, hiring committees and faculty mentors follow this implicit model of astraightforward academic pathway to the detriment of a diverse professoriate. We address thisby presenting an alternate model that better reflects alternate pathways that currently exist andcould be better encouraged and supported through infrastructure and social means.A Traditional Model of a Faculty CareerA traditional engineering faculty career moves from high school, to a bachelors degree, to a PhDprogram and then into a tenure track position, followed by promotions to associate and fullprofessor and then eventually a happy retirement, perhaps with an emeritus position to maintainan active mind until death. This is shown in Figure 2. In attempting to follow the
, were conducted intwo sections of a freshman engineering course at a large southwestern university in the UnitedStates. Evaluation data were collected regarding student knowledge gains and attitudes. Both theoverall gain in technical knowledge and positive attitudes toward the field of biogeotechnicalengineering were reflected in participant responses. With the advent and development of thisnew field, this work represents a pioneering effort in the biogeotechnical engineering educationspace. Looking ahead, the study could contribute toward longitudinal research in understandingthe best practices of interdisciplinary approaches to developing engineering instruction.IntroductionThis study is situated in the context of an interdisciplinary
attached to the product. In other words, the product consisting of itsphysical goods and bundled services will serve as the glue that will enable our students to realizethe connectedness and complementary nature of these core IME methods for the successfulrealization and commercialization of goods and services. Just as journalism students learn topractice their craft on the school newspaper, IME students will run the closest thing to aManufacturing and Services company.This product-based learning and content delivery approach relies on the careful identification anduse of a set of products that reflect the global dimension of product design and manufacturing, aswell as the symbiotic relationship between manufactured goods and the consumer services
torobotics, that leads to a two-pronged approach: 1) Supply talent to a growing industry, and 2)Start enterprises (ranging from projects to products to companies) to grow the industry, that is,both entrepreneurs and intrapreneurs.2.2. PROGRAM EDUCATIONAL OBJECTIVESProgram Educational Objectives (PEOs) define the context and the content of the program. OurPEOs have evolved to better reflect current educational terminology, but the core ideas remainunchanged. The PEOs are that graduates of the Robotics Engineering program are expected to: 1. Successfully a. attain professional careers in robotics and related industries, academia, and government; b. expand human knowledge through research and development
, Virginia Tech Lisa D. McNair is a Professor of Engineering Education at Virginia Tech, where she also serves as Director of the Center for Research in SEAD Education at the Institute for Creativity, Arts, and Technology (ICAT). Her research interests include interdisciplinary collaboration, design education, communication studies, identity theory and reflective practice. Projects supported by the National Science Foundation include exploring disciplines as cultures, liberatory maker spaces, and a RED grant to increase pathways in ECE for the professional formation of engineers.Dr. Kenneth Reid, Virginia Tech Kenneth Reid is the Assistant Department Head for Undergraduate Programs in Engineering Education at Virginia
innovative instructional strategies like project and problem basedlearning, which have the ability to create a STEM for all environment [8]. As standards changeto reflect a greater emphasis of engineering practices, a science or engineering focus tensionmaterializes where teachers may struggle to focus on one discipline instead of relying onintegrated instruction.This tension between integrating two disciplines may be new in engineering education, but hasexisted for some time for those working to integrate math and science. Following a report by theCarnegie Foundation, which challenged educational systems to improve math and scienceinstruction via integration, several tensions emerged [8]. Experts from several fields, whichincluded mathematicians
in conceptualizing, organizing, and reporting a study. Most participants said theirprimary career goals changed over time, becoming less interested in faculty careers. Mostparticipants planned to pursue research careers, but outside of academia. Trainees said theexternship influenced their career decision-making, confirming current interests for some andopening alternate pathways for others. Trainees also participated regularly in scientificcommunication activities following the externship.Participants identified ways to enhance the externship, emphasizing the substantial time neededfor planning. A well-designed project promoted reflection on their career trajectories andsatisfaction with the experience. Involvement of the faculty supervisor
