,institution-specific requirements can have a dominating impact on the depth/breadth balance andhow they are attained. As a primary example, many large engineering schools were forced tomake challenging, required curricular alterations when state legislatures required a reduction ofhours while maintaining ABET engineering hours for accreditation. These changes necessitatedreduction of the requirements for fundamental science and traditional engineering courses fromother departments to make room for courses with heavy design content, societal context, andintegrated communication skills.Due to these changes, the curriculum has become increasingly rigid, which limits students’opportunities to deeply explore technical content. To ensure depth, many
of Colorado, Boulder Daniel W. Knight is the Program Assessment and Research Associate at Design Center (DC) Colorado in CU’s Department of Mechanical Engineering at the College of Engineering and Applied Science. He holds a B.A. in psychology from Louisiana State University, an M.S. degree in industrial/organizational psychology and a Ph.D. degree in education, both from the University of Tennessee. Dr. Knight’s research interests are in the areas of retention, program evaluation and teamwork practices in engineering educa- tion. His current duties include assessment, team development and education research for DC Colorado’s hands-on initiatives. c American Society for Engineering
National Science Foundation (NSF) Engineering Research Center (ERC) for WirelessIntegrated MicroSystems (WIMS) has conducted pre-college programs for seven summers (inyears 2000 to 2006). During these seven summers, more than 880 pre-college students haveenrolled in 30 courses. Moreover, female and minority categories each constitute more than50% of the participants. Indeed, youth are being greatly impacted by the WIMS summerprograms. The significance of the summer programs can be indicated with several factors:1. Phenomenal participation count and percentages by female and minority students.2. Educational content of the programs; each program has a subset of the core topics.3. WIMS core components (microsystems and miniaturization, sensors
TrainingThirty-eight girls were initially deemed able, in terms of both capacity and interest, to participatein the project. They were offered a letter of employment stipulating 2.5 hours per week over tenweeks, for a total of $250. (While 38 girls signed a contract, two were released from the projectafter the first week for failing to submit their assignments.)The YTT members were trained in the basics of qualitative research and practical interviewskills. They were then asked to place themselves in one of four themes called Lightning, Gears,Cubes, or Droplets, respectively, according to their interests: 1. Lightning: How do girls’ feelings about femininity impact decisions they make about their future? (9 members) 2. Gears: How do girls
Ethics and Societal Impacts via Cocurricular Activities.” This paper was recognized by the Journal of Professional Issues in Engineering Education and Practice as an Editor’s Choice. Currently working with Dr. Angela Bielefeldt as a research assistant. Preparing to submit four papers regarding ethics in engineering education as co-author at the 2021 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition.Dr. Angela R. Bielefeldt, University of Colorado Boulder Angela Bielefeldt is a professor at the University of Colorado Boulder in the Department of Civil, Envi- ronmental, and Architectural Engineering (CEAE) and Director for the Engineering Plus program. She has served as the Associate Chair for Undergraduate Education in the CEAE
technology. A public university of the State of Michigan, Michigan Tech isdesignated as one of only four research universities in the State. Undergraduate educationemphasizes study across disciplines, team learning and research. Graduate students receiveintensive advanced instruction. Total enrollment is 6,300 students with engineering enrollment at Page 10.1242.24,000, the 10th largest in the U.S. Michigan Tech has gained worldwide attention for innovative “Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering Education
BaccalaureateAbstractThe California Central Coast Community College Collaborative (C6-LSAMP, C6) is a NationalScience Foundation Louis Stokes Alliances for Minority Participation Bridge to theBaccalaureate grant project (NSF/LSAMP/B2B). C6-LSAMP is an innovative, cross-disciplinary, and multi-institutional collaboration developed by STEM leaders from eightCalifornia community colleges. The C6-LSAMP alliance leverages existing support structuresand best practices across the member institutions to address inequities in STEM outcomes for apopulation of students comprised of the underserved: Hispanic/Latinx and otherunderrepresented minorities (URMs) in rural areas. Within the five counties served by the C6-LSAMP colleges, only 13% of Hispanic/Latinx residents 25
