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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
School of Engineering Education Faculty Publications
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 …
Measuring Undergraduate Student Perceptions Of The Impact Of Project Lead The Way, Noah Salzman, Eric L. Mann, Matthew Ohland
Measuring Undergraduate Student Perceptions Of The Impact Of Project Lead The Way, Noah Salzman, Eric L. Mann, Matthew Ohland
School of Engineering Education Graduate Student Series
A survey was distributed to the entire undergraduate student body at a large public university on students’ experiences in Project Lead The Way, a popular middle school and high school technology and engineering program. The survey included demographic questions including academic major, questions on which PLTW classes the students took in high school, and Likert-type ratings of those experiences.Of the responses to the survey (n=575), slightly fewer than half (n=252) indicated that they had participated in PLTW classes in high school. Approximately half of the respondents were majoring in engineering, one quarter in engineering technology, and the rest were distributed …
A Retrospective Study Of The Elementary School Experiences, Influences, Skills, And Traits Of Talented Engineers, Michele L. Strutz
A Retrospective Study Of The Elementary School Experiences, Influences, Skills, And Traits Of Talented Engineers, Michele L. Strutz
School of Engineering Education Graduate Student Series
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Low-Ses First-Generation Students’ Decision To Pursue Engineering, Michele L. Strutz, Matthew Ohland
Low-Ses First-Generation Students’ Decision To Pursue Engineering, Michele L. Strutz, Matthew Ohland
School of Engineering Education Graduate Student Series
The ability of this nation to provide a growing economy, strong health and human services, and a secure and safe nation depends upon a vibrant, creative, and diverse engineering and science workforce” (Blue, et al., 2005, p. 4). To address these global opportunities and challenges, and for the U.S. to remain globally competitive, it is necessary for our engineering workforce to be diverse.Nevertheless, the U.S. cannot claim a diverse engineering workforce, and its engineering student bodies are certainly not diverse despite the legislation and programs put in place to increase racial, gender, and socioeconomic (SES) representation. Programs and resources that …
Scaffolding Undergraduate Engineering Design Education With The Wellbeing Framework, Lindsey Anne Nelson
Scaffolding Undergraduate Engineering Design Education With The Wellbeing Framework, Lindsey Anne Nelson
School of Engineering Education Graduate Student Series
Increasingly, engineering design educators articulate wanting to embed social sustainability into student projects. Some educators observe that global calls, such as the Grand Challenges of Engineering and the Millennium Development Goals, foster social consciousness while supporting open innovation environments. Using a broad social goal like “poverty alleviation” to frame a course design challenge can help students connect engineering design processes to messages that proclaim engineering as a socially engaged profession [1]. Yet scaffolding student learning in engineering design for poverty alleviation should involve more than a simple directive to create a device for a poor person. The purpose of this …
Exploring Cyberlearning Through A Nsf Lens, Jeremi Shavonda London
Exploring Cyberlearning Through A Nsf Lens, Jeremi Shavonda London
School of Engineering Education Graduate Student Series
Phrases like “Let’s Google it” and “Text me” are familiar to the youth of today. Though simple, the phrases speak to a greater reality—the use of computing technology and high-speed communication is ubiquitous. The pervasive use of technology opens up new opportunities for undergraduate STEM education. The NSF Task force on Cyberlearning defines cyberlearning as“the use of networked computing and communications technologies to support learning” (2008,p5). Since the full potential of cyberlearning has not been fully realized in undergraduate education, Program Officers in the Division of Undergraduate Education (DUE) at the National Science Foundation (NSF) are interested in exploring the …
Sectionality Or Why Section Determines Grades: An Exploration Of Engineering Core Course Section Grades Using A Hierarchical Linear Model And The Multiple-Institution Database For Investigating Engineering Longitudinal Development, George Dante Ricco, Noah Salzman, Russell A. Long, Matthew Ohland
Sectionality Or Why Section Determines Grades: An Exploration Of Engineering Core Course Section Grades Using A Hierarchical Linear Model And The Multiple-Institution Database For Investigating Engineering Longitudinal Development, George Dante Ricco, Noah Salzman, Russell A. Long, Matthew Ohland
School of Engineering Education Graduate Student Series
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Access And Definition: Exploring How Stem Faculty, Department Heads, And University Policy Administrators Navigate The Implementation Of A Parental Leave Policy, Corey T. Schimpf, Marisol Mercado Santiago, Alice L. Pawley
Access And Definition: Exploring How Stem Faculty, Department Heads, And University Policy Administrators Navigate The Implementation Of A Parental Leave Policy, Corey T. Schimpf, Marisol Mercado Santiago, Alice L. Pawley
School of Engineering Education Graduate Student Series
Access and Definition: Exploring how STEM Faculty, Department Heads and University Policy Administrators Navigate the Enactment of a Parental Leave Policy A key feature in various reports exploring women’s persisting underrepresentation in STEM faculty positions in the US is the need to disseminate policy information to all stakeholders involved in issues relating to women STEM faculty underrepresentation and retention. Indeed, the National Academies of Science Beyond Barriers and Bias: Fulfilling the Potential of Women Academic Science and Engineering (2007) and the AAUW’s Why so Few?(2010) identify institutional policies, like parental leave, as a way to address an outmoded institutional structure …
Knowledge-Enabled Engineering Design: Toward An Integrated Model, Michael Fosmire, David Radcliffe
Knowledge-Enabled Engineering Design: Toward An Integrated Model, Michael Fosmire, David Radcliffe
Libraries Faculty and Staff Scholarship and Research
Librarians and engineering faculty have long understood that design is one of the defining processes of the engineering profession. In an increasingly knowledge-driven society, students need to efficiently locate, assess and integrate relevant information into their design process so that they can develop innovation solutions to emerging complex, global grand challenges. Increasingly, engineering curricula are incorporating design as early as the first year, but a question remains as to how effectively information literacy is being integrated into these early experiences of design. For example, the Engineering Change study found there has been very little improvement to lifelong learning skills in …