Calvin Sophistus King, MCET Heads Outcome Based Education division of the college. Is responsible for implementation and review of outcome based approach in programmes offered. Teaches engineering at the first degree level.Dr. Venugopalan Kovaichelvan, TVS Institute for Quality and Leadership Dr. V. KOVAICHELVAN is the Director of TVS Institute for Quality and Leadership, the Corporate University of TVS Motor Company Limited, India. The Institute focus on holistic development of talent through career lifecycle with focus
: emotional and psychological support; directassistance with career and professional development; and role modeling. In academic support forSTEM majors, peer mentoring has often referred to upper-year students serving as academicsocial role models for lower-year students. For the purpose of this study “peer mentoring” andsubsequently “peer mentor(s)” will refer to year 2-6 students who lead first-year students in pre-college engineering camps, serve as Supplemental Instructors in historically challenging coursesin engineering, conduct community outreach events, and assist first-year students withscheduling their courses [6]. Crisp and Cruz [7], and Kiyama and Luca [8] contend that there is a gap in the literatureon the experience of mentors
research is related to engineering education and modeling, designing, building, instrumenting and testing complex systems ranging from spacecraft to electric vehicles.Caroline Benish American c Society for Engineering Education, 2021 Assessing the Value and Implementation of Interdisciplinary Activities in Academic Makerspaces and Machine ShopsIntroductionThis paper first investigates the value that engineering companies place on (1) interdisciplinaryexperiences and (2) hands-on skills learned in university makerspaces and machine shops. Asurvey was completed by 259 company representatives at the University of Wisconsin College ofEngineering (UW CoE) career
me.One of the returners referred to his experiences making him more confident, and extrapolatedthat beyond his coursework and into his future possible career trajectory, stating that I actually feel confident that if I got sent to China and someone would translate the code for me I could make sense of it, you know, or Europe, so I like the fact that those courses marry the theory, which I appreciate, with the practical knowledge, which makes you a better engineer, a more intellectual, intelligent engineer. It makes you more versatile. It makes you understand where everything comes from, that's the whole point.Decreases in ConfidenceWhile the majority of those who mentioned confidence reported that theirs had been
. Respondents (N=16) estimatedthat they had used these curriculum materials with over 3,600 students across grades 5-12.Evaluation results indicate that 93% of RET teachers who authored and used the units “agreed”or “strongly agreed” on a five-point Likert scale that: their students were very interested in thecurriculum activities; that the curriculum increased their students’ awareness of neuralengineering careers; and that the curriculum was a useful teaching resource that used engaging,real life contexts and had strong ties to neural engineering concepts.Acknowledgements: The RET program was conducted at the Center for Neurotechnology. It was supported byAward Number EEC-1028725 from the National Science Foundation (NSF). Supplementary funding
or beyond theircollege careers. TABLE VI PRACTICE PROBLEMS QUOTES (MATRIX LOWER HEMISPHERE) Pseudonym Quote Momo “I’d like it if I had more choice into the projects I want to work on… but it is important to give students the option of choice to a certain limit - it might be unfair to students if it was totally open” Azula “I really like what Solar Car does - giving students free reign to work on the problem… but in classes, initially I wouldn’t want to get a very broad problem and figure it out, especially in intro courses.” Haru “So far we’ve just been doing the
(Chabalengulaet al., 2017). The grouping of engineering as part of STEM has essentially left the decision to teachengineering topics in pre-college setting up to science or technology teachers (Honey et al., 2014;NGSS Lead States, 2013).If engineering is offered as its own course, it is typically included under the Career and TechnicalEducation (CTE) electives (Lewis & Zuga, 2005). This option then leads to other challenges ofmeeting state CTE standards that tend to emphasize technology learning. The decision to lumpengineering in with these other disciplines is also closely tied to the difficulties associated withfinding teachers trained in engineering content areas. The majority of currently available pre-service teacher education does not cover
pole representing programs emphasizing systems thinking and low fidelity modeling, interaction competencies , and leadership competencies and (B) the opposite pole representing programs emphasizing an in-depth treatment of numerical analysis, and subfields such as reliability engineering, and requirements engineering. A key takeaway from the paper is our program is designed to intellectually stretch our students consistently by requiring coursework in some area the student has not been in before. We believe that our curricular design will develop students who are more nibble, less averse to ambiguity, and with a leaning to remaining a life long learner over their careers. This is an unproven