thethought process for coming up with sub-topics and interconnections within the map [3].Moore et al. [5] states, “They (concept maps) are primarily used in one of two fashions: 1) Anexpert-generated concept map is used as an overview or framework before more detailedinformation is presented, or 2) students are asked to generate maps as a reflective activity at theend of a unit.” Therefore, concept mapping can be used to gauge class and individual studentunderstanding of a topic. It can also be used to aid instructors by helping them identify whatparts of their curriculum need more attention [5]. For instance, a study was conducted wherecivil engineering students were asked to prepare a concept map around the phrase “civil andenvironmental
find therelationship with theory is complex even early in a change project’s evolution. Another panelcontributor team (Morelock, Walther, & Sochacka, 2019) illustrates a broad range of theoryutilizations in the early stages of their start-up, college-wide engineering faculty developmentinstitute (EFDI). In the two years since the institute’s creation, they have used various facets ofcomplex systems theory (Mason, 2009) to generate the institute’s goals and values, pragmaticallyguide institute operations, and reflect upon how to communicate the institute’s story to others. Ineach context, their theory manifested in different ways to meet their changing needs.The engineering faculty development institute’s story is not uncommon. As projects
characteristics, meaning that the pedagogicalpractices are unique to students’ cultural, religious, demographic, and gender differences. Thesecharacteristics set students apart from one another and their educators. Therefore, when ateacher’s instructions reflect characteristics of only one group of students, the other students aredenied an equal opportunity to learn [16]. Using CRP takes into consideration a student’straditions, linguistics, value and ethical systems. CRP provides teachers with empirical andtheoretical constructs that support their efforts to lower existing barriers and opportunity gaps [17]- [19] for the increasingly diverse public-school student population in all educational platforms.CRP’s objective is to support students in obtaining
) Significance level Adjusted correlation statistic (radj) Useful Description 0.121 0.723 N/A Sketch 0.635 0.036* 0.581 Specific Application of Physics 0.916 0.000** 0.821 Application of Mathematics 0.953 0.000** 0.898 Logical Progression 0.918 0.000** 0.826Note: *Significance at p < .05; **Significance at p < .01Sketch reflects a solver’s ability to represent the information in the
purpose of a university and determinewhich functions should be maintained, which modified, and which further developed.Additionally the framework suggests possible alternatives for re-envisioning both curriculumand the partnerships universities need to pursue to adapt to the affordances and challengesposed by information technology.IntroductionIt is widely held that universities serve multiple functions in society. The relative weight ofthe purposes of a university education wax and wane over time as society changes. In 1851publication of Newman’s [1] reflections on the aims of a university education emphasizedthat cultivation of the mind was most important with civic and economic benefits accruedindirectly. Improvement of the individual was the
the program has been highly effective at increasingpositive attitudes towards STEM careers and towards pursuing research at the upper-division andgraduate level.IntroductionAs part of a U.S. Department of Education Minority Science and Engineering ImprovementProgram (MSEIP) grant, California State University, Bakersfield (CSUB) began a summerresearch experience for lower-division STEM students in 2015. CSUB is a public, regional,comprehensive university that carries designations as both a Hispanic Serving Institution (HSI)and a Minority Serving Institution (MSI). Its demographics reflect the demographics of theservice region, which is a majority minority area. The service region for CSUB is also a fast-growing area marked by historic lags in
, educators can do more to encourage reflection, exploration, and self-directed learning among students. This is a work in progress, and the first phase has been a pilot study. This paper reports results of the pilot as well as the context, rationale, and design of the overall study. The pilot was the first step in a study seeking to provide new understandings: (1) spanning multiple professions; (2) identifying the various concepts that architecture and engineering students hold about the generation of new designs; and (3) describing how these conceptualizations compare within and between fields. The second phase will use phenomenographic methodologies to identify qualitatively different ways engineering and
patents and has over twenty-five years of experience in industry and academia. Research Interests Sylvia Wilson Thomas, Ph.D. leads the Advanced Membrane/Materials Bio and Integration Research (AMBIR) laboratory at USF. Dr. Thomas’ research and teaching endeavors are focused on advanced mem- branes/materials for alternative energy sources, sustainable environments, electronics, and bio-applications from the micro to the nano scale. Her research investigates the fabrication of inorganic and organic thin films and nanofibers for device integration. Thomas’ research group specializes in characterizing, mod- eling, and integrating membranes that demonstrate high levels of biocompatibility, thermal reflectivity
