address the practical challenges that students face when theyadapt to life in a larger city and how it impacts their pursuit of becoming an engineer.BackgroundTinto’s theory of student attrition asserts that student success in higher education can beattributed to two factors: personal characteristics the student brings with them, such as skills andabilities, and interactions using these characteristics across a range of college experiences [7].Early retention research tended to focus on the first factor: personal characteristics of students.Several student characteristics have typically been found to be predictors of student success, suchas high school GPA, standardized test scores and high school class rank [8]. However, a morerecent body of
progress paper discusses the Academy of Engineering Success (AcES), an NSF S-STEMsupported program, which employs known best practices to support and retain underrepresentedstudents in engineering through graduation. The goal is to graduate more students fromunderrepresented populations in an effort to ultimately diversify the engineering workforce.This paper describes this program’s unique implementation of a specific subset of retention bestpractices, such as facilitating (1) the development of both a feeling of institutional inclusion andengineering identity by providing opportunities for faculty-student and student-student interaction aswell as major and career exploration, (2) academic support, including support for the development ofbroader
student-centered techniques into their lectures is common in faculty, the additional timecommitment is a typical barrier. This work describes a pilot program called the “Interactive LearningCollaborative” that supports trained teaching assistants (TAs) in designing and implementing interactiveactivities and retrospective post-assessments in lectures, in partnership with faculty. The objectives of thepilot were to 1) provide engineering TAs opportunities to practice activity design and implementation, 2)improve students’ comprehension of the material through peer interaction and reflection in lectures, andin doing so, 3) demonstrate to faculty these pedagogies and their positive impact on student perception.In the fall of 2021, TAs met with a
design in STEM education. In this paper, we describe our approach for developing theproject usage model. Using examples from our analysis, we show and describe the steps taken toconstruct the model by jointly developing and combining three specific user-centered designtools (i.e., personas, scenarios, and landing zones) using an iterative, qualitative approach.Background and PurposeThere is a well-documented lag between the dissemination of educational research findings andthe application of evidence-based instructional strategies within STEM classrooms [NRC, 1,PCAST, 2, 3-5]. Moreover, STEM education scholars attest to a growing discontent within thefield related to the slow transfer of research-based innovations into education practice [6-9
show that in2003, 68.3% of engineering degrees were awarded to Caucasians, 14% to Asian Americans,5.1% to African Americans, 5.4% to Hispanic students and 7.2% to others. It is important to notethat since 1999 there has been a declining trend in the number of Hispanic and African Americanstudents among all engineering graduates. At the same time, the percentage of bachelor’sengineering degrees awarded to women is only 20%.Benefits of After School ProgramsWell-implemented after school programs can have a positive impact on a range of academic andother outcomes, particularly for disadvantaged children and youth. Academic outcomesassociated with participation in after school programs include12: Better attitudes toward school and higher
commitment that increases competency. Ourinterviewees noted that mandatory training activities helped them to develop boundaries byencouraging them to engage with the “why” behind their boundaries. Understanding communitymembers’ motivations and experiences contributes to building an emotionally safe environment.A professional staff member in Residence Life their core motivation this way: I think having more intentional opportunities for us to express what’s useful in practice goes a long way, not only towards feeling heard and welcome and as a valuable part of Residence Life staff, but also towards making training the best that can be.In engineering, emotional safety and trust are critical components for successful
Paper ID #15794Team Negotiation Strategies in Entrepreneurship Education: Patterns Foundin Engineering Students from Northern California and Santiago de ChileDr. Constanza Miranda Mendoza, Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile Constanza Miranda holds a PhD in design with a focus in anthropology from North Carolina State Univer- sity. While being a Fulbright grantee, Constanza worked as a visiting researcher at the Center for Design Research, Mechanical Engineering Department, in Stanford. Today she is an assistant professor at the En- gineering School in P.Universidad Cat´olica de Chile where she directs the DILAB
