. ‘Non-persisting’ students are those leaving engineering because of the academic climate, grades, self-efficacy, high school preparation, career goals, and gender or race [20]. Moreover, students leave STEM because of a lack of belonging [3], [24], “chilly” climate [25], microaggressions [26], conflicting identities [26]–[28], and not identifying with the field [29]–[31]. This literature on student perceptions highlights how their decisions are influenced by how they see themselves as being capable. This suggests how students’ perceptions affect their decisions which can be influenced by several cognitive and non-cognitive factors. Therefore, students’ observations in school inform the actions they take, and what they see as
get students to fall in love with the practice of engineering. Designingmeaningful and engaging assignments and projects is key. The Expectancy-Value Theoryconnects students’ course perceptions to their engagement and performance [1]. The Valueportion of the theory includes utility value, or how well the assignments and projects align withthe students’ future goals. Including activities with a high utility value greatly influences astudent’s choice of major and their career interests [2]. The Expectancy part of the theory isdescribed as the students’ perception of how well they will perform on tasks within a domain.The more capable a student feels in doing the work of a particular course or curriculum, the moreacademic satisfaction they feel
Disagree (2) 8. I feel really close to team members Strongly disagree (1) 9. I am satisfied with my performance at this task 10. I was pretty skilled at this activity 11. This was a lab that I couldn't do very well 12. I enjoyed doing this lab very much Qualitative questions for hybrid lab 2 1. What are the main benefits of working in a hybrid lab? 2. What are the main challenges of working in a hybrid lab? 3. What are the important skills needed in industry as organizations move to remote work? 4. What skillsets have you learned from the labs that could be transferable to the future in your careers
, Rutgers University Bryce Troncone is an undergraduate at Rutgers University, majoring in Applied Sciences Engineering and Planetary Science. His future endeavors include working on spacecraft technology for his career path.Miss Bianca R. Evangelista, Rutgers University Bianca Evangelista is an undergraduate student pursuing her degree in Chemical Engineering and a Pack- aging Certificate at Rutgers University New Brunswick, originally from Long Island, New York. In addi- tion, she is a former Learning Assistant and current Part-Time Lecturer for an introductory physics course for engineering majors. She has an interest in the future of education and believes in the improvement of society through values such as equity
. is an Associate Professor of engineering in the Ira A. Fulton Schools of En- gineering 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. He received his Ph.D. in Engineering Education (2010) and M.S./B.S. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Purdue University. Dr. Jordan is PI on several NSF-funded projects related to design, including an NSF Early CAREER Award entitled ”CAREER: Engineering De- sign Across Navajo Culture, Community, and Society” and ”Might Young Makers be the Engineers of the Future?,” and is a Co-PI on the NSF
the department of Information Sciences & Technology. Dr. Johri studies the use of information and communication technologies (ICT) for learning and knowledge sharing, with a focus on cognition in informal environments. He also examine the role of ICT in supporting distributed work among globally dispersed workers and in furthering social development in emerging economies. He received the U.S. National Science Foundation’s Early Career Award in 2009. He is co-editor of the Cambridge Handbook of Engineering Education Research (CHEER) published by Cambridge University Press, New York, NY. Dr. Johri earned his Ph.D. in Learning Sciences and Technology Design at Stanford University and a B.Eng. in Mechanical
also are reviewing our courseinterventions to determine if better methods can be employed such as including more active learningprojects to improve student engagement with each identity. Finally, we will follow up with the students asthey progress through their academic careers to see if any of them continue projects through toprototyping and testing stages or present ideas at entrepreneurial competitions or conferences.Acknowledgements: Research supported by VentureWell Foundation Grant #20071-19References:[1] Byers, T., Seelig, T., Sheppard, S., & Weilerstein, P. (2013). Its role in engineering education. TheBridge, 43(2), 35-40.[2] Cardon, M. S., Gregoire, D. A., Stevens, C. E., & Patel, P. C. (2013). Measuring
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 students’ identity development. She has won several awards for her
