Paper ID #38639Evaluation of a Postdoctoral Early Career Fellowship Program DevelopingFuture Faculty MembersSydni Alexa Cobb, University of Texas, Austin Sydni Cobb is a Mechanical Engineering doctoral student and graduate research assistant for the Center for Engineering Education at the University of Texas at Austin. She received her B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from the illustrious North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University in 2015, entered the engineering workforce, and has since enrolled at the University of Texas at Austin to complete her M.S. and PhD in Mechanical Engineering.Audrey Boklage
opportunities.Meanwhile, poverty, marginalization, and stigmatization may hinder career aspirations, ascircumstances outside of meeting one’s basic needs may seem unrealistic. Moreover, suddenchanges such as job loss, sickness, market changes, natural disasters, and economic shifts caninfluence career aspirations and development (Duffy & Dik, 2009).Third, spiritual and religious factors may influence a person’s career aspirations (Duffy & Dik,2009). A study by Abe and Chikoko (2020) regarding STEM graduate student career decisions inSouth Africa noted that spirituality and morality are closely linked and provide direction andmeaning in one’s career choice. Finally, Duffy and Dik (2009) identified social servicemotivations as the fourth external factor
Paper ID #37632Diversity and Equity as Part of Personal Decision-MakingDr. Neal A. Lewis, University of Nebraska - Lincoln NEAL A. LEWIS, CPEM, received his Ph.D. in engineering management in 2004 and B.S. in chemical engineering in 1974 from the University of Missouri–Rolla and his MBA in 2000 from the University of New Haven. He has over 25 years of industrial experience at Procter & Gamble and Bayer. He is a full time faculty member of the online Master of Engineering Management program at the University of Nebraska - Lincoln. Previously, he taught at UMR, Marshall University, University of Bridgeport, University
forman integral part of graduate school in higher institutions as they serve as mentors, advisors, andexpert guides to graduate students during their academic journey. In many institutions, they alsoplay an integral part in determining who gets accepted into engineering graduate programs. Forthese reasons, we consider the perception of faculties to be an influential factor to be studied forthis research, as they are the central point of contact and decision-making for any graduatestudent. They are also a major support system to graduate students and play a pivotal role insteering their academic and professional journey. The role of faculty goes beyond providingacademic guidance; they also assist with funding opportunities, mentor students
is important for ensuring that interventions are adequately designed to supporttheir teaching development. This study used semi-structured interviews to investigate challengesand support structures that early-career engineering faculty experience during their initialtransition into the classroom. The outcome of this study will help faculty personally reflect ontheir teaching experiences and support the design of appropriate professional developmentactivities addressing actual challenges that early-career engineering faculty face.PositionalityThe primary author of this paper is an international graduate student in an engineering educationprogram who aligns with a social-constructivist perspective, which centers his understanding ofthe
atmosphere is essential for graduate studentsto adjust and feel belonging in their programs –especially for minority groups and women inengineering [13]. Discrimination has been reported from these groups due to white and male-dominated environments [16]–[18]. Some papers demonstrated how rapid changes of requirementsfor doctoral students in preparing for their future career is a reason for the misalignment ofstudents’ expectations in the program [19]–[21].These personal and institutional environments have an impact on engineering graduate students’mental health [17]. Indeed, doctoral students' mental health is a growing concern [17], [22], [23],especially in how the Covid-19 pandemic affected students’ in-person attendance and participationin
explained by a faculty member fromthe Dams and Water Resources department. In response to an interview prompt asking if and howfaculty members promoted respect for student differences, the faculty member explained thatstudent differences transcended nationality or ethnicity. They spoke specifically about the genderdifferences, differences in socioeconomic statuses (SES), and personality types in their classroomsand how those differences translate when enforcing school policies. One such policy was thatstudents had to leave their cameras on during online classes and exams. The faculty member wenton to explain that this policy had to be relaxed because some lower SES students had problemsjoining class because of the bandwidth demands. Another faculty
