organization [5], the Science and Education Director of a US Department of Energylaboratory heavily focus on fusion research [6] and a senior management officers at one of themost successful nuclear fusion start-ups in the US [7]. The latest high visibility of fusion as moreprivate capital starts getting involved has also produced a spike in the number of students enteringundergraduate physics and engineering programs interested in pursuing a career focused on nuclearfusion [8].Recognizing this shift, the Department of Nuclear Engineering at Penn State University has, aspart of a strategy to broaden the scope of its research and academics, started to offer courses gearedtowards students interested in pursuing a career focused on fusion rather than
were presented to the participants in the post-test to assess theirperceptions of EDC 2022’s effectiveness. A Chi square analysis was conducted on the number ofparticipants that either “Strongly Agreed” or “Agreed” compared to “Neutral”, “Disagree” or“Strongly Disagree”. The statistical significance was set at α=.05. The results of these questionsand the P-values are shown in Table 4. The majority of participants felt EDC increased theirdesire to pursue a STEM career and their knowledge of 3D printing at a statistically significantlevel. This result, in addition to the pre-post test results support the project’s goal of increasingthe technical knowledge of the students. The results were mixed regarding the number ofparticipants that would
autonomy-supportive they are perceivedto be [19].Therefore, by understanding perception, not only can educators improve the curriculum andteaching methods for higher retention [24, 25], but also students can also have a positive identityto make career decisions [26] as well as achieve better mental wellbeing [27]. One of thepedagogical goals of the Iron Range Engineering (IRE) program is to create a project-basedlearning environment that promotes intrinsic motivation among upper-division college students.Unlike traditional lecture-based classes, IRE students engage in open-ended problem solving byworking on industry client projects [28, 29]. This innovative approach to engineering educationalso lets us ponder if our students are truly
students for an evaluation, let alone for their careers [18]. One compromise to this dilemmathat will be acted upon in this case would be to review near upcoming material in a general manner,focusing on key terms and concepts, the specifics of which will be experienced in the upcomingmodule, then apply the lecture in the module following the lectures. Nuanced material can bediscussed during the hands-on module as it is encountered. Class time is spent between a short“lecture” and a longer “laboratory” session. This method of education encourages connectionsmade to recently discussed material through real world practice, while avoiding the drop-off inattention and performance associated with a more traditional form of learning per class. The
Paper ID #37560An Analysis of Engineering and Computing Students’Attitudes to AI and EthicsKerrie Hooper Kerrie Hooper is currently an Engineering and Computing Education Ph.D. student at Florida International University. She obtained her Bachelor of Science in Computer Science from the University of Guyana in 2019 and then worked for two years in the industry as a Data Analyst & Systems Administrator, before pursuing her doctoral degree. Her research interests are in AI ethics, responsible technology in education, women’s careers in computing, and arts-based approach to STEM education.Trina Fletcher Dr
. Understand what “Engineers in Medicine” are. 18. Interest in starting a career in “Engineers in Medicine.” 19. Plan to pursue a PhD/MD degree. These 19-item survey questions explored five aspects of the teaching objectives. Focus of thequestions were as follows: Questions 1-6 - background research skills. Questions 7-8 - criticalthinking and ideation. Questions 9-12 - project management and teamwork. Questions 13-16 -technical communication skills. Questions 17-19 - interest in medical engineering. The pre-course and post-course survey data was used to evaluate the self-efficacy of students in theabove-mentioned five learning outcomes. The difference between the pre-course and post-coursewas an indicator of the skill/interest improvement. In
required for theirfuture careers (like creativity and innovations), while at the same time they are faced withexpectations of correctly solving complex problems with a single answer. This contradiction isdisplayed when you ask professors what their expectation is of their students and what studentsthink is expected from themselves. Engineering professors expect innovative solutions tocomplex problems with answers that depend on the context. Students see the right or wronggrade with penalties for thinking creatively [8].The absence of a student's creativity stems from the classroom environment and professors’methods of teaching that are out-of-date and lack the creativity demanded from students. In astudy where gamified learning was implemented in
