the University of Washington in Seattle in 1985. He has worked at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Md. (1986-1989) and in the Department of Neurosurgery at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, Mass. (1989-1991). Chudler is currently a research associate professor in the Department of Bioengineering and the executive director of the Center for Neurotechnol- ogy. He is also a faculty member in the Department of Anesthesiology & Pain Medicine and the Graduate Program in Neuroscience at the University of Washington. In addition to performing basic neuroscience research, he works with other neuroscientists and classroom teachers to develop educational materials to help K-12 students learn about
such a high stakes venture, sheincreases attention to the importance of WOV skills. The instructor also allows for a questionand answer session, whereby other groups can interrogate their choices and justification.Therefore, by the second week of their college career, these students have created and given theirfirst formal proposal presentation, an early entry into professional engineering practices. In semester II, the faculty member allows for a different experience in professionalcommunication practices: a board-meeting style consensus exercise. In this scenario, studentsdetermine, through the same research process, their individual nominees for texts (one perstudent), present and justify their nomination, listen to other proposals
3 2 6 Associate professor 0 2 2 Professor 0 0 2 Non-tenure track faculty member 2 2 1 Postdoctoral Research Associate 2 0 0 Graduate Student 3 0 1 Non-academic Positions 2 2 2Data collectionData collection consisted of in-depth, semi-structured interviews conducted in the Fall of 2018by a trained doctoral student in educational psychology
Tokyo, Japan.Dr. Elizabeth Litzler, University of Washington Elizabeth Litzler, Ph.D., is the director of the University of Washington Center for Evaluation and Re- search for STEM Equity (UW CERSE) and an affiliate assistant professor of sociology. She has been at UW working on STEM Equity issues for more than 17 years. Dr. Litzler is a member of ASEE, 2020-2021 chair of the ASEE Commission on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, and a former board member of the Women in Engineering ProActive Network (WEPAN). Her research interests include the educational cli- mate for students, faculty, and staff in science and engineering, assets based approaches to STEM equity, and gender and race stratification in education and the
by Vigeant and Golightly [12] recommends buildingcourse attributes to take advantage of intrinsic motivation including topics such as realproblems, topics focused on their career, and something that is personally meaningful.In order to leverage intrinsic motivation, the SafeChE initiative modules are built uponreal industrial incidents that were investigated by the CSB. The expectation of theSafeChE initiative is that these real-world case studies will show students howknowledge they are obtaining in their current class can be applied to safety within afuture career in industry. Also, since the CSB investigates incidents within the UnitedStates, some of our domestic students may study an incident that occurred “close tohome”.Another aspect
growth, awareness and development as eventual engineering leaders. Career and leadership development are tied together so students can explore their career in the context of building leadership skills. ≠ Finding Resources The finding resources component helps all students, but especially first year students, to find the resources necessary for success in the Engineering School. ≠ Introduction to the Field of Engineering This final component provides an early connection to the field, in order for students to develop their “place” within engineering.We aimed to model that which we want to teach them and not merely set these up as passive“learning” opportunities. This active community is designed to focus
valuable opportunity for graduate students to learn and apply SixSigma tools and the DMAIC problem solving approach. More traditional experiential learningopportunities are still in place, but with higher technology facilitating ease of use. CSEL’sKnightLink system is available on the internet, making the database easily accessible to studentsand employers. Industry has become increasingly more involved with internships and co-ops asevidenced through participation in internship fairs and the creation of programs like theLockheed Martin Work Experience Program. Members of professional organizations are servingas mentors, building a stronger connection with student organizations. Undergraduate researchis being explored bringing benefits such as an
and consists of 40questions that are grouped in six factors related to computing attitudes: (1) problem solving -fixed mindset, (2) gender equity, (3) importance, (4) problem solving – strategies, (5) genderbias, and (6) personal interest. EPRA, in turn, consists of 50 items evaluated using a 7-pointLikert scale. ERPA is intended to assess the impact of curricular interventions aimed onstudents’ views of social responsibility.The instrument development included: (1) item selection and adaptation based on face validityamong the team of three faculty members (two civil engineering and one computer scienceprofessor) and one civil engineering undergraduate student; and (2) interviews and survey pilottesting with four civil engineering graduate
