of their career preparation and ultimately into their engineeringstudies. In this qualitative method, open interviews provide research participants an opportunity tonarrate and construct meaning of their life history. The interview questions were open responseallowing participants to guide the information sharing and tell the context and concepts in their ownlinguistic and cognitive framework. From a total of 24 interviews, 11 themes emerged, includingfaculty support, and most comments about faculty mentorship were positive. Check-in survey results for mentee satisfaction in 2017-2018 and 2018-2019 had 100% and 95%very satisfied or satisfied responses. In Fall 2017, 100% of mentors were 100% very satisfied orsatisfied. In Spring 2018 one
, behaviors, and mindsets relevant to various STEM careers. Through students’participation, program leadership and researchers expect students to internalize attitudes andbehaviors that can support a future career in STEM. As a result, the program design intends todefine what it means to be STEM professional for the pre-college participants. By exposingdiverse pre-college students to the field of engineering, the program design becomes a criticalcomponent of the STEM education ecosystem that defines who belongs and what counts inengineering education.This paper uses critical reflection to challenge cultural ideologies commonly embedded in aninformal engineering program. This paper includes critical reflections of two engineeringeducation researchers
,constructive feedback avoids personal criticisms.Is speedy. We all need feedback. Our careers are dependent on it. The great work weare doing cannot be shared and be used by others if it is not published in a timelymanner. 7One way that you might think how to start your review is to ask yourself these 3questions. If the answer is yes to all 3. it’s likely that you want to convey yourenthusiasm for the work and offered specific and addressable suggestions to theauthorsNicki Sochacka talks about there being a common exception to this approach. What ifthe answer is yes but the problem, theory (if used), methodology/methods, andfindings do not align and, therefore, the
Committee on the Integration of Education in STEM, Humanities, and Arts, culminating with the release of the National Academies report ”The Integration of the Humanities and Arts with Sciences, Engineer- ing, and Medicine in Higher Education: Branches from the Same Tree.” He is currently a member of the National Academies Planning Committee for the Convocation on Promotion and Tenure. Professor Martello is the author of Midnight Ride, Industrial Dawn: Paul Revere and the Growth of American En- terprise, a study of how Paul Revere’s manufacturing career helped pioneer America’s transition into the industrial age, and is currently researching Benjamin Franklin’s printing and business endeavors
for Engineering Education, 2021 2021 ASEE Midwest Section Conferencewith a project conducted on Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) University Design Challengeand it illustrated that the approach enhanced the design functionalities stipulated by the AFRL. Figure 1 Subject matter experts (SME) integrated into the traditional series of steps in engineering design [4] 2. Description of the Program, Capstone Course and SME Integrated Approach The curriculum in mechanical & industrial engineering (MIE) emphasizes design,manufacture, and automation while preparing students for careers in industry and continuededucation. A four-credit engineering design course is designed
, and lectures.from various engineering disciplines. The course Previously, an engineering graphics and “fundamentals”presented a great breadth of topics through a series of style intro sequence was required of all students and thetutorials, laboratory experiments, and lectures. When faculty led the programs through a change to thereflecting and commenting on the course, students aforementioned model in 2008. In 2012, the author started hisexpressed frustration with a “lack of accomplishment” faculty career at Norwich and was immediately tasked withand “jumping around”—indicators of low self-efficacy “fixing” this introductory course, which was in its infancy. Abeliefs. Further
]. Further, the lack of access andinclusion begins much earlier than the college level. Traditionally, access to pre-collegeengineering education programming in classrooms could be described as limited and sporadic,with most such programs in extra-curricular or summer programming [16]–[19]. Such programsare important but depend on students being able to access them and may not be sustained overmore than a few weeks’ time. Thus, issues of access and exclusion in engineering can begin inK-12 education: students without access to such programming have had less opportunity todevelop an engineering identity, defined here as relating to, “…[students] earliest conceptions ofengineering and potential career aspirations and how these conceptions and
