South Korea. She currently works as graduate research assistant in engineering education department. Her research interests are assessment for learners in diverse settings, and teacher education in multicultural settings.Prof. Jeffrey F Rhoads, Purdue University at West Lafayette Jeffrey F. Rhoads is a Professor in the School of Mechanical Engineering at Purdue University and is affiliated with both the Birck Nanotechnology Center and Ray W. Herrick Laboratories at the same insti- tution. He received his B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees, each in mechanical engineering, from Michigan State University in 2002, 2004, and 2007, respectively. Dr. Rhoads’ current research interests include the predictive design, analysis, and
Realities.” accepted for ASEE Annual Conference, 2008.11. “Unpublished data” obtained through communication with Dr. Krista Donaldson, Jan. 2008.12. H.L. Chen, K.M. Donaldson, G. Lichtenstein, O. Eris, D. Chachra, S.D. Sheppard, “From PIE to APPLES: TheEvolution of a Survey Instrument to Explore Engineering Student Pathways, accepted for ASEE AnnualConference, 2008.13. J. Mervis, "Wanted-A Better Way to Boost Numbers of Minority Ph.D.s," Science, August 28, 1998, Vol. 281,No. 5381, p. 1268.14. N. B. Walters, “Retaining aspiring scholars: Recruitment and retention of students of color in graduate andprofessional science degree programs,” paper presented at the annual meeting of the Association for the Study ofHigher Education, Nov. 1997
programs and services for the Hispanic STEM community.Andrea D. Beattie, Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers, Inc. Andrea D. Beattie is a graduate from Texas A&M International University in Laredo, Texas, where she earned a Bachelor of Arts and Master of Arts in Political Science in 2011 and 2012, respectively. Currently she serves as Manager, Research and Impact at SHPE. In this role, she assists the organization with research, program evaluation, and data analytics.Dr. Kimberly D Douglas P.E., Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers, Inc. Over 25 years of experience as an engineering educator and administrator developing and funding programs for increasing the persistence and degree completion rates of STEM
for something they do and learn how to do it better asthey interact regularly [2, 19].” Because the pre-service teachers and engineering students whoare participating in the course have very different personal experiences and backgroundknowledge, this course will facilitate the development of a community of practice that is also ahybrid space where students can draw on their own personal experiences and backgrounds toengage in novel and creative ways with each other [20,21]. Participation in such hybridcommunities of practices has been demonstrated to facilitate identity development and self-efficacy growth [21,22]. The results of this research will provide actionable information that canbe used to create or refine engineering education
when faculty would contact the Global Outreach and ExtendedEducation (GOEE) group to set up the lecture capture portion of their course. Group membersbegan sharing the college’s vision for the future of online education. Over the semesters, interestbegan to build and several faculty started reaching out to discover more about what could bedone to make their courses more online friendly.The initial course to go through the DFO process was Materials Science & Engineering (MSE)598: Concepts in Materials Science. Planning began in the latter part of Fall 2016 and continuedinto the Spring of 2017 when the actual development of digital assets and the building of thecourse in the LMS. The first iteration of the course under this new process was
suggests that this type of studentmay approach writing differently than graduate students in other disciplines, and thus instructionshould be developed that best helps them participate in the discourse of their field.Developing academic literacy is also traced in a case study by [10]. In addition, [11], describe anational workshop to systematically teach Ph.D. students how to communicate engineering andscientific research as an antidote to the typical process of ad hoc student learning fromcolleagues and advisors. [12] describe the value of adding a component of ethics education toengineering graduate curricula to promote awareness of professional norms in the U.S. andgreater awareness of the societal context of engineering. Adding an ethics
