Faculty Development Division Technical Session 7
In April of 2022 the ASEE Corporate Member Council convened the Industry 4.0 Workforce Summit, which brought together leaders in education, industry, and policymaking to develop an action plan to better meet our national need for an engineering and technical workforce prepared for Industry 4.0. This session will disseminate the key findings from the summit, outlining the action plan and actions taken to date. The session will spotlight policy recommendations as well as recommended actions that universities, community colleges, and major employers should take to drive better workforce development ... (continued)
For those interested in: Academia-Industry Connections
Janelle Simmonds is passionate about advancing education at the intersection of academia and industry. She has used her expertise in organizational strategy, content development and university/industry partnerships to positively impact institutions and individuals throughout the course of her career in higher education and the corporate sector.
Janelle is the Global Enablement Lead with Siemens Empowers Education and Startups, at Siemens Digital Industries Software. She is responsible for content strategy for the global academic team, enabling learners and educators with educational resources ... (continued)
Panelists in this session will discuss specific initiatives they have implemented in their own institutions to create safe spaces for LGBTQIA+ engineering students. Example LGBTQIA+-centered initiatives include reading groups and courses focused on LGBTQIA+ experiences in engineering, as well as undergraduate research programs for or about LGBTQIA+ engineering students. Panelists will discuss successes and challenges faced. Panelists will represent a broad range of institutional contexts and positions within engineering programs, such that audience members will leave with ideas of how they might implement similar initiatives at their own institutions.
For those interested in: Broadening Participation in Engineering and Engineering Technology
Tricia Clayton (they/she) is an Associate Professor in the Department of Engineering at Wake Forest University. Their lived experience as a queer student and faculty member in engineering has fueled their passion for creating safe spaces for LGBTQ+ students to be celebrated as their authentic selves in engineering. They have helped to create groups and courses for students to discuss and learn about LGBTQ identities and experiences in engineering. They can speak about their experiences doing so in the context of a very large public R1 university and smaller private liberal arts college.
Brandon Bakka is a doctoral candidate at the University of at Austin pursuing a degree in Biomedical Engineering with a certificate in engineering education. He received a BS in Chemical and Biological Engineering from Colorado School of Mines. Brandon is conducting research on the modes of resistance LGBTQIA+ students utilize in response to the climate in STEM departments. He is also running a LGBTQIA+ focus reading group for STEM students to further connect them with their identity, and is passionate about understanding and dismantling the systems in engineering that marginalize students.
Free ticketed event
Racial equity is a topic that many people care about, yet taking concerted and sustained action about it remains a challenge. We are calling together a cross-section of those who are working on and interested in the topic of racial equity to: 1) draw on the broader community’s expertise and integrate it into our ongoing racial-equity research projects, 2) share the project-knowledge generation with the broader community, and 3) spur further concerted efforts in the area of racial equity. The proposed event will be led by PIs of NSF-funded projects focused on racial equity. We will invite a repres ... (continued)
For those interested in: Broadening Participation in Engineering and Engineering Technology
Stephen Secules, Ph.D. is an Assistant Professor in the School of Universal Computing, Construction, and Engineering Education at Florida International University. He has degrees in engineering and acoustics from Dartmouth College and Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, and a PhD in Education from the University of Maryland. He has prior work experience as an acoustical engineering consultant. His research has focused on culture and equity in engineering education, particularly undergraduate contexts, pedagogy, and student support. Through his work he aims to use critical qualitative, video-based, ... (continued)
Dr. Joel Alejandro (Alex) Mejia is an Associate Professor with joint appointment in the Department of Biomedical Engineering and Chemical Engineering and the Department of Bicultural-Bilingual Studies at The University of Texas at San Antonio. His research has contributed to the integration of critical theoretical frameworks in engineering education research to investigate deficit ideologies and their impact on minoritized communities, particularly Mexican Americans and Latinos/as/xs in the Southwest United States. Through his work, he analyzes and describes the assets, tensions, contradictions, ... (continued)
Dr. Gaskins is the Associate Dean of Inclusive Excellence and Community Engagement in the University of Cincinnati College of Engineering and Applied Science, the only African-American female currently teaching in the faculty of the College of Engineering. Whitney earned her Bachelor of Science in Biomedical Engineering, her Masters of Business Administration in Quantitative Analysis and her Doctorate of Philosophy in Biomedical Engineering/Engineering Education. In her role as Associate Dean, Dr. Gaskins has revamped the summer bridge program to increase student support and retention as well as ... (continued)
Dr. Kristen R. Moore is an Associate Professor in the Department of Engineering Education and the Associate Dean for Equity and Inclusion in the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences at the University at Buffalo. Moore specializes in the study of mundane injustices that emerge in sites of technical work and is particularly focused on how we can use communicative practices to redress inequities in sites of engineering and academia.
