balance between a number of opposingforces. A minimum of fundamentals in science and math are required to prepare students fortheir sophomore engineering coursework, and exposure to the nature of engineering and itsopportunities is needed to enable students to identify an appropriate career path. However, theacademic rigor of the first year in engineering is overly challenging and even shocking for manystudents. Still, calls for engineering education reform speak of educating students in areas ofcommunication, ethics and professionalism, design, working in teams, leadership,entrepreneurship, and global understanding (to name a few), all of which vie for curriculum time.As we seek to transform the first year we also need to keep an eye to current
at Geneva College. Ourprimary vehicle for doing this has been a term paper assignment requiring the students to relatethe second law of thermodynamics to issues that are ordinarily the domain of the liberal artsfaculty. While the particular contours of the assignment are unique to the mission of Geneva, theauthors believe that their approach is adaptable to a wide variety of institutions.The first author developed a term paper assignment in 1991 requiring students to “consider thedevelopment of technology in terms of entropy and the second law of thermodynamics” in thelight of biblical teaching and requiring them to consider how their conclusions would “influencetheir career choice and professional activities.” The second author began
contemporary engineering education. Thus, gaining background in theory andpractice of constructive learning uniquely prepares engineering graduate students who planacademic careers. This presentation describes a novel approach in which engineering graduatestudents learned about learning theory through study, discussion, and practice in a constructivistenvironment.The approach was developed as a training program for engineering graduate studentsparticipating in the NSF-funded Research Communications Studio (RCS) Project at the Universityof South Carolina. These graduate students mentor small groups of engineering undergraduateresearchers who meet in weekly Studio sessions to develop their research and communicationsabilities. The graduate student
much less rigidly than previously. Taking advantage of this opportunity, thefaculty of the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University ofIowa has developed a new undergraduate curriculum that permits students exceptionalflexibility, consistent with their career goals as well as their possible additional aspirationsfor learning while at university.The process began in 1997, when the College of Engineering Faculty redesigned the corecurriculum. Math and science classes were modified, the engineering core courses werestreamlined, and the College Faculty introduced the notion of “Elective Focus Areas,” orEFAs. The concept of EFAs is that students should have between 15 and 21 semesterhours (out of 128 s.h. for graduation
coursework and incorporating engineering standards and realisticconstraints that incorporate most of the following considerations: economic;environmental; sustainability; manufacturability; ethical; health and safety; social; andpolitical.” [ABET, Criterion 4, p. 30.] This is a tall order for engineering faculty schooled in the engineering sciencemodel, and whose career advancement depends upon state-of-the-art research in a narrowarea of expertise. Unlike the faculty of other professional educational programs (e.g. law,medicine, and architecture), engineering faculty are by and large not practitioners of thediscipline they teach, or if they are, they practice a fragment of the discipline ofengineering that is not typical of the careers
approach withquestions.Starting at 9:00 a.m. on the day of the event, volunteer greeters were stationed at the bus drop-offlocations to meet the buses and direct participants to the designated check-in/information boothwhere they received a student bookstore bag with a CSU, Chico pencil, a checklist and map ofall the booths they could visit, and a list of competition times and locations. After participating ina booth’s activities, each participant received an initialed check-off on their booth checklist.Children who visited 15 or more booths were instructed to stop by the Careers Path table toreceive their choice of an ASCE activity book or book cover developed by the ASCE Committeeon Career Guidance. High school students also received the Career
century skills will be comparedto the skills sets defined in a framework developed by the Partnership for 21st Century Skills(see Table 1) LEARNING AND INNOVATION SKILLS 1 Creativity and Innovation 2 Critical Thinking and Problem Solving 3 Communication 4 Collaboration INFORMATION, MEDIA AND TECHNOLOGY SKILLS 1 Information Literacy 2 Media Literacy 3 Information, Communications, and Technology Literacy LIFE AND CAREER SKILLS 1 Flexibility and Adaptability 2 Initiative and
AC 2011-2745: INNOVATIVE SENIOR PROJECT PROGRAM PARTNER-ING UNIVERSITY AND CORPORATE PARTNERSEric Paul Pearson, Northrop Grumman Corporation, Electronic Systems Eric P. Pearson is the Sector Director of Development Programs for the Electronic Systems Sector of Northrop Grumman Corporation. After several years as an organizational Staff Manager and the Antenna Integrated Product Team lead for major radar programs he began the development of Internship, Co-op, New Graduate Engineering rotation and Early Career Leadership Training Programs. Eric carries a pas- sion for assisting soon-to-be and recent university graduates as they develop their technical, professional and leadership skills through their early careers in