program model and driven by a set of well-chosen learning outcomes. This curriculumuses the IS2002 model curriculum as a basis and is designed to reflect the UAE needs forgraduates that are well prepared to enter the workforce and to assume their place ofresponsibility in the nation. The goal of the College is to produce graduates having strongtechnology and communication skills as well as a good understanding of business practices andwork ethics.The academic program model is driven by two sets of learning outcomes at both the college andUniversity levels. All IS courses are developed to address College and University level learningoutcomes. Master course syllabi are developed to show the course contributions to variouslearning outcomes. During
the faculty communities to ensure eligibility offuture funding, but the messaging for this mandate builds on our faculty’s own best practices fortheir research. Our faculty view weekly research group meetings as normative and maybe evencritical for the success of their research programs. More importantly, faculty do not find theseweekly meetings to infringe on their academic freedom, because these weekly meetings flow outof their common communal interest. By establishing faculty community first, these weekly Page 24.1329.7meetings should align with the academic freedom of the faculty and build on their beliefs of whatpractices support good
Comments from the studentsAn opportunity is provided here for five of the present EiR program students to share their experiences. Student #1, Shiloh Archer : Senior - Civil EngineeringWith a strong interest in Structural Engineering and since Ohio Northern University’s Engineering college does not offer aspecialization in this area of Civil Engineering, the opportunity to work as a Structural Coop with MAP has had atremendous impact on my education and future career. Over the past thirteen weeks with MAP, I have been able to applythe following classes to my structural engineering projects: Structures I & II, Reinforced Concrete, Steel Design and ProjectManagement.My initial project with MAP was to
Manufacturing & Mechanical Engineering Technology department at RIT. She serves as the Faculty Associate to the Provost for Women Faculty and is co-PI for RIT’s NSF ADVANCE project. Her research interests include: characterization of biodegradable plastics and environmental consideration in materials selection for production design, the impact of technology paired with active learning pedagogies on student learning, and effective strategies for increasing gender diversity in STEM disciplines.Prof. Maureen S. Valentine, Rochester Institute of Technology (CAST) Maureen Valentine, P.E., has been a faculty member at RIT for more than 23 years. She held the position of Department Chair for the Department of Civil Engineering
Design Methodology and Engineering Education. As a member of the Integrated STEM Education Research Center (ISERC) at LaTech, Ethan’s primary research area is engineering design education with a focus on developing prototyping skills through both class-based projects and extra-curricular clubs, competitions, and activities. This includes a focus on hand-drawn sketches and how they are used as tools for generating ideas and visual communication, es- pecially when it involves the skill to generate quick and realistic sketches of an object or idea. He has also conducted research on the impact involvement in academic makerspaces has on students in engineering programs. American
ways of generating, distributing and re-using water resources;Manufacturing systems aimed at supporting the manufacturing sector of the nation throughresearch activities in the fields of mechatronics, control systems and appropriate technologydevelopments; and Sustainable mining practices with risk and safety management andenvironmental issues as a focus area for research activities in the mining sector (John, 2014).Another challenge in expanding Namibia’s STEM capacity is the lack of university staff withpost-graduate credentials in the country, with fewer than 200 having a PhD (Jauhiaiene andHooli, 2017). The impact of this was something the author witnessed firsthand while hosted bythe Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering (DCEE
careerchoice: A partial least squares analysis. Research and Practice in Technology EnhancedLearning, 19, 25-. https://doi.org/10.58459/rptel.2024.19025[6] Pelch, M. (2018). Gendered differences in academic emotions and their implications forstudent success in STEM. International Journal of STEM Education, 5(1).https://doi.org/10.1186/s40594-018-0130-7[7] Canaan, S., & Mouganie, P. (2023). The Impact of Advisor Gender on Female Students’STEM Enrollment and Persistence. The Journal of Human Resources, 58(2), 593–632.https://doi.org/10.3368/jhr.58.4.0320-10796R2[8] Same researches, reference left anonymous for now.[9] M. W. Kier, M. R. Blanchard, J. W. Osborne, and J. L. Albert, “The Development of theSTEM Career Interest Survey (STEM-CIS
Engineers and Scientists8, and Dava Sobel’s The Best American ScienceWriting 20049. Faigley’s work is a standard handbook for writing classes, includinginformation on conducting research, citing sources, and correct grammar and style.Ferguson’s book is a history of engineering design that argues for a more visual-centeredengineering education. While he doesn’t discount math and science’s impact onengineering, Ferguson desires more emphasis on design, as well as hands-on experience.This text provides provocative material for discussion and journal assignments, as it alsointroduces students to the history of the profession in which they are entering. Sobel’sedited collection of science writing is used for a similar purpose. The material is drawnfrom
