Paper ID #16323The Doctorate Journey: Mapping Perceptions of the Ph.D. ProcessDr. Stephanie Cutler, Pennsylvania State University, University Park Stephanie Cutler has a Ph.D. in Engineering Education from Virginia Tech. Her dissertation explored faculty adoption of research-based instructional strategies in the statics classroom. Currently, Dr. Cutler works as an assessment and instructional support specialist with the Leonhard Center for the Enhance- ment of Engineering Education at Penn State. She aids in the educational assessment of faculty-led projects while also supporting instructors to improve their teaching in
Paper ID #27849Transition Zone: a Training Ethos Designed to Scaffold a Ph.D. SegreeDr. Carmen Torres-S´anchez, Loughborough University Dr Torres-S´anchez is an Associate Professor at Loughborough University, England, United Kingdom, and the Executive Director of the Centre of Doctoral Training in Embedded Intelligence (CDT-EI). She is the architect of the novel Doctoral Transition ZoneTM Training ethos. She has been working in industry- informed, academically-led education for more than 10 years. Her research interests are in the design and manufacture of multifunctional materials with tailored properties to meet
also make them successful as a doctoral student (Holbrook et al., 2014). This gap causesstudents to often lose focus of their primary responsibilities, such as research and maintaining apositive relationship with their advisor, instead of focusing their efforts less effectively on otheractivities such as coursework or extracurricular tasks that do not hold the same significance inthe doctoral journey. It is not until later in the Ph.D. process that students face the reality thattheir efforts were misaligned with the best activities for degree progress (Artiles, 2019; Artiles etal., 2018). This far into the Ph.D. process, it often seems too late to refocus and make timelydegree progress, causing students to lose motivation and, in some severe
Paper ID #38002Considerations for the Use of Personas and Journey Maps inEngineering Course DesignNicholas D. Fila (Research Assistant Professor)Diane T. Rover (University Professor) Diane Rover is a University Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Iowa State University. She has held various faculty and administrative appointments at ISU and Michigan State University since 1991. She received the B.S. in computer science and the M.S. and Ph.D. in computer engineering. Her teaching and research have focused on engineering education, embedded computer systems, reconfigurable hardware, parallel and
could be made more explicit and potentially broadened to include a wider rangeof communication styles and ways of being.We envision any departmental reform process, qualifying exams and beyond, to be a collaborativeone with faculty working alongside students. The Carnegie Foundation’s book, “The Formationof Scholars: Rethinking Doctoral Education for the Twenty-First Century” explores manyavenues of growth for higher education. One of their key highlights is the importance of studentinvolvement in evolving an educational program. Students are “the secret weapon for change”,and they found that when faculty were asked to work alongside students while reforming theirprograms, the faculty’s most transformative
provides adedicated and safe environment for PhDs and post-docs to discuss their career possibilities andplans outside academia.” And lastly, participants liked having a structure for career exploration(i.e., step-by-step process, dedicated time). One participant said “Good to do it from start to end -it becomes a journey where all the small steps create a bigger picture.”When examining the responses to “What did you not like about the program” from all threecohorts, two themes emerged. First, some participants disliked the instructional strategy of smalland large group discussions/activities because it made classes long and exhausting. We suspectparticipants, who are upper PhDs and post-doctoral fellows, may not have taken a class in acouple
and engaged learning. Aileen has a Bachelor’s of Science in Engineering from the University of Pennsylvania, a Doctorate of Philosophy from The Johns Hop- kins University School of Medicine, and a Masters of Business Administration from the University of Michigan Ross School of Business. Aileen is also a member of Phi Kappa Phi and Beta Sigma Gamma.Julie Libarkin, Michigan State University c American Society for Engineering Education, 2017 Mapping engineering outcomes to the Lean Launch curriculum in a user-centered design contextAbstractAlthough engineering graduates could once be successful through acquiring technicalproficiency alone, modern engineers are expected to
, andaccumulative lived experience. Through cultivation of this reflexive knowledge, we developeddeeper insights into the participants lived experiences and how that knowledge emerged [51].The third author is a White cisgender woman with research experience related to engineeringgraduate students’ mental health. The fourth author is a White cisgender man with extensiveundergraduate teaching experience and research experience in cognitive human factors duringhis Ph.D. and, since then, design-based engineering education research focused on mid-yearengineering science courses. The third and four authors served as a point of triangulation,challenging the rigor of the data analysis processes and interpretation of the findings. All authorsengaged in discussions
