leadership development, performance management, competency development and people analytics. She integrates her research in Engineering Education with prior background in Human Resource Management and Engineering to understand better ways to develop STEM workforce both in universities and companies.Prof. Brent K. Jesiek, Purdue University, West Lafayette 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
Washington State University (2013-2014) and George Mason University (2014-2017). Throughout his career, his primary responsibility as a faculty member has been teaching students, for which he aspires to provide them with a quality and enjoyable experience.Dr. William A. Kitch, Angelo State University Dr. Kitch is Professor and Chair of the David L. Hirschfeld Department of Engineering at Angelo State University. Before starting his academic career he spent 24 years as a practicing engineer in both the public and private sector. He is a registered professional engineer in Colorado, California and Texas American c Society for Engineering Education, 2021Make
, George had a distinguished 31-year career at Ford Motor Company, where he held numerous positions as Chief Engineer of multiple vehicle lines (Expedi- tion/Navigator, Crown Victoria, Grand Marquis, Town Car, and Ranger), several engineering leadership positions in automotive interiors and exteriors, and possesses operational experience in product design, manufacturing, and business & technology strategy. George has also been a very active mentor and coach, both in industry (serving on multiple personnel development committees and special projects to enhance organizational competency) and in academia (serving as the Ford Executive Champion for University of Michigan Student Teams, and Ford lead re- cruiter for
—creating space for both declared and undeclaredcomputer science majors and minors. This is important for early computing undergraduates whomay need to see computing in a less depoliticized context that is clearly connected to the socialjustice to persist in the field. From an institutional and curricular standpoint, an electivedesignation reduces any illusory competition with other subject areas of computing. While late-career academics may have the authority among their department peers to bring such a courseinto the core, the elective designation supports early career academics who may not be supportedto make such a proposition. Thus, the elective designation settles for not exclusion from “core”computing curricular knowledge to be more
collaboration was extended to include peer observations from contentspecific teachers outside their campus using a non-directive approach to observations [25].AMP! focuses on in-service 8th and 9th grade teachers while the goal of having them inspire,motivate, and encourage students. The impact of training teachers is amplified, as one teacherover a ten-year career can interact with thousands of students. Excellent teachers have studentswho perform better on tests, are more likely to attend college, enter jobs with higher salaries, aswell as have fewer social problems [26,27]. Among the multitude of school factors, teacherquality is the most influential in student outcomes extending beyond their academic years[28,29]. Yet, despite their vital
STEM persistence for underrepresented minority students attending predominantly white institutions. Journal of Career Development, (2023), 50(1), 87-103.[12] D. Chakraverty, A cultural impostor? Native American experiences of impostor phenomenon in STEM. CBE—Life Sciences Education, 2022, 21(1), ar15.[13] E. O. McGee, P. K. Botchway, D. E. Naphan-Kingery, A. J. Brockman, S. Houston, & D. T. White, Racism camouflaged as impostorism and the impact on Black STEM doctoral students. Race Ethnicity and Education, (2022), 25(4), 487-507.[14] J. L. Mondisa, J. Millunchick, C. Davis & D. Koch, The University of Michigan's M-STEM academies program: Examining the social community of future engineers. In 2016 IEEE Frontiers in
theirresponses to each of the questions below. Each response has been included in exactly the formthat each panelist provided, and then all responses are summarized for each question.Question #1 – For what reasons are you an ally or advocate for women in engineering-relatedfields?Panelist #1: For anyone who is underrepresented in their chosen career, it is very hard toovercome imposter syndrome and to advocate for oneself within existing and perceived powerand privilege structures. It has been shown that until there is a critical mass of thoseunderrepresented (around 1/3), these issues exist. This means that for women to not only advancein engineering (and ultimately achieve critical mass), they need allies and advocates to help themnavigate the
success and well-being of other STEM students. She is currently working on other researches that would help understand the decision-making, and thinking processes of STEM students. Mercy has had the opportunity to work with great minded STEM scholars and researchers in the course of her career and has been exposed to real life experiences that have shaped her perspective on the relevance of STEM professions. Mercy is currently mentored by Dr. Andre Ofori-Boadu who has tremendous achievements in the STEM profession as a resourceful scholar and a researcher. Mercy has a learnt a lot from Dr. Andrea in the little time she has worked with her and still hopes to learn some more. Mercy is determined to find out possible ways