engineering education,and embody diversity from the perspective of gender, international identity, career stage,underrepresented minority status, and first-generation. We will present salient features fromeach pathway that connect to potential recommendations for advancing recruitment and retentionefforts in engineering. We will also highlight themes across each pathway in the context offrameworks that represent the college experience, and conceptualizing value within a system.IntroductionThe topic of diversity and inclusion has been a longstanding topic of exploration with theengineering education community. From the onset and over a century long period, societal needshave influenced the evolution of the engineering education field and the field in
gradeandtheirperceptionsofengineering? MechanicalEngineers Hollands Career Centerhttp://www.utsa.edu/careercenter/images/riasec/riasec.png http://www.onetonline.org PreliminaryResults:InterestFit of Personal Interests and Perceptions of Engineering Survey (F-PIPES) 3.00 2.90 2.80 2.70 2.60 All Students 2.50 2.40 2.30 2.20 2.10 2.00 Realistic Investigative Artistic Social Enterprising Conventional Interests (N=715) 2.57 2.55 2.50 2.80 2.63 2.42 Perceptions (N=653
underrepresented in STEM careers. Prior to joining Howard, she served as a Research Fellow at the American Association of University Women (AAUW) and a postdoctoral researcher at the American Society for Engineering Education. Dr. LeSure worked as an engineer for over a decade before switching gears and devoting her time and talents to focus on pertinent issues, including STEM education, equity and inclusion initiatives in education and the STEM workforce, and corporate development and training. She is also the founder and Executive Di- rector of Engineers for Equity - a mission-driven organization focused on fostering equity and inclusion in engineering. Dr. LeSure earned a Ph.D. in Engineering Education at Utah State
knowledge indicating that engineering, let alone careers in STEM in general, canbe for them. This may be due to the lack of role models and networking opportunities in STEMcareers and even belief from parents and teachers that students with disabilities cannot besuccessful in STEM (Hawley, Cardoso & McMahon, 2013; Martin, Stumbo, & Collins, 2011).As such, students with disabilities are less likely to enroll and be successful in STEM courses inhigh school (Hawley et al., 2013; Martin et al., 2011). Lack of exposure to STEM careers andcourses may ultimately lead to a lack of interest. Additionally, this may contribute to limitedskill development, not due to lack of aptitude, rather due to lack of exposure and opportunities.As previously
and estimation for applications in target tracking and physical layer communications. Her work on target detection and tracking is funded by the Office of Naval Research. Dr. Nelson is a 2010 recipient of the NSF CAREER Award. She is a member of Phi Beta Kappa, Tau Beta Pi, Eta Kappa Nu, and the IEEE Signal Processing, Communications, and Education Societies.Dr. Margret Hjalmarson, George Mason University Margret Hjalmarson is an Associate Professor in the Graduate School of Education at George Mason University and currently a Program Officer in the Division of Research on Learning in Formal and Infor- mal Settings at the National Science Foundation. Her research interests include engineering education
Paper ID #19202Building Social Infrastructure for Achieving Change at ScaleDr. Donna M Riley, Virginia Tech Donna Riley is Professor of Engineering Education at Virginia Tech.Dr. Jennifer Karlin, University of Southern Maine Jennifer Karlin spent the first half of her career at the South Dakota School of Mines and Technology, where she was a professor of industrial engineering and held the Pietz professorship for entrepreneurship and economic development. She is now at the University of Southern Maine where she is a research professor of engineering and the curriculum specialist for the Maine Regulatory Training and
recent report showcased the nation’s top Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM)careers in 2016. Three disciplines within the report were directly related to Civil engineering(Snider 2016). Civil engineering and construction management (CECM) academic programsprepare undergraduate students to become an active workforce that builds and enhances thesociety’s infrastructure. CECM academic programs seem to be among a few promising fields thatare great entry-level careers for new college graduates as they are often viewed as the most directpath to immediate employment. The past decade has seen a large influx of interest in these fieldsof study and as a result have given rise to a new generation of young engineers entering
interactions among students, peers and faculty; and 4. to improve motivation and commitment to career and academic goals.BackgroundIn May 2012, Allan Hancock College (AHC), a community college in Santa Maria, California,received a five-year, $599,929 award to fund a scholarship program for STEM students:Scholarships in Engineering, Science, Mathematics and Computer Science (SESMC,“Seismic”). SESMC is a competitive need-based and merit-based scholarship sponsored by theNational Science Foundation (NSF), open to continuing AHC students in the following STEMfields: Biology, Chemistry, Geological Sciences, Physics, Computer Science, Engineering, andMathematics. The intent of the project is to aid academically talented but financially challengedAHC