nuclear engineering field (non-majors). 5. Students will demonstrate an ability to analyze future career opportunities in nuclear engineering (majors).For the Summer 2021 offering of the newly developed course, several efforts were made toadvertise the course to non-majors. These included outreach on social media, email listservs, andmeeting with first-year advisors to discuss how the course could apply to some of their students.Information provided highlighted that the course did not require any science or math backgroundbeyond the high school (secondary) level. The goal was to remove any barriers to a studentthinking this course might not be a good fit for their educational background.Course Framework and DeliveryTo achieve the prior
communication [34].Engaging FamiliesYES recognizes that the support of youth’s families and broader communities are critical tofostering youth’s positive identity development and confidence. A review of the literature andwork with experts helped the team to identify promising goals and practices for working withfamilies. These include: 1. Help families understand that engineering is all around them. 2. Honor families’ knowledge and experiences. 3. Engage families as co-creators and problem solvers. 4. Provide support for families to advocate for their children’s STEM learning and possible careers in STEM. [34]These goals drove the creation of a set of family-facing resources and strategies. Throughout theunit, educators are encouraged to use
work explores the effects of mobile educational technology, online learning and distance education; metacognition and self-regulation, and contemporary engineering practice on engineering student learning and professional identity development. Angie graduated from the United State Military Academy at West Point with a bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering. She later earned a master's degree in mechanical engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology, and a Ph.D. in engineering education at Utah State University. In 2021, Angie's research earned her a National Science Foundation CAREER Award to critically examine the professional formation of undergraduate student veterans and service members in
Chair of the ASEE LEAD division.Emily Moore (Dr) Dr. Emily Moore is the Director of the Troost Institute for Leadership Education in Engineering at the University of Toronto. Before becoming a professor in 2018, Emily spent more than twenty years as a professional engineer in industry, first with the Xerox Research Centre of Canada and then with Hatch Ltd. Emily's teaching and research interests include engineering leadership, systems thinking, and equity in engineering education and practice.Dimpho Radebe (PhD Student) Dimpho Radebe is a PhD Student in Engineering Education at the University of Toronto, Canada. Her research interests include engineering culture and identity, engineering careers in the public sector, and
and evaluatedthe students' self-efficacy in the program regarding engineering, math, career goals, and feeling ofinclusion.DemographicsThe C&A program has been continuously supported by three different grants, two NSF S-STEMawards, and a local foundation grant since the Fall of 2010. Collectively, the three grants haveserved a total of 134 scholars in five different engineering programs. The six-year graduation rateshave been between 75% to 80% compared to the overall campus graduation rate of around 50% inthe ten years of this program. Nine C&A scholars have pursued graduate degrees followingcompletion of the B.S. degree.TypologyA total of 96 Culture and Attitude scholars from both the first and second S-STEM grants havecompleted the
work focuses on mentorship, mental health, and retention for STEM students and faculty. He was awarded the 2020 NAGAP Gold Award for Graduate Education Research to study engineering faculty perceptions of graduate student well-being and attrition. Before studying education at UIUC, Joseph earned an MS degree in Physics from Indiana University in Bloomington and a BS in Engineering Physics at UIUC.Karin Jensen Karin Jensen, Ph.D. is a Teaching Associate Professor in bioengineering at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Her research interests include student mental health and wellness, engineering student career pathways, and engagement of engineering faculty in engineering education research. She was awarded a
authors within science, technology,engineering, and mathematics (STEM) library collections? This paper provides a case study of one STEMlibrarian's attempt to augment traditional acquisition methods using social media mentions andimprovements in use of existing tools to increase historically underrepresented groups' representationwithin the university's library collection for STEM.User accounts on two social media platforms (Twitter and LinkedIn) were used to curate a set of accountsthat represent or regularly discuss works of non-fiction in the STEM areas or about the career progressionof STEM professionals that are written by or about persons historically underrepresented in STEM. Datasources included: ● social media mentions of books or