Africa. According to the World Bank [2], Sub-Saharan African countriescurrently lack the engineering capacity required for developmental needs especially in areaslike manufacturing and infrastructure. It is therefore imperative to better understand howpedagogical practices may impact student self-perceptions towards innovation. As thisunderstanding is formed, best practices can be suggested to foster student problem-solvingprowess for economic development.Ashesi University in Ghana is a small, private institution, which aims to offer a moreexperiential approach than the norm. The majority of the students are Ghanaians, but 26% areinternational, coming from 34 countries across Africa [3]. Nearly all come in with similarbackgrounds in terms of
Page 26.1424.2specifically within an engineering context5. Over the last decade there has been an increase inthe amount of research on engineering leadership. The following focuses on definitionsprovided by three well-known organizations.The Bernard M. Gordon-MIT Engineering Leadership Program (GEL) provides a simpledefinition of engineering leadership as being “the technical leadership of change” includingthe innovation, implementation and invention of products and enabling technologies to meetthe needs of society6.In 2010, the National Society of Professional Engineers (NSPE) outlined the need forpreparing students for the professional engineering practice by providing them with the“ability to apply principles of leadership”7. The NSPE
workfocuses on the flexibility of developing skills that will allow students to learn how to team (i.e.teaming skills), rather than on teambuilding exercises that promote the power of traditional rigidteam structures[1], [7].The overall objective of this work-in-progress is to propose the utilization of modern practices inteamwork and teaming education to effectively prepare chemical engineering students for achanging work environment that centers around collaborative activities. In the followingsections, we will detail our training model development as we have created lectures and practicalclass components focusing on the acquisition of teaming skills and the practice of effectiveteamwork in a Unit Operations laboratory course. The research question
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createcohesive offerings with strong brand identity. Using a system of systems approach, we aremoving toward our goal of a seamless value chain.We recommend, through our own experiences that those interested in adopting a similar I/Uecosystem to examine their respective organizational setting. Essential policies and best practicesneed to be adopted or in place in order to forge a successful I/U framework.Bibliography1. Miller, Charles (chair). A Test of Leadership: Charting the Future of U.S. Higher Education, National Commission on the Future of Higher Education in America. Washington: U.S. Department of Education, 2006.2. Duderstadt, James J. (). Engineering for a Changing World: A Roadmap to the Future of American Engineering Practice, Research
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Paper ID #16036Ethics in the Classroom: The Volkswagen Diesel ScandalDr. Elisa L. Warford, University of Southern California Elisa Warford is a senior lecturer in the Engineering Writing Program at the University of Southern Cal- ifornia, where she teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in written and oral engineering commu- nication. Her current research interests include the rhetoric of science and portrayals of engineering and technology in American literature. She is also a professional technical editor specializing in engineering writing for academia and industry. She holds a Ph.D. in English from the University
California Institute of Technology, and is a Board Certified Environmental Engineer, a Professional Engineer (Louisiana), and was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2005 for the ”development of widely used approaches for the management of contaminated sediments”. His research is focused on the fate, transport, and management of contaminants in the environment and the sustainable management of water resources.Dr. Jill Hoffman, Museum of Texas Tech University As the Assistant Director for Visitor Experience, and the Helen DeVitt Jones Curator of Education—both for the Museum of Texas Tech University (TTU)— Jill also is a faculty member in the graduate Mu- seum Science program at TTU. Her museum career
; Urban Analysis from Appalachian State University. Her focus includes taking a holistic approach to inte- grating sustainability and waste reduction systematically across the campus community. It is a dynamic goal that includes utilizing campus as a living learning laboratory for student engagement, research, and high impact learning. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2020 Overcoming the Challenges to Launch a Successful Initiative of an Engineering Faculty-led Travel Course While Boosting Interdisciplinary CollaborationsAbstractThe benefits to students in achieving learning outcomes through faculty-led travel courses havebeen studied in the
