,sustainability, global systems of extraction, bias in design, etc. (2) move past the technical/socialdualism currently present in engineering education to empower students to learn about andparticipate in social justice issues and discussions, and (3) give students the tools and skills to learnhow they can incorporate social justice work in ways that support their professional developmentand career plans. This paper will summarize and synthesize our key findings across the threequalitative data strands. By shedding light on the factors that influence student motivation toengage with social justice content in engineering courses, we can help other faculty who areworking toward related curricular transformations at their institutions.MethodsIn a
District, Educational Leadership Program Enhancement Project at Syracuse University and the University at Albany through the Teacher Leadership Quality Program. She holds an advance degree in Educational Theory and Practice from the University of New York/SUNY Albany, with experience in teaching educational methods at the master’s level as well as an introduction to education courses designed to develop new interest in teaching careers. She has worked as an elemen- tary classroom teacher developing specific curricula for gifted and talented students as well as inclusion classrooms in a school district eligible for rural and low-income programs. Dr. Gullie’s experience and past projects qualify her for the position of
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trend is observed anddocumented in the book Talking About Leaving. “Both male students of color and all womentend, more often than white males, to enter S.M.E. [Science, Math, Engineering] majors withaltruistic career motivations…[they] reject job opportunities they had already been offered infavor of work which incorporated preferred lifestyles, values and social goals.”11. The studydescribed in the paper “Deconstructing Engineering Education Programs to Foster Diversity”was conducted to determine the motivations behind the selection of majors for women andminorities. They conclude that most students chose majors with which they can personallyidentify. The sciences and engineering are designed for a white male audience. One examplefrom their
in May of 2011 and the program was ABET accredited in August of 2012. The School will add a separate Mechanical Engineering Degree in 2017. He has experienced a varied career in government, academia, and industry and has six patents for advanced composite materials.Dr. Il-Seop Shin, Western Illinois University Il-Seop Shin received the B.S. degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from California State Uni- versity, Fresno in 1997, and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst in 1999 and 2007, respectively. In 2007, he joined Biomedical Sensing and Signal Processing research center at the University of Mas- sachusetts Amherst, as a
internationally over 30 years later, a wide variety of business experiences in international companies, and start up experiences that have helped him lead a very successful industry career. He holds a BS and ME in Electrical Engineering from Texas A&M University. Currently he is using his technical business experiences to develop and run innovation and entrepreneurial programs for the Engineering Innovation Center, a 20,000 sq ft rapid prototyping facil- ity. These include Aggies Invent, TAMU iSITE, Inventeer, and Pop Up Classes. In addition, he mentors multiple entrepreneurial teams. He is also formerly the Chief Operating Officer for GroundFORCE, a company that specializes in a unique patented construction technology
programs exists at this time.References1. Criteria for Accrediting Engineering Programs, ABET, Inc., 2010.2. Definition of Team, BusinessDirectory, http://www.businessdictionary.com/definition/team.html, accessed onFebruary 17, 2017.3. Miller, Beth, 7 Team Types That Make Business Possible, Business2Community, May 17, 2012,http://www.business2community.com/strategy/7-team-types-that-make-business-possible-0177106#EuOrRQ1UlZMj96IA.97, accessed on February 11, 2017.4. Meyer, Evan, What Different Types of Teams are in the Workplace? CAPSIM, July 14, 2015,http://www.capsim.com/blog/what-different-types-of-teams-are-in-the-workplace/, accessed on February 11, 2017.5. Ngo, Sheiresa, The 4 Types of Team Players: Which are you?, Money and Career
endometrium in rural contexts. Recently she and her colleagues have empirically demonstrated the continued problem of sexual harassment and assault in the field sciences, and forthcoming results suggest a link between these experiences and the career trajectories of female scientists. She continues to perform research on issues of inclusion, identity, and diversity in science through collaborations with GAMES, the Committee for the Status of Women in Astronomy, and other organizations.Dr. Ruby Mendenhall, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign Ruby Mendenhall is an Associate Professor at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. She holds joint faculty appointments in Sociology, African American Studies, Urban and
