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Tensions Of Integration In Professional Formation: Investigating Development Of Engineering Students' Social And Technical Perceptions, James L. Huff, Brent Jesiek, W. C. Oakes, Carla B. Zoltowski, Kavitha D. Ramane, William Graziano
Tensions Of Integration In Professional Formation: Investigating Development Of Engineering Students' Social And Technical Perceptions, James L. Huff, Brent Jesiek, W. C. Oakes, Carla B. Zoltowski, Kavitha D. Ramane, William Graziano
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Tensions of Integration in Professional Formation: Investigating Development of Engineering Students' Social and Technical PerceptionsTwenty-first century engineers face incredible challenges and opportunities, many of which aresocially complex, transcending the traditional “technical” boundaries of engineering. Thetechnology produced by engineers must not only function as predicted by mathematical andtheoretical models but must also operate beneficially and seamlessly in complex social contexts.In this sense, engineers must embody an integrated social and technical – or sociotechnical –identity rather than a dualistic social/technical one.A growing body of scholarship has discussed how dominant cultures of engineering shapestudents’ and professionals’ understandings of social and technical dimensions of …
Factors Associated With Student Participation In Cooperative Education Programs (Co-Ops), Joyce Main, Matthew Ohland, Nichole Ramirez, Trina L. Fletcher, Jake Davis
Factors Associated With Student Participation In Cooperative Education Programs (Co-Ops), Joyce Main, Matthew Ohland, Nichole Ramirez, Trina L. Fletcher, Jake Davis
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Factors that Influence Student Participation in Co-OpsA cooperative education program (co-op) in engineering is a partnership between an academicinstitution and an employer designed to engage students in practical engineering experiencethrough rotations of full-time employment and course study. Co-op employment providesstudents with discipline-relevant professional experience, financial support, and early entry intothe engineering labor force while serving as a recruitment tool for co-op companies. Using asequential mixed-methods approach, this research aims to identify factors that influence studentaccess to and participation in cooperative education programs.The quantitative analysis of co-op participation uses comprehensive, longitudinal academicstudent records from six partner institutions that comprise the Multiple-Institution …
Experiential Learning: Student Participation And Future Engagement, Twila Ortiz, Beth M. Holloway, Michael Harris, Andrea Pluckebaum, Leah H. Jamieson
Experiential Learning: Student Participation And Future Engagement, Twila Ortiz, Beth M. Holloway, Michael Harris, Andrea Pluckebaum, Leah H. Jamieson
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Experiential Learning: Understanding our Students’ PerspectivesIn 2014, the Gallup-Purdue Index Report examined the relationship between certain collegiateexperiences and workplace engagement. It found that experiences or experiential learningopportunities such as participating in a co-op program, internship or working on projects thatdeveloped over one semester more deeply affect the level of a graduate’s workplace engagementand therefore productivity and overall well-being. While it is apparent how importantexperiential learning can be to the future success and well-being of students, it is more difficultto measure all of the activities that can be labeled as experiential learning and to define whatconstitutes a meaningful experiential learning opportunity.This …
Understanding Diverse Pathways: Disciplinary Trajectories Of Engineering Students: Year 3- Nsf Ree Grant 1129383, Susan M. Lord, Matthew Ohland, Richard Layton
Understanding Diverse Pathways: Disciplinary Trajectories Of Engineering Students: Year 3- Nsf Ree Grant 1129383, Susan M. Lord, Matthew Ohland, Richard Layton
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Engineering as a whole continues to suffer from a low participation of women of all races andBlack, Hispanic, and Native American men. To diversify pathways for students to and throughengineering and to improve student success, we must first know how to measure success andprovide baseline data describing the current situation for all students. Our previous work hasshown that persistence or success varies by race and gender, and how we measure persistencematters in understanding this variation. Once women matriculate in engineering, they graduate insix-years at the same or better rates than their male counterparts of all races. This finding,however, shows considerable …
Understanding The Communicative And Social Processes Of Engineering Ethics In Diverse Design Teams, Carla B Zoltowski, Patrice Buzzanell, William Charles Oakes, Megan Feister, David Torres
Understanding The Communicative And Social Processes Of Engineering Ethics In Diverse Design Teams, Carla B Zoltowski, Patrice Buzzanell, William Charles Oakes, Megan Feister, David Torres