possibility for engineering judgmentsconstructed in well-designed writing assignments to improve critical thinking capabilities.Background and Literature ReviewImproving critical thinking, is considered an urgent need because engineering graduates are oftenconsidered deficient in these skills upon entry to the workplace. Claris and Riley (2012) discuss this“situation normal” where engineers often possess strong logical thinking skills, but may not possess theskills or disposition to think critically about engineering problem construction and framing, powerrelations, and other social dimensions shaping engineering practice. However, recent findings of Ford etal. (2021), Lutz and Paretti (2021), and Gewirtz and Paretti (2021) suggest that recent
University of Michigan in 1985 and her M.S. in 1988 and Ph.D. in 1991 in chemical engineering both from Pennsylvania State University. Dr. Karen’s educational research emphasis includes faculty development and mentoring, graduate student development, critical thinking and communication skills, enhancing mathematical student success in Calculus (including Impact of COVID-19), and promoting women in STEM. Her technical research focuses on sustainable chemical process design, computer aided design, and multicriteria decision making. She also has extensive experience in K-12 STEM education and program evaluation and assessment. She has held a variety of administrative positions: 1) Director of STEM Faculty Development
assignment of tasks.5. Future ResearchVideogames such as Rise of Nations might have a variety of applications in educational settings.At Universidad _____, the game is starting to be employed in graduate and undergraduate classessuch as Systems Thinking, Management of Technology and Innovation and Logistics. Newworkshops, activities and learning guides are being developed and emerging behaviors arestarting to show. All this body of work is being systematized to detect trends and best practices toapply games depending on the contents and skills to develop.Another avenue of research is to study the evolution of players during the semester, in terms ofthe depth of their understanding, the relationships they build, the social constructions that
Safety and EdD in Educational Leadership from East Carolina University.Michael Bosse, East Carolina University Michael J. Bossé is an associate professor in the Department of Mathematics, Science, and Instructional Technology Education at East Carolina University. Having earned his PhD at the University of Connecticut, he continues to research and publish in various areas of mathematics education including: learning and cognition, pedagogy, technology, distance education, integration and curriculum.Laurie Moses, East Carolina University Laurie A. Moses is serving as project coordinator for an NSF grant, and she is also a graduate student at East Carolina University. She received her BA in
video technology has become a widely used medium for education. A prominentimplementation of this technology, interactive distance learning, involves groups of students atlocal and remote sites connected by audio and video teleconferencing. This approach has madethe task of delivering vital undergraduate and graduate engineering courses to distributedaudiences much easier.As this approach has permeated more curricula, distance education instructors have increasinglyassigned projects that require distance learners to work together as an element of the final coursegrade. This trend presents an interesting opportunity for researchers to understand the nature ofinteractions among course participants involved in project teams.This paper presents the
https://wallethub.com/edu/best-worst-metro-areas-for-stem-professionals/9200/# Accessed March 25, 2017.2. Campbell, B., Robb, S., Abbott, S., “Impact of a 5-Week Collegiate Level Residential STEM Summer Program on Secondary School Students (research to practice),” Proceedings of the 2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, Indianapolis, IN, June 15 - 24, 2014.3. Scutt, H. I., & Gilmartin, S. K., & Sheppard, S., & Brunhaver, S. R. (2013, June), Research-Informed Practices for Inclusive Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM) Classrooms: Strategies for Educators to Close the Gender Gap Paper presented at 2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, Atlanta, Georgia. https
, and as President of the IEEE Education Society for 2009-2010. She is an Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Edu- cation. She and her coauthors were awarded the 2011 Wickenden Award for the best paper in the Journal of Engineering Education and the 2011 Best Paper Award for the IEEE Transactions on Education. In Spring 2012, Dr. Lord spent a sabbatical at Southeast University in Nanjing, China teaching and doing research.Dr. Elizabeth A. Reddy, University of San Diego Elizabeth Reddy is a post-doctoral research associate at the University of San Diego’s Shiley-Marcos School of Engineering. She is a social scientist, holding a PhD in cultural anthropology from the Univer- sity of California at Irvine and