Paper ID #36611Exploring First Year Engineering Students’ Career Motivations andExpectationsDr. Rahul Sharan Renu, Francis Marion University Dr. Renu is an associate professor of mechanical engineering at Francis Marion University. He also serves as the program coordinator for mechanical engineering. His research interests are in the fields of digital manufacturing, AI in design, and engineering education.Michael V Potter, Francis Marion University Dr. Michael Potter is an Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Francis Marion University (FMU). He teaches both upper and lower-level courses in FMU’s mechanical
development of effective advising relationships [12].Although significant research has explored faculty experiences within the advising relationshipand the obstacles that prevent engagement in advising, little research discusses the supports thatpromote and the barriers that prevent faculty from developing and adopting student- centered[13, 14] advising practices that meet both student and faculty members’ personal needs.Research on graduate advising has typically taken a unilateral approach, focusing eitherexplicitly on the promotion of student success outcomes [15-19] or faculty productivity [20-22].Little work has focused on leveraging advising as a mutually beneficial activity that can createvalue for both faculty and students. To breach this
, faculty continue to engage in interdisciplinarygraduate education, but limited research has explored what accounts for this engagement. Tothat end, this paper explores the perspectives of faculty recently facilitating an interdisciplinarygraduate certificate program at a large, public land-grant university to understand facultydecision-making related to interdisciplinary education.To explore this issue, we use Lattuca and Pollard’s model of faculty decision-making [4] toanalyze semi-structured interviews with five faculty members of a current NSF-fundedinterdisciplinary graduate program. The framework describes the three influences of facultydecision-making: individual, such as values and beliefs; internal, such as departmental cultureand
potentialsolutions to these barriers, and to receive and review the evaluator’s formative and summativeassessment of the education plan and deliverables. In April 2023, the external evaluator willtravel to USU to meet in person with the project team (PI and graduate student). During this visitto USU, the project evaluator will also present an invited talk on project outcome evaluation tothe USU engineering education department faculty and students, as well as other interestedfaculty and graduate students in the college of engineering. In addition, the project team (PI andgraduate student) and the project evaluator will meet with the USU Veterans Resource OfficeDirector, another key collaborator in education plan work, to discuss feedback on the progressof
graduate degrees in Aerospace Engineering from Georgia Tech (PhD) and Systems Engineering from the University of Virginia (UVa). ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2023 From website to work environment: Exploring minority undergraduate engineering students’ conceptualizations of engineering careers at national laboratoriesAbstract Within engineering education, there have been rising calls for more research on thetransitional period students face leading up to graduation (e.g., post-graduation planning) andmoving into the next phase of their career. This study seeks to complement existing research byexploring the experience of students as they seek to make sense of engineering career
from a variety ofuniversities was used to obtain data regarding many aspects of the master's program process. Forthis paper, the questions regarding the decision to attend graduate school were isolated andexamined using standard statistical methods. From these statistical tests, we were able to obtainresults which help us understand how priorities differ between these two student groups and mayaid universities in their recruitment of graduate students from both backgrounds.IntroductionThe decision to pursue a master’s degree is life-altering for an engineer. It changes the trajectoryof one’s career and can open many doors. However, pursuing a master’s degree is not an easyprocess and requires significant commitment. Many factors contribute to
Paper ID #39496Are All ’EBIPs’ Created Equal? An Exploration of Engineering FacultyAdoption of Nine Evidence-Based Instructional PracticesDr. Amy L Brooks, Oregon State University Dr. Amy Brooks is a Postdoctoral Scholar at the Oregon State University School of Civil and Construction Engineering and member of the Beyond Professional Identity lab at Harding University. Her current research is using interpretative phenomenological analysis to understand well-being and experiences with professional shame among engineering faculty. She is also part of a research team investigating context- specific affordances and barriers
Full-time PhD student in curriculum and pedagogy program at OISE and first OISE student as classical voice musician at the Faculty of Music. Her research focuses on governance, curriculum policy and leadership. Currently, she is the Graduate Research Assistant of SSHRC Creating equitable structures in early secondary school mathematics project and researcher at Encore Lab. She is Co-President at the Canadian Committee of Graduate Students in Education of the Canadian Society for the Study of Education. She serves as President at CTL Students’ Association and Graduate Student Member at OISE Council & Research Committee. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2023A Trio-Ethnography