community development [3-12] with federal support(NSF IUSE Exploration and Design Tier for Engaged Student Learning & Institution andCommunity Transformation). Through examination and refinement, researchers developed theCommunity-Engaged Educational Ecosystem Model (C-EEEM, pronounced ‘seam’) [1, 4, 13].The C-EEEM pilot contributed to our understanding of how to build learning environments thatsupport 1) improvements in student motivation and retention in STEM; 2) changes in placeattachment for participants; and 3) community impacts from project implementation. [4-6, 13,14]. Through support of an NSF IUSE Development and Implementation Tier grant, the C-EEEMis now in its second year for replication in two cities, Youngstown, Ohio and
, technical analysis, mission specific hardware design and procurement, contracting actions, launch readiness, and launch operations for the launch. TIV-23 was launched successfully from Cape Canaveral on 14 May 1995. She next moved to the US Air Force Academy in 1995, where she served as an instructor and later professor of astronautics as well as Director of Research. She then returned to Georgia Tech to pursue her PhD in Mechanical Engineering and completed her research dissertation “Active Vibration Control of a Flexible Base Manipulator” and degree in 2002. She next moved to the Air Force Research Laboratory’s Space Vehicles Directorate at Kirtland Air Force Base
problems. • Problem Solving: IS graduates will derive solutions and evaluate their success. • Information Technologies and their Applications: IS graduates will understand the capabilities, use, and application of information technologies. • Systems Principles and Practices: IS graduates will demonstrate understanding of system types, structures, standards, and metrics.The College of Information Systems MALOs and the university’s learning outcomes form thebasis of the IS curriculum and serve as a focus for curricular design in all aspects. As such, allcourse syllabi have to explicitly identify the course contribution to the learning outcomes
-Southwest Annual Conference Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi Copyright ©2005, American Society for Engineering Education (ERIC Document Reproduction Service No. ED464662.)7. Hagedorn, L. S., Maxwell, W., & Hampton, P. (2002). Correlates of retention for African- American males in community colleges. Journal of College Student Retention; Research, Theory & Practice, 3(3), 243-263.8. Gao, H., Hughes, W., O’Rear, M. R., & Fendley, W. R., Jr. (2002). Developing Structural Equation Models to Determine Factors Contributing to Student Graduation and Retention: Are There Differences for Native Students and Transfers? Paper presented at the 43rd Annual Research
feeling like I’m bending myselfinto a pretzel are the best for me to tackle.” Such concerns about genuineness may hint at abelief in an innate capacity for positive leadership, which research suggests is vastly outweighedby intentionality [16]. The faculty members’ desires for authenticity may also speak to theimportance of constructing one’s positive leadership in alignment with the core self, as well asthe ongoing need for support in actualizing new knowledge.Value and InstitutionalizationEven as some faculty grappled with practicing positive leadership principles in academia, theirassessments of the training program were markedly positive, with words like “well-done” andeven “fantastic” surfacing. Some participants, like Helen, recognized the
will be extremely important to identifyingunique needs of this student population.Joseph Gayheart, December 2009 graduate and past president of the University of KentuckyMilitary Veterans of America (UKMVA), conducted a study to determine the means by whichuniversities could improve or create services to impact veteran recruitment and retention. Usingthe 2008 Contingency Tracking System Deployment File for Operation Enduring Freedom andOperation Iraqi Freedom, Gayheart’s study revealed an estimated 7,019 deployed veterans withina 65-mile radius of Lexington, KY, home to UK.2 He further noted that Ohio’s veteranpopulation is fifth in the country with 1.1 million resident veterans. Gayheart’s research alsorevealed that in 2008, less than half of
mustdefend their decisions at this time and receive feedback from both the client and theengineers. The clients give feedback on the success of the design in meeting initialvisions, and the engineers give feedback on the realism of the solution, solutioneffectivenss and practicality, and strengths and areas for improvement in the studentsdesign.2.4 Professional Plans Reviewed with Design Teams Post ProjectAn area of improvement that the UT Tyler CE Program is looking to incorporate in futureofferings is allowing students to review actual plans of their project produced by workingengineers. Using a real site enables this opportunity. The activity can be structured tosimulate a design review with a government agency, and students would see the