number of NSF projects including a Bridging Engineering and Education and a current TPC program. She has been a faculty member in science curriculum and instruction and has taught and developed courses in assessment, equity, and bridging engineering and education. She has been involved in the development of innovative science teaching curricular activities and is a co-PI of an NSF TPC project that is providing community college science teachers with authentic science inquiry and writing experiences. She is contributing to the effective formative and summative assessment of self-efficacy and learning of students in the course, which is critical in structuring of the Frets, Flutes, and
5State’s Learning Resource Network (LRN) and is free to University faculty, staff, and students.Through videos and interactive vignettes that address a broad array of identity characteristics(e.g. age, disability, nationality, language, race, gender, religion, and sexual orientation), itprovides a clear set of 6 techniques that individuals can use to halt verbalized instances of bias atthe micro- and macro- levels in non-confrontational but effective ways. The training materialsalso include a workbook that allows students to practice the techniques learned and that is used,in part, as an assessment mechanism for the homework grade.Armed with the techniques presented in both the DEI Overview lecture and the “Ouch! ThatStereotype Hurts” bystander
Freeman, Northeastern University Susan Freeman, is a member of Northeastern University’s Gateway Team, a group of teaching faculty expressly devoted to the first-year Engineering Program at Northeastern University. The focus of this team is on providing a consistent, comprehensive, and constructive educational experience that endorses the student-centered, professional and practice-oriented mission of Northeastern University.Dr. B. Kris Jaeger, Northeastern University Beverly Kris Jaeger, PhD is on the full-time faculty in the Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering at Northeastern University teaching Simulation Modeling and Analysis, Facilities Planning, and Human-Machine Systems. She has also been an
Paper ID #43909Methodologies for Evaluating the Impact of STEM Outreach on HistoricallyMarginalized Groups in Engineering: a Systematic Literature Review (Other,Diversity)Jessica Nhu Tran, University of British Columbia Jessica Tran is an oncoming graduate student pursing a master’s degree in engineering education at the University of British Columbia (UBC). They are interested in exploring justice-oriented pedagogies and praxis, decolonization, and EDI (equity, diversity, and inclusion) within engineering education spaces, particularly within K-12 STEM outreach.Jessica Wolf, University of British Columbia Jessica Wolf is a
attitudestoward their diagnosis and requests for support can have a direct impact on their academicsuccess [14], [21]. In other words, when students perceive that faculty are more supportive andopen to discussing their learning needs, these students are more likely to succeed academically.To address this need, I-Course instructors provide an inclusion statement that directly addressesneurodiversity, acknowledges strengths and challenges, and invites students to communicatewith the instructor about these strengths and challenges. The statement may be provided orally,in writing as part of the syllabus, or in both formats. Rather than simply provide a standardstatement, faculty are encouraged to personalize this statement. Model inclusion statements
engineering and science education from Clemson University.Dr. Idalis Villanueva, University of Florida Dr. Idalis Villanueva is an Associate Professor in the Department of Engineering Education at the Univer- sity of Florida. Her work spans multi- and mixed-methods research and tools to explore the complex and intertwined cognitive, motivational, and affective mechanisms affecting underrepresented groups in sci- ence and engineering. In 2017, she received a prestigious National Science Foundation CAREER award to explore the topic of hidden curriculum (intended or unintended messaging in learning and working environments) in engineering. In 2019, she received the Presidential Award for Scientists and Engineers
about the status ofindividuals who identify as queer in sexual/romantic orientation or gender, but availableinformation suggests they are also likely to be marginalized and experience discrimination 18,19, 55]. The lack of societal representation among engineering degree holders, the discriminationexperienced within engineering workplaces, and the implications of a lack of diversity andinclusion in engineering design are another set of questions involving the interaction of equityand ethics facing the engineering profession.We argue that engineering professional societies have an important role to play in helping theirprofessions and members (including student members) address the need for DEIJ in engineeringand work toward design and decision