concise definition of “critical thinking” (CT): the objective analysisand evaluation of an issue in order to form a judgement. Wikipedia defines CT as the analysis offacts to form a judgment; the rational, skeptical, unbiased analysis, or evaluation of factualevidence. Everyone agrees that critical thinking is a desirable trait. However, it is difficult toexplain exactly what it is, and even more difficult to teach it. The Indeed Career Guide [7]includes the following five common and impactful critical thinking skills in its top list:observation; analysis; inference; communication; and problem solving. Jessop [8] gives a verycomprehensive definition of CT: “Critical thinking is the intellectually disciplined process ofactively and skillfully
Education at Tufts University. Her research efforts at at the Center for Engineering Education and Out- reach focus on supporting discourse and design practices during K-12, teacher education, and college- level engineering learning experiences, and increasing access to engineering in the elementary school ex- perience, especially in under-resourced schools. In 2016 she was a recipient of the U.S. Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE). https://engineering.tufts.edu/me/people/faculty/kristen- bethke-wendellDr. Chelsea Andrews, Tufts University Chelsea Andrews is a post-doctoral researcher at Tufts University and University of Massachusetts-Boston in STEM education. She received a B.S. from
Electrical Engineering from Howard University and a M.S. in Electrical Engineering from Cornell University. He is currently serving as professor and Interim Dean for the Clarence Mitchell Jr. School of Engineering. Morgan State University at one of the na- tion’s preeminent public urban research institutions in the Clarence Mitchell Jr. School of Engineering at Morgan State University, Baltimore, Maryland. His career spans over twenty-eight years of progressive scholarly experience in such areas as research administration/ implementation, pedagogical innovation, international collaboration, strategic planning, promoting community engagement and academic program development. He instructs courses in computer vision
graduate study and HPC careers byengaging them in exciting and meaningful research experiences and by cultivating their talentsduring their summer experiences and beyond. To address this project goal, our REU sitepursued three objectives: 1) Engage a total of 10 students annually from traditionally underrepresented groups or from colleges and universities with limited research opportunities, immersing these students in ongoing research projects in HPC-related engineering fields. 2) Cultivate talented students to effectively plan, conduct, and communicate scientific research through meaningful and engaging research projects, close and effective mentoring, weekly group meetings, mentor training, and public presentations. 3
Professor and Founding Chair of Experi- ential Engineering Education at Rowan University. Dr. Farrell has contributed to engineering education through her work in inductive pedagogy, spatial skills, and inclusion and diversity. She has been hon- ored by the American Society of Engineering Education with several teaching awards such as the 2004 National Outstanding Teaching Medal and the 2005 Quinn Award for experiential learning, and she was 2014-15 Fulbright Scholar in Engineering Education at Dublin Institute of Technology (Ireland).Dr. Rocio C Chavela Guerra, American Society for Engineering Education Rocio Chavela is Director of Education and Career Development at the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE
successful business. Junior Engineer at You are a junior engineer at Occidental Engineering. You were hired 6 months ago after a grueling job search. Having recentlyOccidental Engineering graduated from a highly prestigious engineering university, you approach the engineering field with enthusiasm and moral vigor. You want the world to be a better place for all people, especially for your family. Spouse of the Junior You are the spouse of a junior engineer at Occidental Engineering. Both of you are young and ambitious, but you have decided to put Engineer your career on hold in order to take care of your new baby. Your spouse works in the Aerospace
. In contrast to the previous process, volunteers can now quickly complete tasks byperforming simple changes on their mobile devices. In addition, Trusted World staff are now able to morecompletely understand and visualize the state of their operations through specialized reporting functions.SummaryBy working on mission-critical projects for nonprofits, students are able to engage with the community whilelearning personal and interpersonal skills. Trusted Inventory is a successful case study of a combinedlab-lecture approach with direct student-client interaction that increased efficiency of a nonprofit organizationand helped prepare students for future careers in industry.AcknowledgementsThank you to team members Han Bao, Justin Chen, Sid