have been described as the “net generation”4 and “digital natives”.5 However,several studies examining the technological proficiency of college students demonstrated thatalthough some technologies are very popular, the more complex a tool or task is, the less likely itwill be used.6 In a time of the greatest-ever access to powerful communications technologies,7college students, like most people, are still much more likely to be consumers of digital mediathan they are to be creators of digital media.8, 9Communication and other interpersonal skills can often make or break the career of an engineer.J. Ben O’Neal10 notes that “most engineers are limited in their career not by a lack of technicalknowledge, but by an inability to reason verbally
Paper ID #18052Large-scale Research on Engineering Design in Secondary Classrooms: BigLearner Data Using Energy3D Computer-Aided DesignDr. Senay Purzer, Purdue University, West Lafayette (College of Engineering) enay Purzer is an Associate Professor in the School of Engineering Education. She is the recipient of a 2012 NSF CAREER award, which examines how engineering students approach innovation. She serves on the editorial boards of Science Education and the Journal of Pre-College Engineering Educa- tion (JPEER). She received a B.S.E with distinction in Engineering in 2009 and a B.S. degree in Physics Education in 1999
2017 Pacific Southwest SectionMeeting: Tempe, Arizona Apr 20 Paper ID #20667Engaging Community College Students in Earthquake Engineering Researchwith Smart Wearable DevicesAlexander Sebastian Furlanic, San Francisco State University Alex Furlanic is currently a junior at San Francisco State University, majoring in Mechanical Engineering. His research interest include modeling and design, controls and instrumentation, robotics, and mechatron- ics. He hopes to pursue a career in robotic design.Philip A. Thomas, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo Philip is an
University $5.6M California Institute of Technology $4.8M 11 20170404 Coral GablesHigh Interest Basic Research Areas 12 20170404 Coral GablesArmy’s Holistic Approach to STEM Capabilities Career Outreach & Marketing
very rapid changes in technology, much faster than inother engineering disciplines. While this change is estimated to happen every seven years formechanical engineers, for electrical engineers it happens every five years, and for softwareengineers every two and half years, or even faster7. It was suggested that students can bemotivated to perform better in technical writing classes if they recognize the significance of thegiven assignments to their future engineering career. Although studies suggest thatcommunication is the most important non-technical skill employers look for in IT graduates,students do not consider this a focus of their studies8.The feedback provided to students on their technical reports has also been shown to play
three factors to remaincompetitive: “advanced knowledge,” “advanced processes,” and “advanced business models.”This study is both timely and important because in a dynamic field such as AM, educators andindustry leaders must work together to meet workforce needs. Clear understanding of AM caninform competency models, bodies of knowledge, and empirical research that documents school-to-career pathways. Both our findings and our methods may shed light on the nature of relatedtechnical fields and offer industry and education strategies to ensure their alignment.OverviewHaving a strong domestic manufacturing base is vital to the United States innovation leadership.Technology-rich advanced manufacturing (AM) provides an important foundation for
hassupported close to 350 students over the past 5 years. Fall 2014 was the first time teaching afreshmen class for the FIR, and they had to adjust their teaching style to motivate 18-year-oldstudents. As someone who typically teaches upper-division Mechanical Engineering courses, theFIR had to change their classroom approach in order to work with first-year college students.The class contained several homework assignments which culminated into a final report. Theclass also had several seminars where faculty members came to the class as guest speakers, andthe FIR worked with the career center to host workshops. The EIRC’s class was more structuredduring the first semester.The second semester was more unstructured, meaning teams were allowed work on
, understanding majors and careers,academic requirements, student responsibilities, and financial management, it was notcompletely tooled to handle some issues pertinent to engineering disciplines.In 2016, the authors received an S-STEM Grant from NSF (Undergraduate Scholarships forExcellent Education in Environmental Engineering and Water Resources Management(USE4WRM)) to address the challenges being faced by first-generation minority students inengineering programs and to improve recruitment and retention of financially deprived studentswith high academic credentials who would pursue their undergraduate degrees in EnvironmentalEngineering or Water Resources Management. Since Fall 2016, the authors have taught a sessionof FYS 1101 for these majors as a
