he can remember, Alberto was always interested in STEM. He mentioned that hewas the kid that would go around the neighborhood and help with the computers and fix theirproblems even though it was simple tasks in his opinion (like turning off the Wi-Fi and turning itback on). He became interested in engineering through the STEM courses he took in high school,then the coursework and salary for the profession motivated him to pursue an engineeringdegree. Since enrolling at FIU, Alberto says he has experienced an environment of toxicmasculinity: Since STEM is such a male-dominated career, it does have a lot of toxic masculinity and I've noticed that throughout my years at FIU. I've had to, more or less, hide my identity
, 2019.[19] J. Dorsen, B. Carlson, and L. Goodyear, “Connecting informal STEM experiences to careerchoices: Identifying the pathway,” Innovative Technology Experiences for Students andTeachers (ITEST) Learning Resource Center at Education Development Center. Washington,DC. Feb. 2006. Accessed: May 13, 2022. [Online]. Available:https://stelar.edc.org/publications/connecting-informal-stem-experiences-career-choices-identifying-pathway[20] M. J. Simis, H. Madden, M. A. Cacciatore, and S. K. Yeo, “The lure of rationality: Whydoes the deficit model persist in science communication?” Public understanding of science, vol.25, no. 4, pp. 400-414, 2016.Appendix A: Descriptive statistics of full Qualtrics SampleDemographics for all respondents Age (n=2938
interests centered on sustainable and global development with the goal to pursue a career centered at the intersection of environmental, climate, and social justice from an engineering mindset. Her past research focused on topics such as renewable energy, energy access, water desalination, human-centered design, and medical device development. She gained a passion for this field of work through her undergraduate research investigating energy reduction programs for underserved communities and through her research experience on solar brine management as a participant in a National Science Foundation research experience for undergraduates program. She earned her Bachelor's in Mechanical Engineering with a minor in
authority figure and often assumed to be anunquestionable part of their authority or legally justified [1], [11]. While legitimate power maybe used appropriately or without causing undue negative effects on less powerful groups, that isnot always the case, and research from students suggested some stakeholders with legitimatepower took actions or made decisions that negatively affected other stakeholders. For instance,the student investigating lead paint on the East Side of Buffalo noted property owners haveignored or found ways to evade laws to address lead paint, leaving this area, which ispredominantly a community of color, with unsafe living conditions. As engineers move intotheir professional careers our students will need to interact with a
creativity and design skillsfrom the outset to facilitate the development of interdisciplinary, holistic, and problem-solvingskills. In interpersonal and cognitive dimensions, design thinking helps students develop self-awareness, efficacy, and effective communication and networking skills [103]. Implementingdesign thinking can yield beneficial outcomes related to creativity and sustainability, thuspreparing students with core skills and career readiness, critical thinking [104]. Additionally,design thinking enhances students' collaboration and communication skills, while scholars havedemonstrated that it can improve engineering students' leadership, algorithmic thinking,entrepreneurial, critical thinking, creativity, and innovation culture [103
student reflections, authentic learning assignments, ad the use of technology in the classroom. Boni hopes to pursue a career in academia with a focus on teaching and engineering education.Adam Steinberg ˜ Sullivan, Georgia Institute of TechnologyDr. Carol Subino Carol Subi˜no Sullivan is the assistant director of faculty teaching and learning initiatives for the Center for Teaching and Learning (CTL). In this role she supports educators through workshops, short courses, consultations, faculty learning communities and fellows groups, special events, scholarship of teaching and learning, digital resources awards and recognitions, and partnerships. In all of her efforts, her goal is to support educators in
Distinguished Chair in ICT at Aalto University, Finland (2021). He is a past recipient of the NSF Early Career Award (2009) and received the University Teaching Excellence Award (2002) and Mentoring Excellence Award (2022) for undergraduate research at George Mason University. His edited volume International Handbook of Engineering Education Research (IHEER) will be published by Routledge in 2023. He was awarded a Ph.D. in Learning Sciences & Technology Design (2007) from Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA. More information is available at: http://mason.gmu.edu/˜johri ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2023 Recognizing Principles of AI Ethics through a Role-Play Case Study on
) Reaching out to students with individual emails requested by the departmentTo further increase student engagement, in Spring 2022, the department requested that instructorsof all base courses reach out to students with a copy of the email to each student’s assigneddepartmental Undergraduate Academic & Career Advisor regarding missed graded events. Thesuggested note is: “Dear Student (insert name here), I was reviewing the grades in ECE XXXX and noticed that you were not able to complete assignment XXX. Is there anything our support team for the class can do to help you keep on track in the class? I am happy to have you in this class and want to see you succeed. I understand that we all face demands outside of
“on demand” as well asmultiple times. This option could and should be offered more to support faculty teaching whileunderstanding that some courses do not allow time for an in-person librarian lecture.Project Based LearningBoth business and engineering faculty spoke about their desire to incorporate project-basedlearning into their courses. As one business faculty said when asked about tests, papers, or otherprojects in their course, “No tests, but yes, definitely papers [but] not the traditional collegeessays.” They go on to say their students create materials for the course, ones that simulatematerials they might make in a future career such as persuasive memos, informative pamphlets,etc. Another business faculty member spoke about working
