curriculum provides relevance andcontext for what the students are learning, encourages students to continue their math andscience studies, and motivates students to consider engineering and related careers. Furthermore,by presenting engineering as a helping profession, these applications may particularly appeal tofemales and minorities. Unfortunately, many math and science teachers are unaware of howengineers use math and science to solve problems.WISE Investments was also designed in order to teach middle and high school guidancecounselors how to enhance their efforts to support and to encourage underrepresented studentsto pursue engineering and related careers. Including guidance counselors helps to create asupport network for underrepresented
career?Question 2 - Are you interested in using a programming language in your career?Question 3 - Are you interested in using a programming language in your personal life?Figure 1: Average Student Likert Scale Responses Before and After Physical (Hands-On) Programming Activities Figure 2: Difference in Likert Scale Response Before and After Physical (Hands-On) Programming Activities Figure 3: Changes in How Students Perceive Programming Skills translating into their Career or Personal LifeDiscussionResults show positive student responses to all Likert response questions comparing the pre- andpost-survey results. As can be seen in Figure 1, all the
FAMILY EGIEERIG: ITRODUCIG EGIEERIG TO PARETS & CHILDRE Neil J. Hutzler1, Joanne S. Chadde1, David Heil2, and William E. Kelly3 1 Michigan Tech University, Houghton, MI 2Family Science Foundation, Portland, OR 3ASEE, Washington, DC Abstract: The goal of Family Engineering is to engage, inspire, and encourage elementary and middle school students to consider careers in engineering and science through hands-on activities with their parents at Family Engineering Nights. This program is designed to address the United States’ need for an increased number, and greater diversity, of students skilled in math, science, technology and
engineering leadership (EL) developmentexplicit, and thus teachable, by pairing memorable career events with leadership learningprocesses. More specifically, we use Lave and Wenger’s situated learning theory to investigatehow career-embedded proud moments contribute to engineers’ leadership development. Ourteam identified four types of proud moments along with corresponding leadership lessons in thecareer history narratives of 29 senior engineers. This four-part proud moment typology—honingprofessional dexterity, mobilizing teams, realizing values, and driving excellence—illustratesfour distinct ways that engineers can and do institutionalize leadership in their respectiveworkplaces. This finding suggests that proud moments are not only personally
, variousstudies have demonstrated the underrepresentation of women and other minorities inmost aviation professions. There is consensus among industry stakeholders thatproactive measures are needed to increase the participation of women in the traditionallymale-dominated field. In collegiate aviation programs, the ratio of female to male studentspursuing all aviation majors is low. The current gender imbalance in aviation careers andaviation collegiate programs may be attributed to many factors among them the waywomen are influenced to pursue these fields. This study identified and analyzed the factors that influence college students in theselection of aviation maintenance degree programs. The study was conducted using asurvey sent to undergraduate
careers in the industries developingsustainable resources, has been explored. To maximize the high-level behavior and sustainabilitycompetencies, a pedagogical system with a comprehensive pool of interventions has also beendeveloped and implemented in a senior-level mechanical engineering course. In this paper, wereport the initial survey data and details of the intervention strategies, which are intended todevelop scalable educational approaches and guidelines for building high-level environmentalbehavior in the next-generation diverse renewable energy workforce. I. INTRODUCTION AND BACKGROUND The US sustainable industry experienced significant expansion in recent years because ofincreased attention and
careerplacement [2]. Experiential learning is thought to result in a change in judgment, knowledge, orskills, or the development of professional competencies and identity [1]. The Global State of theArt in Engineering Education report [3] identified experiential learning opportunities as a keypedagogical feature of engineering education. Perhaps this emphasis stems from experientialeducation’s alignment with engineering design education efforts [4], its potential to support thedevelopment of professional competencies [5], [6], or its ability to produce more innovative,career-ready engineers [7]. Within engineering education, experiential learning opportunities caninclude participation in engineering design and competition teams, study abroad
science. Shams has been an active member of the American Association of Physics Teachers (AAPT) and the International Society of the Learning Sciences (ISLS) for the last few years. She can be reached at shamseladawy@ksu.edu.Victoria Vogel (American University) Tori is an action-oriented technologist working for the startup Homeward. Her professional career has primarily focused on implementing new software through agile or hybrid agile approaches. With each software release or technical project, Tori is passionate about making sure the solution adds value to people. She has enjoyed jumping into new business problems as she has worked across the banking, consulting, non-profit, government, and real estate industries
