department at Seattle University to study how the department culture changes can foster students’ engineering identity with the long-term goal of increasing the representation of women and minority in the field of engineering.Dr. Jennifer A Turns, University of Washington Dr. Jennifer Turns is a full professor in the Human Centered Design & Engineering Department in the College of Engineering at the University of Washington. Engineering education is her primary area of scholarship, and has been throughout her career. In her work, she currently focuses on the role of reflection in engineering student learning and the relationship of research and practice in engineering education. In recent years, she has been the co
styledeliverables (e.g., basic business plans, product launch plans, patents) already verticallyintegrated into the design curriculum.SurveysPre- and post-course surveys were administered to Group A in FA22, and will be administeredlater in SP23, and FA23. Group B will take the pre- and post- course surveys in FA23 only. Thepre-course survey asks students to evaluate their confidence in technical writing and theperceived value of gaining technical writing skills for future coursework, following graduation,and to reach their career goals on a 4 point Likert scale (strongly agree, agree, disagree, stronglydisagree). In addition to the questions from the pre-course survey, the post-course survey collectsstudent feedback on the efficacy of the technical
. Her research interests include student mental health and wellness, engineering student career pathways, and engagement of engineering faculty in engineering education research.Jennifer Cromley, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Jennifer Cromley is Professor of Educational Psychology at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Her research focuses on two broad areas: achievement/retention in STEM and comprehension of illus- trated scientific textMs. Sara Rose Vohra, University Of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Sara Vohra is an undergraduate studying Bioengineering in The Grainger College of Engineering and minoring in Chemistry. ©American Society for Engineering Education
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worse for low-income and URM students [6].• In cohort 3, the annual survey showed potential issues in academic integrations and self- regulation. Academic integration is a measure of the students’ perceptions of their academic experiences with faculty, counselors, and administrators, as well as perceptions about their career preparation at their institutions. Self-regulation is the awareness, knowledge, and control of cognition. It includes the students’ ability to control their effort and attention in the face of distraction and uninteresting tasks [5] which also may reflect the potential lack of motivation seen in the pandemic generation [6].• Academic performance goals as measured by GPA were met with recent cohort
Department of Civil Engineer- ing, Morgan State University, Baltimore, Maryland. Pelumi got his BSc and MSc degree in Physics from Obafemi Awolowo University, where he also served as a research assistant at the Environmental Pollu- tion Research unit, in Ile-Ife, Nigeria. As part of his contribution to science and engineering, Pelumi has taught as a teaching assistant both at Morgan State University and Obafemi Awolowo University. With a passion to communicate research findings gleaned from experts in the field as he advances his career, Olaitan has attended several in-person and virtual conferences and workshops, and at some of them, made presentations on findings on air pollution, wastewater reuse, and heavy metal
University. She is as an astrophysicist focusing on what we can learn about galaxy evolution from the gas and star formation properties of galaxies. She is also working to improve STEM education with a focus on the education and retention of a diverse group of students in the STEM disciplines. She has developed and implemented education programs that span K-20, researched improvements to STEM classroom education, and is working to develop a career-ready quantum workforce. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2023 Post-COVID Professional Development and Community Building for a Pedagogical Change ProjectProject BackgroundThis project, funded through the Institutional
non-native population were impressed by the labcapabilities. “We were gladly surprised of the amount of equipment and manufacturing tools and the friendliness that they offer.” -RU Faculty member, professor of biomedical engineeringAdditionally, new relationships were made with people who have different perspectives. Thishelped all participants ruminate on new possibilities for their future careers and professionalgrowth. Finally, they were inspired by the collaboration from this customized 3D printed project. “I've never done a project like this before, but I feel like I learned a lot and I got to make new relationships and meet new people with different perspectives.” - RU student engineer, design team member
