work with minority students. She currently works as a graduate assistant and interdis- ciplinary researcher in the Computer Systems Technology department. Her primary research interests include childhood and racial trauma, parents of children with disabilities, and multicultural issues affect- ing underserved and underrepresented populations.Dr. Evelyn Sowells-Boone, North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University Dr. Evelyn R. Sowells is an assistant professor in the Computer Systems Technology department at North Carolina A&T State University’s College of Science and Technology. Prior to joining the School of Technology faculty, she held position at U.S. Department of Energy, N.C. A&T’s Division of
Paper ID #20327Encouraging Young Women to Pursue Engineering: 25 Years of SummerCamp Successes and ChallengesDr. Jessica J. Lofton, University of Evansville Dr. Lofton is an Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Evansville, and the Director for the OPTIONS in Engineering summer camps for middle school and high school girls. After earning her B.S. in Mechanical Engineering at the University of Evansville, she completed her M.S. and Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering at the University of Illinois, with a graduate minor in College Teaching. She is a faculty advisor for the student chapters of
experience engineering as an evolving, creative, and interdisciplinary career that impacts global society and daily life. 2. Provide students with the opportunity to develop process-driven problem solving skills that recognize multiple alternatives and apply critical thinking to identify an effective solution. 3. Provide students with the opportunity to integrate math & science in an engineering context. 4. Create motivated & passionate engineering students by challenging them with authentic engineering problems across multiple disciplines. 5. Instill in our students the professional, personal & academic behaviors and common competencies needed to move to the next stage of their
theRED teams discussed both the importance of ownership and strategies for getting facultymembers at different stages of their careers involved in the project. For example, one teammember noted, “We started with the department retreat to get buy-in and we got them tocontribute to the ideas so there was a sense of ownership.” Another individual spoke to appealsfocused on career stage, advising, “At lunch, talk with your junior faculty about how they canplug into the grant. We can help move it along. Give them a short RED spiel they can put intotheir proposal.” During the monthly RED conference calls, individuals stressed the importance ofnot only building buy-in by appealing to the concerns of faculty members, but also of beingupfront with
University of North Dakota in1990, and the M.S.E.E. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Notre Dame in 1992 and 1995, respectively. Hejoined the faculty of the Department of Electrical Engineering at the University of North Dakota in 1995, where he iscurrently an assistant professor. In 1996, Dr. Schultz received a National Science Foundation Faculty Early CareerDevelopment (CAREER) award to integrate his image processing research and educational activities. Dr. Schultz isa member of the ASEE, IEEE, SPIE, Eta Kappa Nu, and Tau Beta Pi. His current research and educational interestsinclude nonlinear digital signal, image, and video processing; the analysis of multidimensional biomedical signals;and the development of online laboratories
university to employment represents a major transition with personal, economic,and societal implications. In recent years, the study of transitions has attracted renewed interest frompolicy makers and researchers in the light of changing labor market patterns, the diverse transitionpathways of young people, the transformation of professional knowledge, and an increasingdisjuncture between students’ academic training and the specific skillsets sought by employers [1, 2,3]. Yet very little is known about this transition in the field of engineering [4]. Most studiesconcentrate on the job readiness of engineering graduates [5, 6]. Fewer studies have explored howthe knowledge, skills, and experience that engineering students gain in university facilitate
factors that negatively affected it and consider how your motivation may have changed over time. 5. How did teaching an online lesson rather than an in-person lesson change the way this project affected you? For example, do you think you learned more or less as a result? Did you learn different knowledge or skills than you would have learned by preparing for and teaching a face-to-face lesson? Please explain your response. 6. What did you learn from working with the education students? Please explain. 7. How did this project affect your vision of teaching careers? 8. How has your understanding of fluid mechanics changed as a result of this project? As explained in detail in a previous publication [18], when analyzing
Paper ID #27578A Mixed Methods Analysis of Motivation Factors in Senior Capstone DesignCoursesElisabeth Kames, Florida Institute of Technology Elisabeth Kames is a graduate student working on her Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering at Florida Institute of Technology. Her research focuses on the impact of motivation on performance and persistence in mechanical engineering design courses under the guidance of Dr. Beshoy Morkos. She also serves as a graduate student advisor to senior design teams within the mechanical engineering department. Elisabeth is a member of ASME, ASEE, Tau Beta Pi Engineering Honor Society and Pi Tau
Paper ID #38062Examination of Ableist Educational Systems and Structuresthat Limit Access to Engineering Education throughNarrativesAutumn CuellarBrady Edward WebsterSakshi SolankiCatherine Mcgough Spence (Assistant Professor)Marissa Tsugawa Marissa Tsugawa is an assistant professor in the Department of Engineering Education at Utah State University. Their research interest is in neurodivergence and how it manifests in engineering education. Past work includes exploring motivation and identity of engineering graduate students, women of color's experiences on engineering teams, and experiences around LGBTQ+ advocacy in