and not engineering or computersciences? Many research studies have aimed to answer this question in various ways, includingexamining women’s math and science identities [2], confidence and self-efficacy [3, 4],perceptions and experiences [5], and larger, structural issues [6]. This study aims to identifywomen’s main motivating factor to pursue an engineering undergraduate degree. We areinterested to find out how women are influenced to choose this career path, and what influencesthem.Introduction This study took place at the University of Georgia, United States, and focused onundergraduate women enrolled in engineering majors. The college of engineering has recentlyreceived national recognition for their diversity programs [7] and as
Society for Engineering Education, 2018 Elites: A STEM Leadership ProgramAbstractIn this article, we describe the Emerging Leaders in Technology, Science and Mathematics(Elites) program developed as part of an NSF S-STEM grant awarded to RadfordUniversity’s Artis College of Science and Technology. The S-STEM grant supportsscholarships for meritorious students with financial need. Elites was designed to incentivizestudent participation in high impact activities that would help them develop their careers asthey are progressing through their degree. Coupled with strong advising, the Elites program’soverarching goal was to increase retention among scholarship recipients and help themcontinue to pursue STEM related careers. This
are proposing a model that can help narrow the cybersecurity workforcegap by introducing students to cybersecurity by building a pipeline towardscybersecurity careers for students and empowering teachers to integrate cybersecurityinto their own classrooms and becoming advocates for cybersecurity awareness in theirschool districts.Our long-term vision is to have cybersecurity taught at every high school using ourmodules as a standalone subject or to weave it into computer science courses, or APcourses in particular. The goal is to have every high school in the region establishcybersecurity clubs with diverse group of students and a teacher mentor who canprovide them with the training to participate in local, regional and nationalcybersecurity
Session 3555 ASEE Student Chapters: Avenues for Promoting Future Engineering Educators Elaine R. Chan, Sean P. Holleran, Alan J. H. McGaughey, Chadwick C. Rasmussen University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MIAbstractThe University of Michigan (UM) ASEE Student Chapter continues to thrive as an activegraduate student organization dedicated to providing a forum for furthering excellence inengineering education. The organization sponsors numerous events to help graduate studentsprepare for careers in academia, to help undergraduate
, Northeastern University; and 1981-1989 Associate Director for Finance and Administration, Center for Electromagnetics Research (CER), Northeastern University. Pub- lications/Papers: Reenergizing and Reengaging Students Interest through CAPSULE; A Novel and Evolu- tionary Method on Educating Teachers to Promote STEM Careers Jessica Chin, Abe Zeid, Claire Duggan, Sagar Kamarthi (IEEE ISEC 2011); and ”Implementing the Capstone Experience Concept for Teacher Professional Development” Jessica Chin, Abe Zeid, Claire Duggan, Sagar Kamarthi (ASEE 2011). Rel- evant Presentations: ”K-12 Partnerships” (Department of Homeland Security/Centers of Excellence An- nual Meeting 2009); ”Building and Sustaining K-12 Educational Partnerships
programs contribute toits undergraduate and graduate programs. Our programs focus on applied engineering principles, basicscientific and mathematical concepts, and problem-solving skills, critical areas for successful pursuit ofscience, mathematics, engineering and technology (STEM) careers. Additionally, our programs’academic curricula follow state and national standards and therefore, provide students with theopportunity to gain the skills and knowledge specified by these standards. But this only reaches thecurrent generation of youngsters. NJIT’s pre-collegiate models go further into the areas of elementaryand secondary grade level teachers’ training, curriculum reform, and technical services to schools anddistricts, so that future generations
standards forcivil engineering licensure, consequently, many perceive the CEBOK only as an “academicexercise” that does not pertain to civil engineering practice outside formal education. With thethird edition – the CEBOK3 – this could not be further from the truth.The third edition of The Civil Engineering Body of Knowledge (CEBOK3) [1], published in2019, goes beyond formal education to define the complete set of knowledge, skills, andattitudes (KSAs) that all civil engineers should first attain and then maintain to serve inresponsible charge of civil engineering services.The CEBOK3 should be a powerful tool to guide students, academics, early-career engineers,managers, principals, and owners as the roadmap to prepare themselves and their