Paper ID #18116Application of a Virtual Environment for Education on the Construction Pro-cess of the Colosseum of RomeDr. Adrian Hadipriono Tan, The Ohio State University Adrian H. Tan is a Ph.D. alumnus from the Ohio State University. Adrian has a B.S. in Computer Science and Engineering and an M.S. and Ph.D. in Civil Engineering from the Ohio State University. Adrian’s dissertation work concerned ancient civil engineering and construction with a focus on computer graphics and virtual simulation in the engineering industry.Prof. Fabian Hadipriono Tan, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, USA Fabian Hadipriono Tan
identity formation over time for bothonline and on-campus doctoral students within one engineering department at a large state university.The current paper focuses on the longitudinal results from the journey maps of an online cohort ofstudents. Data from the 10 participants are analyzed using a multi-step coding process involving threeresearchers, and key themes are extracted. Findings provide evidence-based support for manycommon design elements of doctoral programs, such as the “front loading” of coursework to developresearch interest and capabilities, and the importance of initiating research collaboration with thedissertation chair early in the student’s program. However, the findings also reveal some factors thatmay be unique to online
formation, high-impact learning experiences, and Latino/a/x & first-generation college student pathways in engineering. Through her research, Castillo hopes to amplify the voices of historically underrepresented populations in engineering to improve the accessibility of engineering education for diverse students. Upon graduating, Castillo will be attending Arizona State University to pursue a Ph.D. in Engineering Education Systems and Design as an NSF Graduate Research Fellow.Joana Marques Melo (Doctor) Joana Marques Melo, PhD worked as a Visiting Assistant Professor in Engineering Education at Purdue University. Dr. Marques Melo graduated from Penn State University with a Ph.D. in Architectural Engineering, and B.S. in
data was insufficient to understand better the factorscontributing to the increased visibility of discussions regarding RDI during the second semester.Despite this limitation, the continuous expression of opinions throughout the year suggests aconsistent and ongoing consideration of RDI's impact by doctoral students throughout their firstyear.We discovered that the impact of RDI lies in its ability to introduce the relevance of three keydimensions of their doctoral journey in the initial year: 1) RDI as a facilitator of studentwell-being, 2) RDI as a compass to the Ph.D. process, and 3) Sparking conversations oncommunity, belonging, and identity.Furthermore, findings show less prominent themes around awareness of identity issues,specifically
, she earned a Ph.D. in Higher Education Administration from the University of South Carolina. Her research interests include mobile learning, faculty development, and women in community college leadership. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2016 Connecting Two-year Faculty Professional Development with Technology and Student Learning Perceptions in Online EnvironmentsI. Introduction Improved professional development experiences for educators are important in improvingstudent learning and initiating school change.i High quality faculty learning experiences,integrating emerging technologies, have to potential to advance innovation and
framework of Zaki’s model of empathy [13],there is some overlap between the IRI sub-scales and empathy components. We describe eachfurther below, as these connections are employed in the analysis of our research: • Sharing: The affective/emotional component of Zaki’s model aligns with the affective/emotional subscale of Personal Distress (PD). • Thinking About:The focus on cognitive processes aligns with the cognitive subscale of Perspective Taking (PT). • Caring About: The compassion and “empathic concern” that motivates action to help others maps directly to the Davis IRI subscale with the name, Empathic Concern (EC).To better understand the links that may exist between students’ self-perceptions and empathyobserved in
they are housed, provided students with an overview of journey mappingmethods and modeled the journey mapping process using a persona the researchers developed.Participants were then asked to map their researcher identity development by semester. The mapswere designed to be completed in table form with columns for the semester, activity, emotionalresponse (ranging from very negative to very positive), and explanation of how this activitypromoted or hindered researcher identity development. (Figure 1 is a screenshot of a journeymap students created during the persona training session.) Figure 1: Sample journey map for a participant’s third semester in a doctoral program. Following this assignment, participants completed their individual