Paper ID #36981Work in Progress: Exploring Digital Competency Integrationin Primary and Secondary EducationBrandon Chi-Thien LeSunay Palsole Sunay is the Assistant Vice Chancellor for Engineering Remote Education for Texas A&M. He has more than 20 years of experience in the academic technology arena and over fifteen years of experience in distance and online learning. Over his career, he has helped a few hundred faculty from varied disciplines develop hybrid and online courses. He has also helped plan, build and manage successful online programs in nursing, education, engineering, leadership, and cybersecurity
Scholar, a Graduate Academy for Teaching Excellence Fellow, a Global Perspectives Fellow, a Diversity Scholar, a Fulbright Scholar, an inductee into the Bouchet Honor Society, and received the prestigious NSF CAREER award. Homero serves as the VT Engineering Education Chair for Equity and Inclusion, and the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) Incoming Chair for the Commission on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (CDEI). He holds degrees in Industrial Engineering (BS, MS) from the National Experimental University of Táchira, Master of Business Administration (MBA) from Temple University, and Engineering Education (PhD) from Virginia Tech.Katey Shirey (eduKatey STEAM Education) Dr. Katey Shirey’s work stems
CS education at all levels by a focused ap- proach to increase the computing pipeline by getting students interested in STEM disciplines and future technology careers. One of these initiatives is the iAAMCS (Institute for African American Mentoring in Computing Sciences) & STARS Alliance (starsalliance.org) with programs in K-12 outreach, community service, student leadership, and computing diversity research.Mr. Dongji Feng, Auburn University Dongji Feng a passionate NLP Ph.D. candidate working with Dr.Santu in BDI Lab . His interesting areas are Information Retrieval(IR), Natural Language Processing (NLP) and related evaluation metrics. ©American Society for Engineering Education
more connections and partnerships across the state with public, private, and career tech high schools as well as clearer Figure 1. Graphical representation of the OU College 2+2 or 2+3 programs with of Engineering Strategic Goals for 2020-2025. community colleges. We are heavily investing in visitingprospective college students in their home communities
Boulder. 14th Annual First-Year Engineering Experience (FYEE) Conference: University of Tennessee in Knoxville, Tennessee Jul 30 Full Paper: Where’s the Math? A Case for Reconsidering Math in K-12 EngineeringIntroduction“[We wanted them to] experience the fun side of engineering, and we weren’t selling what all ofengineering actually requires.” – administrator about his high school’s STEM curriculum [1]It is indeed important for students to have “fun” in engineering, particularly those in lowergrades who have yet to cross engineering off their potential career pathway list. Yetmisrepresenting the significance of mathematics in K-12 engineering may give students a falsesense of what engineering
financial support and an ecosystem of high-impact curricularand co-curricular activities to increase the success of academically talented students.The COF-IMPRESS-C team will leverage student-centered strategies and academic support, suchas undergraduate research, faculty/peer mentoring, and academic success sessions to enhanceacademic and personal success. The project will facilitate the recruitment, retention, andmatriculation of scholarship recipients, provide them with access to a continuum of student supportservices, resources, and opportunities for professional growth, and prepare scholarship recipientsfor graduate school or careers in computing. COF-IMPRESS-C will facilitate dual-enrollment ofstudents in the Honors College, allowing an
learning and applying these tools in their work. 2Literature Review MethodologyBased on the primary author’s curiosity on the subject of numerical and computationalmethods in undergraduate engineering education, he distilled this question: Whatchallenges and opportunities have been identified in existing scholarship for advancingteaching and learning numerical and computational methods in undergraduateengineering education? From that question, the following keywords were utilized forour initial search: “students’ learning / computational OR numerical methods/job ORprofession OR career/ education OR college or university.” Then the keywords wereentered in
anengineering career. In addition to the role of educational institutions, parents play a pivotal rolein encouraging and influencing their children towards certain career paths. Additionally, parentsalso play an important role in shaping positive attitudes within their children towardsengineering, and their supportive actions towards a child’s engineering education may help todevelop the child’s competencies in engineering. Therefore, this current study intends to provideinitial empirical evidence of parents’ knowledge, attitudes, and behaviors towards engineeringdisciplines. Our overarching research questions in this study are: To what extent are parents ofSingaporean students from primary to secondary levels aware of engineering? And what are
