outcome. During the deliberations identifying a project, cohortmembers often find that their final products require that they convey scientific and engineeringinformation to a range of different audiences, both within and outside of scientific communities. Students in the Cohort Challenges are often interested in having final projects that arehelpful in pursuing academic careers. Thus, many of the Cohort Challenges have producedmanuscripts for publications [15]–[17] and presentations at professional conferences, includingannual meetings of the Community Informatics Research Network and ASA-CSSA-SSSAInternational Conference[18], [19]. In preparing academic papers, students take the lead inidentifying journals and conferences that are
Paper ID #37408Design with Code Club: An attempt to get kids learning tocode while designing solutions to everyday problems (Work inProgress)Adam Maltese (Martha Lea and Bill Armstrong Chair for TeacherEducation) Professor in Science Education at Indiana University.Bárbara YarzaDavid OylerKelli Paul Dr. Kelli Paul is a postdoctoral researcher at the Center for Research on Learning and Technology at Indiana University where her research focuses on the development of STEM interests, identity, and career aspirations in children and adolescents. © American Society for Engineering Education
Women in EngineeringThe hands-on learning device of interest fosters a group learning environment while depictingdirect applications to the medical field, i.e., impacts on human health and well-being, which arecritical components of engaging women in STEM. In 2011, Brawner et al. created focus groupsfor junior- and senior-level women-identifying undergraduate students and conducted in-personinterviews to better understand why women choose chemical engineering as a major [4]. Fromtheir early work, flexibility in career options was highlighted as a key factor in choosing chemicalengineering for all 10 students interviewed. Additionally, 5 out of the 10 women noted they wereconsidering medical school, and chemical engineering provides strong
skills necessary for “career-ready” graduates [2] [3] [4], they areincreasingly including more than just technical know-how, with emphases on critical thinking,problem solving, collaboration, and communication among others. In addition to providingstudents a strong technical foundation, the Faculty of Engineering at the University of Waterloohas taken a two-pronged approach to providing students this important training: mandatory co-operative work terms, which have been present since the University’s inception; and morerecently, using industry-driven design problems as a base to provide students with formativepractice of these skills in the Engineering Ideas Clinic, which will be the focus of this paper.Jonassen, in his typology of problems [5
% had multiple bad experiences with faculty. ● While 16% participated in engineering research, many indicated that it was helpful for their future career and in the decision to change their major. ● Many students commented that they were not receiving the help they needed. ● Several students commented wanting a better balance between theory and practicality.The college of engineering has a list of academic policies and practices designed to usherstudents smoothly through the academic life cycle. Even with the focus on student enrollment, itseems the very academic and enrollment practices and policies designed to be fair were actuallyimpacting specific student populations inequitably. For example, student support
expected to pay for their educations is still far too high formany. We note that in our ongoing research of the whole participant population (N = 984), maleparticipants experienced the inflexibility of engineering, specifically affordability, as a commonissue. Thus, the pursuit of engineering includes both financial opportunities and costs. Participants (384, 65, and 449) describe other experiences with HC in engineering, suchas shouldering non-traditional student and parent roles and observing individuals with socialconnections who receive preferential access to internship and career opportunities. The onlyracist or gendered incidents the participants experienced were claims that the survey itself wasracist against White people, although
level students. A successful career in analog IC design requires a stronggrasp of semiconductor device fundamentals and understanding the implications of devicenon-idealities. In addition it is necessary to develop intuition and make judicious approximationsthat can help one predict the larger impact of circuit level parameters. Meeting these learningobjectives within a course can be challenging. A higher stress on analytical study of devices cannegatively impact intuition needed to make the right approximations in analyzing circuits withmany transistors. At the same time, adequate knowledge of fundamentals is needed to ensure thatanalysis has indeed yielded a solution that is correct. In this paper we present the changesintroduced in an
barriers to foster an environment where diverse and creative people are successful in the pursuit of engineering and computing degrees. Jean’s efforts have been recognized with numerous awards including the National Science Foundation Faculty Early Career Development award, the American Society for Engineering Education John A. Curtis Lecturer award, and the Bagley College of Engineering Service award. Jean earned her B.S. and M.S. in computer engineering from Mississippi State University, and her Ph.D. in engineering education from Virginia Tech. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2023 Using a Timeline of Programming Events as a Method for Understanding the