competency in STEMclassrooms germinated from the best ambitions but proved hollow [5]. These intentions oftenlacked the depth of multicultural sensitivity as the efforts and outlooks suffer from simplicity [5]. Previous research literature germane to students of Colors’ university experiences inSTEM stipples vexatious challenges that impede full participation and a sense of belonging [6].These include but are not limited to; a negative campus climate shaped by microaggressiveoccurrences [7]; dominant culture reinforcement in STEM classrooms that serve to excludestudents of Color [2], deficient social networking for career advancement opportunities [1],absence in the perception of the community [6], and racists stereotypes, tokenism
personally invite them to courses prepared their children for the job program events. Although families were not always the market (internships) or graduate school able to make it, they appreciated the invitations. (e.g., research opportunities).Families’ stories derived from their participation in this program challenge dominant narrativesthat leave unquestioned deficit assumptions about low-income and of color families’ perceivedlack of support for their children’s college. Accordingly, this program helps to build asset drivencounterstories about the community cultural wealth that these students’ families leverage tosupport their academic and career success.Because students within and across the two program cohorts
mathematics) education has beenperforming well below numerous fellow OECD nations [1]. The committee identified severaldeleterious results if this trend continued, including the reduction of the United States’ competitiveeconomic edge. Stated benefits of improved science and technological literacy included theprovision of essential preparation for all careers in the modern workforce. Moreover, without aflourishing scientific and engineering community, young people may not be motivated to dreamof “what can be,” and might have inadequate motivation to become the next generation of scientistsand engineers that can address persistent national problems including national and homelandsecurity, health care, the provision of energy, the preservation of the
backbone of the current curricular programs including a math-intensivesummer bridge experience (Engineering Ahead), a first semester First-Year Seminar, and asecond semester STEM-Persistence Seminar. In addition, co-curricular activities of the LIONSTEM program focus on professional communication skills, financial literacy, career readiness,undergraduate research, and community engagement. Although our primary outcome measure ofthe program is retention in baccalaureate Engineering majors (and other STEM majors), alongthe way we seek to take a holistic approach to analyzing STEM-persistence as a byproduct ofone’s development of their STEM-identity. This paper presents data collected about roleidentities from the first cohort of LION STEM Scholars
introduced to the tool of a “team Contract” and presented with asimplified template recommended to be used in team projects later in the career. A secondlecture addresses the topic of “Social Loafing”. With some cases presented in class fordiscussion. In the spring semester they are introduced to the topic of “Conflict resolution” andrevisits the alignment of team contract with high performance teams. For these sections and theother activities in these introductory courses, students are placed in teams of 2-3 by CATME,and they get trained in the use of the resources it provides. Later in the career, some professorstake the initiative of introducing or reinforcing teamwork skills with some lectures or exercises,mainly to deal with conflict resolution
should join, and any differences between the two.The research questions that guided this study were: RQ1: How do undergraduate engineering students perceive the amount of time spent engaging in engineering clubs? RQ2: Why are undergraduate engineering students motivated to join engineering clubs? RQ3: What are the perceived benefits of engineering club participation?Students are motivated to join engineering clubs to find community with peers [3], applyknowledge to real-world settings [4], prepare for their careers [5], develop new skills [6], [7],and pursue personal interests [8]. Design clubs (both competition and impact-focused teams)provide additional opportunities to practice the design process [9], manufacture parts
the United States, primarily pressurized water reactor systems and boiling water reactorsystems. The overall fraction of electric power production by nuclear power in the United Stateswas identified at 20%. Four sectors in the nuclear power industry were identified: nuclear wastefacilities, nuclear power plants, nuclear fuel facilities, and nuclear-decommissioning activities.The workforce needs for each sector were identified and discussed.MethodsTo train, encourage and motivate students to pursue nuclear science and technology careers andjobs in our communities, our HBCU team has been assigned Task 4.2: Strategic Outreach forNuclear Workforce Pipeline Development and Maintenance. The objectives include thefollowing:1. Increase the number of