stakeholders.Proposed experiences are vetted by a coordinating faculty member both before and after theindividual field experiences and students are assigned a presentation, reflection, and essay. Theseassignments are designed to be equivalent to assignments that students complete who travel withthe class. Students who choose the individual field experience option still participate in the otheraspects of the class, including the class design project. Between five and ten percent of thestudents choose this option. Most students who choose this option do so due to conflicts with theclass trip travel dates, though some students choose this option because they prefer to takeadvantage of the opportunity to explore a different culture.It is unique that our global
while still in HS; ‚ Transitional-type (TT): classes taken for college credit at a community or junior college or vocational-technical school sometime after HS graduation and before enrollment at our institution, including students starting over after an academic break or enrollment at a different four-year school; ‚ University concurrent (UC): classes taken for college credit at a community, junior, or other four-year college or university during an active semester or between two semesters of enrollment at our institution, usually during summer sessions; ‚ Study abroad (SA): classes taken during a study abroad semester for which credit
of K-16 engineering learners; and teaching engineering.Dr. Glenda D. Young Collins, Mississippi State University Dr. Glenda D. Young Collins completed her doctoral work at Virginia Tech in the Department of Engi- neering Education. Her research interests include the role of university-industry partnerships in shaping student career expectations and pathways, the student to workforce continuum, and broadening participa- tion in engineering. Dr. Collins has worked as an Employer Relations Assistant for the VT Career and c American Society for Engineering Education, 2019 Paper ID #27724 Professional
by Making it FunAbstractThis paper describes a workshop, led by female Engineering Technology students with supportfrom female faculty members, that introduces engineering concepts to 4th -7th grade girls througha series of interactive laboratory experiments. The day-long workshops are offered to area GirlScouts and are intended to increase the girls’ interest in engineering. In support of this goal,hands-on experiments are carefully designed to: 1) show the girls that science can be both funand creative 2) connect science and engineering to things in everyday life that they already knowand care about 3) demonstrate that women can make a positive impact on the world with a careerin engineering.The workshops take place on the college campus
ofmoments, continually, all day long. The chance for students to see that engineering work is rifewith ethical, moment-to-moment choices is a rich lesson indeed. It is the small daily ethicalchoices that an engineer makes that could determine profit, credibility, safety, reliability, andprofessional integrity. The moments where an engineer has to allow personal ethics (get him outof the hole) to trump organizational ethics (avoid liability) is the moment we want to explore inethics training.We learned from the engineers at EngPro and Porter/Young that ethics training needs to bescaled to the worker; the same advice can be taken for undergraduate education. What will theyneed to understand about engineering, codes of ethics, and personal decision
Excellence award in graduate research from the Mary Lou Fulton School of Education. Her creative research focuses on team learning and the role of self-efficacy on student achievement.Dale Baker, Arizona State University Dale R. Baker is a Professor of Science Education in the Department of Curriculum and Instruction at Arizona State University and was the Co-Editor of The Journal of Research in Science Teaching. She teaches courses in science curricula, teaching and learning, and assessment courses with an emphasis on constructivist theory and issues of equity. Her research focuses on issues of gender, science, and science teaching. She has won two awards for her research in these areas
, both from Purdue University. Her research program investigates how model-based cognition in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) can be better supported by means of expert tools and disciplinary practices such as data science computation, modeling, and simulation. In 2015 Dr. Magana received the National Science Foundation’s Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Award to investigate modeling and simulation practices in undergraduate engineering education. In 2016 she was conferred the status of Purdue Faculty Scholar for being on an accelerated path toward academic distinction. © American Society for Engineering Education, 2022
engineering. Perhaps one way to characterize the role of LEES faculty in engineeringeducation is that we are brought in to compensate for that mismatch. Graham and Porterfield’s“Preparing Today’s Engineering Graduate: An Empirical Study of Professional Skills Requiredby Employers” compared the language used by ABET to describe non-technical skills with thatused in advertisements for engineering jobs and found many inconsistencies in the categories andterminology used. As the faculty responsible for helping students develop non-technical skillsand competencies, we may have an important role to play in establishing more consistency.Session 534A: Communicating Across Cultural and Epistemological Boundaries raised thelongest list of issues and potential