, C. Jancuk, and A. A. Shoukas, “Sharing Best Practices in TeachingBiomedical Engineering Design,” Annals of Biomedical Engineering, vol. 41, no. 9, Apr. 2013. [Online].Available: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10439-013-0781-y. [Accessed Jan. 1, 2023].[13] Schmedlen, R., & Lee, J. W., & Shekhar, P., & Stegemann, J. (2019, June), The Clinical PeerMentors Program: Student Motivations, Skills and Knowledge Acquisition, and Influence on Career PathPaper presented at 2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, Tampa, Florida. 10.18260/1-2--33376[14] Felder, A. E., & Kotche, M., & Stirling, S., & Wilkens, K. M. (2018, June), InterdisciplinaryClinical Immersion: from Needs Identification to Concept Generation Paper presented at
experience conducting evaluation and design-based research studies in complex settings including and community- based settings. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2023Material Agency with Summer STEM Youth Designing with Micro:bitsIntroduction and Research PurposeIn this poster, we report results related to an NSF EEC CAREER project that characterizesframing agency, defined as making decisions and learning in the process of framing designproblems. Our past studies of framing agency have relied on discourse analysis to characterizeagency in talk [1-3]. However, this analytical approach, with its focus on talk, misses muchabout the materials in the design process, and given that design is commonly cast as
Turner, Virginia Tech ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2023 Responsive Support Structures for Marginalized Students in Engineering: Insights from Years 1-3IntroductionThe purpose of this NSF CAREER project is to advance understanding of the navigationalstrategies used by undergraduate engineering students from marginalized groups. Our goal is toidentify insights that can be used to develop responsive support structures, prevent further harm,and address actors who perpetuate unjust systems. Our project will benefit the engineeringeducation ecosystem by illuminating ways to transform engineering education to include morelearning environments that value and uplift all of its
NSF-CAREER, Qimonda Professorship, Billingsley Professorship, IBE Presidential Citation for Distinguished Service and University of Arkansas Honors College Distinguished Leadership Award. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2023 Work in Progress: Investigating the impact of international education oncultural understanding, health disparities and collaboration through project- based learningIntroductionInternationalization and promotion of global understanding are important areas of focus foreducators with interdisciplinary approaches emphasizing international health issues, causes, andtechnology-based solutions of global health issues. To effectively solve global
students as they try out computing courses in theirhigh school pathways. Our aim is to increase the interest and career awareness of CS for highschool girls so they may have an equitable footing to choose CS as a potential major or career.IntroductionAfter previously piloting three innovative computer science modules developed specifically forhigh school audiences, we drew from our prior findings to develop and implement the fourthmodule, Software Engineering (SE) [1] [2]. For our module design framework, we usedproject-based learning and expansive framing in order to situate software engineering in ameaningful context for the desired audience [3] [4] [5] .Module DescriptionThe SE module challenges students to address a local or community problem
, Signals and Measurements with the PCB project. Overall, it helps with better understanding the design process as other skills like soldering, solidworks, and machining. 3. I learned a lot about the design process, which I feel will help me a lot in my career. 4. This is a class that really helped me connect the elements of design we learned last year with concepts of circuits and systems. 5. I feel like I have a good understanding of the FDA design controls process and can apply it to real world situations. 6. I think it was nice that this class matched up with what we were learning in Circuits, Signals and Measurements. 7. A strength of this course was being able to apply the design process to the PCB Project
backgrounds in education. He received his BA from Central College (Iowa) in 1993 and his PhD in social and personality psychology from the University of Wisconsin–Madison in 2007. Prior to his career in psychology, he spent six years as a teacher, coach, and social worker. Chris is a second generation educator whose grand- parents were tenant farmers in Iowa and Nebraska. He tries to emulate their hard work and persistence in the pursuit of social justice. One of his favorite childhood memories is eating his paternal grandmother’s homemade fruit pies with plenty of ice cream.Delaram A Totonchi, University of VirginiaJoshua Davis, University of VirginiaMichelle Francis, University of VirginiaEmma HuelskoetterYoi Tibbetts