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Understanding the Communicative and Social Processes of Engineering Ethics in Diverse Design Teams As engineering, and specifically engineering design, is increasingly understood to be asocial activity, engineering education’s understanding of ethics needs to reflect this developingawareness. Within engineering and design teams, engineering educators are concerned not onlywith how individual students develop ethically, but also how everyday ethical decision-makingemerges during team interactions and becomes integrated in design solutions. The everydayethics approach calls on engineering educators and students to pay closer attention to the natureof design, how values are embedded in design through micro decision-making processes, andhow these values are reintegrated into …
Writing Proficiency In Engineering Technology Students Andskill Development In The Classroom, Anne M. Lucietto, Nichiole Ramirez
Writing Proficiency In Engineering Technology Students Andskill Development In The Classroom, Anne M. Lucietto, Nichiole Ramirez
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Little work has been done to understand the engineering technology student. The work that has been done often incorporates engineering technology students into the larger number of engineering students. This masks information that would be helpful in guiding and working with engineering technology students. While this is important, work to further understand these students, we chose to begin by exploring the writing skills of the engineering technology student, developing on other work done in this area. The work place demands the ability to convey thoughts and concepts; however the academic environment is not consistent in the development of writing proficiency. …
How Professional Society Membership Is Affected By Returning Student Status, Anne M. Lucietto, Diane L. Peters
How Professional Society Membership Is Affected By Returning Student Status, Anne M. Lucietto, Diane L. Peters
School of Engineering Education Faculty Publications
In recent years, several research efforts have aimed to understand the issues surrounding engineering professionals returning to the academic environment for graduate degrees in engineering. This research focuses on a variety of issues: why they return, what they hope to do afterwards, and what their experiences are in the academic environment. While those are important issues, interaction with professional societies while in the workplace and pursuing graduate work are also of concern. Many engineering professionals, both in industry and in academia, value activities with these organizations while advancing in membership levels as they advance through their careers. Advancement may be …
What Do Students Experience As Peer Leaders Of Learning Teams?, Eric C. Johnson, Brett A. Robbins, Michael Loui
What Do Students Experience As Peer Leaders Of Learning Teams?, Eric C. Johnson, Brett A. Robbins, Michael Loui
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In a course for engineering freshmen, peer leaders facilitated optional study sessions, which implemented peer-led team learning workshops. Some leaders were paid teaching assistants, but most were undergraduate volunteers. To understand the experiences of the peer leaders, we asked them to keep weekly reflective journals. By performing a basic qualitative analysis of fourteen journals from two semesters, we developed a description of the experience of leading peer-led team learning workshops over the course of the semester. At the beginning of the semester, the leaders were apprehensive about teaching and concerned with correctly answering students’ questions. As the semester progressed, the …
A High-Quality Professional Development For Teachers Of Grades 3–6 For Implementing Engineering Into Classrooms, S. Selcen Guzey, Kristina Tank, Hui-Hui Wang, Gillian Roehrig, Tamara J. Moore
A High-Quality Professional Development For Teachers Of Grades 3–6 For Implementing Engineering Into Classrooms, S. Selcen Guzey, Kristina Tank, Hui-Hui Wang, Gillian Roehrig, Tamara J. Moore
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With the increasing emphasis on integrating engineering into K-12 classrooms to help meet the needs of our complex and multidisciplinary society, there is an urgent need to investigate teachers' engineering-focused professional development experiences as they relate to teacher learning, implementation, and student achievement. This study addresses this need by examining the effects of a professional development program focused on engineering integration, and how teachers chose to implement engineering in their classrooms as a result of the professional development. 198 teachers in grades 3–6 from 43 schools in 17 districts participated in a yearlong professional development program designed to help integrate …
The Importance Of Formative Assessment In Science And Engineering Ethics Education: Some Evidence And Practical Advice, Matthew W. Keefer, Sara E. Wilson, Harry Dankowicz, Michael C. Loui
The Importance Of Formative Assessment In Science And Engineering Ethics Education: Some Evidence And Practical Advice, Matthew W. Keefer, Sara E. Wilson, Harry Dankowicz, Michael C. Loui