(Table 1).1Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & ExpositionCopyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering Education” Table 1: Digital-Age Literacy for the 21st Century Literacy Type Description Basic Literacy Language proficiency that enables a student to develop his/her knowledge-base Scientific Literacy Knowledge and understanding of scientific concepts and processes, that enables students to make personal decisions, participate in civic and cultural affairs and contribute to economic productivity. Economic Literacy
applied mathematics. In addition, there areseveral social activities such as picnics, swimming, climbing and field trips to nearbyengineering and natural resource sites. All activities are provided by faculty from the College ofEngineering and College of Arts and Sciences with assistance from graduate and undergraduatestudents in the disciplines [Adapted from 4, reported in 7].”B.2. “Summer High School Institute (HSI). The mission of HSI is to provide a place wheresome of Wyoming’s most intellectually talented high school sophomores can gather before theirjunior and senior years, living and studying in an environment with no pressure for grades, andsharing ideas and friendship with other gifted students. The primary purpose of the program is
nature. The final project report includes a section where the students areencouraged to reflect on the quality of their experience as it pertains to their understanding ofsystems engineering. Student surveys are also conducted in an effort to assess the impact of thecourse and elicit feedback on how the course may be improved.Previous Design Explorations in Engineering Education via Systems EngineeringCourses involving integration and testing of complex hardware systems are not new toengineering education. In 2012, faculty at St. Louis University reported on a systems engineeringcourse where students gained hands-on experience with the development of a small satellite.They claim, “It is very important to use real hardware for practicing the
engineeringgraduates (nationals & expats) is very clear: good communication skills, grasp of fundamentals, agood understanding of design and manufacturing, desire to learn, and ability to work as a memberof a team. According to our industrial partners, the major responsibility of creating an educationalenvironment, which produces graduates with these attributes, is that of the college of engineering.Engineering faculty are poised to take an active role in meeting the challenge head on. The natureof such an exercise requires synergies between faculty members within the college, members fromdifferent colleges, and between students and faculty members. Since students are the primarybeneficiaries of reform, their input is vital to the success of the
Undergraduates (REU) programs. For example,Willis, et al. studied the impact of an NSF-sponsored REU on ten students in mechanicalengineering and found that, while the students gained experience and knowledge, thenumber of students who were strongly considering graduate studies declined whileparticipating in program [8]. Hung, et al. considered students at a summer REU focusedon micromachining, which had a large percentage of students from groupsunderrepresented in engineering; their findings demonstrated that most of the studentswished to pursue a research career through graduate school [12]. Mahmud and Xu foundthat students’ participation in an REU resulted in an improvement in their technicalcommunication skills [13]. Finally, Willits and Barnett
don’t know why it’s taken more time in engineering vs. law ormedicine.”Dean ‘west’ commands your attention immediately, firmly and with an aura of unflinchingconfidence. An audience member during a presentation, her student in a class, faculty workingwith her on a project—all would agree that in every context, she walks tall, and energeticallycommands your attention.Sentences punctuated with the words “only” or “like” descriptively accentuated challenges eachfaced. Dean ‘west’ explains, “I was the first and only woman engineering professor for tenyears. While I was received favorably by the students and had an accepting department head,many of the men and women on staff wanted to know what I was trying to prove. There weretimes when a Dean
the University of Portland in Portland, Ore- gon. She received her Ph.D. in Educational Psychology with an emphasis in Measurement, Statistics, and Research Design from the University of Washington. An elementary school teacher at heart, she now teaches educational research and STEM methods to undergraduate and graduate students. Her research fo- cus involves bringing active learning strategies to STEM, best practices of research-practice partnerships, and applied research in partnership. American c Society for Engineering Education, 2021 Connecting Entrepreneurial Mindset to Software DevelopmentAbstractThe purpose of this research was to develop