exercises, a hands-on project, career fair information, a labtour, presentations from faculty and upper-level students about upcoming classes, the curriculum,and internship opportunities, and some recreational games. The camp and its activities aredescribed in detail in previous publications [16,17]. The workshop allows students to learn moreabout chemical engineering generally and upcoming courses in the curriculum, and also serves asan opportunity for them to meet peers and interact with upper-level students and faculty.Data CollectionStudents attending the ChemE Camp are given written surveys to complete at the very start ofthe workshop (“Pre-Camp” surveys). The same surveys are administered to all chemicalengineering sophomores at the beginning
opportunities. References[1] American Society for Engineering Education, “Profiles of engineering and engineering technology, 2021,” 2022.[2] American Society for Engineering Education, “Engineering and engineering technology by the numbers 2019,” 2019.[3] E. Higginbotham and M. L. Dahlberg, The impact of COVID-19 on the careers of women in academic sciences, engineering, and medicine. 2021. doi: 10.17226/26061.[4] A. Patrick, M. Borrego, and C. Riegle-Crumb, “Post-graduation plans of undergraduate BME students: Gender, self-efficacy, value, and identity beliefs,” Ann Biomed Eng, vol. 49, no. 5, 2021, doi: 10.1007/s10439-020-02693-9.[5] A. E. Winkler, S. G. Levin
for anengineering career with evermore collaboration demands in the global arena. A considerable partof an engineer’s job is to figure out how to concisely communicate complex concepts and detailsto other people with technical writing. The types of writing include proposals, inspection reports,design documentation, progress reports, specifications, instruction manuals, online help files,emails, blogs, and more. A recent study [4] showed that students’ abilities in technical writingwere perceived to be below the standards by industry professionals, and engineering educators arerequested to address this major competency gap urgently. However, teaching technical writing faces several unique challenges in engineeringeducation. Many
theconcept.The Multidisciplinary Design approach has proven to be both challenging and rewarding in bothindustry and academia. Bringing together bright minds to attack a design problem functionallyand systematically can test the boundaries of all team members. “For some professionally,vocationally, or technically oriented careers, curricula delivered in higher educationestablishments may focus on teaching material related to a single discipline. By contrast,multidisciplinary, interdisciplinary, and transdisciplinary teaching (MITT) results in improvedaffective and cognitive learning and critical thinking, offering learners/students the opportunityto obtain a broad general knowledge base” Pooley, Alison and Wanigarathna, Nadeeshani(2016).KeywordsShipping
. Holly Matusovich is the Associate Dean for Graduate and Professional Studies in the College of Engineering at Virginia Tech and a Professor in the Department of Engineering Education where she has also served in key leadership positions. Dr. Matusovich is recognized for her research and leadership related to graduate student mentoring and faculty development. She won the Hokie Supervisor Spotlight Award in 2014, received the College of Engineering Graduate Student Mentor Award in 2018, and was inducted into the Virginia Tech Academy of Faculty Leadership in 2020. Dr. Matusovich has been a PI/Co-PI on 19 funded research projects including the NSF CAREER Award, with her share of funding being nearly $3 million. She has
librarians. During the project, fellowscompleted 24 hours of design thinking instruction, practiced teaching at digital fabricationsummer camps for elementary and middle school youth, and created a lesson plan that integrateddesign thinking into their subject area. This paper investigates the extent to which teacherconfidence & ability in integration of design thinking principles into classroom instruction wereimproved by participation in the PL fellowship.Project Rationale. The notion of “making” has shown promise as an active, project-basedlearning intervention[2]. Integrating digital fabrication into classroom instruction has beenshown to improve student attitudes toward the STEM disciplines and increase career interest [3]-[5]. However
internship has increased their communication skills. The 2-year students range between 17 to 20-year-olds and many never worked in a team researchsetting and lacked experience in communication with team members. However, the internshipenables them to learn how to effectively communicate with their mentors and teammates. Theyalso learned how to present their research formally at weekly meetings and at conferences. Theweekly practice improved their presentation style and confidence. Last, the internship stimulatesinterns’ personal growth and career goals. At the end of the internship, interns reaffirmed theirdesire to transfer to 4-year universities after graduating from their 2-year program and a fewaspires to go to graduate schools in the future