experiential learning opportunities to both undergraduate and graduate students locally, regionally and internationally with a focus on Hispanic and female students. She is currently Co-PI of UTEP’s NSF-AGEP program focusing on fostering Hispanic doctoral students for academic careers; the Department of Education’s (DoE) STEMGROW Program and DoE’s Program YES SHE CAN. With support from the Center for Faculty Leadership and Development, she leads a Learning Community for Diversity and Inclusion for Innovation at UTEP. She is also a member of two advisory committees to UTEP’s President: The Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion committee and is chair of the Women’s Advisory Council. She is a member at large of the UTEP Council of
students who answered individual questions correctly on pre/post-test assessments.Survey questions were written to understand how the students' attitudes towards math, science,and careers in STEM may have changed as a result of completing the at-home experiment. Thecomplete list of questions can be found in Table 2. Survey question 1 (SQ1) and SQ2ascertained whether students felt they used science and math in their everyday lives,respectively. At baseline, approximately 45% of students felt they used science always or often,and approximately 75% of students felt they used math always or often (Figure 3). There waslittle change in these percentages in the post-survey. SQ3 assessed whether students wouldcontinue
than 15 years [2-12].Due to the COVID-19 pandemic and related shutdowns and restrictions, many faculty concerns,particularly those associated with online instruction were exacerbated, as faculty had to quicklychange their teaching approaches to remote, online, and other hybrid formats. In response tothese concerns, the AIChE Education Division developed a series of Virtual Communities ofPractice open to all chemical engineering faculty members regardless of career phase, title,tenure status, or other classifications. This paper will highlight the genesis of the AIChEEducation Division’s VCP program and describe its impact on faculty members’ professionaldevelopment during the COVID-19 pandemic.Materials and MethodsCreating a virtual community
conclusion of the contest.Two judges rule on any procedural questions and pick thebest designed tractors. The decision of the judges isfinal: The student-made 16 mm movie and a recording of the1981 contest on videotape will be shown as part of this 91presentation.Summary: Is it possible to eliminate the peaks and valleys inengineering enrollment? Perhaps not, but a recruitingdevice for your department similar to the 11 rubber bandtractor contest" may reduce the variation, but moreimportant, may interest the right students early so theycan prepare for an engineering career. Elements of a successful event: 1. Simple, inexpensive, yet challenging. 2. Involvement of present students and staff, in
the workshop and challenging circumstances for all,achieving parity with last year’s outcomes indicates that in its new format, the workshop is stillproviding first year students with the foundational research skills they’ll need to be successful intheir academic and professional careers as engineers.IntroductionOver the last two years, Research & Instruction librarians at Northeastern University havecollaborated with the First Year Engineering program to develop and refine an interactiveworkshop series designed to introduce new engineering students to key research resources andskills at the start of their degree programs, thus establishing a foundation in university-levelengineering research [1].At Northeastern University College of
. Tak-Sing Wong, The Pennsylvania State University Dr. Tak-Sing Wong is currently an Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering and the holder of Wormley Family Early Career Professorship at Penn State. His current research focuses on bio-inspired materials design with applications in water, energy, medicine, and environmental sustainability. For his research contributions, Dr. Wong was named one of the world’s top 35 innovators under the age of 35 by the MIT Technology Review, and honored by the White House for the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers.Prof. Brian M. Foley, The Pennsylvania State University American c Society for
encourage them to pursue STEAM careers. One particularly effective approach isthrough hands-on learning and “making,” since children often have a natural affinity fortinkering and learn well through active involvement in meaningful activities [1]. Hands-on,project-based learning has been shown to get more students engaged with STEAM and help themlearn key skills for the future [2]. However, most STEAM education programs target students inupper-middle or high school [3]. Bustamante et. al write, “Since engineering education hastraditionally not been part of the general K–12 education experience (i.e., the beginning ofprimary school (age 5) through the end of secondary school (age 18)), early childhood educatorshave minimal background in engineering