curriculum, an increased responsibility for self-directed learning is highly desirable. Students about to embark on a career must independently beable to meet professional development demands in a rapidly changing engineering environment.Students who arrive in class with assigned reading completed, notes reviewed, and prepared forclassroom activities are developing the ability to be self-directed learners. Limited classroomcontact time can be much more effectively utilized by focusing on concepts and applicationsidentified by students as needing further review and explanation. This paper describes changesimplemented to a Civil Engineering “Structural Design of Foundations” course at a Penn StateUniversity’s College of Engineering. These included
, someresearchers have begun to address this issue. A research brief by the Southern RegionalEducation Board (SREB) matched PLTW participants with career and technical educationstudents with similar demographics and fields of study. SREB found that PLTW students whoenrolled in two or more PLTW courses did significantly better in mathematics and science on theHigh Schools that Work (HSTW) assessment than career/technical students in comparable fields(Bottoms & Anthony, 2005). Differences between PLTW students and similar career/technicalstudents were also found for subsequent course-taking behavior, with PLTW students morelikely to complete the four years of mathematics and science (Bottoms & Uhn, 2007). However,this may not have been an appropriate
students atfive different sites each summer. The program has five primary goals: 1. Increase students’ enthusiasm for research that turns into a desire to pursue postgraduate education. 2. Develop a high level perspective of the issues and opportunities of earthquake engineering in a global society. 3. Attract exceptional undergraduates, particularly underrepresented students (women, minorities, and persons with disabilities) into STEM careers, primarily the field of Page 25.1493.2 earthquake engineering. 4. Cultivate students’ professional selves, including networking skills, presentation skills
and 10% in common between Civil :Environmental. Further, the skills and knowledge desired for these engineers also have much incommon. To explore the similarities and differences in these disciplines as perceived bystudents, a Body of Knowledge (BOK2) survey was distributed to senior students as part of thelifelong learning module in the three separate capstone design courses. Students were asked torank the American Society of Civil Engineers’ (ASCE) 24 BOK2 outcomes from most to leastimportant to their future careers. Among students in all three majors, design and problemsolving were by far the top ranked outcomes; communication and teamwork were rankedbetween 3 to 6 by all majors; and there was also consensus among the bottom rated items
Leadership program, providing a lead role in MacEwan’s strengths-based leadership initiative. In 2009, she was named one of Alberta’s ”50 Most Influential” by Venture Mag- azine. In her role as Dean, she works with a dedicated team to lead MacEwan as an institution that offers a variety of degrees, diplomas, and certificates. Prior to her career in education, Elford prac- ticed law for 10 years, and holds both a B.A. and an L.L.B. from the University of Alberta. She stays connected to the profession through membership in the Law Society of Alberta and the Canadian Bar Association. Elford sits on the Board of Directors of Junior Achievement (JA) of Northern Alberta and Northwest Territories and is the Vice Chair of the
Session 2655 Preparing Engineering Graduate Students to Teach: An Innovative Course Design and Evaluation Cathie Scott,* Molly Johnson,** Cynthia J. Atman* *University of Washington/**Agilent TechnologiesIntroductionIn spring 2000 we designed and delivered a three-credit course to prepare students for careers inteaching. The course was offered through the industrial engineering department and was open toall engineering graduate students. Fourteen students enrolled—seven men and seven women—representing the industrial, civil and environmental, electrical, bioengineering, and
Page 6.799.3past achievements and your future career potential. They deserve to be presented appropriately. Proceedings of the 2001 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright 2001, American Society for Engineering EducationGo to an office supply store and buy nice, matching three-ring binders to hold your materials.Buy (commonly-available) divider tabs with labels that can be computer-printed, and use them.Aesthetics aside, take the time to make the information you supply to the reviewers easy tolocate, and easy to “grade.” Make a table of contents, use subsections or separate three-ringbinders to distinguish different categories of information. Do what you can to make