Department of Mechanical Engineering at Penn- sylvania State University. She earned her B.S. in Chemistry from The University of South Dakota, her M.S. in Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering and her PhD in Engineering Education from Purdue University. Her research expertise lies in characterizing graduate-level attrition, persistence, and career trajectories; engineering writing and communication; and methodological development. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2023 Burnout: The Cost of Masking Neurodiversity in Graduate STEM ProgramsAbstractA growing body of literature suggests that neurodivergent individuals, such as those with autism
. Alain also serves as the lead program manager of the Summer Engineering Camps an effort that is centered on development of the engineering identity through direct experiences with Engineering fields and design challenges in the informal STEM learning space. Finally, he manages and supports research and development of new and innovative approaches to exposing Pk-12 students to active learning frameworks such as Maker Sprints and Project Based Learning. Alain has a Master of Science in Interdisciplinary Environmental Studies from the University of Texas at El Paso and a Master of Arts in Design and Innovation from Southern Methodist University. As part of his goals to contribute across the University Alain also
Engineering Education at Virginia Tech, where she directs the Vir- ginia Tech Engineering Communications Center (VTECC). Her research focuses on communication in engineering design, interdisciplinary communication and collaboration, design education, and gender in engineering. She was awarded a CAREER grant from the National Science Foundation to study expert teaching in capstone design courses, and is co-PI on numerous NSF grants exploring communication, design, and identity in engineering. Drawing on theories of situated learning and identity development, her work includes studies on the teaching and learning of communication, effective teaching practices in design education, the effects of differing design pedagogies on
tensions of service learning in higher education: A philosophical perspective. The Journal of Higher Education, 72(2, Special Issue: The Social Role of Higher Education), 148-171. 7. Bringle, R., & Hatcher, J. (1995). A service-learning curriculum for faculty. Michigan Journal of Community Service Learning, 2(1), 112-122. 8. deKoven, A., & Trumbull, D. J. (2002). Science graduate students doing science outreach: Participation effects and perceived barriers to participation. Electronic Journal of Science Education, 7(1). 9. Banzaert, A., Duffy, J., & Wallace, D. (2006). Integration of service-learning into engineering core at U Mass Lowell and MIT. American Society of Engineering
are over 100 full-time and part-time faculty and more than 1,100undergraduate and graduate students. In addition to rigorous technical educations where theory isbalanced with hands-on, laboratory-based work, our students experience emphasis on leadership,teamwork, and oral and written communication.All engineering and computer science students participate in a year-long senior design project which issponsored by local industry. Teams of students mentored by a faculty member and a liaison engineersolve real-world engineering problems. Students design, build and test their own solution, writeproposals and reports, and present the result to their sponsors. By bridging the gap between academiaand industry, the senior design project prepares
to science and engineering communication studies 17,18, 19 and a plethora of advice from scientists and communication scholars about how to write forthe public20. Despite this interest, few university science or engineering programs dedicateformal coursework in public communication to undergraduate or graduate students 21. Whenprograms do offer such training, they are usually limited to teaching students to write intraditional genres such as press releases, newspaper-style articles, and essays13, 14, and fail toconsider more personal, informal, and affective forms of communication such as face-to-faceconversations that can occur through science cafes or street science 22, 23 or to make use ofmultimedia genres such as podcasts, blogs, or
to teach communication, leadership, and teamwork. Journal of Engineering Education, 90(1), 7-12.Wolfinbarger, K. G., Shehab, R. L., Trytten, D. A., & Walden, S. E. (2021). The influence of engineering competition team participation on students' leadership identity development. Journal of Engineering Education, 110(4), 925–948.Yadav, A., Subedi, D., Lundeberg, M. A., & Bunting, C. F. (2013). Problem-based Learning: Influence on Students' Learning in an Electrical Engineering Course. Journal of Engineering Education. Advance online publication.