. Page 12.1034.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2007 MARKETING MANUFACTURINGUSING CONNECTICUT’S COMMUNITY COLLEGES’ COLLEGE OF TECHNOLOGY’S REGIONAL CENTER FOR NEXT GENERATION MANUFACTURING: A National Science Foundation Funded Initiative Page 12.1034.2AbstractThe Connecticut Community College’s College of Technology with support fromthe National Science Foundation’s Advanced Technology Education Grants (ATE#0402494) established a Regional Center for Next Generation Manufacturing (RCNGM). TheRCNGM’s goals and objectives included implementing a marketing campaign for careers inmanufacturing. This paper will identify specific activities that the
cities, including Atlanta,Birmingham, Knoxville, Cincinnati and Pittsburgh, are included within the region. However,West Virginia is the only state considered to be entirely within Appalachia’s borders1.It has long been believed that high-tech industries with higher-paying jobs would improve thelives of residents of Appalachia. Careers in the sciences, technology, engineering and math(STEM) are one route to improved economic stability in the region and improved quality of lifefor families and communities. Yet, by almost any measure, the difficulties in attracting highschool students to STEM careers are exacerbated in Appalachia, and especially in West Virginia.Declining population and, in particular, out-migration of college graduates and in
Research Pipelines for Underserved Students through a Lower-Division Research Experience at a Minority-Serving Institution (Experience)AbstractThis work presents the findings from multiple years of a lower-division summer researchprogram at California State University, Bakersfield (CSUB). The first and second years are acritical intervention point to increase persistence in STEM careers, as over 70% of the non-retained STEM students at CSUB leave in the first two years. Additionally, while there arenumerous works that examine the effectiveness of research activities for retention andpersistence of underrepresented minority students, very few programs focus on lower-divisionstudents. The analysis of data shows that
School implemented inthe spring 2003 and fall 2004 semesters. In this semester-long course, students create andrun real businesses using a project based learning model and following Pennsylvania’sacademic standards for career awareness and planning, career acquisition, careerretention and entrepreneurship. Our primary goal at Northwestern Lehigh High Schoolwas to create a program that helps students meet the individual, family, work andcommunity challenges in today’s complex, technology infused, global society. We offerthis work as a possible model for others to follow. This course is a partnership withLehigh University’s Integrated Product Development Program and Wilkes University’sEntrepreneurship Program. The Northwestern Lehigh model for
Skills. The Introduction to the EngineeringProfession introduces students to engineering skills and ensures the transferability of the course.The Professional Skills dimension infuses career-based skills to ensure professional success andincreased employability. ESS students learn career and professional skills as early as their firstsemester at CC. Skills -- including oral and written communication, critical thinking, problem-solving, and teamwork, are incorporated into the curriculum and assessed through resumewriting, mock interviews, and project-based learning. Students pitch their projects through pitchcompetitions, concept paper submissions, and presentations before professional judges. The ESSintroduces students to industry roles, project
, andsupported a total of 96 GK-12 Fellows. A study was conducted to investigate the long-termimpact of participating in the program on the GK-12 Fellows. In 2011, former Fellows werecontacted and asked to take an online survey about their program experience, and how it affectedtheir career path after graduation. The majority of survey respondents indicated that they felt theGK-12 experience had a large or very large impact on their career path. The time spent activelyteaching in classrooms led to large impacts on teaching, communication, and presentation skills.In addition, other skills such as leadership, teamwork, and time management were also reportedto have been improved. Participants ranked teaching K-12 students – the primary activity in theGK-12
the design of the research instrumentation and theinterpretation of findings. The factors we are interested in can be categorized into two groups:“personal characteristics of individuals” and “contexts”. We hope to explain how engineeringstudents are different from or the same as business students on these two groups of measures thatare posited as being related to the development of their entrepreneurial interests 6,8.RESEARCH QUESTIONSGiven RDST and our research objectives, the research questions guiding the present study are: (1) What are the career goals and career attributes of engineering and business undergraduate students? (2) How do engineering and business students compare on personal characteristics that might be related to