. All the peoplethat I work with are very supportive and come to me with questions.”2.2.2 Co-Op Experiences of IRE ScholarsA significant necessity to the financial viability of IRE and the financial success of our IRE scholars isdependant on obtaining a co-op after their first semester of preparation. All IRE Scholars have received aco-op starting the month after their first semester. These co-ops were all obtained by the studentsfacilitated through one of the program’s career fairs. The average co-op pay is $22.50 per hour (comparedto the average at IRE for the first co-op of $21.62 per hour), with an average of 40 hours of work perweek. Co-op contracts range from eight months to indefinitely. Average hours worked and months on firstco-op are
comfortable workenvironment with lowered barriers to engagement in a large lecture course. However, lowattendance rates amongst students at office hours suggests that the increased anxiety around thecourse likely increased cognitive barriers to help-seeking and threshold to office hoursattendance despite high academic need. Combined with the observation that reasons that studentsin the study reported attending office hours and barriers to office hours are consistent withliterature, we posit that ideas about office hours are solidified early in students’ college careersand that these beliefs may affect students’ likelihood of accepting new strategies implemented incourses taken later in their college careers. Future work will focus on better
includingmodified Rankine cycles, Brayton cycles, and Refrigeration cycles. This course represents thefinal thermodynamics course for most students. As with most engineering courses, the analysesof such systems are assessed in homework and exams. However, these types of assessments donot translate well into their engineering career as they would not be expected to use a paper andpencil approach. The intention in assigning the project to was to introduce students to a processsimulator which would replace or work in coordination with pen and paper results. The primaryobjective of this proposed work is to demonstrate the benefits of introducing systems to amodern process simulator that students could be expected to use in engineering industry jobs.The
industry demands and enhancing their careers. This approach is alsobeneficial for multidisciplinary project-based learning courses throughout the engineeringprogram. Although a formal assessment of the approach's effectiveness is yet to be conducted,anecdotal evidence suggests positive outcomes. Overall, this paper demonstrates the value ofusing free software and low-cost hardware in teaching PLC concepts, paving the way for moreaccessible and cost-effective education in this crucial area of engineering.IntroductionIndustrial control systems are heavily reliant on Programmable Logic Controllers (PLCs). Thesecontrollers are specialized computer systems with inputs and outputs designed for high voltagesand currents. Moreover, they utilize
’ perceptions of soft skills, industry expectations, and career aspirations. Journal of professional issues in engineering education and practice, 142(1), 04015005.Kamaruzaman, M., Hamid, R., Mutalib, A., & Rasul, M. (2019). Comparison of engineering skills with IR 4.0 skills. 4Lucietto, A. M., Peters, D. L., Taleyarkhan, M. R., & Tan, S. (2021). Academic and Industry Collaboration: A Literature Review. Academic and Industry Collaboration: A Literature Review.Maisiri, W., Darwish, H., & Van Dyk, L. (2019). An investigation of Industry 4.0 skills requirements. South African Journal of Industrial Engineering, 30(3), 90-105.McGunagle, D., & Zizka, L. (2020
benefit engineering education and engineeringmanagement in the A&D discipline as it reveals the similarities and differences from twodifferent perspectives (i.e., newly-hired engineers and engineering managers). Moreover, thestudy may help engineering educators develop their career preparation strategies for collegestudents and inform senior college students who plan to work in the A&D industry of thepossible inconsistent opinions between their managers and themselves in the futureworkplace.2. Literature ReviewThe prior research and literature have revealed some consistency and divergence betweennewly-hired employees and managers in the socialization process. However, some gaps stillneed further study.2.1 Previous Studies about Managers
impact their aviation maintenance career over time.Adaptation and lasting changeAdaptation refers to the changes organizations make to prevent disruptive events AMTSadministrators and instructors were hesitant to incorporate digital learning tools into theirprograms moving forward. AMTS instructors and administrators perceive digital learning toolsas too expensive for their programs. They argue that teaching at AMTS has been hands-on fordecades; the profession is hands-on, so the learning should also be.Despite these hesitations, we found members of the AMTS community eager to incorporatetechnology into their classrooms. Steigerwald and Steigerwald [7] found that overall studentlearning improved with online testing because students could receive
interested in approaches that contribute to a more expansive understanding of engineering in sociocultural contexts, the impact of critical consciousness in engineering practice, and the development and implementation of culturally responsive pedagogies in engineering education. He received the NSF CAREER Award for his work on conocimiento in engineering spaces. © American Society for Engineering Education, 2022 Powered by www.slayte.com Reimagining Energy Year 4: Lessons LearnedOverviewThis National Science Foundation (NSF) project focuses on the development of a new, requiredenergy course, “An Integrated Approach to Energy,” for second-year