] Felder, R.M., R. Brent, and M.J. Prince, Engineering instructional comments they made to refine their practice (20 development: Programs, best practices, and recommendations. Journal of Engineering Education, 100(1), 2011. minutes) [2] Shulman, Lee S. "Signature pedagogies in the professions." Daedalus 134.3, 2005, pp. 52-59.III. Identify Opportunities for Evidence-Based Instruction [3] Rokeach, Milton. "Beliefs, attitudes and values: A theory of6) Moderators
competitiveness.”Over the last decade there have been calls by many educators for renewal and reform of the civiland environmental engineering curriculum. The ABET Engineering Criteria 2000 (AEC2000)provided a flexible framework for academic institutions to develop curricula that can best suittheir needs and the needs of the profession. Some academic institutions took advantage of thisflexibility to develop curricula that incorporate features that they thought important to graduatecivil engineers practicing in the 21st century. Before developing these new curricula, it wasnecessary for academic institutions to study the needs of the marketplace and to get as much inputas possible from practitioners. To address societal needs in the new curricula, the
as not alwaysattentive to queries. Such a disparity in experience and support may dissuade female studentsfrom pursuing an engineering profession after graduation, given the crucial opportunityinternships provide for students to learn and practice key skills for their future employment [57]. The findings of this study also suggest that the role of female supervisors in the civilengineering workplace is critical for Asian women to share their concerns about difficulties andaspire to be like them. This study found that female supervisors were particularly helpful fordeveloping career interests. Previous research suggests that in order to be inspired by a rolemodel, one must be able to identify one's future self with that role model [33
integration o f engineering and liberal arts education. When designing thismulti-institutional collaboration, we recognized that the GCSP - especially if “infused” withsignificant liberal arts content in a meaningful way - provided an opportunity to address this gapin engineering curricula. We also recognized that working together as a community of practice,as opposed to independently, would allow for more effective institutional learning and have agreater impact on curricular transformations at our respective schools as well as contribute newknowledge to the internationally growing GCSP effort. 52.3 Liberal Arts-Infused GCSP as a Vehicle for
exposure. Just-in-time modifications withTeaching Assistant (TA) support aiding in educating those practices were needed. In Fall 2020, one section of AE 124 was designated as remote only for students whowere not on campus. The same instructor taught a second mixed-mode section for on-campusstudents. Unfortunately, the number of students impacted by the pandemic, either directly orindirectly, made it necessary to hold all but one class remotely as well. Even so, the studentevaluation of teaching effectiveness (SRTE) indicated up to a one-point variant between on-campus and at-home students, from 7/7 to 6/7. The only significant difference between the twosections is the ability for students to visit the building site independently, most
remains a challenge for young facultymembers. There are helpful materials that are provided in the literature 2,3; however, they maynot be specific enough to deal with one’s actual struggles. When a new faculty member joins anew institution, they may be pressured to adapt to that institution’s teaching style, researchinterests, and its cultural environment. This pressure may be driven by the administration and/orthe individual may simply feel pressured to fit in. Graduating from the University of Florida(UF), the author’s academic career started at The City College of New York (CCNY). CCNYand UF differ in teaching atmosphere, research environment, history, demographics, and culture.The author believed that the use of visual aids such as
." The Kern Entrepreneurial Engineering Network (KEEN) defined EMas a set of characteristics and skills, including “3Cs”: curiosity, connections, and creating value[7]. Furthermore, according to the KEEN, when EM defined with 3Cs is combined withengineering skillsets (by adding opportunity and impact to design), the outcome becomesentrepreneurially minded learning. In examining the literature, Kuratko et al. [2] found that threedistinct aspects have arisen through the years. These aspects are “(i) the entrepreneurial cognitiveaspect—how entrepreneurs use mental models to think; (ii) the entrepreneurial behavioralaspect—how entrepreneurs engage or act for opportunities; and (iii) the entrepreneurialemotional aspects—what entrepreneurs feel in
committed to furthering education in engineering and engineering technology from preschool through college (P20).” – Vision: “ASEE will serve as the premier multidisciplinary society for individuals and organizations committed to advancing excellence in all aspects of engineering and engineering technology from preschool through college (P20).” ASEE P12 Strategic Plan Recommendations• ASEE Strategic Plan on P12 Engineering (Proposed)-September 2015• Goal: Extend ASEE as a leader, both externally and internally, within the Pre-school through grade 12 (P12) engineering education space, and increase awareness of and best practices within and beyond ASEE.• To do so, we recommend the following