. WCC is pilot testing the modelusing virtual learning methods mastered through previous NSF ATE work and the COVID-19context. The model will be scaled for cost-effective implementation at 2-year HSIs.Mentor-Connect, along with CBPSTEM and participating faculty, will develop, test, and refinethe model for national use to strengthen the diversity of the STEM technician workforce and theleadership ability of community college STEM technician educators to affect change in thisarena. Over 20 WCC technician educators will benefit directly from piloting the model anddeveloping leadership skills in CRI methods, building capacity within its STEM technicianprograms to better support the diversity of students, industry demand for a diverse workforce,and
laboratory, there also needs to be an appropriate amount of rigor in the coursecontent to help close the gap in preparation for subsequent undergraduate-level STEM courses. Ablend of fun and technical content can lead to increased student engagement [29]. The coursewill develop critical thinking and problem-solving skills and tools that will benefit students in awide range of general education courses. At USAFA, along with humanities, social sciences, andbasic sciences, general education requirements include 15 semester hours of engineering courses.Skills such as literature review, project management, and technical communication, whichstudents will practice in this first-year course, are expected to be useful in several future coursesand in their
higher education and improve learning outcomes. Her research to date has focused on educational designs that emphasize learner ini- tiative and agency through inquiry or problem-based learning in formal and informal learning contexts. She has published several papers on the characteristics of learning environments that support or constrain opportunities for any students (including those from non-dominant backgrounds) to participate in key science and engineering process skills such as scientific argumentation. Her work is largely informed by the principles and perspectives on human development and cognition articulated by Cultural Historical Activity Theory. Putting theory into practice, she teaches a service-learning
; • Practice or • TaughtNaidoo9 • Traditional PhD • Professional • PhD by publication work based doctorate Hancock & Walsh10 found and cited studies of doctoral students and their training in othercountries (p.39): “for example Akay11 on doctoral engineers in America; Cumming12 onAustralian doctoral students; Colebunders13 on PhD training in developing nations; andLanciano-Morandat and Nohara14 on PhD training in France and Japan). Indeed, the 2010 reportby the Commission on the Future of Graduate Education in the
Professor of English in the Department of English at Carnegie Mellon. His current research interests include pedagogy of communication and design for students and professionals in the technology/engineering disciplines, and computer-aided rhetorical analysis. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2017 Making the Invisible Visible in Writing Classrooms: An Approach to Increasing Textual Awareness using Computer-Aided Rhetorical AnalysisIntroductionWriting requires countless composing decisions that are typically beyond the writer’s consciousgrasp. For students, writing can feel like a process that they have little control over, and a skillthat only a certain few possess. Much of the skill in being
for MMW was informed by a number of institutional educational initiativesand programs at BC, including BC’s identity as a Jesuit, Catholic institution, its Renewed CoreProgram, and its development of a new Human-Centered Engineering Department.First, as a Jesuit, Catholic university, BC is committed to educating the “whole person” andembraces courses that advance aspects of social justice. Particularly in the Fall of 2020, whenlayered crises of COVID, racial injustice, climate disruption, and the presidential election placedhigh burdens on universities to respond, we were encouraged by the university administration toembrace these challenging topics in class. We emphasized the humanity of the engineeringdesign process and profession
Paper ID #36904Relationship between High School STEM Self-Competency and Behavior ina Parametric Building Design ActivityStephanie Bunt, The Pennsylvania State UniversityLaura HinkleAndrew WaltonDr. Nathan C. Brown ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2023 Relationship between High School STEM Self-Competency and Behavior in a Parametric Building Design ActivityBuilding designers receive discipline-specific education which prepares them to address distinctdesign goals, but they may struggle to address criteria not considered part of their professionbased on their disciplinary identity. In STEM subjects
Session 1592 THE BUILDING OF THE TOP NATIONAL MID-SIZE SWE STUDENT SECTION Heather Storace, Pamela Maass, Kesa Black, Anne Ranes, Mary Anderson-Rowland, Dana Newell Arizona State UniversityAbstractThe Society of Women Engineers (SWE) Student Section, established in 1976 at Arizona StateUniversity (ASU), struggled for most of its history. The strength of the organization fluctuatedgreatly with the strength of the student leaders that would come and go. During the last severalyears, however, the Section has developed a strong management system
] ratherthan their intergenerational wealth [19] and privilege [20]. Students learn these cultural cueseither through overt or implicit messages passed onto them by faculty, the curriculum,institutional cues, or other forms of professional identity socialization [21].Engineering education reinforces the dualism between the social and technical dimensions ofengineering. The social dimensions, partly required by ABET accreditation through engineeringethics, remain segregated from 'real' engineering [22]. In many of these standalone ethicsmodules or courses, students internalize their 'dis(integration)' from engineering and have ratedethics as "the least interesting, the least useful, and the most trivial" part of their engineeringcurriculum [7], [23. p