1997, when he joined the faculty at Northeastern. He has consulted for numerous companies in the fields of catalysis, solid/gas contacting, zeolite synthesis and applications, and equipment design for space applications. Sacco has more than 192 publications (including book chapters) in the areas of carbon filament initiation and growth, transition metal and acid catalyst and their deactivation, and zeolite synthesis, and he has been the principal inves- tigator on more than $24 million in research grants. Using his space flight experience, Sacco has given more than 300 presentations to approximately 27,000 K-12 teachers and their students as a means to mo- tivate students to consider careers in science and
assessments were with regard to their feelings on the role PFF programming playedon their choice of academic career path, securing a job, and the initial transition from graduatestudent to faculty member.Of the aforementioned categories, alumni reported the most valuable interventions to be thementoring relationship and PFF interventions organized at their home institutions; site visits tocluster campuses closely followed. Most specifically, of value were the discussions withmentors on the faculty roles and responsibilities, balancing research, teaching, and service, andstructures of institutional governance; direct observation of cluster campus courses, facultymeetings, and strategies for teaching diverse student populations; and opportunities
American University of Sharjah. He holds a Ph.D. in Construction Engineering and Project Management from Texas A&M University, USA, and an M.S. in Construction Management from Texas A&M University, USA. He is a certified Project Management Professional (PMP) from the Project Management Institute (PMI) since 2006. Prior to his academic career, he worked in the construction industry in Greece & Yemen with Consolidated Contractors Company (CCC) and in the US with the Morganti Group Inc. His areas of research and teaching interest are construction & project management, project control and construction contracting. He published over forty research papers in international reputed project management journals
of the top 13 engineering programs by US News and World Report for Universitiesthat offer a Master’s degree as the highest degree. Adapting to a growing student enrollmentwithin any college is difficult, particularly when competing against colleges/ universities thatreceive more funding and a progressive campus climate. Veterans who are leaving the militaryand considering a second career as well as some active duty students who are enhancing theirskillsets are a potential pool of students. These military and former military students canenhance the engineering education of traditional students as well. Colleges still desire to create adiverse student population and build an inclusive environment with all students to ensure theyfeel a part of
differenttypes of infrastructure that civil engineers play a critical role in development of, but the ReportCard as well as the Game Changers (at times) can be used to challenge stereotypes aboutengineering as well as prompt exploration into careers that are associated with the differentinfrastructure types. Students may become interested in water quality or levees and begininvestigating the different types of engineering involved or even the different sub-disciplineswithin civil engineering that may be involved. For instance, in the creation of levees, civilengineers involved may have specializations in hydrology (environmental engineering), soilcompact-ability and soil types (geotechnical engineering), and the actual construction process ofthe levee
participate in this voluntary community. The dean of the collegeextends a personal invitation to each participant, department chairs support this effort by reinforcingthe message and arranging faculty teaching schedules to not conflict during the meeting times, and theNFLC activities are selected to directly benefit the participants’ careers at UW-Platteville. Participantsare encouraged to apply for internal start-up grants supporting retention of women andunderrepresented minorities, which exposes them to issues surrounding women in engineering. TheNFLC programming is developed in coordination with the College’s Women in Engineering Program. Thisintentional approach prepares new faculty to become allies in the retention effort. Work/life
recent survey of over 1,000 Faculty Focus readers, 90% had an interestin learner-centered teaching articles (Bart, 2016).Therefore, in this paper, we propose that the long-term solution to this problem is to place facultymembers on a positive trajectory of using learner-centered techniques at the very start of theiracademic careers. One effective way to achieve success with this goal is to encourage andenable new faculty members to see for themselves that the benefits of active learning to bothstudents and instructors are real and that most perceived obstacles can be easily overcome. As acase study, we present the transformation of an introductory electrical and computer engineeringcourse on digital logic design from a passive (i.e., lecture