Intelligent User Interfaces, 2020, pp. 231–242.[13] A. Bandura, “Self-efficacy: toward a unifying theory of behavioral change.” Psychological review, vol. 84, no. 2, p. 191, 1977.[14] R. W. Lent, S. D. Brown, and G. Hackett, “Social cognitive career theory,” Career choice and development, vol. 4, pp. 255–311, 2002.[15] A. Bandura et al., “Guide for constructing self-efficacy scales,” Self-efficacy beliefs of adolescents, vol. 5, no. 1, pp. 307–337, 2006.[16] E. McBride, W. W. Oswald, L. A. Beck, and A. Vashlishan Murray, ““i’m just not that great at science”: Science self-efficacy in arts and communication students,” Journal of Research in Science Teaching, vol. 57, no. 4, pp. 597–622, 2020.[17] A. Sahendra, M. Budiarto, and Y
—also influences the course of human action. Those of low self-efficacy are easilyconvinced of the futility of effort when they come up against institutional impediments, whereasthose of high self-efficacy figure out ways to surmount them.” These mechanisms can be used inthe classroom when designing student projects/activities; and due to the broad-reaching benefitsof increased self-efficacy, providing students early in their university careers with experienceswhich target its development has been a priority of the authors for over a decade.The remote teaching environment poses several challenges in implementing these mechanisms,however. A key element of a mastery experience is that it must be challenging, wherecompleting the task successfully
fully aware of the resource until late in their academic career. “I wish I had knownabout it earlier,” lamented one student. Some students said they stumbled upon the videos whilesearching for any online resources, while other students reported discovering the resourcethrough word-of-mouth (classmates or instructors). They expressed the need for frequentreminders by faculty that ME Online exists, especially when students are in their early years inthe program. One student noted: “When I first learned about the videos, I think it was, like, the end of my second year or early third year, and I remember looking at all of the videos there. And I was like, ‘Oh shoot! I could have used these!’ … [The college should] make it clear
hands-on, multi-faceted “tools” and marketable skills they can use to pursueengineering careers ranging from entrepreneur in a startup venture, to intrapreneur working in acorporate enterprise, to senior executive leading a multinational organization.The course centers around the creation of an “Innovation Playbook,” which is a semester longgroup project. It begins with students individually identifying problems and drafting needstatements [27] for a problem they would want to work on over the course of the semester. Oncestudents individually identified need statements, students would then pitch their statements as aone-minute elevator pitch to the class and then would be given time to self-create teams of fiveto six individuals per team. They
inclusion in engineering. Before coming to Stanford, she was a bilingual educator at low-income elementary schools in Texas. Prior to starting her career in education, Greses was an engineer project manager in the Caribbean. She holds a B.S. in Civil Engineering from Santo Domingo Technological Institute, a M.Eng. in Civil Engineering from the University of Puerto Rico at Mayag¨uez, and a M.Ed. in School Leadership from Southern Methodist Uni- versity. Her work seeks to improve education for students who experience a cultural mismatch between the ways of knowing and speaking in their communities and those in STEM.Dr. Sheri Sheppard, Stanford University Sheri D. Sheppard, Ph.D., P.E., is professor of Mechanical
related to the outcomes of fluency and elaboration, but not reflection.IntroductionOne of the most timely and pressing goals of promoting early STEM education is to createeducational experiences that will both broaden enduring participation in the study of STEMtopics [1] and that will establish a long-term learning framework to encourage students to trainfor important STEM careers [2]. In the field of engineering education, this idea is bound up inmetaphors like those of “the pipeline”, “the ecosystem”, and “the pathways” [3,4], all of whichinclude a multitude of diverse trajectories in the course of study and skill development wherebystudents can access their opportunities to become expert engineers [5].There are many ways in which pre-college
unrecognized. The number of responses is small, and individuals who elected torespond to the survey may be those who placed greater value on ethics and/or had a greaterconnection to the instructor that emailed the survey invitation. Further, the survey instrumentwas not fully validated using rigorous methods [39, 44]. The majority of the survey respondentshad not worked very long as engineers after graduation. Those interviewed represented a broadrange of different career lengths post-graduation. Not all engineering disciplines and types ofengineering work are represented among the results.Results and DiscussionRQ1. Extent of impactThe survey results are summarized in Table 2. For all nine activity options listed on the survey,one or more individuals