process, such as including adding a sixth session, were made by the entire group.Throughout the design sessions, all participants offered their insights into everyday practices andco-constructed knowledge relationally and through open dialogue, thus contributing to aparticipatory research and design approach [22, 23]. Within small, large, and “mixed” groupformats, and with an awareness of their relative positions of authority in the School, theparticipants worked together on identifying underlying issues in diversity and inclusion inprofessional formation of engineers and collaborated to create prototype solutions.In design session 1, participants mapped their own professional journey, while reflecting onmoments in childhood, teenage, college
). 8FindingsCategory 1. Students’ Perception of the Relationship Between Empathy and ReframingThe value codes mapped into Category 1 describe how students perceived their reframingdecisions in a user-centered, empathic design context. To the question regarding the associationbetween reframing decisions and user-centered empathic design, 59% of the students answeredthat their reframing decisions were connected to user-centered empathic design in some form.Forty-three percent stated that their reframing processes were initiated and guided by theirmotivation to focus on more significant problems to the users. Thirty-three percent commentedthat their reframing decisions were made in consideration of how users felt during product useand aimed for better usability
process. - Tell me about what you perceived to be the biggest failure you experienced during your entrepreneurial journey. - Tell me about other experiences you had during your entrepreneurial journey that at the time they occurred you perceived to be failures?These questions allowed each of the study participants to define entrepreneurial failure based ontheir own experiences as opposed to responding about their experiences based on an externallydefined definition of failure.Data analysis:The data analysis is still ongoing. However, multiple forms of data analysis have beenconducted thus far. First, open-coding has been conducted with two members of the researchteam, which included the first author and two undergraduate
throughresearchers’ reflections on data gathered before and during the research process [71]. In thisstudy, we used four different types of data found within the methods literature on collaborativeautoethnography: 1) personal memory data, 2) archival data, 3) conversational and interactivedata, and 4) reflection and analytical data [9], [65], [72].For personal memory data, we individually reflected upon and documented our journeys tograduate school, then shared those narratives with each other as the foundation for conversationaland interactive data.Archival data came in the form of our graduate school application materials such as ourstatements of purpose, transcripts, and personal statements.Conversation and interactive data collection represented the
journey map highlighting salientexperiences they’ve had during the previous semester. Information from the interview transcriptsand journey maps is placed into a conceptually clustered matrix and reviewed by multipleresearchers for accuracy. Through the process we draw on multiple sources of data alongsideconstant comparison of findings between researchers to make sense of the students’ experienceswhile retaining their social reality [31]. Alongside the use of first-person direct quotes, these effortshelp retain ongoing communicative validation of each student’s story, and a “co-construction ofmeaning” as we develop findings [32]. Through this process, both positive and negativeinteractions with faculty emerged as salient moments within students
transitions and retention of underrepresented students in engineering and also research about engineering global preparedness and engineering innovation. She also has research expertise in STEM K-12 and in STEM assessment. She chairs USC’s STEM Consortium.Dr. Lisa Benson, Clemson University Lisa Benson is an Associate Professor of Engineering and Science Education at Clemson University, with a joint appointment in Bioengineering. Her research focuses on the interactions between student moti- vation and their learning experiences. Her projects involve the study of student perceptions, beliefs and attitudes towards becoming engineers and scientists, and their problem solving processes. Other projects in the Benson group
-Director of the EPICS Program. She holds a B.S.E.E., M.S.E.E., and Ph.D. in Engineering Education, all from Purdue. Her research interests include the professional formation of en- gineers, diversity, inclusion, and equity in engineering, human-centered design, engineering ethics, and leadership. American c Society for Engineering Education, 2021 Longitudinal Qualitative Case Study of One Engineering Student’s Perceptions of Ethics and Social Responsibility: Corvin’s StoryIntroductionOver the past several decades, there has been a growing awareness of the need to developengineers who can navigate the rapidly changing nature of professional engineering work
Paper ID #40102Increasing Equity in Access to Electric vehicles and Electrifiedinfrastructure through Perceptions, Opinions and Knowledge ofUnderrepresented Communities in the Paso del Norte RegionMiss Liliana Lozada-Medellin, University of Texas, El Paso Liliana Lozada-Medellin is a Hispanic female, first-generation Ph.D. Candidate in the Environmental Science and Engineering Doctoral program at the University of Texas at El Paso. She holds a Master’s degree in Construction Engineering and Management and a Bachelor’s Degree is in Architecture. Most of her professional experience has been in the private sector as a design