a study looking at the perceptions of and experienceswith academic integrity that students bring with them post K-12, at the start of theirundergraduate engineering careers. It also provides a foundation to help track the evolution ofstudents’ perceptions of academic dishonesty as they progress through their studies.IntroductionEngineering work is performed within the context of a code of ethics. Codes of ethics are sharedby the different engineering professional societies, such as the American Society of CivilEngineers1, the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers2, and the National Society ofProfessional Engineers3, among others. It is therefore important to ensure that engineeringstudents are being prepared to act within the
professional engineering license. Licensure carries with it responsibility,liability, and privileges that are a very important part of the engineer’s career. [2]Licensed professional engineers are the cornerstone of the civil engineering profession. One ofthe intended goals of the licensure process is to protect public health, safety, and welfare. [3] Itprovides society with a verifiable reason to trust the profession and an assurance that licensedengineers possess the knowledge and experience to practice. Unlike their engineering colleagueswho are employed in industries that assume product liability for their designs, engineers whooffer professional services are regulated by state licensure boards, laws, and regulations. [4]In most jurisdictions, the
competitive jobs and activities wheresituations for advancement often exist.There have been several programs implemented to provide hands-on activities in a way thatpromotes females’ sense of belonging, which have been studied by various researchers. Carlsonand Sullivan 12 found many females, in addition to other underrepresented populations, have beenapproached at middle school and high school level to take part in different hands on educationexperiences with a focus in computer science and coding tasks. The purpose of this was topromote STEM fields for a career path, which many of the female students would otherwise notconsider. In some cases, these programs provided them with female role models and femaleengineering mentors in order to help with
futurestudies in graduate or professional school or forego particular career choices7. The need to payoff need-based student loans can become a real barrier to a desire to teach, or practice medicinein an underserved community, or work in a nonprofit or service agency—among many othercareer choices8.Starting in fall 2009, our university eliminated need-based loans in financial aid packages,replacing them with grants and scholarships for the approximately 64% of undergraduates whodepend on some sort of financial support. Since its official fundraising launch the year before,the financial aid program has supported more than 8,900 undergraduate students. In the 2016-17academic year, the financial aid program is providing aid to 3,058 students. These
for over 28 years as a commissioned officer in the U.S Army Field Artillery in a variety of leadership positions in the U.S., Europe, and East Asia. He retired at the rank of Colonel. During his military career, Dr. Lenox spent 15 years on the engineering faculty of USMA – including five years as the Director of the Civil Engineering Division. Upon his retirement from the U.S. Army in 1998, he joined the staff of the American Soci- ety of Civil Engineers (ASCE). In his position as educational staff leader of ASCE, he managed several new educational initiatives – collectively labeled as Project ExCEEd (Excellence in Civil Engineering Education). As ASCE’s Executive Vice President, Dr. Lenox led several educational
relevant to working in the industry, but it was a pretty sudden change from the traditional lab structure… • More thinking and freedom, more interesting. • As a student with a job and limited time, I would definitely prefer "follow-the-steps" but as a future professional with a career, I feel I learned a lot more with the approach used in our labs. • I would prefer follow the steps laboratories. While I find that I am able to link the labs to the lecture material much better in these labs as opposed to follow the step ones, the labs this
for the Discover Abroad office. She is currently working on a Master’s degree in Public and International Affairs and a Certificate in Nonprofit Management with the expected graduate date of May 2017. Her focus is on community change and cultural democracy.Prof. Brent K. Jesiek, Purdue University, West Lafayette (College of Engineering) Dr. Brent K. Jesiek is an Associate Professor in the Schools of Engineering Education and Electrical and Computer Engineering at Purdue University. He also leads the Global Engineering Education Collabora- tory (GEEC) research group, and is the recipient of an NSF CAREER award to study boundary-spanning roles and competencies among early career engineers. He holds a B.S. in Electrical
class will be to my future. I can see that this class will help me in every aspect of my life, whether that be in my career, as a father, or as a member of the community/church.” “When I signed up for this class I assumed that it would be an easy class that I wouldn’t really learn much from, in all honesty how can a class teach someone to become a better leader? Nevertheless, I can now see that just from the last two weeks of class I am already learning to be a better leader, not by giving presentations or taking charge of major groups and projects but instead by understanding myself better. Self-mastery is an essential step in developing leadership skills.” “To be honest I wasn’t
