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Retention based on graduation rate of male and female industrial engineering students
2018 IEEE Global Engineering Education Conference (EDUCON)
Year: 2018 | Conference Paper |
Cited by: Papers (3)
Due to constrained resources South African universities are aware and focused on trying to improve retention. This is also true at the University of Johannesburg where industrial engineering has a higher intake of female students than some of the other engineering fields. Retention of female engineering students is therefore an important aspect to investigate. However at the University of Johannes...Show More
Portuguese academic staff and students in UK’s engineering higher education
2018 3rd International Conference of the Portuguese Society for Engineering Education (CISPEE)
Year: 2018 | Conference Paper |
Before the EU referendum in June 2016, the proportion of European nationals in engineering and technology in UK's higher education was 19% for academic staff, 6% and 15% for students (undergraduate and postgraduate, respectively). This paper presents an overview of the number of Portuguese academic staff and students working and studying in the UK, from 2007/08 to 2015/16. For students, a breakdow...Show More
Increasing electrical and computer engineering enrollment: A multi-faceted approach
2007 37th Annual Frontiers In Education Conference - Global Engineering: Knowledge Without Borders, Opportunities Without Passports
Year: 2007 | Conference Paper |
Cited by: Papers (2)
In the late 1990's there was a significant decrease in the number of electrical engineering graduates with bachelor degrees in the United States. There was also a drop in the number of Electrical Engineering graduates at Prairie View A&M University (PVAMU) at that time. The Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering wanted to increase the enrollment of its students by using four strategies:...Show More
Does engineering major affect student perception of engineering courses in a common first-year
Proceedings Frontiers in Education 35th Annual Conference
Year: 2005 | Conference Paper |
In the fall of 2000, Michigan Technological University started a common first-year program for all engineering students. In conjunction with the student course evaluations, the students answered ten additional questions and reported their engineering major. These questions were used to evaluate their perception of the first-year engineering courses. The responses were used to assess the students':...Show More
Work In Progress: A Unique Self -Supporting Program for Woman Engineering Students at a Christian University
Proceedings. Frontiers in Education. 36th Annual Conference
Year: 2006 | Conference Paper |
Cited by: Papers (1)
The Engineering Department at Cedarville University has been making great efforts in helping female engineering students succeed. With no outside funds or support, we designed a self-supporting program. Targeting the high drop-out rate during the freshman year, this mentoring program starts each semester with the new female engineering student orientation. From there, these new students are asked ...Show More
Biomedical learning experiences for middle school girls sponsored by the Kansas state university student chapter of the IEEE EMBS
Lucinda Gruber;Connor Griffith;Ethan Young;Adriann Sullivan;Jeff Schuler;Susan Arnold-Christian;Steve Warren
2009 Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society
Year: 2009 | Conference Paper |
Cited by: Papers (2)
Learning experiences for middle school girls are an effective means to steer young women toward secondary engineering curricula that they might not have otherwise considered. Sponsorship of such experiences by a collegiate student group is worthwhile, as it gives the group common purpose and places college students in a position to mentor these young women. This paper addresses learning experience...Show More
A Survey on the Experiences of Women in Engineering: An Institutional Study
Omowunmi Mary Longe;Oladunni Bimpe Imoukhuede;Adebukola Adebusayo Obolo;Khmaies. Ouahada
Engineering is a very challenging profession, but more challenging for women to participate from classrooms to workplaces. Some of these challenges include gender discrimination, male dominance, sexual harassment, employment discrimination, and leadership challenges, to mention, but a few. Notwithstanding, some young female career seekers have defied these challenges to still pursue a career in en...Show More
How assessment shapes learning: A perspective from engineering students
This study explores the influence of assessment on student approaches to learning through the voice of the student. The aim is to understand how assessment practices in an engineering school shape how students respond through their learning approaches and behaviors. The study is framed using a learning-oriented assessment paradigm. Focus groups were conducted with second-, third- and fourth-year e...Show More
Activities to Invigorate a Student Chapter of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society
Charles Carlson;Alexandra Lyle;Gabrielle Phillips;Jacob Chappell;Mariah Brown;Hojjat Fallahi;Shangxian Wang;Ahmad Suliman;Steve Warren
2018 40th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC)
Year: 2018 | Conference Paper |
An IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBS) student chapter can play an important service role for collegiate biomedical curricula, supporting (a) faculty and administrators as they offer biomedical programs and work to strengthen industry/community relationships, and (b) students as they engage in engineering skill development and seek industry employment, graduate school opportuni...Show More
Work in Progress: Utilizing the MUSIC Instrument to Gauge Progress in First-Year Engineering Students
2022 IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference (FIE)
Year: 2022 | Conference Paper |
Cited by: Papers (2)