students to formalized engineering design techniques and providing themwith the necessary foundation for their careers as technical communicators. In order toachieve both of its key goals and meet university-wide general requirements, SophomoreEngineering Clinics are team-taught by faculty from the College of Engineering and theCollege of Communication [2]. This paper will focus on Sophomore Engineering Clinic I,which integrates the engineering clinic with a specialized version of the required secondsemester composition course. (Sophomore Clinic II incorporates a public speakingcomponent.) From the inception of the program four years ago, it was agreed that the writingcourse would be designed to meet the needs of both colleges
expect that there is more value added in additional upperdivision electives than adding the CS0 course into our respective programs.4.1 Instructor 1 Re�lection I began working at Loyola in January 2018 and continued until the end of June 2021. I was incharge of teaching coursework and overseeing programs in the continuing studies school. Therewas a BA Information Technology which was an applied CS degree as well as a CS certi�icate. Thestudent population at this continuing studies school is primarily adult learners looking to completecollege as well as those seeking career change and upskilling. My experiences running a non-pro�ittraining program for underserved individuals prior to starting my position at Loyola had taught methat those
conducted in a single junior-level course for environmentalengineering students. The innovation self-efficacy of participants was measured using a surveythat included items from the Very Brief Innovation Self-Efficacy scale (ISE.6), the InnovationInterests scale (INI), and the Career Goals: Innovative Work scale (IW). The drawings wereanalyzed for Artistic Effort (AE) and Creative Work (CW) by engineering and art evaluators,respectively. The ISE survey results were compared with the AE and CW scores and thecorrelations with travel, gender, and multilingualism on creativity attributes were explored. Astrong correlation between CW scores and AE scores was observed. A negative correlationbetween CW and ISE.6 was found. The CW scores were significantly
scienceconcepts in both didactic and experiential settings. Students appreciate the need to successfullycommunicate with data and be effective data storytellers but will often feel frustrated that datastorytelling skills are not “real data science.” An analysis of LinkedIn profiles indicates that over60% of graduated learners secured new employment in data careers since starting the program.To build on this success, further curriculum development should more explicitly connectfundamental data science concepts and broader concepts such as creative problem-solving anddata storytelling.KeywordsGraduate education, data analytics, distance learning, life-long learning, adult learning1. IntroductionWe are living in an era where the Volume, Velocity, Veracity
andopportunities faced by graduate students and higher education institutions in navigatinginterdisciplinary research and teaching landscapes. Key themes include but are not limited to: thecultivation of a community-oriented team culture to enhance scientific team cohesion andproductivity e.g., [5]; the importance of academic motivation and teamwork diversity ininterdisciplinary context [6]; the mechanisms that facilitate team science e.g., [7], and theperspectives of graduate students and early career academics on interdisciplinary research e.g.,[8]. These studies collectively underscore the complexity of interdisciplinary endeavors, andhighlight the need for supportive institutional structures, the development of interdisciplinarycommunication and
a scale we designed to quantify the successful developmentof target EML skills, had no consistent pattern based on race, but that female students reported asignificantly lower score compared to male students. We additionally developed a panel ofquestions gauging the extent to which certain groups of students were motivated by theirdemographics (e.g., gender, race, etc.) and individual economic benefits of BMEG (e.g., high-paying jobs, career preparation, etc.). Female students were also more likely to report that theywere motivated by their demographics and had significantly lower self-efficacy scores comparedto male students. While race had no impact on the final EML score, HRM groups were moremotivated by their demographics and were
many challenges. For instance, arocket project involves the collaboration of aerospace, mechanical, chemical, electrical, andcomputer engineering disciplines. As a result, students from diverse backgrounds and withdistinct career aspirations must collaborate to overcome the obstacles. This diversity fosters ateam-based and interdisciplinary learning approach that provides students with invaluable insightand skills beyond those learned in a typical classroom setting [7].Program PhilosophyAt Make to Innovate, we advocate for a practical learning experience emphasizing a hands-onapproach. Our students are motivated to tackle problems head-on and create innovative solutionsthat can be tested in real-world scenarios. Clear objectives are set for
critical challenges society faces. In the ever-advancing engineeringindustry, how would our Materials Engineering education system adequately prepare ourstudents with the essential knowledge and skills necessary to adapt and excel in their career?What are the learning outcomes that are required to support such excellence?To design these learning outcomes in our curriculum, gathering and analysing relevantstakeholders’ input is crucial. This paper presents our endeavour in partnering thestakeholders (students, educators/faculty, alumni and employers) to understand the gaps andneeds of Materials Engineering education. Consultations with the stakeholders were designedto rally around three main focus areas namely (i) to evaluate the existing