. Page 24.716.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2014 Improving Engineering Curriculum and Enhancing Underrepresented Community College Student Success through a Summer Research Internship ProgramAbstractEfforts to remain competitive internationally in engineering and technology require a significantincrease in the number of STEM graduates in the United States. A recent report prepared by thePresident’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology states that currently less than fortypercent of students entering college to pursue a STEM career end up completing a STEM degree,citing that students typically leave the STEM field in the first two years of their program
Community Member First, Researcher Second: Tensions in Authentic Engineering Education Outreach (WIP) Yuliana Flores, University of Washington Dr. Jennifer A. Turns, University of WashingtonAbstract Community engagement and outreach in engineering education can create tensions forresearchers who are also community members, particularly when navigating dual identities andresponsibilities. This paper examines the complexities of community engagement through anautoethnographic study of a high school engineering outreach project on usability testing. Theproject, which began from personal curiosity and later connected to doctoral research, illustrateshow community
working in a team setting,they recognized the relevance and connection of the project to real-world engineering practice,and they could “see themselves as engineers or at least becoming engineers” [2]. In surveyingfirst-year engineering undergraduates as well as high school students exposed to servicelearning, Zarske found positive impacts in identity and attitudes towards community service,especially in underrepresented populations, that may help in recruitment and retention of thosegroups [3].There are a variety of definitions of service learning that are employed in education. For thepurposes of this paper, we will use the definition adopted by Kennesaw State University’squality enhancement plan (QEP) for regional accreditation review
. In-depth interviews with women revealed that through such experiences, theiropportunities to invest in mentoring and networking increased significantly and contributed totheir potential for advancement [4].These results suggest that educational work experience programs may allow women theopportunity to ‘scope out’ their potential employers early on and cultivate soft skills throughmentorship and networking. Thus, early exposure to the culture of the organization may lead tomore informed, strategic decisions on key players, improving women’s opportunities forintegration into the culture of engineering. Building on these results which speak to the influenceof educational work experience programs on the career development of women in
Paper ID #29475Developing Technical Self-efficacy through a Maker-inspired DesignProjectDr. Jennifer S Mullin, UC Davis Jennifer S. Mullin is an Assistant Professor of Teaching in the Department of Biological and Agricultural Engineering at UC Davis. Her work concerns the intersection between design, communication and prob- lem solving skills in engineering by enhancing all three through informed instructional choices using a ”learn-by-doing,” hands-on approach. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2020Developing Technical Self-efficacy through a Maker-inspired Design ProjectAbstract:This
education, her research interests include engineering education, particularly as related to innovation, professional identity development, and supporting the recruitment and persistence of underrepresented students within engineering.Dr. Shanna R. Daly, University of Michigan Shanna Daly is an Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Michigan. She has a B.E. in Chemical Engineering from the University of Dayton (2003) and a Ph.D. in Engineering Edu- cation from Purdue University (2008). Her research focuses on strategies for design innovations through divergent and convergent thinking as well as through deep needs and community assessments using design ethnography, and translating those
increase the chances of instantaneously placing millions ofcitizens in the dark.It is this very state of affairs that serves as the impetus for expanding coursework in energy andpreparing engineering graduates to leading society through the complex set of issues. All of theaforementioned issues and characteristics are elements of the course described herein, and thesurrounding discussion arguably forged the awareness and opinions of the class participants.Each student registering for the class had to first obtain permission from the instructor, a processwhere an informal interview revealed the student’s interest in energy and provided someassurance that some pre-existing attraction to the topic existed (beyond simply a need forcredits). Those
students and strengthening professional identity through co-mentoring. British Journal of Guidance and Counselling, 41(5), 487–503. https://doi.org/10.1080/03069885.2012.756972National Science Board, National Science Foundation. 2022. Science and Engineering Indicators 2022: The State of U.S. Science and Engineering. NSB-2022-1. Alexandria, VA. Available at https://ncses.nsf.gov/pubs/nsb20221 Page 8 of 9Olson, K. J., Huffman, A. H., & Litson, K. (2021). The relationship between mentor support experiences and STEM graduate student career optimism. Career Development International, 26(1), 44–64. https://doi.org/10.1108/CDI