, theauthors will attempt to provide some insight on what worked, as well as what could useimprovement, through contrast of the three projects.Individual Team Member and Group Composition DynamicsProject 1Not surprisingly, Project 1’s team membership might be described as a ‘Dream Team.’Motivated Ph.D. students, with a combination of strong technical expertise, as well aspast, hands-on experience building and flying R/C aircraft, and buttressed by aparticipatory faculty member, created a tested solution that maximized both reliabilityand validity. What do these terms imply? In Martin’s book on Design Thinking, TheDesign of Business, [12] he develops an argument of the difficulty in creating solutionsthat are both reliable – function as intended; and
, he developed the capstone course sequence in the newly-formed Bio- engineering department and has been responsible for teaching it since. Todd also serves as a Director for the UTDesign program, which facilitates resource sharing and corporate sponsorship of projects for all engineering disciplines at the university. He attended the Capstone Design Conference in 2014 and 2016, and is an active member of IEEE and EMBS.Prof. Margaret Garnett Smallwood, University of Texas, Dallas I am a Senior Lecturer II in the Jindal School of Management at the University of Texas at Dallas. I teach three business communication courses to undergraduate students. I have an MBA in international management and marketing from UTD and
resources and research practices ● Providing consultations to biomedical engineering faculty, researchers, and students at each stage of the research life cycle, on topics such as research data management, scholarly publishing, grant development, and research integrity ● Partnering with faculty by actively contributing to research proposals and projects, curriculum development and delivery, and evidence-based decision makingThe size of the Biomedical Engineering program has increased and that has resulted in the BMEliaison librarian having an opportunity to focus more on the design of 100 level classes.Connections between the library and the BME department have always been strong, but now theapproach is more
-founder and Chief Technology Officer at Ceyba, an optical long-haul networking company that employed 250 people at its peak. Hanan also worked at Nortel Networks in different positions conducting pioneering research in various areas of photonics, rang- ing from device physics to optical networking. She has numerous journal and conference publications and patents. Hanan’s current research interests include Biophotonics, Innovation and engineering educa- tion.Her passion is to help students graduate with an entrepreneurial mind set that enable them to play leading roles in existing organizations or create their own jobs.Dr. Patrick Dumond, University of Ottawa Professor Patrick Dumond is an assistant professor in the
Paper ID #15738Flipped Instruction in Engineering Graphics Courses: Current Landscapeand Preliminary Study Results of Instructors’ PerceptionsMr. Daniel P. Kelly, North Carolina State University Daniel P. Kelly is a doctoral student in the Technology Education Program at North Carolina State Uni- versity. Prior to his current position as a Graduate Research Assistant at NC State, Daniel was a middle and high school technology and engineering teacher in Durham and Wake Forest, North Carolina. Daniel has earned a BA in Physics from SUNY Potsdam and an MS in Technology Education from NC State. His thesis STEM Teacher
design courses and are evaluated as graduate attributeoutcomes integral to the Canadian Engineering Accreditation Board (CEAB) evaluationprocesses. Continual course improvement processes require reflection on the success oflearning activities, the tools used for teaching, and alignment of learning outcomes,activities, and assessment. Peer evaluation and feedback tools can encourage studentlearning and leadership development. The method of data collection, the type of feedbackand the contextual validity of the feedback may impact students’ development of useful teambehaviours and personal strategies for working in team environments. Mixed methodsuccessive case study analysis provides insights enabling targeted improvements to learningactivities
instructional practices in their engineering courses. Amy’s research interests meet at the intersection of sustainable and resilient infrastructure, emotions in engineering, and engineering identity formation.Dr. James L. Huff, Harding University Dr. James Huff is an Associate Professor of Engineering Education and Honors College Faculty Fellow at Harding University. He conducts transdisciplinary research on identity that lies at the nexus of applied psychology and engineering education. A recipient of the NSF CAREER grant (No. 2045392) and the director of the Beyond Professional Identity (BPI) lab, Dr. Huff has mentored numerous undergraduate students, doctoral students, and academic professionals from more than 10 academic
duration of their graduate career. The continuity,technical depth, and disciplinary breadth of these teams are intended to:• Provide the time and context necessary for students to learn and practice many different professional skills, make substantial technical contributions to the project, and experience many different roles on a large design team.• Support long-term interaction between the graduate and undergraduate students on the team. The graduate students mentor the undergraduates as they work on the design projects embedded in the graduate students’ research• Enable the completion of large-scale design projects that are of significant benefit to faculty members’ research programs