Paper ID #39738It’s No Mystery, So It Must Be Intentional: How Institutions Fail toSupport Black STEM Doctoral Students’ Mental HealthDr. Brooke Charae Coley, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Brooke Coley, PhD is an Assistant Professor in Engineering at the Polytechnic School of the Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering at Arizona State University. Dr. Coley is Principal Investigator of the Shifting Perceptions, Attitudes and Cultures in EngineDr. Jennifer M. Bekki, Arizona State University, Polytechnic Campus Jennifer M. Bekki is an Associate Professor in The Polytechnic School within the Ira A. Fulton Schools of
encompass all administrative, coordination, and instructional tasks,decisions, and negotiations implicated in starting a new educational initiative such as the WSMat the LPU under study. We utilize actor-network theory and specifically translation as aframework to categorize the various actions and events observed during the process of creatingthe WSM within the LPU in order to aid in mapping the terrain of this initiative as it begins totake root in new soil (Callon, 1986; Latour, 1987; Tsai, Kotys-Schwartz, & Knight, 2015). Forexample, in actor-network language, the textbook and online resources are examples ofinscriptions: data or information officially recorded in an immutable form for portability andtransfer from one location or another
visualization. MATLAB was chosen for its ability to visualizedata in a multitude of representations. By mapping the time at which each code was used over theentire writing process, we are able to see more detail about the full writing process. We made afew assumptions in order to analyze our data in this way: We assumed that 1) the data aremathematically continuous, such that they can be considered functions, 2) multiple codes couldhappen simultaneously, and 3) the lag time between events the video-data and when they werecoded in the GORP tool were small enough to be ignored.5. ResultsOur research objective was to develop visual representations of time-resolved real-time writingdata. We therefore present multiple representations of the same data set to
. She also teaches the Food, Agricultural and Biological Engineering Capstone, Energy in Biological Systems, and the Introduction to Humanitarian Engineering course.Dr. Kadri Akinola Akanni Parris, The Ohio State University Dr. Kadri A.A. Parris is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Engineering Education at The Ohio State University (OSU). He is the holder of a Masterˆa C™s Degree in Transportation Engineering and received his Doctorate in Civil Engineering (Geotechnical) ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2024 From Service to Engagement: Outcomes from the implementation of multiyear human centered design initiatives across Humanitarian Engineering courses to improve
motivation to learn.Therefore, additional research into the nature of undergraduate students should be done.Pembridge, et. al. conducted a study at Embry Riddle where he used a survey to determinestudents’ perceptions of various attributes that he roughly mapped to the assumptions inandragogy [14]. This work can be expanded to other institutions to determine whetherundergraduate students meet the assumptions of andragogy early in their education, warrantingthe implementation of andragogical principles. If not, researchers should determine the rate atwhich students may transition on the spectrum from ‘child’ to ‘adult’ learners. The second major area of research may include the impact of incorporating andragogicalprinciples in engineering
Methods Division Apprentice Faculty Grant. She also was an NSF Graduate Research Fellow for her work on female empowerment in engineering which won the National Association for Research in Science Teaching 2015 Outstanding Doctoral Research Award.Dr. Lisa Benson, Clemson University Lisa Benson is an Associate Professor of Engineering and Science Education at Clemson University, with a joint appointment in Bioengineering. Her research focuses on the interactions between student moti- vation and their learning experiences. Her projects involve the study of student perceptions, beliefs and attitudes towards becoming engineers and scientists, and their problem solving processes. Other projects in the Benson group
, and marketing. He received a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from UC Santa Barbara, studying with the inventor of the blue and white LED, and an MBA from the University of South Carolina, Moore School of Business.Dr. Sarah E. Zappe, Pennsylvania State University Dr. Sarah Zappe is Research Professor and Director of Assessment and Instructional Support in the Leonhard Center for the Enhancement of Engineering Education at Penn State. She holds a doctoral degree in educational psychology emphasizing applied measurement and testing. In her position, Sarah is responsible for developing instructional support programs for faculty, providing evaluation support for educational proposals and projects, and working with