investigating the intersec- tion of education and career path with cultural identity and is developing strategies to inform programming and policies that facilitate recruitment and retention of underrepresented populations in academia. In 2012 Dr. Zurn-Birkhimer was presented with an Outstanding Alumni Award from the Department of Earth, At- mospheric, and Planetary Sciences and in 2019 the College of Science Distinguished Alumni Award at Purdue University. Dr. Zurn-Birkhimer earned her B.S. in Mathematics from the University of Minnesota, and an M.S. and Ph.D. in Atmospheric Science from Purdue University. American c Society for Engineering Education, 2020
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). He obtained a Ph.D. in Robotics at the School of Interactive Computing, College of Computing, Georgia Institute of Technology. His broad research interests are in visual perception for robotic manipulation, with a focus on deep learning for object grasping and assembly manipulation, soft manipulation, object pose estimation, visual tracking, and active perception.Frances Wood, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities Frances is an experienced student services professional with a background in teaching, careers guidance, academic advising and strategic program management particularly with science students in pre-higher ed- ucation (UK) and higher education sectors (USA) (following on
experienced in their career. The overall goal is to have teachers and their perceptions as a starting point in anunder-researched phenomenon, and to determine a basis for both, in depth and extensive,research on “troublemakers” including student and/ or parent views on “troublemaking”behavior. Literature ReviewFactors Causing Student Misbehaviors Previous researchers have studied what factors may or lead to students’ troublemakingbehaviors at school or in the classroom. A large-sample study indicated that sex, race, age,peer bonding, students’ trust in school rules, school involvement, and school effort had asignificant impact on student misconduct (Welsh et al., 1999). More specifically, Lee andSondra
as far west as Southern California to as far east as Pennsylvania.Dr. Shawn S. Jordan, Arizona State University, Polytechnic campus SHAWN JORDAN, Ph.D. is an Associate Professor of engineering in the Ira A. Fulton Schools of En- gineering 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. He received his Ph.D. in Engineering Education (2010) and M.S./B.S. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Purdue University. Dr. Jordan is PI on several NSF-funded projects related to design, including an NSF Early CAREER Award entitled ”CAREER
Paper ID #29008Work In Progress: Improving student engagement in undergraduatebioinformatics through research contributionsDr. Jessica Dare Kaufman, Endicott College Jessica Kaufman began her engineering career as a chemical engineering major at The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art. After graduation, she worked as a process engineer, primarily in food and pharmaceuticals. Her work in biopharmaceuticals inspired her to earn a doctorate in Biomedical Engineering at Boston University. Since 2008, Jessica has worked at Endicott College and taught a wide range of biotechnology and bioengineering courses. Her
in providing students with experiences akin to those of aprofessional engineer. Multidisciplinary student teams, with faculty guidance as needed, showimprovement in interpersonal skills and cohesive teamwork over time [3]. Additionally, suchprojects garner positive student feedback [5]. When the instructors are also multidisciplinary, andtake the time to reflect on their own teamwork as educators teaching these affective skills, theoutcomes for student learning and overall performance in a project improve year-to-year [6].Many avenues exist for learning and practicing interpersonal affective skills throughout astudent’s educational career [7]. Experiences range from pre-college summer camps taught bymultidisciplinary engineering faculty [8
SemesterEngineering CourseIntroductionSpatial visualization skills are linked to success in chemistry, computer science, engineering, andmathematics [1,2]. Studies found that females, independent of racial and ethnic background,consistently lag behind males in measures of spatial skills[3]. Brus et al. found that femalestudents entering an engineering program report less confidence than male students in threecategories: career choice, scientific preparation, and their preparation of using graphical tools[1].The combination of a lack of confidence upon entry into an engineering program and low spatialvisualization skills, in comparison to male peers, may hurt retention efforts in the case of femaleengineering students[1,2]. Studies also found that students
-efficacy describes a student’s beliefs abouthis or her ability to attain educational goals [4]. A systematic review of research examining therelationship between academic self-efficacy and academic performance showed that academicself-efficacy is not only an important predictor of performance among college students, but alsoinfluences emotions about learning [5]. The concept of academic self-efficacy may be particularly consequential to efforts aimedat retaining students within a given area of study. Retention of STEM majors is especiallyimportant in modern American society, as technology-related careers employ millions ofAmericans [6]. Nevertheless, despite the importance and appeal of these fields, retentioncontinues to be a challenge in