on two broad areas: achievement/retention in STEM and comprehension of illus- trated scientific textDr. Karin Jensen, University of Michigan Karin Jensen, Ph.D. (she/her) is an assistant professor in biomedical engineering and engineering edu- cation research at the University of Michigan. Her research interests include student mental health and wellness, engineering student career pathways, and engagement of engineering faculty in engineering education research.Dale RobbennoltAnne Hart, University of Tennessee, Memphis ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2023 Work in Progress: Exploring the Landscape of Stressors Experienced by Doctoral Engineering
efforts to get students to interact with computational thinking as part of theireducation and to broaden participation is student engagement [18].Individuals may engage with computing in many different ways. They may start early on, withcomputational thinking integrated into elementary or middle schools in the U.S. [17], and otherpeople may elect to enroll in a computing major as soon as they start in tertiary education.Meanwhile, others enter a computing career later in life, entering through alternative pathwayssuch as coding bootcamps and self-learning through online resources [19]. Yet, given that it hasbeen argued that “the majority of youth have been systematically denied access to quality CSlearning opportunities” [17, p. 36:2], finding
. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2023Work-in-Progress: Developing a Research Plan for a Retrospective Analysis of the Effect of Bridging Courses on Student Success in Graduate Studies1. IntroductionNorth Carolina State University’s Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering (CBE)regularly accepts accomplished students to its graduate program with backgrounds such aschemistry, physics, or biology. However, these students may lack the prerequisite knowledge ofkey chemical engineering topics, such as transport phenomena and thermodynamics. Otherstudents may have an undergraduate background in chemical engineering but enter graduatestudy after an industrial career and would like a refresher on complicated topics
practices, STEAM, and S-L and further refined throughcomparison to student feedback on various activities.This framework has implications for both researchers studying S-L and STEAM education andalso practitioners seeking to set up their programs for success. While elementary teachers areoverworked and over-asked, developing S-L relationships with local university programs can beone solution to addressing STEAM workforce development at both K-12 and university levels.IntroductionIn a most recent effort to strengthen Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics(STEM) education nationwide, the goal of the Raise the Bar: STEM Excellence for All Studentsinitiative is to ensure their 21st-century career readiness and global competitiveness for all
In 2015, staff and faculty at Texas A&M University (TAMU) partnered with the YucatanInitiative Project (YIP), to create a program in Yucatan, Mexico where engineering studentscould develop their global mindset and gain research experience early in their college career,through a high-impact learning opportunity. The Engineering Learning Community Introductionto Research (ELCIR) Program was launched in the spring academic semester of 2015, throughthe joint efforts of organizations and institutions in Texas and Yucatan: • Access & Inclusion Program and its Engineering Success Program (tx.ag/TAMUAI) o Provides academic and peer support to economically disadvantaged first generation underrepresented minority
language data. Experimentation Understand principles of design for social science experiments. Hypothesis Design theoretical experiments for making causal inferences. Independence Develop an independent research program. Coding Apply coding skills in execution of research. Mentorship Build mentor/mentee relationships with graduate collaborators.hands-on experience developing an independent research program in preparation for researchfellowships, graduate school, and STEM research careers.4 Program RecruitmentMisinformation is an emergent electronic threat to national security, personal, and public health.Online misinformation regarding COVID-19, and its causative agent the SARS-CoV
(5) year contracts with option to renew. Conditions forrenewal are included in the agreement.2.2. The ImplementationThe implementation of the HPAT model requires a combined effort of both partners at all stagesof a student’s career. This requires an early and active participation of the 4-year partner from thetime of admission, until the student completes the bachelor’s or master’s degree. Additionally, itimplies a continuous participation of the 2-year partner through mentoring, and longitudinalprogram assessment for continuous improvement. Various curricular, co-curricular, andextracurricular activities are encouraged to be developed in each of the partner institutions withsome overlap whenever possible. This will support student
highereducation institutions focusing on sustainability often ground the curricula for those topics incommunity work using three pillars of engagement: social, environmental, and economic [8].Community engagement, as a form of service-based learning, has proven to be a viablemethod for grounding sustainability factors in technical education, so that such concepts arenot so easily dismissed by students driven by pragmatic, purely technical conceptions ofengineering.There are still knowledge gaps in how engineers could apply higher levels of sustainabilityexpertise in their careers [9]. This could perpetuate a notion that sustainability programsproduce effete engineers unable to apply their conceptual understanding of sustainability inpractice [9]. A