both engineering students and practicing engineers. Additionally, he teaches an on-campus ethics course for undergraduate students. Burgess provides guest lectures on ethics throughout the Whitacre College of Engineering. Burgess has also worked to incorporate ethics into K-12 STEM education. The push to increase the number of students pursuing STEM careers needs to be accompanied by a sophisticated understanding of the complexity of technology. Ethics is a key part of this complexity and the next generation of STEM professionals will need the skills to effectively engage the ethical challenges they will face. Burgess is a regular presenter on incorporating ethics in a K-12 setting. A theme throughout these roles is
successful (when done well) methods of presenting complex and largedata sets to general audiences (Tufte, 1997; Smiciklas, 2012; Lankow, Ritchie, & Crooks, 2012).An ongoing proliferation of multimedia communication also means that visual literacy skillscontinue to grow more and more valuable for students and college graduates, and teaching theseskills is becoming important to multiple academic disciplines. Teaching visual literacy willideally help students to interpret the mass of visual media they encounter as young people, and inturn help them to apply and extend those critical skills within their future careers. Kibar andAkkoyunlu (2014) have discussed the use of infographics as a tool for teaching visual literacyskills. They found that
, Wireless, and Security (NetSciWiS) laboratory, within the Wireless@VT research group. His research interests include wireless networks, game theory, cybersecurity, and cyber-physical systems. Dr. Saad is the recipient of the NSF CAREER award in 2013, the AFOSR summer faculty fellowship in 2014, and the Young Investigator Award from the Office of Naval Research (ONR) in 2015. He was the author/co-author of five conference best pa- per awards at WiOpt in 2009, ICIMP in 2010, IEEE WCNC in 2012, IEEE PIMRC in 2015, and IEEE SmartGridComm in 2015. He is the recipient of the 2015 Fred W. Ellersick Prize from the IEEE Commu- nications Society. Dr. Saad serves as an editor for the IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications
courses’ active learning activities averaged an increase in competence from 6.8to 8.1 on a scale of 0 to 10, with 10 being the highest. Thus, not only does qualitative work supportsuch an increase, but it also directly links increases to the participation in active components ofthe course.Perceived Instrumentality – Identification of knowledge needed to develop students’ emergingengineering identities.While students found what parts of engineering they were competent at or not competent at, somestudents went further to identify what aspects of design they needed to learn more about for theirfuture careers. We can first see this in Marcus’ journal when he is asked about the aspects of designhe felt he is better or worse able to complete in the
Austin.MITE provides the opportunity to discover engineering through faculty-led sessions forhigh school juniors at the Cockrell School of Engineering at the UT Austin. It also servesas a recruitment strategy to increase the number of underrepresented minority groups.History of the EOE ProgramThe Cockrell School of Engineering established the EOE program in 1970 to promote therecruitment and academic development of African American, Hispanic, and NativeAmerican students interested in pursuing careers in engineering. Since that time, theEOE program has expanded its goals and now seeks to increase the diversity of itsstudent body (i.e. first-generation, low socioeconomic status, LGBTQ, veterans, etc.) bysupporting students who come from historically
excluded.Of those who said the curriculum did change their minds there were several themes: I have more knowledge about the impacts that can be made by engineers and/or how they can help (20) I know now more about ethics and the care that must be taken when making decisions (13) I now have a desire to make a positive contribution to the world (6) I realized I must think about society as a whole/culture/local traditions (5) This class confirmed my choice of major/career or gave me knowledge about my future career (4) I have more knowledge of the problems that need to be addressed (3) I realize we need to see the big picture/global impacts and connections (3) I have a new world view (3
practice the professionalskills they require for their careers and introducing global perspectives is a recognized method to helpstudents understand these skills in other contexts/cultures. Through comparing local and internationaldesign projects in classrooms, alongside international experiences through design based study abroadprograms and extra-curricular projects we aim to seek to understand the level and role of internationalexperiences in engineering student’s global competence. This paper will outline the current research andliterature in this area and propose a methodology to compare global competencies of students across fourdifferent learning models; a US based, non-development project on campus as part of their curriculum