Paper ID #31299You had me at ”undergraduate research”: how one institution achievedincredible results in the first year of a formal program to placefreshmen (and sophomores) in research labs, while helping students chipaway at the cost of collegeSusan Elaine Benzel, Colorado State University Susan E. Benzel, PMP Scott Scholars Program Coordinator Walter Scott, Jr. College of Engineering Colorado State University Susan earned her Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering from Colorado State University, and after a 30-year career in high-tech working for Hewlett Packard (HP)/Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE), she
of Mechanical Engineering at Tufts University.Dr. Kristen B Wendell, Tufts University Kristen Wendell is Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Adjunct Associate Professor of Education at Tufts University. Her research efforts at at the Center for Engineering Education and Out- reach focus on supporting discourse and design practices during K-12, teacher education, and college- level engineering learning experiences, and increasing access to engineering in the elementary school ex- perience, especially in under-resourced schools. In 2016 she was a recipient of the U.S. Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE). https://engineering.tufts.edu/me/people/faculty/kristen
., M.A.Sc.) and Mechanical Engineering from the University of Windsor (Ph.D.). She began a career in automotive research as a product development engineer at the University of Windsor/Chrysler Canada Automotive Research and Development Centre (ARDC). In 2005, Dr. Johrendt joined the University of Windsor as an Experiential Learning Specialist, focusing on teaching and educational research in hands-on learning and cooperative education as it relates to undergraduate engineering. She currently heads the WINONE Office for First- Year Engineering with a focus on supporting first-year undergraduate students as well as recruiting and outreach activities for the Faculty of Engineering. American
the Vir- ginia Tech Engineering Communications Center (VTECC). Her research focuses on communication in engineering design, interdisciplinary communication and collaboration, design education, and gender in engineering. She was awarded a CAREER grant from the National Science Foundation to study expert teaching in capstone design courses, and is co-PI on numerous NSF grants exploring communication, design, and identity in engineering. Drawing on theories of situated learning and identity development, her work includes studies on the teaching and learning of communication, effective teaching practices in design education, the effects of differing design pedagogies on retention and motivation, the dynamics of
others.Dr. Cara Margherio, University of Washington Cara Margherio is the Assistant Director of the UW Center for Evaluation & Research for STEM Equity (CERSE). Cara manages the evaluation of several NSF- and NIH-funded projects, primarily working with national professional development programs for early-career academics from groups underrepresented in STEM. Her research is grounded in critical race and feminist theories, and her research interests include community cultural wealth, counterspaces, intersectionality, and institutional change.Kerice Doten-Snitker, University of Washington Ms. Doten-Snitker is a Graduate Research Assistant at the University of Washington’s Center for Evalu- ation and Research for STEM
as work in teams to apply mathematical concepts to hands-on engineering projects. ● “Math ‘til you drop” sessions (MTUDs) which are mandatory all-day study sessions twice a quarter where students gather to practice problems and study with their peers before midterms or finals. 2 (2) Personal and professional developmentIn addition to math and science coursework, STARS students are required to take courses thatprovide them with research-informed best practices for developing study and learning skills; helpthem navigate university resources; offer career and professional development; and enhancemetacognitive skills such as
Institute of Technology. His research interests are engineering students beliefs about knowledge and education and how those beliefs interact with the engineering education experience.Prof. Richard Mangum, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Prescott Richard T. Mangum is an assistant professor at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Prescott Campus. He graduated from Texas Tech University with a PhD in Technical Communication and Rhetoric. He is interested in helping engineering students discover the relevancy of technical communication in their academic pursuits and future career paths. American c Society for Engineering Education, 2021