then used these scenarios to identify “the ideal attributes ofthe engineer of 2020” and describe “ways to improve the training of engineers to prepare themfor addressing the complex technical, social, and ethical questions raised by emergingtechnologies.” The Engineer of 2020 casts engineers in the role of change agents and leaders in both theprivate and public sector and focuses on the opportunities that lay ahead: “The years between thepresent and 2020 offer engineering the opportunity to strengthen its leadership role in society andto define an engineering career as one of the most influential and valuable in society and one thatis attractive for the best and the brightest” (p. 48). Realizing these aspirations, the report’sauthors
produce scholarship linking their experiences to broader cultural phenomenaaround engineering and labor, further shaping a theory of change.PositionalityThe first and third authors, Valle and Bowen, are labor organizers with the American FederationFigure 1: Mapping of the components of this study to the liberatory engineering education modelproposed in [13].of Teachers (AFT) local GEO-3550, marginalized engineers, graduate student workers, childrenof union members, and participants within this study. As engineering graduate students whoseprimary fields of study are not engineering education, this work represents a departure from thetechnical scholarship of our fields. As early career scholars, we recognize forms of political riskinherent to
Equity, through games. He is the coauthor of books relating to gaming and energy and has published papers in international journals. He is an active participant in national and international conferences with papers and presentations. Before his teaching career, he had a very successful corporate management career working in R&D at Lucent Technologies and as the Director of Global Technology Management at Qualcomm. He had initiated and managed software development for both the companies in India. Prof. Radhakrishnan holds three graduate Degrees (M. Tech, M.S., M.B.A), and Sustainable Business Practices certification.Dr. James Jay Jaurez, National University Dr. Jaurez is a dedicated Academic Program Director and
on the country and the world sometimes.” The hydraulic fracturing activity helped thisstudent understand the potential implications of his future career and this was an importantoutcome since he planned to pursue employment in the oil industry.The narrow technical focus of individual courses in the engineering curriculum can obscureconnections between, and implications of, engineering concepts. One student described thatSustainable Energy as a whole course supported the broader integration of engineering conceptsand their practical applications. It helps put all the other classes into the wider focus and give more perspective… It helps us see the connections between everything, and Sustainable Energy definitely helps with that.An
on the current course, andprovides a slow path to improvement. This study presents a student-centered assessment modelthat provides timely actionable feedback allowing optimization of course instruction during thesemester with the objective of maximizing student learning and the overall student satisfaction.The proposed model uses a simple structured approach that incorporates questions requiringnumerical scores and open-ended questions to solicit student feedback.This model includes four surveys administered over the semester. The first survey is given on thefirst week of classes to familiarize the instructor with the background and career goals of eachstudent and their course expectations. Based on the findings of this survey, the
engineering students in order to promote collaborative problem solving and provide experience relevant to authentic work in industry.Ms. Esmee VernooijCatherine LaBore, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Catherine LaBore is a sociocultural anthropologist and media production professional. She has had a long career producing educational media. As an ethnographer and media/content producer, she spent nine years supporting engineering research with colleagues developing intelligent systems for education. She’s worked on problems of user experience and design and higher-level content development (e.g. expert ontology and schemata) for systems designed to teach language skills, cross-cultural social interaction
En- gineering and STEM Education at the University of Texas at Austin. Dr. Borrego is Senior Associaate Editor for Journal of Women and Minorities in Science and Engineering. She previously served as Deputy Editor for Journal of Engineering Education, a Program Director at the National Science Foundation, on the board of the American Society for Engineering Education, and as an associate dean and director of in- terdisciplinary graduate programs. Her research awards include U.S. Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE), a National Science Foundation CAREER award, and two outstand- ing publication awards from the American Educational Research Association for her journal articles. All
classroom, faculty encounterstudents through a narrow lens that can hide or spotlight particular identities while stereotypingor simplifying more nuanced experiences. Considering the compelling aspect of inclusion thatpromotes acceptance of people with all their uniqueness [18], we argue engineering cultures thatdo not allow students to bring their whole selves are fundamentally at odds with the idea ofcreating an inclusive environment.A student's well-being depends on a wide range of experiences, including many beyond thebounds of the classroom, such as career prospects, living conditions, financial stability, academicpreparation, social connections, and mentor relationships. Alice's story conveys a broad andcomplex story that intersects her