major choice to one of future possibilities and connection tocareer. This shift may support future identity work in other subfields of computing, as well as inother elements of computing education, such as graduate study. As computer science seeks todiversify, the act of becoming in computing will be an important avenue of investigation, and theconnections students make to specific careers in the field may support identity development thatmoves beyond the role of student towards future professional identities.KEYWORDSCommunity of Practice, Career Identification, Learning Contexts1 IntroductionComputer Science and computing career identity are concepts in the computer scienceeducational research field that have seen growth in the last
on two broad areas: achievement/retention in STEM and comprehension of illus- trated scientific textDr. Karin Jensen, University of Michigan Karin Jensen, Ph.D. (she/her) is an assistant professor in biomedical engineering and engineering edu- cation research at the University of Michigan. Her research interests include student mental health and wellness, engineering student career pathways, and engagement of engineering faculty in engineering education research.Dale RobbennoltAnne Hart, University of Tennessee, Memphis ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2023 Work in Progress: Exploring the Landscape of Stressors Experienced by Doctoral Engineering
, FSAE, and Duke Engineers for International Development.Dr. Karis Boyd-Sinkler, Duke University Karis Boyd-Sinkler, PhD is the Director of Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion and Adjunct Assistant Pro- fessor at Duke University’s Pratt School of Engineering. She plays a key role in providing strategies to strengthen Pratt’s efforts to create and sustain an equitable environment for all members of the Pratt Com- munity including students, staff, faculty, and alumni. She has over 7 years of experience leading multiple mentoring, outreach, and professional development programs focused on the recruitment and retention of engineering students at all levels, especially students from Black and Hispanic/Latino populations. Dr
SAE Ralph R. Teetor Educational Award. Dr. Reisel received his B.M.E. degree from Villanova University in 1989, his M.S. degree in mechanical engineering from Purdue University in 1991, and his Ph.D. in mechanical engineering from Purdue University in 1994. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2023 An Exploration of the Use of Technical Electives in Engineering CurriculaAbstractA standard feature of many, if not most, undergraduate engineering programs is the requirementthat students in the program take a certain number of technical elective courses. The widespreadand long-standing use of this requirement in engineering programs may have led to a situationwhere many faculty do not even consider
developing a comfortable active-learning environmentin their classroom. It is arguable that harnessing this compassionate and humanistic disposition atthe early stages of an educator’s career can be further complemented by gaining exposure toEBIPs and guidance on how to specifically implement them. This momentum may then carry onand resonate with colleagues and other faculty members in the department. The foregoingstatements related to the challenges of in-class demonstrations illustrate several factors related toresource availability and EBIP implementation which are bulleted below: • Providing teaching opportunities for graduate students creates a path for individuals of a younger generation to try out alternative teaching methods and
and instructors and learners’ engagement arenot easily achieved. The online education process, including organization and management,occurs differently than in conventional teaching. The paper provides insight into onlineeducation technologies and techniques for an engineering graduate program and how onlinelearning has evolved using a case study. The article presents over 25 years of history of the casestudy program providing data results of alums, students, and faculty surveys across five years toanswer three critical questions for Software Engineering learners. These three research questionsaddress learning resource deployment, organization and management, and new learning andteaching activities. The results of the surveys revealed that
detailsof teaching hidden behind the curtains, nor did these training programs prepare us for how muchwe would grow. Specifically, these training programs did not prepare us for the difficulty indeveloping material, designing and utilizing active learning, or navigating student emotions. Ourexperiences included an abrupt learning curve we had to navigate to learn these skills whilepracticing them. These skills cannot be entirely taught without practice. If we had not engaged inthis apprenticeship, we would have encountered these facets of teaching while we were engagingin teaching for the first time. Our experiences and the themes which emerged from that processsuggest that more graduate students, particularly those interested in a faculty career
