in professional skills training or experience (ACS Presidential Commission2012, National Institutes of Health 2012, Allum 2014, National Science Board 2015, Wendler2010, Alan Leshner 2018). A report by the Council of Graduate Schools pointed out thatcurrently most graduate programs do not provide enough training for professional skills(Denecke 2017). A recent survey conducted with STEM graduate students (56 responses from 4different departments) at Iowa State University (ISU) asked the students to rank the mostimportant skills for future career and thesis research. The top three ranked for future careerpreparation are Project & Time Management, R&D in Industry, and Presentation Skills; whilethe top three for thesis research are
, and Judaism. All religions tend to have a higher calling by which to live. AtBaylor, a religiously affiliated Christian university, our students sense a higher standard ofaccountability which helps them in life. It is a matter of character which becomes increasinglyimportant and develops as a natural extension of who they are. This gives them joy in their work.Students should be taught throughout the curriculum about the importance of accountability in anengineering career. IntroductionAccountability is an acceptance of responsibility for honest and ethical conduct towards others1. Itimplies a willingness to be judged on performance. Wong has studied accountability in theengineering context and has
example of a systemiccultural aspect can be seen in the evaluation of undergraduate students, with a prevalenceof high stakes academic assessments where students in (typically) larger classes mustdemonstrate their knowledge by passing high stakes midterm and final exams. Thisresults in competitive grade rankings that can impact their career success out ofproportion to the accuracy of the assessment that was used to create the grade. Lowerstakes assessments strategies such as competency-based assessment, where students havemultiple opportunities to develop and demonstrate competence akin to the way engineersdevelop expertise after graduation as an engineer in training and/or as a graduate student,is not as prevalent.2. FRAMING CULTURE IN
and UP students.Benefits include, 1) allowing students to target jobs with a sustainability focus, which is acurrently in-demand career path, 2) offering students both regional and international perspectiveson civil engineering, sustainability, and culture among others, and 3) providing access tointernational experts in the field of built environment sustainability.1.2.2 University and Departmental/Faculty perspectiveA graduate program also allows for some of the following benefits to the universities and thedepartment/faculty such as, 1) increased student enrollment, which has been steadily decliningsince the onset of the COVID pandemic, 2) heightened program relevancy [12], 3) strengtheningof the international partnership, 4) advancement of
setting financial goals for the future. • Access to insurance Engaging in work • Understanding career paths that is meaningful, Occupa- • Awareness of personal skills and interests tional enjoyable and aligns • Engaging in professional development with personal values. • Networking with alumni and other working professionals Establishing a sense • Joining organizations, clubs, or community groups of connection and • Connection to
span K-20, researched improvements to STEM classroom education, and is working to develop a career-ready quantum workforce.Dr. Daigo Shishika, George Mason University Daigo Shishika is an assistant professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering. He obtained his bachelor’s degree from the University of Tokyo, Japan, and his master’s and PhD from the University of Maryland, College Park, all in Aerospace Engineering. Before joining George Mason University, Shishika was a postdoctoral researcher in the GRASP Laboratory at the University of Pennsylvania. His research interest is in the general area of autonomy, dynamics and controls, and robotics. More specifically, his past work has focused on multi-agent
scholarship program. The project builds on prior research suggesting thataffective factors including sense of belonging, identity, and self-efficacy play important yet notfully understood roles in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) students’academic persistence and successful progression toward careers, and that these factors can proveparticularly influential for individuals from groups that have been historically marginalized inSTEM [1]-[6]. Prior studies conducted as part of this research project have demonstrated impactsof Scholars’ math-related experiences on their developing identities [7] and found that structuresassociated with the scholarship program helped support Scholars’ developing sense of belongingdespite the shift
Paper ID #38378Better together: Co-design and co-teaching as professional developmentLynn Mandeltort, University of VirginiaDr. Priya Date, University of VirginiaDr. Amy M. Clobes, University of Virginia Dr. Amy M. Clobes is committed to supporting current and future graduate students as Assistant Dean for Graduate Affairs for the University of Virginia School of Engineering and Applied Science. In her current role, Dr. Clobes collaborates to support existing programs and develops new initiatives in graduate student recruitment, training, education, and career and professional development. Dr. Clobes holds a B.S. in