One of the "Grand Challenges in Engineering Education" is to engage students in their own learning. Student engagement is widely seen as a necessary component driving the success of active learning methodologies. The Music Model of academic motivation was developed as a means to make the human motivation literature accessible to instructors interested in improving courses to increase student motiv...Show More
A comparative study of motivation and learning strategies between American and Chinese undergraduate engineering students
2013 IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference (FIE)
Year: 2013 | Conference Paper |
Cited by: Papers (2)
This paper presents the results of a comparative study of motivation and learning strategies between American and Chinese undergraduate engineering students. A total of 109 sophomore engineering students from two American and Chinese universities responded to a Motivated Strategies for Learning Questionnaire (MSLQ) survey. The survey includes six motivation scales (totaling 31 items) and nine lear...Show More
Global engineering education initiative through student organization
Ann M. Sagstetter;Lucas K. Vitzthum;Jonathan R. Meyer;Amit J. Nimunkar;John G. Webster
2009 Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society
Year: 2009 | Conference Paper |
Cited by: Papers (3)
Engineering is becoming a more globally aware discipline that is revolutionizing the way individuals interact internationally. Engineering World Health (EWH) - Madison Chapter is a student-initiated organization that has developed opportunities to facilitate both local and global engineering education. Through EWH - Madison Chapter student-initiated activities, this organization has developed an i...Show More
Impact of Undergraduate Research Activities on Engineering Students' Persistence
2023 Intermountain Engineering, Technology and Computing (IETC)
Year: 2023 | Conference Paper |
To understand the effect of different research activities on the persistence of undergraduate engineering students, data for undergraduate students enrolled in research activities at Utah Valley University were collected and examined. The findings showed a strong correlation between student persistence and their involvement in undergraduate research. Undergraduate research participants had a 2.71 ...Show More
Literature Review Paper: Exploring Engineering Students Perceptions of Engineering Accreditation
2024 World Engineering Education Forum - Global Engineering Deans Council (WEEF-GEDC)
Year: 2024 | Conference Paper |
Students pursue engineering for various reasons, for example, making money, helping others, inventing or designing things, and developing new knowledge and skills. Many of the very professionals engineering students strive to become, are members of the professional societies that develop criteria and set the standards for engineering program accreditation. Accreditation commissioners comprise prof...Show More
An effective approach to improve students' grade point average
H. Hashim;N. A. Salim;A. A. Sulaiman;H. C. M. Haris;H. Hussin
2016 IEEE 8th International Conference on Engineering Education (ICEED)
Year: 2016 | Conference Paper |
Cited by: Papers (3)
MyUiTM Engineer is a program especially designed for students in semester 5 with a cumulative grade point average (CGPA) below 3.0 at the Faculty of Electrical, Universiti Teknologi MARA, Shah Alam. The aim of the program is to produce high quality electrical and electronic engineering graduates in Malaysia. This paper discusses the methodology and approach implemented in MyUiTM Engineer program i...Show More
Sustainability of K-12 engineering outreach activities beyond the grant period
2009 39th IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference
Year: 2009 | Conference Paper |
Cited by: Papers (1)
We describe the successful implementation of a pipeline of engineering outreach activities for K-12 students based on funds made available by a Texas Engineering and Technical Consortium (TETC) Texas Youth in Technology Demonstration Project Grant. In addition to educating K-12 students about the engineering discipline we also aim at improving our electrical and computer engineering undergraduate ...Show More
Comparing attributes of electrical engineering, mechanical engineering and non-engineering students
Michele Miller;Leonard Bohmann;Chris Van Arsdale;Benjamin Mitchell
Relative to other countries, the number of students in the US studying engineering is low. The numbers of women studying electrical and mechanical engineering have been persistently low relative to other engineering majors. For several years we have been measuring the electrical and mechanical aptitudes of electrical and mechanical engineers as part of a project to better understand hands-on abili...Show More
Work in Progress: Undergraduate Engineering Students' Perceptions of Engineering Education as an Academic Discipline
Proceedings. Frontiers in Education. 36th Annual Conference
Year: 2006 | Conference Paper |
Cited by: Papers (2)
Engineering education has been a focus of interest in the national and international engineering community as seen by the increasing number of universities (i.e. Brown University, Carnegie Mellon University, Purdue University, Tufts University, Utah State University, and Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University) that house programs that confer engineering education degrees. Despite the ...Show More
Work in progress - comparative and quantitative analysis of writing apprehension in first-year Engineering student cohorts at New Mexico State University
2009 39th IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference
Year: 2009 | Conference Paper |
First-year engineering students requiring supplemental math instruction in one of New Mexico State University's ABET certified Engineering departments are placed in cohorts where they take all their classes together, including English 111, the first-year writing class required of all students at the University. While the cohorts have proven successful in retaining engineering students in the disci...Show More
Black engineering transfer students: What explains their success?