Education Organization and Leadership from the University of Illinois. American c Society for Engineering Education, 2021 The Early Research Scholars ProgramBackgroundResearch experiences for undergraduates has shown to increase retention in scientific fields [1],and the NSF Summer REU program provides great support for such experiences. Most REUs aredesigned for advanced students with strong foundations in Computer Science. The EarlyResearch Scholars Program (ERSP) was designed to provide a structured research experience forstudents early in their CS career (pre-data structures when they apply). The goal is to increaseretention of women and under-represented
at Purdue University. She was co-PI of Purdue’s ADVANCE program from 2008-2014, focusing on the underrepresentation of women in STEM faculty positions. She runs the Feminist Research in Engineering Education Group, whose diverse projects and group members are described at pawleyresearch.org. She was a National Academy of Engineering CASEE Fellow in 2007, received a CAREER award in 2010 and a PECASE award in 2012 for her project researching the stories of undergraduate engineering women and men of color and white women, and received the Denice Denton Emerging Leader award from the Anita Borg Institute in 2013. She has been author or co-author on papers receiving ASEE-ERM’s best paper award, the AAEE Best Paper
abilities.Authors such as Pascarella & Terenzini, Tinto, and Thomas have argued that student success willtranspire in higher education if all learners are integrated into the social and academic fabric of therespective institution [35], [38], [39]. Research suggest that having additional resources on campussuch as peer tutoring, academic advising, personal and career counselling, and disability servicesmay be compensatory in various ways [36]. For example, it can assist disadvantaged studentsovercome potential lack of academic information, cultural capital, or academic preparedness [25],[38]. In a study conducted by Bauman et al. in 2004, the likelihood of students using campusservices was analyzed [26]. Results indicate that three quarters of the
students in STEM, integrative training for graduate teaching assistants, and curriculum innovation for introductory computing courses.Mr. Lucas Anderson, University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign Lucas Anderson is a Specialist in Education at the Center for Innovation in Teaching & Learning (CITL) at the University of Illinois. He organizes the central campus teacher training program for the more than 800 new Teaching Assistants (TAs) Illinois welcomes each year. He continues to work with TAs throughout their graduate career by observing their classes, helping them collect and interpret feedback from their students, and shepherding them through CITL’s teaching certificate program. He offers a variety of workshops
engineering course with activities relevant to the identifiedmajor may develop stronger beliefs regarding their career choice and expectancy-related beliefs,improving engineering identity5. For this reason, the Civil and Environmental EngineeringDepartment elected to move a previously offered second-year course titled Civil EngineeringFundamentals to the second semester of the first-year. This paper presents a before and aftercomparison of faculty-assessed student proficiency, as well as students’ self-assessedproficiency, in select civil engineering technologies taught in the course to better understand howthe transition from second-to-first year affected both learning of and comfort with thesetechnologies.Course DescriptionThe Civil Engineering
interest is in civil engineering curriculum development that enhances student engagement and inclusion. One of the first to develop and teach an introductory course on Geomatics in 1993 at Georgia Tech. A similar course is now required in numerous CE curriculums including Clemson’s.Mr. Matthew Ryan Stanley, Clemson University Hello! My name is Matthew Stanley and I am a graduate student in the Clemson University Glenn Department of Civil Engineering. I am pursuing a master’s degree in transportation systems, and plan to pursue a career in surveying engineering or roadway design. I am a graduate teacher’s assistant for the Geomatics course offered at Clemson University. American
Godwin, Ph.D. is an Associate Professor of Engineering Education and Chemical Engineering at Purdue University. Her research focuses what factors influence diverse students to choose engineering and stay in engineering through their careers and how different experiences within the practice and culture of engineering foster or hinder belongingness and identity development. Dr. Godwin graduated from Clem- son University with a B.S. in Chemical Engineering and Ph.D. in Engineering and Science Education. Her research earned her a National Science Foundation CAREER Award focused on characterizing latent di- versity, which includes diverse attitudes, mindsets, and approaches to learning, to understand engineering