Atota B. Halkiyo, Ph.D. graduated in Education Policy and Evaluation from Arizona State University. Halkiyo uses mixed methods but largely qualitative inquiry to study his primary research interest: enhancing higher education equity for all students, particularly those from international and/or underrepresented backgrounds. His research targets higher education contexts that have historically been not so inclusive of students from minoritized backgrounds (e.g., women and/or Black students in engineering). He envisions researching and removing possible systemic learning barriers from the curriculu ... (continued)
Join an engaging conference session where educators and innovators converge to explore the transformative potential of Generative AI in engineering education. Through dynamic discussions and collaborative brainstorming, participants will share ideas for integrating AI tools to enhance teaching methodologies and learning outcomes in engineering courses. This interactive session will allow you to collaborate with peers, fostering a forward-thinking approach to curriculum development and pedagogical innovation.
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This inaugural multi-division roundtable session will provide an opportunity for ASEE members from any Division to share concerns, experiences, and ideas to advance engineering education in grades preK to 12.
Objectives
Participation: Encourage knowledge-sharing and peer exchange to capitalize on existing P12 engineering education expertise among ASEE members and widen the ASEE membership working towards ASEE’s vision of lifelong excellence in engineering education for every person in the United States from early childhood to adulthood.
Consensus-Building: Growing toward a driven body of ASEE ... (continued)
For those interested in: Academia-Industry Connections, Advocacy and Policy, Broadening Participation in Engineering and Engineering Technology, New Members, and Pre-College
Join us as we discuss how Texas A&M is leading the field of space exploration with the world’s largest indoor moonscapes and Marscapes for testing, training, and workforce development. Additionally, we’ll explore the partnership with the Texas A&M Semiconductor Institute and how it will be leveraged to address the state and national need for trained experts in the field of semiconductors and microelectronics.
Speakers: Dr. Nancy Currie-Gregg, director, Texas A&M Space Institute; Dr. David Staack, Associate Vice Chancellor for Research
This workshop explores artificial-intelligence (AI) classroom innovation methods. Explore our “poor man’s” AI training prompts to generate deeply compelling questions for any discipline. Experiment with our entrepreneurially minded learning (EML) combinatory methods to create instant, novel teaching innovations that show students the opportunity, impact, and value for any topic. Discuss the critical role of adaptability in higher education as new AI tools are released, such as Sora, which can generate high-quality video from a few lines of text. For this workshop, you’ll need access to a current ... (continued)
This presentation features a collaboration between LabsLand, Digi-Key, and STMicroelectronics. The session will highlight the new AI assistant relying on GPT4 used in combination with remote laboratories, with a particular focus on the STMicroelectronics’ Nucleo development board remote laboratories, developed by LabsLand and Digi-Key for ARM-based, embedded-system development.
During this workshop, we will show demonstrations and allow attendees to use the assistant; see the advantages of the tool and the different customizations that can be done; and also discuss the limits and the trends in t ... (continued)
This session is designed to cover myriad topics, including instructional strategies that emphasize experiential learning and methods for how students transfer knowledge across contexts and classroom environments. Participants will discuss issues ranging from how colleagues establish education programs with the private sector to how to integrate technology to bridge language gaps across an increasingly diverse student body.
This session focuses on topics related to diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging in computing education.
For those interested in: Broadening Participation in Engineering and Engineering Technology
This is the first of two programming education sessions. The papers in this session focus on topics related to teaching students how to program.
This meeting is open to all interested in the Continuing Professional Development Division (CPDD).
The world's challenges today demand systemic change in engineering education and a growth mindset of the engineer. The rich history of the nation’s engineers' extraordinary accomplishments brings hope that today’s challenges to humanity can be addressed with systemic changes in engineering education based on a growth mindset in the classroom. This approach builds on the scientific and analytical mindset established by the Grinter Report and modernizes it to include known effective student-centered success practices.
With the threefold framework of (1) challenges facing humanity, (2) inc ... (continued)
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