. Instead textual recognition or encouragement feedback according to thevariable-interval schedule were sent to these students. This ensures that even students not earningboosters still periodically see reinforcing messages about working productively to improve theirskills (but not too frequently). This confirms the design achieves our first design principle,ensuring the feedback was visible to students.Figure 1 reflects the proportion of students who won different numbers of boosters across all oftheir submissions on a single assignment. As mentioned, 38% of students earned no boosters,with 41% of students win a single tier1 booster( first major) across all of their submissions, and24% earning tier 2 boosters(second major). The stacked bars in
into a summaryreport, which can be used to detect if a team is becoming dysfunctional, when there is still thepossibility of making corrective structural or behavioral changes. After the project is over,students are required to do a final peer evaluation, which the instructor may use to make gradingdecisions based on each person’s participation and contribution. Self-reflection and the ability towrite thoughtful evaluations are skills that we expect our students to learn and practice.TrelloOne project management scheme that our ECE curriculum has adopted is the kanban board. Itoriginates from the Kanban system, which is a scheduling method developed by a Japaneseautomotive company in the 1950s to improve manufacturing efficiency. In its
work.Often, these researchers are working on solving very practical and very pressing social,environmental, or infrastructural problems, and government policy or decisions can be directedby their research. The benefits of interdisciplinary collaboration are reflected in CSCE’s recentstrategic directions, such as leading sustainable infrastructure [14]. Such goals depend oncollaboration with other associations, including the Canadian Association on Water Quality(CAWQ) and the International Society for Environmental Information Sciences (ISEIS) [15]. Bypooling resources, expertise and experience, researchers are more adept at tackling large-scale,interdisciplinary problems, such as sustainability or universal design. However, working
, and Technology (ICAT). Her research interests include interdisciplinary collaboration, design education, communication studies, identity theory and reflective practice. Projects supported by the National Science Foundation include exploring disciplines as cultures, interdisciplinary pedagogy for pervasive computing design; writing across the curriculum in Statics courses; as well as a CAREER award to explore the use of e-portfolios to promote professional identity and reflective practice.Dr. Marie C Paretti, Virginia Tech Marie C. Paretti is an Associate Professor of Engineering Education at Virginia Tech, where she co- directs the Virginia Tech Engineering Communications Center (VTECC). Her research focuses on com
each rotation, teams present problem statements based on insights fromtheir primary research and potential design projects to address the identified needs. Participantsmaintain a blog to capture and reflect on their observations, which also allows them to share theirexperience with the other students. Upon completion of the Bioengineering Clinical Immersionprogram, students are well prepared for the senior design capstone course that emphasizesdevelopment of medical devices conceived from validated end-user needs. This paper alsodiscusses implementation challenges and program modifications, including having medicalstudents team with bioengineering students.2. IntroductionEngineering students entering the medical product industry are often
associated with – incorporating writing in engineering classes. The finalparts of the survey ask respondents to identify specific resources that might help them expandinclusion of writing in their courses, followed by a series of demographic questions to bettercharacterize the participant population. Most generally, the survey results suggest that facultyrecognize the need for and importance of writing in engineering, which is in part reflected intheir own courses. However, they continue to perceive challenges associated with includingwriting in engineering courses, with a particular emphasis on various resource constraints. Thepaper concludes with a brief overview of next steps, including plans for developing supportingresources for faculty and
Hosted by The University of Pittsburgh.Background from Prior LiteratureA challenge instructors often face is how to make abstract concepts concrete for their students.Drawing on experiential-learning theory (ELT), Baker, Jenson, and Kolb2 recommend aprocedure that moves students through a four-stage process of: experiencing, reflecting,abstracting, and acting. The incorporation of case studies in the classroom is one method ofsimulating experiencing, reflecting, abstracting, and recommending actions based on the realworld scenario depicted by the case. Additionally, engineering education literature hascontinuously shown that projects with industry can be helpful for undergraduate and graduatestudents, even
course, students on averageanswered 90% of these questions correctly, reflecting an average increase of 38%. Thiscorresponds to an average normalized (Hake) gain12 G of 0.79; in other words, students achievedon average 79% of their possible learning gain on this assessment instrument.As is customary with concept inventories, learning gains were somewhat more modest asmeasured by the MCI, with average scores increasing from 44% pre to 61% post, an averageincrease of 18%, and a normalized gain G of 0.32. Although this indicates that only one-third ofthe potential gain in conceptual understanding was realized on average, these results comparefavorably with those reported by others for the MCI. During initial development and testing ofthe MCI