topresent the initial findings of the course’s impact quantitatively and qualitatively on students’development of engineering and entrepreneurial skills through a pre- and post-coursecompetencies evaluation survey and prototype evaluations. The paper also details our deliberateapproach to fostering diverse, equitable and inclusive teams.Entrepreneurial Mindset:The term entrepreneurial mindset and what it means in engineering education is oftenmisunderstood. Engineering students continue to associate the term with “starting a business” [9-10], which deters them to see the importance of building career-distinguishing entrepreneurialmindset and value creation skills that create well-rounded engineers. Entrepreneurship refers tothe process of starting
or algorithm, and the student's confidenceto debug a program. Self-efficacy can be a key factor in students' academic success and futurecareer choices in engineering. Self-efficacy defined as "one's self-judgment concerningcapability", is an important mediating factor in cognitive motivation [18]. In engineering,students with high levels of self-efficacy tend to have better problem-solving skills, greaterresilience in the face of challenges, and more positive attitudes toward their coursework andfuture careers [19].Another important aspect of self-efficacy is its relationship to the retention of women inengineering. Self-efficacy can play an important role in the success and persistence of women inengineering. Research shows a mixed view of
results of this workshopwere two-fold. First, the participants were able to vent their current frustrations and they alsowere able to practice some creative thinking techniques that might be useful in their careers andpersonal life. Second, the workshop yielded quite a few implementable ideas ranging from short-term to long-term that are being used to improve the campus experience for female engineeringstudents. To date, the researcher has been able to implement three ideas generated by theworkshop participants including a new mid-term course survey, women-led makerspaceprogramming, and registration support for parents. Additional ideas such as priority registrationfor women and gender pairing of academic advisors are in longer-term discussions
engineering careers [3]. Respectfulteamwork can motivate, empower, and encourage students from all backgrounds to persistthrough challenges, and to continue pursuing engineering [4]. However, when teamwork andcollaboration is less respectful or inequitable, individuals (often women, racial minorities,members of the LGBTQ community, people with disabilities, etc.) may be discouraged tocontinue studying engineering due to the working environment [4]. Therefore, it is imperativethat early engineering classes foster inclusive and equitable standards of teamwork to ensurestudents of all backgrounds feel respected in academic collaboration. An environment of respectand inclusion is beneficial not only to the individuals in the team but also to the team as
payincreases. In some cases, employees have accumulated large pensions that may be payable inlump sums. Employees can simultaneously retire from one employer, take a large lump sumpayout, and then go to work for another employer, often at an increased pay rate.Another suggested cause is a desire for a better work-life balance. This includes burnout andsafety concerns regarding the pandemic for some professions like the medical [12] and educationfields [13]. Unsurprisingly, Ahmed et al. (2022) empirically found that job satisfaction wasstatistically significantly inversely related to job burnout [14]. Employees feeling burned outwere less satisfied with their jobs. A related possible cause is a desire for a change of life such aschanging careers [15
disease on tissue- and joint-level mechanobiology. She has received many awards including the 2019 YC Fung Young Investigator Award and NSF CAREER Award, and was inducted into the AIMBE College of Fellows in 2021. American c Society for Engineering Education, 2022Thank you for joining us today for our presentation on Combining Forces, PuttingEquity to Work. My name is Dr. Fatima Alleyne and I am the Director of CommunityEngagement and Inclusive Practices in the College of Engineering at UC Berkeley.Joining me today from UC Berkeley is Professor Grace O’Connell, the Associate Deanfor Inclusive Excellence and former Vice Chair for Equity in the MechanicalEngineering
leveraging the power of PBL inteaching practices and projects with a focus on DEIJ, engineering educators can create moreinclusive and empowering learning experiences through projects that help all students thrive intheir engineering education and future engineering careers by fostering innovation, creativity,and excellence. Creating an inclusive learning environment, ensuring equitable access andsuccess, and promoting diverse representation and perspectives in project-based classes withinfirst year engineering courses are essential for retaining and preparing engineers who areequipped to address the complex and grand challenges of the 21st century.ConclusionComing from civil and environmental engineering backgrounds, the authors initially taught