(ACCEND) Program) beginning with the entering freshmanclass in 2003. This program combines cooperative education (co-op) and research experiencesintegrated within the traditional classroom education experience, and is in-line with recentrecommendations concerning undergraduate education by the American Society of CivilEngineering and the National Academy of Engineering. Both of these groups have advocated aMaster’s degree as the first professional degree for practicing engineers. The College ofEngineering at the University of Cincinnati has a long and distinguished history as a leader inengineering education. The College introduced cooperative engineering education in 1906, andhas maintained a mandatory cooperative education system ever since
the best way to get an internship is to go to several career fairs (especially in the fall) and to practice interacting with industry representatives before they become “desperate” to get an internship o reading course material before class and doing “bullet point notes” is a good use of their time o that it is essential to get to know their professors in order to obtain good letters of recommendation later o it is better to spread classes out than to have them all consecutively during the day o study groups are essential o research is a good experience for all students Being too lenient on late assignments for
fundamentals of business. Hal Kamine stated in a recent lecture at Lafayette College that one of the best courses he took at Lafayette was Engineering Economics, a course addressing the value of money and various ways of financing projects.38 With a requirement of courses such as this in the curricula, students will be better prepared for the real world, armed with the knowledge of both technology and the financing and marketability of the technology.• Upper-Level Design Courses which combine the technological innovations of engineering with the tools and analytical techniques of entrepreneurship: Upper-level labs can be created across the engineering disciplines which require students, in addition to designing products
the designs behind military drones or mechanisms for financial speculation tosee how technologies are created for the purposes of interpersonal (e.g. drone attacks) andstructural (e.g. home foreclosures) violence.Engineering and ViolenceGiven that all five students identify that engineering is, in one way or another, political, it is notsurprising that they also all agree that engineering perpetuates violence. A senior engineeringstudent explains the dilemmas some students face when finding jobs after graduation, There [are] all these military companies at RPI’s career fair and yeah, my friend just took a job at Lockheed Martin. I know he was relieved when they told him that he wouldn’t be working on any sort of like
following years. Course design and preparation is acontinuous iterative effort; this study will also continue in the following years with furtheralignment practices. More data from larger group sizes and without the impact of extraordinaryfactors such as pandemic is expected to be collected in the following years to supplement theresults and achieve a conclusion with higher confidence. Larger data sets will also allow for theinvestigation of other research questions, such as how the alignment practices affect the standarddeviation of the final exam grades? Diversity in the learning style preferences in each group canbe statistically quantified. If there are students with learning style preferences significantlydifferent from the group, the impact
faculty member of the School of Engineering Education at Purdue University. She is currently a Professor in Biological Systems Engineering at the University of Nebraska - Lincoln. Her role in the College of Engineering at UNL is to lead the disciplinary-based education research initiative, establishing a cadre of engineering education research faculty in the engineering departments and creating a graduate program. Her research focuses on the development, implementation, and assessment of modeling and design activities with authentic engineering contexts; the design and implementation of learning objective-based grading for transparent and fair assessment; and the integration of reflection to develop self-directed
Page 23.625.2student project teams, specific attention will be paid to Formula SAE (FSAE), a design competition series with a long history and worldwide reach, now including nearly 500 collegiateteams in over 20 countries worldwide. Early research from the author’s participant observationwith one team is discussed in this paper, and is presented as a foundation for future researchwithin the global FSAE community and similar PBL* teams.Engineering PBL* Teams as Serious Leisure PBL* teams provide engineering students with opportunities to apply academic learningto a variety of applied contexts and gain valuable practical experience with “soft skills” such asteamwork, project management, interpersonal communication, conflict negotiation