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Recent research in ethics education shows a potentially problematic variation in content, curricular materials, and instruction. While ethics instruction is now widespread, studies have identified significant variation in both the goals and methods of ethics education, leaving researchers to conclude that many approaches may be inappropriately paired with goals that are unachievable. This paper speaks to these concerns by demonstrating the importance of aligning classroom-based assessments to clear ethical learning objectives in order to help students and instructors track their progress toward meeting those objectives. Two studies at two different universities demonstrate the usefulness of classroom-based, formative assessments for improving …
Development Of An Instrument To Assess Attitudes Toward Science, Technology, Engineering, And Mathematics (Stem), Tamara J. Moore, Selcen Guzey, Michael Harwell
Development Of An Instrument To Assess Attitudes Toward Science, Technology, Engineering, And Mathematics (Stem), Tamara J. Moore, Selcen Guzey, Michael Harwell
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There is a need for more students to be interested in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) careers to advance U.S. competitiveness and economic growth. A consensus exits that improving STEM education is necessary for motivating more students to pursue STEM careers. In this study, a survey to measure student (grades 4-6) attitudes toward STEM and STEM careers was developed and administered to 662 students from two STEM-focused and three comprehensive (non-STEM focused) schools. Cronbach’s alphas for the whole survey and subscales indicated a high internal consistency. Statistically significant difference in means between students attending the STEM-focused and comprehensive schools …
Is Adding The E Enough?: Investigating The Impact Of K-12 Engineering Standards On The Implementation Of Stem Integration., Gillian H. Roehrig, Tamara J. Moore, Hui-Hui Wang, Mi Sun Park
Is Adding The E Enough?: Investigating The Impact Of K-12 Engineering Standards On The Implementation Of Stem Integration., Gillian H. Roehrig, Tamara J. Moore, Hui-Hui Wang, Mi Sun Park
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The problems that we face in our ever-changing, increasingly global society are multidisciplinary, and many require the integration of multiple science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) concepts to solve them. National calls for improvement of STEM education in the United States are driving changes in policy, particularly in academic standards. Research on STEM integration in K-12 classrooms has not kept pace with the sweeping policy changes in STEM education. This study addresses the need for research to explore the translation of broad, national-level policy statements regarding STEM education and integration to state-level policies and implementation in K-12 classrooms. An interpretive …
Statistical Analysis When The Data Is An Image: Eliciting Student Thinking About Sampling And Variability., Margaret A. Hjalmarson, Tamara J. Moore, Robert Delmas
Statistical Analysis When The Data Is An Image: Eliciting Student Thinking About Sampling And Variability., Margaret A. Hjalmarson, Tamara J. Moore, Robert Delmas
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Results of analysis of responses to a first-year undergraduate engineering activity are presented. Teams of students were asked to develop a procedure for quantifying the roughness of a surface at the nanoscale, which is typical of problems in Materials Engineering where qualities of a material need to be quantified. Thirty-five teams were selected from a large engineering course for analysis of their responses. The results indicate that engagement in the task naturally led teams to design a sampling plan, use or design measures of center and variability, and integrate those measures into a model to solve the stated problem. Team …
Statistical Analysis When The Data Is An Image: Eliciting Student Thinking About Sampling And Variability, Tamara J. Moore, Margret Hjalmarson, Robert Delmas
Statistical Analysis When The Data Is An Image: Eliciting Student Thinking About Sampling And Variability, Tamara J. Moore, Margret Hjalmarson, Robert Delmas
School of Engineering Education Faculty Publications
Within statistics education, there is a growing interest in understanding students' application of understanding about variability and sampling given the relative lack of research in either area (Shaughnessy, 2007). The task examined in this paper elicited students' knowledge of these concepts within a small-group problem solving task completed by teams of first-year engineering students. In the Nanoroughness task, teams of students designed a procedure for quantifying the roughness of a material surface using digital images generated by atomic force microscopy. The procedure required students to apply statistical methods in order to aggregate the data. The focus of this article is …