times during the term: Goal Setting, Student Involvement Fair, Mid-terms, End of Semester 2. Faculty Interview: each student selects a faculty member in area of interest to interview and present to the class 3. Advising Portfolio: review core curriculum and create a list of potential courses for the next term 4. Career Exploration and Alumni Field of Interest Interview: complete a career/interests inventory and conduct a group interview with an alumni who works in a field of potential interest 5. My Improvement/Implementation Plan: review and reflect on the first semester, explore two possible majors and two possible career area of interests and lay out future plan for improvement and explorationWith
collaborators, however, are merely one component of this strongpartnership. The CA2VES enterprise will bring together a South Carolina four-year institution, ten SouthCarolina two-year institutions, several South Carolina K-12 education partners, and three wellrecognized regional ATE center partners in the country. CA2VES will aim to disseminatecurriculum and faculty development materials for two-year institutions, disseminate recruitmentmaterials to high-school and career centers, and hold webinars to provide information aboutongoing center activities. These efforts will culminate in creating a SC-A2 network (and later anational network) for the advancement of aviation and automotive technology education. Thispaper will discuss South Carolina’s
, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) retention efforts at Boise State. She functions on campus as both the project coordinator for a $1 million grant from the Na- tional Science Foundation and the Idaho Science Talent Expansion Program (STEP), and as the first ever campus coordinator for STEM retention. Garzolini has a long term professional interest in increasing the participation and success of students in STEM fields. Throughout her career, she has provided extensive professional leadership and service to the Society of Women Engineers at the national level, and in 2007 was national society president. Garzolini has a bachelor’s degree in chemical engineering from Wayne State University and an MBA from UC
Information Technology Conference, June 7-9 hosted by University of Windsor and 2002/2003 ASEE ECE Division Chair. He is IEEE Education Society Membership Development Chair and Van Valkenburg Early Career Teaching Award Chair. He was the ECE Program Chair of the 2002 ASEE Annual Confer- ence, Montreal, Quebec, June 16-19. Professor Mousavinezhad received Michigan State University ECE Department’s Distinguished Alumni Award, May 2009, ASEE ECE Division’s 2007 Meritorious Service Award, ASEE/NCS Distinguished Service Award, April 6, 2002, for significant and sustained leadership. In 1994 he received ASEE Zone II Outstanding Campus Representative Award. He is also a Senior Mem- ber of IEEE, has been a reviewer for IEEE
the same time, knowing whatactions and individual characteristics lead to acceptance in a graduate program and an eventualacademic career assists students in navigating their engineering careers towards academia. Inother words, a program participant who begins to be viewed by professors and peers as aresearcher, as ―graduate school bound;‖ who talks about what she will do as a professor; whogoes to academic conferences and studies for the GRE could be seen as accepting the pathwaytowards the professoriate.Individuals‘ learning pathways in a community arise from multiple factors related to thecommunity‘s routine practices and the individual‘s historically-developed dispositions andambitions.18 The local community, or the specific group of
national committee of the American Society of Civil Engineers for curriculum redesign supporting the civil engineering body of knowledge. He is actively engaged in developing strategies for enhancing the STEM education pipeline in Texas and nationally, and has testified before the Texas Senate in that regard. He served on a committee of the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board to develop a statewide articulation compact for mechanical engineering. He also served on the Texas State Board of Education committee preparing the standards for career and technical education. He is currently serving on the Engineering Education Task Force of the National Council of Examiners for Engineering and Surveying.Lynn L. Peterson
government to effect change in education and foster economic development.Luis F. Font, Ana G. Mendez University System Luis F. Font has a B.S. in Biological Sciences from University of Puerto Rico; and a M.B.A. in Marketing from Universidad Metropolitana of Puerto Rico. Luis has been working with students for his entire pro- fessional career. In 2005 he started as an Auxiliary Librarian helping and orientating students with their academic work. Later, he became AHORA Program Coordinator at Metropolitan University where he administrated the entire academic organization and execution programs in education, business and com- puter sciences. Luis has worked as Business Administration Professor where he teaches Marketing and