., Automata Theory and Assembly Programming Language) to the job market. Becauseacquiring both theoretical and practical knowledge is important for students’ learning in highereducation [52, 53], instructors can use real world problems to convey their usefulness to theindustry or may want to revisit the role of these courses in the sequence. Not only did students discuss how theoretical courses like Automata Theory andAssembly Programming were irrelevant to their future career goals, but they also found thecourse topics difficult. In order to enhance students’ learning, instructors can require prerequisitecourses and explore ways to teach courses more effectively. For example, in Automata Theory,prior work has found that visualization
thediscretion of our student team. This helps to foster a feeling of equality and belonging early on,especially when considering the demographic of our new hires. For our team, as a program onlyhiring federal work study students, a vast majority of our applicants are first year studentslooking for a position for the rest of their college careers. The intimidation of starting a new jobon top of a whole new lifestyle can be lessened by establishing peer relationships to people thatmight typically be called managers. Our method of integrating new members into our team further promotes the type of teamenvironment that has helped the success of our program, while also introducing new types ofchallenges. We aim to hire and train these team members in
focuses on the neural mechanisms underlying steady state flight control in Drosophila melanogaster. She has been involved in numerous educational outreach programs throughout her undergraduate and graduate career, and held a leadership position in the GALCIT graduate student council. She earned her M.S. from Caltech in Aeronautics in 2019, and her B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Johns Hopkins University in 2018.James Ragan, California Institute of Technology James Ragan is a Ph.D. Candidate in the Autonomous Robotics and Controls Lab working with Professor Soon-Jo Chung. His research activities include developing algorithms that enable spacecraft to perform autonomous fault detection, including in multi-agent or
will be useful in my future career. 6. I feel prepared before coming to lecture. 7. I need to seek out material beyond what is provided by the instructor. 8. It is hard to pay attention for a full lecture. 9. I can understand examples covered in lecture. 10. In class, I can identify previous concepts that are important to the task at hand. 11. I am satisfied with the quality and content of lecture activities. 12. I prefer traditional classes over flipped classes. Questions 1 and 2 directly measure work-life balance. Non-traditional students haveworkloads that affect their retention and engagement [1]. Questions 3 and 4 indirectly measurework-life balance by assessing factors influenced by the ability to dedicate time to
an engineer during my career. Beingcognizant of the biases and intended uses of my projects and designs is something that Idid not think I’d need to consider, but after taking this class it has made me aware ofthese especially in something as innocuous as LEGOs. I found the readings and class-wide discussions to be very helpful in reinforcing the ideas we were learning and lookingat case studies within the LEGO group allowed me to see how these concepts were usedin real-world applications, and how I can apply them myself.I found it especially interesting to learn about LEGO’s growth and development as acompany over many years. This was especially impactful because I have played with andpurchased toys my entire life and gaining deeper incite
. Although it is not a LO, I was also told that my assumptions were not clearly applicable to solving problem. I did much better this week at clearly identifying all components of the problem and making sure all of the mass balances matched my process flow diagram. My assumption also were clearly used to identify my problem solving process as a real engineer would do. You could clearly see all steps of my process and my technical presentation looked professional. All of these skills can translate to my engineering career in the real world.”In first and third statements of this text (in red), the student described their experience andstatus with topics associated with problem solving and mass balances
to change. Curry [7] makes clear that critique can in fact foreclose action, by preserving the institutions (and intellectual traditions) that reward the critical project; this project of critique, and the career-building it facilities, we think, are precisely the second- university’s manifestations of engineering education research. When I imagine that as a doubter I somehow stand outside the second university, outside of the STEM establishment in its educational and workforce expressions, I mistake the nature of my life circumstances, my day-to-day security. There are few “outsides” for the tenured academic, and in particular, wherever I, the cis-gendered, abled, white, U.S.-born tenured
phase of their careers ifthey could collaborate with an international team during their educational phase [14]. Moreover,international virtual exchange programs are not associated with high cost and investmentcompared to study abroad programs and are timely and more flexible; hence can be adopted asan alternative or supplement to study abroad programs [13].IVE allows for international and intercultural interactions among students, which substantiallylowers the barriers for participating in such exchange. It is clear that IVE has potential tocontribute to sustainability, and develop the ability to collaboratively contribute to the alleviationof global sustainability issues, such as climate change [15].The InVEST (International Virtual