important role. Severalstudents, particularly those who came to the university from out of state, reported that the offerof financial assistance swayed their decision to come to the university, and stated that they wouldprobably not be here otherwise. All of the students involved but one, who is now a Biologymajor, stayed within the College of Engineering (or in an engineering major housed in anothercollege) for the duration of their undergraduate careers. Students stated that by attending PreF(the first-year summer bridge), they became members of a strong-knit cohort consisting of thePathways fellows and other students. They felt that PreF and this community were major factorsin their retention in STEM majors and at the university. The Pathways
at Tuskegee University. He received his B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. in electrical engineering from Oklahoma State University in 1972, 1973, and 1979, respectively. He has served on the faculty of George Washing- ton University, Tuskegee, Regis College, Johns Hopkins, Bowie State University, and the U.S. Air Force Academy, and now as Dean since 1999 at Tuskegee University. In this position, he is responsible for efficient and effective operations of the college. Burge brings leadership to more than 700 students, 66 faculty, and 21 staff members, and effective and efficient management of a modest research and develop- ment program for the college. The college continues to be a top 10 producer of engineering graduates who
Professor at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University in Daytona Beach, FL where he directs a research team called Engineering, Arts & Sports Engagement (EASE). Dr. Long has helped to lead research, funded by the NCAA Innovations in Research and Practice Grant, to improve the well-being of the student-athlete through support of their career readiness. He has helped to lead research funded by NSF (award # 2024973) to examine the potential benefit of using critical narratives as a pedagogical tool in the professional formation of engineers.Taylor Mitchell Taylor Joy Mitchell is an Associate Professor of Humanities and Composition at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University in Daytona Beach, Florida. She teaches general composition
, additional usage of energy sources other than fossil fuels is required.DREXEL University (DU) works in collaboration with The University of Texas at El Paso(UTEP) on a collaborative project on Green Energy Manufacturing Education. In this project, weformulate two geographically separated virtual teams between UTEP and DREXEL,collaborating on green energy manufacturing education and research over the Internet.Implementing a mixed method of research design, students and faculty involved in the projectare assessed in formative and summative formats to measure the efficacy of the project. Ourproject aims to develop and establish an integrated research-oriented teaching facility to supportand enhance learning in the area of green energy manufacturing by
in sociology at UC San Diego. Her research examines individual-level, cultural mechanisms that reproduce inequality, especially those pertaining to sex segregation in science and engineering fields. Her dissertation investigates the self-expressive edge of inequality, analyzing how gender schemas and self-conceptions influence career decisions of college students over time. She also studies the role of professional culture in wage inequality, cross-national beliefs about work time for mothers (with Maria Charles), and, in a Social Problems article, perceptions of inequality among high-level professional women (with Mary Blair-Loy). She earned Electrical Engineering and Sociology degrees from Montana State
teams to solve aproblem. Our study uses an identity lens to understand Latinx persistence in engineering.Theoretical Framework and Literature Review We draw from a sociocultural theory of identity [5] - [7] to understand how Latinxengineering students see their trajectory through engineering studies and how they decide onnext steps, whether it be entering the engineering workforce or pursuing graduate school. Briefly,this perspective argues that identities are situated in social and cultural worlds that are populatedby social types that members of those worlds recognize as meaningful, i.e., their actions and theiruse of cultural artifacts such as words, images or texts [8]. Literature over the past decade indicates that developing
between early program students and professors from their major,helping to foster a sense of student ownership and belonging in the department, which can bebeneficial for student retention [7]. The discipline specific approach was chosen to allow contentand projects to directly align with each area of specialization, to facilitate as much considerationof this material as possible including the project-based element, and to initiate relationshipsbetween faculty from each specialization and the incoming students.Integrating Design ExperiencesA project-based design experience was added to the course for the following reasons. Designexperiences are already an important part of engineering curricula at many universities. In manydegree programs senior
programming online. As ESBPhas always been in-person, the FYE Office made the decision to transform its month-longprogram to a two-week long program in July 2020. The new, shorter format will still aim to meetthe same objectives of community building, academic preparations, and career exploration.Participants will receive a shortened Chemistry, Math, Student Success Seminar, and PublicSpeaking curriculum in the morning. In the afternoons, ESBP will highlight each engineeringmajor with faculty presentation, demos by student organizations and industry connections relatedto careers for the various majors. ESBP will still follow a cohort model and the FYE Office willprovide follow-up programming when students arrive on campus in fall 2020.