Clemencia Cosentino;Margaret D. Sullivan;Nikhil T. Gahlawat;Matthew W. Ohland;Russell A. Long
2014 IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference (FIE) Proceedings
Year: 2014 | Conference Paper |
Cited by: Papers (8)
The transfer pathway, particularly from two- to four-year colleges, is often seen as a vehicle to expand the science and engineering workforce by increasing college participation of underrepresented groups, such as black or African American students. In an earlier study, after controlling for credits earned, we found that black transfer students are more likely to persist in engineering than non-t...Show More
Assessment of moral judgment of BME and other health sciences students
2010 Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology
Year: 2010 | Conference Paper |
Cited by: Papers (4)
The accreditation criteria for engineering programs require that the curriculum introduce students to the ethical, social, economics and safety issues arising from the practice of engineering. This paper presents the assessment of moral judgment of biomedical engineering, dentistry and biochemistry students through the standardized Defining Issues Test (DIT). Results show that college students, as...Show More
Engineering outreach programs at the Public University of Navarre: A holistic approach
A. Lopez-Martin;P. Sanchis;G. Perez-Artieda;E. Gubia;D. Morato;D. Astrain;E. Barrenechea;J. Lopez Taberna;I. R. Matias
2013 IEEE Global Engineering Education Conference (EDUCON)
Year: 2013 | Conference Paper |
Cited by: Papers (6)
A set of outreach initiatives implemented at the School of Industrial and Telecommunications Engineering of the Public University of Navarre is described. During the six academic years where these initiatives have been carried out, a 10% increase in the intake of engineering students has been observed, which is even more valuable considering the global decrease of new students in the region during...Show More
Measuring propensity for lifelong learning: Comparing Chinese and U.S. engineering students
Susan M. Lord;John C. Chen;Karen J. McGaughey;Victor W. Chang
2013 IEEE Global Engineering Education Conference (EDUCON)
Year: 2013 | Conference Paper |
Cited by: Papers (2)
Lifelong learning is a critical skill for all citizens of the modern world, especially engineers. All engineering educators throughout the world must focus on this outcome. It is difficult, however, to measure students' ability to engage in lifelong learning. In this work, the use of two short surveys designed to measure students' propensity for lifelong learning is investigated with engineering s...Show More
Innovations in the Civil Engineering degree programmes at University College Dublin, Ireland
2015 International Conference on Interactive Collaborative Learning (ICL)
Year: 2015 | Conference Paper |
The paper describes some examples of innovative developments in the 4-year undergraduate Civil Engineering curriculum at UCD. The developments described were undertaken to stimulate active learning and higher order thinking. The paper focuses on innovations in what and how engineering students learn. In particular, the following examples of innovative teaching and learning strategies will be descr...Show More
Impact of Maroon Model On Engineering Education
Proceedings. Frontiers in Education. 36th Annual Conference
Year: 2006 | Conference Paper |
Maroon model introduced in (Shivakumaraiah, 2006) describes the need to equip engineers with skills to deal with people from diverse backgrounds due to increasing number of international engineering students in US universities and globalization of industry. This paper present an analysis of the impact of Maroon model and increasing number of international engineering students on engineering educat...Show More
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