outpacing the supply, with renewable and environmental jobsincreasing by nearly 250% in the last five years alone [13].Engineering education can produce individuals equipped to address and prevent environmentaland social issues such as environmental toxicity, air and water pollution, and climate change.Numerous studies have shown that chemical toxicity, environmental degradation, and pollutionhave disproportionately burdened people of color, yet people of color have been historicallyexcluded from engineering education [14]. Justice- and impact-oriented STEM careers andeducational pathways may help attract and retain people of color in STEM fields and producesolutions to planetary damages [15]. A study of EOP Framework implementation at Oregon
Paper ID #38773Instructional Development at a Time of Involuntary Changes: Implicationsfor the Post-Pandemic EraDr. Qin Liu, University of Toronto, Canada Dr. Qin Liu is a Senior Research Associate with the Institute for Studies in Transdisciplinary Engineer- ing Education and Practice (ISTEP), Faculty of Applied Science and Engineering, University of Toronto, Canada. Her research interests include engineering students’ learning experiences and outcomes, includ- ing competency development and career pathways.Dr. Greg Evans, University of Toronto, Canada GREG EVANS PhD, P.Eng, FCEA, FAAAS is the Director of the Institute for
Paper ID #40551Innovations in Remote Teaching of Engineering Design TeamsProf. Soyoung Kang, University of Washington Soyoung Kang (she/her) is an assistant teaching professor and Clary Family Foundation early career pro- fessor in the mechanical engineering department at the University of Washington (UW). She is also the executive director of the Engineering Innovation in Health (EIH) program that partners teams of multidis- ciplinary undergraduate and graduate students with health professionals to develop technical solutions to pressing health challenges. Dr. Kang works closely with faculty from across the UW to foster
have relied heavily on my black female identity to position myself in my work. I have come across some papers that include the experiences of Black students that do not identify as African American, and this has truly helped me find a space that I can relate to. I remind myself of my whole identity and have found ways to integrate who I am into class discussions. I find that consistently acknowledging my own different perspectives and sharing them in class by making relevant connections helps me to shift my training of only seeing my differences as tools for career advancement. Moving forward, I want to look towards other areas of study such as education or psychology that may highlight stories of Caribbean students in their literature
/hers), mycurrent adviser, provided her perspective as an engineering faculty member without personalexperiences related to disabilities. Over the last 25 years, she has worked with manyundergraduate and graduate students to provide them with accommodations in the classroomsetting. Robyn E. Sandekian (she/her/hers), my mentor, provided her perspective as a staffmember and as a prior engineering student who experienced and received informalaccommodations for severe anxiety and depression during her academic career. As a staffmember, she has experienced the frequent tension between wanting to support a student andbeing limited by institution policy and law.Additionally, the interview participants and I are not just graduate students with
time of data collection. The College ofEngineering contains eight departments and around 6,000 undergraduate students, with alarge number of community college transfer students. There are differences between thesystems that support students at the department, school, and university levels, as there are atany large university. At the university level, a student affairs office oversees a variety ofresources, including recreation, counseling/psychological services, and career services. Theofferings by specific engineering departments are more varied, but the faculty in thesedepartments and department-focused administrators of undergraduate degree programs arepartial advisors as well. Support staff at all levels try to reach students using various
Paper ID #33345Remote Versus In-hand Hardware Laboratory in Digital Circuits CoursesDr. Rania Hussein, University of Washington Dr. Rania Hussein is an Assistant Teaching Professor in the department of electrical and computer en- gineering (ECE) at the University of Washington (UW). Throughout her career, she has developed and taught courses at all levels in electrical, computer engineering, and computer science at different insti- tutions. In response to the emergency transition to online teaching due to COVID-19, she founded the remote hardware lab at UW ECE to promote a cost-efficient and equitable access to hardware
ideas rather than immediately ruling them out because of a closed, stubborn mindset. … I realized that the rest of the semester would look very different from what we originally envisioned, but I also realized that was okay and that it was more important to keep an open mind and remain optimistic about the possibilities still remaining. I believe that both being flexible and keeping an open mind are important skills in many different aspects of life as well as in my future career. Often times, I will face unexpected situations, so I believe it is important to know how to quickly react to ensureIn this quote showing an Emerging level, the student critiques their personal and academicgrowth through
identities, social locations, and values are relevant to thiswork.First author (RSK) is an early-career contingent faculty member at Smith College, a privateliberal arts women’s college with one engineering degree program. They are a white-passing transperson of Chinese and European descent who lives and works on unceded Nipmuc and Pocumtucterritory. They approach this paper from the perspective of a new engineering educator whoseformal training is in mechanical engineering and who aspires to teach towards principles ofcollective liberation from systems of oppression and domination.Second author (JSR) approached this research from the perspective of an engineering educatorwho places a premium on interdisciplinarity and inclusion. She has taught