great deal of self-care. Whenpursuing social justice work on topics I care about but have not as deeply victimized me, I sensethat I am not weighed down as deeply. In the times when I have given LGBTQ inclusionworkshops, I found I was particularly sensitive and not as easily generous to faculty whodiscounted the opinions of LGBTQ students or who microaggressed them in dialogue. I imaginemy perspective on which research questions to pursue will continue to evolve; currently I workon issues which matter deeply and intellectually to me, they relate to experiences and problems Ihave had, but they are not so extremely personal that I find myself paralyzed or despondent overthe findings.Cassandra’s reflection on the questions she asks
].Viewing Engineering Education Through Our LensesIn order to demonstrate how each of the four lenses applies to engineering education, we haveselected the example scenario where practicing faculty within an engineering program are notadopting new educational change provided by theoretical research [5, 9, 24]. The contextualinterplay in which we apply our theoretical lenses is directly related to types of practice andinnovation to emerge [25, 26]. Further, integrating our context of practice and theoretical basis atthe outset supports the decision-making processes of individuals working in the field [5, 26].Thus, this section begins by illustrating the use of each of our four lenses in the context ofengineering education. This is followed by
, requires the soft skills, like motivation, self-directed learning and confidence, as primaryelements as part of the college degree program. E. Pang et al. [11] investigated the competencies (Ability andwillingness to learn’, ‘teamwork and cooperation’, ‘hardworking and willingness to take on extra work’, ‘self-control’ and ‘analytical thinking’) effectively needed for fresh graduates to succeed at work and they foundthe earnest need of developing these competencies among university students prior to their entry into theworkforce. It is clear from these studies that the skillsets needed to succeed respectively in university and inthe professional career have an overlap, but they indicate a requirement of more than the basic course contentknowledge
ofmentoring were the program coordinator’s alone, without interference from the imposedperceptions of the authors.The authors also recognize that their positionality affected the research. Schill is a white womanwho had favorable experiences in K-12 STEM outreach as a graduate student; survey questionswritten by Schill may have unintentionally been presented in such a way that attractedcoordinators of programs similar to Schill’s experience. Bielefeldt is a white woman who hasparticipated in K-12 outreach activities as a faculty member, but not to a significant degree.Additional limitations stem from the COVID-19 pandemic. The large distractions of initialshutdowns and moves to remote learning alongside email overload in March-May 2020 duringthe
Yale University, he returned to Pratt to become head of thelibrary’s Applied Science Reference Department. The Pratt was a hybrid library, serving as botha public library for residents of Brooklyn and an academic library for the students and faculty ofthe Pratt Institute, which offered courses in, among other things, engineering, architecture, andlibrary science. Stevens had become a SPEE member in 1908, along with ten other Pratt facultyand staff, probably in anticipation of the 1909 meeting, which was held at Columbia University,the Pratt Institute and the United Engineering Societies Building. Stevens was the firstprofessional librarian to join SPEE.The reaction of Stevens and other SPEE members to the committee’s report was not positive