Tech and a Professor in the Department of Engineering Education where she has also served in key leadership positions. Dr. Matusovich is recognized for her research and leadership related to graduate student mentoring and faculty development. She won the Hokie Supervisor Spotlight Award in 2014, received the College of Engineering Graduate Student Mentor Award in 2018, and was inducted into the Virginia Tech Academy of Faculty Leadership in 2020. Dr. Matusovich has been a PI/Co-PI on 19 funded research projects including the NSF CAREER Award, with her share of funding being nearly $3 million. She has co-authored 2 book chapters, 34 journal publications, and more than 80 conference papers. She is recognized for her
partnership or faculty externship with a constructionmanagement industry member and a faculty member's home academic institution, a course wascreated in which current industry project work was leveraged as curricular content and deployed,in real-time, within a combined lecture and lab classroom environment. The focus of the coursewas virtual design and construction tools, workflows, processes, and information technology forconstruction. In this model, a full-time faculty member was embedded in the industry to leveragea live knowledge transfer learning environment that draws from real-time industry experiencesand training to bring direct career readiness and preparation into the classroom. Engaging thispedagogical model allowed the faculty member to
valued or acted upon.The importance of department chairs in perceptions of climate is evident from both the facultyclimate survey data, as well as our qualitative research on the experiences of women of colorfaculty. A path analysis of predictors of faculty job satisfaction based on climate survey datafinds that for both women and men, effective chair leadership leads to greater career satisfactionvia access to internal academic resources and collegial relationships [13]. The role of the chair isparticularly important for women faculty, however, as perceptions of effective chair leadershipdirectly shape job satisfaction for women faculty. Turning to our interview data, women of colorin diverse departments reported that their relationship with
bibliographical review on the entry and retention of women in STEMcareers [8]. The study identifies several factors contributing to the low representation of womenin STEM fields, including a lack of female role models, which conveys the message that womenare not inclined or capable of pursuing careers in science or engineering. Moreover, the studyhighlights that simply increasing the number of women in these disciplines is insufficient. This isbecause many women in STEM have had to conform to a more masculine model to fit in andsucceed.Camps [9], also addresses this issue in her research, which involved interviewing women insenior management. She found that some interviewees sought to distance themselves fromfeminine traits, as they to work with men and
Division Early Career Award.Dr. C. Stewart Slater, Rowan University C. Stewart Slater is a professor of chemical engineering and founding chair of the Chemical Engineering Department at Rowan University. He has an extensive research and teaching background in separation process technology with a particular focus on membraSean CurtisMichael FracchiollaDavid Anthony Theuma ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2023 Hands-On Experience in Solving Real-World Problems via a Unique Student-Faculty-Industry Collaboration Program1. IntroductionModern engineering education should have an inclusive teaching curriculum that combinestraditional lecture-based learning with new methods that can
projects integrated with the undergraduate engineering curriculum. Dr. Surupa Shaw | Texas A&M University | Higher Education Center at McAllen TX I. INTRODUCTION The undergraduate engineering curriculum forms the fundamental knowledge base for our future engineerswho would be serving the global society. It is imperative for the undergraduate engineers to get a reality checkon the utility of their classroom knowledge that would help them shape their career path and would providethem a valuable appreciation of the course content. Phylis Blumenfeld et al. [1] emphasized on the compellingargument of making projects an integral part of the learning process, as they promote student
. This project helped reinforce problem-solving in engineering and helped expand our minds on another software that is possibly applicable to a future career. 3. Through this experiment, we have gained insight on how the design process works, how long we can expect our prints to take, and some of the challenges we can expect to confront.Students also comment on self-efficacy, we learned from the 3D printing assignment is that tomake a successful print you have to understand the structural needs of your design and possibleweak points. As we continue offering this course, we will develop new projects and modules to deliverto the students. We also plan to collect and publish more formal assessment data with a
the Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering at Arizona State University. He teaches context-centered electrical engineering and embedded systems design courses, and studies the use of context and storytelling in both K-12 and undergraduate engineering design education. Jordan is PI on several NSF- funded projects related to design, including an National Science Foundation (NSF) Early CAREER Award entitled “CAREER: Engineering Design Across Navajo Culture, Community, and Society” and “Might Young Makers be the Engineers of the Future?,” and is a Co-PI on the NSF Revolutionizing Engineering Departments grant “Additive Innovation: An Educational Ecosystem of Making and Risk Taking.” He was named one of ASEE PRISM’s “20
have authored over 150 peer-reviewed technical articles and two have been recognized as best papers in American Society of Mechanical Engineers journals. He is a Fellow of ASME. Ali has taught 11 different courses and leads an engineering- based study abroad course in Brazil as well as the jointly-funded NSF-DoD REU site on Hypersonics (HYPER). Ali is well-known for engaging undergraduates in research, and he is UCF’s 2019 Champion of Undergraduate Research inaugural awardee. At UCF and in the broader higher education community, Ali focuses his efforts on expanding the pipeline of graduate students qualified to pursue careers in academia. Just before joining UCF as an Assistant Professor, he earned a PhD in Mechanical
. 7, no. 1, p. n1, 2018.[6] R. G. McGrath and I. C. MacMillan, The entrepreneurial mindset: Strategies for continuously creating opportunity in an age of uncertainty. Harvard Business Press, 2000.[7] T. K. F. Foundation. "Transforming Engineering with Entrepreneurial Mindset." https://engineeringunleashed.com/ (accessed.[8] A. M. Jackson, S. Resnick, R. Hansson, and C. Bodnar, "Student perceptions of an entrepreneurial mindset and its relevance to engineering careers," 2021.[9] A. Jackson, S. Resnick, R. Hansson, K. Burgess, and C. A. Bodnar, "Exploration of the experiences that shape engineering students’ entrepreneurial mindset development," Entrepreneurship Education and Pedagogy
cultures in this inequality. Second, Cech examines how cultural definitions of “good work” and “good workers” can anchor inequality in the workforce. For example, she examines the role of the “passion principle” in the reproduction of occupational inequalities: how seemingly voluntary and self-expressive career decisions help reproduce processes like occupational sex segregation. Finally, she studies how cultural understandings of the extent and origin of inequality help to uphold unequal social structures. Cech’s research is funded by multiple grants from the National Science Foundation. She is a member of the editorial board of the American Journal of Sociology and her research has been cited in The New York Times
-inducing activitiessuch as meeting peers and introduction to course content are completed before “day one” of thecourse.A major objective of a pre-course session is the instructor’s opportunity to frame why a course isnecessary and how the knowledge is to be acquired. This vision can be challenging to highlighteffectively in the ‘day one’ excitement and angst, or after the lesson flow of the course hasbegun. The framing focus can motivate students and help them connect the course objectives toachieving their goals. Providing a framing structure in the course will help students take that firststep, or next step, on their career path.The pre-course session may also provide scaffolding and pre-teaching content to better preparestudents for the course
results in a deeper understanding of those engineering concepts throughthe lens of real-world collaboration and contexts.IntroductionEngineering is necessary for human survival and anyone who wants to be part of designing thatsurvival deserves to participate. Instructional designers must create content that allows forteaching the fundamentals of a discipline and leaves space for cultivating and discussing newideas. Underserved populations in engineering have been shown to stick with careers where theyfeel they have a social and global impact so incorporation of applications and examples intocurriculum is essential [1, 2]. The multimodal framework presented in this paper demonstrates away to emphasize the relationship between engineering and
renewable energy achievements in Australia, New Zealand, Denmark, Virgin Islands and Germany. Mrs. Temple started her career in the private sector in accounting and finance before coming to College of the Canyons. Mrs. Temple earned her B.A. in Communications with an emphasis in Public Relations at California State University Bakersfield and a M.A. in Strategic Communications from National University. In addition to her grant administration duties, Mrs. Temple is an Instructor in Communication Studies at College of the Canyons in California.Kathleen Alfano (NSF CREATE Center co-PI) 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
of context and storytelling in both K-12 and undergraduate engineering design education. Jordan is PI on several NSF-funded projects related to design, including an National Science Foundation (NSF) Early CAREER Award entitled “CAREER: Engineering Design Across Navajo Culture, Community, and Society” and “Might Young Makers be the Engineers of the Future?,” and is a Co-PI on the NSF Revolutionizing Engineering Departments grant “Additive Innovation: An Educational Ecosystem of Making and Risk Taking.” He was named one of ASEE PRISM’s “20 Faculty Under 40” in 2014, and received a Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers from President Obama in 2017. Jordan co- developed the STEAM Labs™ program to