happen.Various studies of writing transfer, such as those conducted by Bergman and Zepernick andWardle, have sought answers to questions related to writing skills learned in first-yearcomposition courses and how those skills are applied in other courses, including those specific toa student’s discipline [2]. Studies like those of Bergman and Zepernik have found that “studentsperceived writing in English classes to be very different in kind from the writing they did in othercourses” [3]. Thus, understanding how transfer of writing skills from first year writing coursesto engineering courses occurs for engineers, whose career path includes a wide variety of writingtasks, is an important area to consider. An examination of the writing of first year
Microde- vices Laboratory at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Dr. Fontecchio received his Ph.D. in Physics from Brown University in 2002. He has authored more than 75 peer-reviewed publications. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2018 A Project-Based Approach to Develop Engineering Design Process Skills Among High School Students (WIP)IntroductionImplementing engineering curriculum in high school improves student learning and achievementin science, technology and mathematics, increases awareness of the contributions of engineers tosociety, and promotes student pursuits of STEM careers [1]. In a 2009 report, the Committee onK-12 Engineering Education from the National
proposal we submitted in 2009, the GPA requirement was set below 3.0 because the project team at the time feel that many of our non-traditional students just do not have the luxury to spend enough time studying and succeeding in the rigorous STEM courses. The hope is that once they were selected into the program and provided financial support via scholarship, their GPA will improve because they will have more time learning and improving their technical competency. Many anecdotal stories shared by our ET students indicated that they are really committed to a STEM career partially because of their desire to improve their life situation. In spite of the many obstacles they may face, they are resolved to finish
Paper ID #21253A Case Study of Community College Transfer and Success in a 2+2 ProgramDr. Kathleen Alfano, College of the Canyons Kathleen Alfano has a Ph.D. from UCLA in Higher Education with a cognate in administration and evaluation. Her B.S. is in chemistry and she worked as an analytical chemist in industry before pursuing a career in education. She served as founder and Director of the California Consortium for Engineering Advances in Technological Education (CREATE) based at College of the Canyons from 1996 to 2016. Retired from College of the Canyons in November 2016, she is an Emeritus Professor and also former
control with applications to engine exhaust aftertreatment.Dr. Holly M. Matusovich, Virginia Tech Dr. Matusovich is an Associate Professor in Virginia Tech’s Department of Engineering Education. She has her doctorate in Engineering Education and her strengths include qualitative and mixed methods research study design and implementation. She is/was PI/Co-PI on 10 funded research projects including a CAREER grant. She has won several Virginia Tech awards including a Dean’s Award for Outstanding New Faculty. Her research expertise includes using motivation and related frameworks to study student engagement in learning, recruitment and retention in engineering programs and careers, faculty teaching practices and
career. In academia, thus, understanding anddesigning programs to enhance professional identity is vital to the successful placement ofgraduates into industry. This study will use Higgs’ [1] definition of professional identity as aperson developing “the attitudes, beliefs and standards which support the practitioner role andthe development of an identity as a member of the profession with a clear understanding of theresponsibilities of being a… professional.”As students apply and intentionally pursue a degree in a specific discipline towards becoming aprofessional, they are acting as agents per Bandura’s [2] social cognitive theory of agency intheir own future and make decisions according to their self-reflections, identified desires
shadow that engineer at his/her job for a half day.Survey feedback from this experience indicates the students who participate find it valuable.Table 1 below provides the 10 questions from the shadowing survey completed by participatingstudents, along with average responses. Note that a 7-point Likert rating scale was utilized. Table 1 – Shadowing Survey Questions and Average Responses Q1 I feel this experience was a rewarding and valuable experience. 6.9 Q2 I now have a better understanding of what a full time job in engineering is like. 6.8 Q3 I gained new knowledge by participating in this experience. 6.8 Q4 This experience supported/enhanced my career goals