graduate) Coordinator for Student Housing, and Graduate Student Career Consultant in the Career Center. Dr. Soleil's current work involves the design and coordination of all aspects of the higher education portion of the Tech to Teaching program which prepares graduate students for academic careers. She also supports all aspects of Teaching Assistant (TA) professional development for the entire Georgia Tech campus. Dr. Soleil received her B.S. in Biotechnology from Worcester Polytechnic Institute and her Ph.D. in Physiology from the University of California, Davis.Tristan Utschig, Georgia Institute of Technology Dr. Tristan T. Utschig is a Senior Academic Professional in the Center for the
Paper ID #11157WHY DO UNDERGRADUATE WOMEN PERSIST AS STEM MAJORS?A STUDY AT TWO TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITIESDr. Ronald Brandt, Seton Hall University Ronald Brandt teaches physical science at the high school level, emphasizing Project Based Learning and inquiry based lab activities. Brandt seeks to inspire his students, especially young women, to develop a passion for STEM studies and consider a career in science and technology. Prior to entering the education profession, Ronald Brandt was an executive in the chemical industry serving as senior vice president at two multinational firms as well as President & CEO of an
identity development of students fromunderrepresented minorities in STEM. The research was conducted through a theoretical lensencompassing the Goal Congruity Framework and Social Congruity Theory. To better understandthe impacts of altruistic framing, a traditional Saturday STEM program with participants from thesame demographics were studied for comparison. Through interviews and surveys, we found thataltruistic framing led to meaningful changes in students’ appreciation of engineering and, in somecases, new interests in pursuing engineering as a career. Students also increased their interest inengineering, but their definitions of the field did not broaden appreciably. Some found newinterests, but they did not have the same type of
, creativity and interest in thepursuit of engineering careers. The two academies used mini-lectures and team-oriented hands-on projects to engage 43 student participants in different engineering disciplines and their designprocesses. College staff placed student participants in either the Batmen Academy or WonderWomen Academy based on their gender. Researchers gave each student participant a LikertScale survey to test their expectations and experience. The surveys provided insight intostudents’ knowledge of various engineering disciplines, their interests to pursue engineeringcareers, their interests to take more math and science high school courses post completion of theacademies, and their perception of the college environment. Further research
Florida I am a second-year graduate student at the University of South Florida (USF) pursuing my Masters of Education in Curriculum and Instruction within the College Student Affairs program. As the Graduate Assistant for the Office of Internships and Career Readiness at USF, I hired, trained, and supervised the Career Readiness Badging Peers who are our Federal Work Study students within the office. I trained the students to grade, through the use of success rubrics and the ARISE model which was adapted from the RISE model created by Emily Wray from Full Sail University in conjunction with the COACH feedback method, student submissions within the Career Readiness Badging Program (CRBP). The CRBP is a platform on
has co-authored over 100 referred conferences and jour- nals, five book chapters and two patents. She received the National Science Foundation’s Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and En- gineers and the 3M Untenured Faculty Award. She is active in the IEEE MTT-S (e.g. associate editor of MWCL, chaired IMS TPRC sub-committees, student paper competitions and scholarship committee) and is a co-founder of IMS Project Connect and Chair of MTT-S Technical Coordinating Committee for Integration and Packaging. She is the 2014 Sara Evans Faculty Scholar Leader Award, 2017 John Tate Advising Award, and 2018 Willie Hobbs Moore Distinguished Alumni Lecture Award and the 2019 IEEE N. Walter Cox Service Award
serves as a reviewer for several international conferences and peer-reviewed journals.Mahesh Kumar Pallikonda, Austin Peay State University Dr. Mahesh Kumar Pallikonda is a faculty member in the Department of Engineering technology at Austin Peay State University (APSU). Prior to his academic career, he gained valuable industry experience in roles ranging from New Product Development to Process Control. He holds a Ph.D. and a Master’s degree in Mechanical Engineering from Cleveland State University, as well as a Bachelor’s degree in Manufacturing Engineering from the National Institute of Advanced Manufacturing Technology. Prior to joining APSU, he served as a faculty member at Ohio Northern University, where he
three semesters, starting from the initialoffering of the courses in Fall 2022, indicate that students’ perception of the course is largelypositive. Students in both courses found the courses very valuable in multiple ways. In the paper,detailed survey results will be presented and discussed. Areas for future work will also be shared.Introduction and MotivationAt Arizona State University (ASU), the Grand Challenges Scholars Program (GCSP) is a multi-year co-curricular program that typically spans the entirety of a student’s undergraduatecollegiate career. The majority of GCSP students start their journey in the program as incomingfirst year students or during their first year and continue in the program until they graduate fromtheir