teaches at the intersection of engineering education, faculty development, and complex systems design. Alexandra completed her graduate degrees in Aerospace Engineering from Georgia Tech (PhD) and Systems Engineering from the University of Virginia (UVa).Dr. Meagan R. Kendall, University of Texas at El Paso An Associate Professor at The University of Texas at El Paso, Dr. Meagan R. Kendall is a founding member of the Department of Engineering Education and Leadership. With a background in both engi- neering education and design thinking, her research focuses on how Latinx students develop identities as engineers and navigate moments of identity interference, student and faculty engineering leadership development
, competency development, and understanding the experiences of traditionally marginalized engineering students from an asset-based perspective. Homero’s goal is to develop engineering education practices that value the capital that tra- ditionally marginalized students, bring into the field, and to train graduate students and faculty members with the tool to promote effective and inclusive learning environments and mentorship practices. Homero has been recognized as a Diggs Teaching Scholar, a Graduate Academy for Teaching Excellence Fellow, a Global Perspectives Fellow, a Diversity Scholar, a Fulbright Scholar, a recipient of the NSF CAREER award, and was inducted into the Bouchet Honor Society. Homero serves as the
contribute to a sense of STEM identity, andthereby retention, in URMs [39], [52]. In addition to providing opportunities to socialize withother like-minded students, this would provide students with the opportunity to receivementorship from faculty members, which is tied to higher engineering persistence [32]. Asindicated in Figure 2, all participants expressed interest in interdisciplinary research.Similarly, we suggest that universities join forces with industry partners to offer and effectivelymarket interdisciplinary internships, especially towards URMs. Internships have been shown toincrease retention and graduation rates for engineering students [53], particularly URMs [54],making them a promising setting for interdisciplinary collaborations
were met resulted in faculty in this studychoosing to accept offers and stay within their respective institutions. Proactive and supportivementoring approaches were another way participants felt a sense of mattering. For example,Ashley noted how her mentoring of WOC faculty not only included attention to their careerdevelopment, but how they would balance their personal goals with professional goals, And I've had several that still come to me, "I'm going to make this decision," or, "Should I--" Even now in ADVANCE, I'm working with a faculty member who became an interim dean. She's like, "You're my mentor now," before she became interim dean. So anytime she has a career decision, she'll come to me. She just went up to
Paper ID #38168What Do Engineering and Other STEM Faculty Need? Exploring the Nu-ancesof Psychological NeedsDr. Denise Wilson, University of Washington Denise Wilson is a professor of electrical engineering at the University of Washington, Seattle. Her research interests in engineering education focus on the role of self-efficacy, belonging, and other non- cognitive aspects of the student experience on eDr. Jennifer J. VanAntwerp, Calvin University Jennifer J. VanAntwerp is a Professor of Engineering at Calvin University in Grand Rapids, Michigan. She earned an M.S. and Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from the University
-efficacy, belonging, and other non- cognitive aspects of the student experience on eSoyoung 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 an ecosys- tem of training and support for students and to develop innovative teaching
Paper ID #38358”It is So Exhausting to Constantly Have to Explain to People”: Exploringthe Effects of Faculty Interactions on Disabled StudentsMs. Rachel Figard, Arizona State University Rachel Figard is a graduate student in Engineering Education and Systems Design and Universal Experi- ence (UX) Design at Arizona State University.Dr. Samantha Ruth Brunhaver, Arizona State University Samantha Brunhaver, Ph.D., is an Assistant Professor within The Polytechnic School of the Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering at Arizona State University. Her primary areas of research include engineering ca- reer pathways and decision-making
. Derrick James Satterfield, University of Nevada, Reno Derrick Satterfield is a doctoral candidate in Engineering Education at the University of Nevada, Reno. His research focuses on engineering graduate students’ experiences and motivation centered on career planning and preparation.Dr. Adam Kirn, University of Nevada, Reno Adam Kirn is an Associate Professor of Engineering Education at University of Nevada, Reno. His research focuses on the interactions between engineering cultures, student motivation, and their learning experiences. His projects involve the study of studenDr. Alexandra Coso Strong, Florida International University As an assistant professor of engineering education at Florida International University