(VTECC) and CATALYST Fellow at the Institute for Creativity, Arts, and Technology (ICAT). Her research interests include interdisciplinary collaboration, design education, communication studies, identity theory and reflective practice. Projects supported by the National Science Foundation include exploring disciplines as cultures, interdisciplinary pedagogy for pervasive computing design; writing across the curriculum in Statics courses; as well as a CAREER award to explore the use of e-portfolios to promote professional identity and reflective practice. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2016 Disciplinary Influences on the Professional Identity of Civil Engineering
demos. 4. Subsystem-level and system-level demos: it was expected that there would be more than one integrated demos of two or more subsystems. 5. Evaluation plan and measured results: a list of specific metrics, at least one test procedure for each metric, desired levels for each metric, and measured levels for each metric 6. Delivery and hand-off: a major point of this whole collaboration was to create a system that would be handed off to L&IT to be polished, deployed, and maintained over time. An official hand-off meeting with discussion and questions was a major milestone for the end of the project. 7. Reflection on the process and productEach of the project milestones was evaluated by a rubric
(which is written using the Blocklylanguage) knew that they were using Blockly. From students who had previously attendedsome sort of STEM program before the institute, 70% of them had used Scratch. This showsthat most outreach programs in this geographic area highly favor the Scratch language. Withmore than 80% of students having used some programming language, it shows that all studentsare being exposed as much to computer programming at home or school as those whoparticipated in outreach programs. However, the low level of exposure is reflected in the self-efficacy in CT concepts. Students who had previously attended outreach programs improved more in CTconcepts such as algorithms, procedures, parallelization, data collection, and
issues, through conversation, sharing, and inquiry [10]. The participants in this study acted as coresearchers who thoughtfully reflected on their own experiences in navigating and completing at least one STEM degree and working in STEM related areas. There are many approaches to using narrative in research, but a personal narrative, can also be considered autoethnography. Narrative in research is generally focused on producing some version of text, whether spoken or written, to represent the sole data source for another party to evaluate and assess the meaning. Autoethnography, however, prompts the narrator to do the work of connecting their own story to theory, in order to explain a larger social reality. In this study, the narrative
recommendation and into learning personalization.RecommendationsWe include the recommendations below not as an exhaustive guide to all aspects of producingeducational online videos, but rather as a starting primer to create such videos in line with robustfindings and best practices.Recommendation #1: Plan pedagogy before you produce video.In the words of Mayer: “Decisions about how to design a multimedia message always reflect anunderlying conception of how people learn - even when the underlying theory of learning is notstated” (p. 46).19 Therefore, in line with the second and third lenses (learning environment andlearning data), we highly recommend that before producing a video an instructor should clearlyarticulate the learning objectives of the
foryoung makers and families and how educational learning objectives match up with the attributesof making and values expressed by maker families.This will be addressed by both qualitative analysis of ongoing interviews with Young Makersand the parents of Young Makers. Emergent thematic analysis is be used to highlight themesrelevant to Maker families working together. Additionally, this work will explore the goals andpractices of informal science education museum community and establish a baseline and rangeof making activities and makerspaces in childrens’ museums.There is a trend for museums and science/technology centers to establish Makerspaces. ThePittsburgh Children's Museum has created Makeshop, a makerspace reflecting 7 specific
, and was predominantly Caucasian (55%) or Asian (24%), with ethnicdistribution varying across schools. Participants were predominantly African American at theHBCU, predominantly Caucasian and Asian at the Research institution, and mostly Caucasian atthe three remaining schools. The mean age of the sample varied between 19.7 and 22.1 yearsamong the five schools.After completing the survey, respondents were recruited to participate in follow-up focus groups.A total of 175 students participated in focus groups across the five campuses. Focus groupparticipant demographics closely reflected the survey participant pool at each institution. Focusgroup participants were recruited in the Fall 2010 and Spring 2011 terms, after surveys werecompleted. The