NIFA grant, and is currently co-PI on three NSF-funded projects in engineering and computer science education, including a Revo- lutionizing Engineering Departments project. She was selected as a National Academy of Education / Spencer Postdoctoral Fellow and a 2018 NSF CAREER awardee in engineering education research. Dr. Svihla studies learning in authentic, real world conditions; this includes a two-strand research program fo- cused on (1) authentic assessment, often aided by interactive technology, and (2) design learning, in which she studies engineers designing devices, scientists designing investigations, teachers designing learning experiences and students designing to learn.Dr. Susannah C. Davis, Oregon
with a minor in Spanish. She started her career in education as a member of the Baltimore City Teaching Residency. She taught at a neighborhood public high school while earning her Master’s degree from Johns Hopkins University. After three years in Baltimore, she relocated to Washington, D. C. to teach at a public charter middle school. After four years teaching middle school, she decided to pursue her doctorate from Temple University. Her dissertation focused on novice teachers’ perceptions of their preparation for teaching at the middle level. Dr. Hesson’s current research interests include science education and middle level teacher preparation. c American Society for Engineering
experience greater levels of anxietythan male students (Papanastasiou, 2008). In order to encourage strong students to pursuegraduate study and to prepare for research-based professional positions, a strong exposure toundergraduate research is critical and the experiences students have with conductingundergraduate research can be very influential in continuing education decisions.Undergraduate engineering students also are often not exposed to the roles people outside oftheir major play in projects they may work on in their careers. In a recent study, Coso et al.(2010) researched second year engineering students conducting an interdisciplinary researchproject to identify the personnel who should be involved in the creation of a retaining wall
interviews taking place in the years following.For example, it was found that of the original 20 graduate students interviewed, only five weremaster’s degree candidates, which is not representative of the larger population in whichmaster’s students make up over 60% of the engineering and textiles graduate students. Toaddress this, five more master’s students were interviewed in the spring of 2012. An additionalthree PhD students offered to speak to us at that time, so they were interviewed as well. Deeperanalysis of the faculty interviews revealed early-career faculty as users that the library might beable to better support, and so additional interviews of faculty in this category were conducted inthe spring of 2013 to acquire more data from this
AC 2007-1609: UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND'S VENTUREACCELERATORScott Laughlin, University of Maryland Scott Laughlin is Director of the VentureAccelerator at the Maryland Technology Enterprise Institute (MTECH). Mr. Laughlin is a former Partner in IDG Ventures, a $600M family of private funds invested in early stage technology companies. Prior to his career in venture capital, Mr. Laughlin was a successful senior executive in Silicon Valley-based start-up companies, including a company sold to Microsoft. Mr. Laughlin received his B.A. from Princeton University (’90).Scott Magids, University of Maryland Scott Magids is Director of MTECH Ventures, one of the two main branches of the Maryland
, thinking as part of a team, and thinking and communicating inseveral “languages” of design. Fry12 has also discussed the importance of “design thinking” inengineering education and underscores the value of multidisciplinary teams. Until designpractices are fully integrated into engineering curricula, capstone design programs will bear asubstantial burden to better prepare undergraduates for careers that inevitably emphasize the“practice” of design.At RIT, the infusion of multidisciplinary design into the curriculum represents a strategicimperative for the KGCOE. Without strong top-down commitment, the likelihood of making anoticeable impact on the broader challenge outlined above seems remote. In addition to theMSD program discussed in this paper
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. She received her M.S. in Counselor Education, Student Affairs Administration from Radford University, and M.S. in Career and Technical Education and B.S. in Human Nutrition, Foods and Exercise both from Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University.Christi Boone, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University C. L. BOONE is the Coordinator of Academic Support Services for the College Of Engineering at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. She received her M.A. & B.A. degrees in English from Radford University.Bevlee Watford, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University DR. BEVLEE A. WATFORD, P.E. is the