engineering educators to make changes intheir curriculum to provide engineers who are career ready when they hit the workforce(Agrawal 2016). One possible such change is toward student-centric learning, which can take avariety of forms. The most common of these is experiential learning, in which a student learnsthrough an experience that either consists of or mimics a “real-life” experience, such as aninternship or an industry-sponsored project. Another less common student-centric tool isdifferentiated learning or differentiated instruction, in which some aspect of the classroom istailored to the needs of specific student groups.For years, experiential learning has been at the core of engineering education through capstonecourses, labs, and real
Paper ID #37693Longitudinal Analysis of First-Year Engineering Students'Active Participation in Women in Engineering ProgramActivities and the Relationship to Engineering PersistenceSuzanne Zurn-birkhimer (Associate Director) Dr. Suzanne Zurn-Birkhimer has spent her career diligently working towards broadening participation of women and underrepresented groups in STEM fields. She is the Associate Director of the Purdue University Women in Engineering Program where she leads retention efforts and conducts research around female student success. She manages the undergraduate and graduate mentoring programs that reach
impactentrepreneurship education can have on students and their careers. For example,generating economic and social value in other ways (e.g., through intrapreneurship orbetter trained researchers) can be outcomes of entrepreneurship education as well.Methods to evaluate the impact of entrepreneurship education vary and includemeasuring changes in knowledge (recall of information), skills (observable competencyto perform and act), and competencies (the knowledge, skills, attitudes, values, andbehaviors that people need to successfully perform a particular activity or task) (Morris,Webb, Fu, and Singhal, 2013). Entrepreneurial competency comprises abilities andattributes including communication, teamwork, cross-cultural skills, productivity,adaptability
whom are Mechanical Engineering majors. It is wellknown that students often lack motivation and interest when taking a course they consider outsidetheir focus or major [13, 14, 15, 16]. Many non-ECE majors fail to see the value of ElectricalEngineering concepts and skills to their future engineering career [13, 14, 15, 16]. The authorsof [13] commented that they ”felt that the students came in with a pre-bias of not liking thecontent”. Over the past few decades, engineering educators have tried different strategies toimprove the non-major student experience in Electrical Engineering courses. An effectiveteaching method is to use practical applications to demonstrate relevance to a wide range ofengineering careers [14, 15, 16]. Hands-on
Agricultural & Techni- cal State University where he earned degrees in both Chemistry and Chemical Engineering as a part of the Atlanta University Center’s Dual Degree in Engineering Program. While in college he was a Ronald E. McNair Scholar which afforded him the opportunity to intern at NASA Langley. He also earned distinc- tion as a Phi Beta Kappa member and an American Chemical Society Scholar. Dr. Henderson completed his Ph.D. in Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. During his time as a graduate student, he was a NASA Harriet G. Jenkins Graduate Fellow. Dr. Henderson has dedicated his career to increasing the number of students who are on pathways to pursue
careers. Alex received his Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from The Pennsylvania State University in 2015 where he studied combustion instabilities in gas turbine engines and also served as a Graduate Teaching Fellow.Dr. Ashley Lytle Ashley Lytle is an Assistant Professor of Psychology at Stevens Institute of Technology in Hoboken, New Jersey, USA. Lytle earned her PhD at Stony Brook University, New York, USA. Her research explores how prejudice, discrimination, and stereotyping imDr. Maxine Fontaine, Stevens Institute of Technology Maxine Fontaine is a Teaching Associate Professor in Mechanical Engineering at Stevens Institute of Technology. She received her Ph.D. in 2010 from Aalborg University in Aalborg, Denmark
students.Dr. Emily Dringenberg, The Ohio State University Dr. Dringenberg is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Engineering Education at Ohio State Uni- versity. She holds a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering (Kansas State ’08), a M.S. in Industrial Engineering (Purdue ’14) and a Ph.D. in Engineering Education. Her current career purpose is to learn about and reveal beliefs that are widely-held as an implicit result of our socialization within systems of oppression so that she can embolden others to reflect on their assumptions and advance equity in their own ways.Dr. Elif Miskioglu, Bucknell University Dr. Elif Miskioglu is an early-career engineering education scholar and educator. She holds a B.S. in Chemical
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