A Comprehensive ASAP Framework that uses Career-Steering/Shaping Projects to Train Engineering Students & Develop Critical Life/Professional Skills : Part II – Case Studies from Students Working on Funded Projects

This Research to Practice Full Paper (Part II) describes how students, working on paid projects, have benefited from a comprehensive engineering Academic Success and Professional Development (ASAP) mentoring-scholarship project-centric program at Arizona State University (ASU) – and the associated community of practice (consisting of learners and faculty-industry-peer mentors) – described within Part I. The program, while focusing on upper-division transfer students, serves upper-division non-transfers and some graduate students as well. Central to the program is that scholars must participate in career-steering/shaping projects in an area of national importance. In this paper, 14 scholars are considered. All 14 scholars were mentored by the main author (professor and director of the NSF-funded program). For each scholar, we describe the impact of key program activities/instruments/constructs/projects on the scholar and the group of 14 scholars considered. All were selected to pursue funded projects - 11 for Spring 2018, 8 renewed for Fall 2018, 3 for new Fall projects and 11 for summer 2018 projects. For each scholar, their projects and future plans are described. The group of 14 scholars is also compared to the larger cohort of 74 scholars described in Part I in terms of key program activities/outcomes.

[1]  Armando A. Rodriguez,et al.  Why some community college students choose engineering and some don't , 2013 .

[2]  R. Paul,et al.  Critical Thinking: Tools for Taking Charge of Your Learning and Your Life , 2011 .

[3]  Rodney Anthony Stewart,et al.  Investigating the link between self directed learning readiness and project-based learning outcomes: the case of international Masters students in an engineering management course , 2007 .

[4]  Dinesh Manocha,et al.  Reciprocal n-Body Collision Avoidance , 2011, ISRR.

[5]  Marsha C. Lovett,et al.  How learning works , 2010 .

[6]  Mary R. Anderson-Rowland,et al.  Comprehensive framework for significantly increasing the number of highly trained engineers: A model academic success and professional development (ASAP) class - Lessons learned and strategies moving forward , 2013, 2013 IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference (FIE).

[7]  M. Arulraj,et al.  Global Portfolio Optimization for BSE Sensex using the Enhanced Black Litterman Model , 2012 .

[8]  Mary R. Anderson-Rowland,et al.  Making a Difference: How to Recruit More Community College Women and Underrepresented Minority Students into Engineering and Computer Science , 2011 .

[9]  Mary R. Anderson-Rowland,et al.  Motivated Engineering Transfers - STEM Talent Expansion Program (METSTEP) , 2010 .

[10]  Naomi J. Aldrich,et al.  Does Discovery-Based Instruction Enhance Learning?. , 2011 .

[11]  Etienne Wenger,et al.  Situated Learning: Legitimate Peripheral Participation , 1991 .

[12]  Armando A. Rodriguez,et al.  Leveraging S-STEM Scholarship Programs , 2012 .

[13]  Stephanie Bell.  Project-Based Learning for the 21st Century: Skills for the Future , 2010 .

[14]  Michael J. Prince,et al.  Does Active Learning Work? A Review of the Research , 2004 .

[15]  Stephen P. Boyd,et al.  Minimum-time speed optimisation over a fixed path , 2014, Int. J. Control.

[16]  Hamid Hadim,et al.  Enhancing the engineering curriculum through project-based learning , 2002, 32nd Annual Frontiers in Education.

[17]  Mary R. Anderson-Rowland,et al.  Critical questions of engineering students by gender and ethnicity , 2012, 2012 Frontiers in Education Conference Proceedings.

[18]  M. Maehr,et al.  Understanding Motivation and Schooling: Where We've Been, Where We Are, and Where We Need to Go , 1997 .

[19]  M. Silberman.  Active Learning: 101 Strategies To Teach Any Subject. , 1996 .

[20]  S. Schwartz,et al.  Leaving College: Rethinking the Causes and Cures of Student Attrition , 1987 .

[21]  Armando A. Rodriguez,et al.  METSTEP: Third Year Review , 2013 .

[23]  William Snyder,et al.  Cultivating Communities of Practice: A Guide to Managing Knowledge , 2002 .

[24]  J. Bransford.  Human Cognition: Learning, Understanding and Remembering , 1979 .

[25]  Kaustav Mondal,et al.  A Comprehensive Academic Success and Professional Development (ASAP) Framework that uses Career-Steering/Shaping Projects to Train Engineering Students and Develop Critical Life/Professional Skills: Part I - Impact on Key Groups , 2018, 2018 IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference (FIE).

[26]  Marc Carreras,et al.  A survey on coverage path planning for robotics , 2013, Robotics Auton. Syst..

[27]  A. Ailon,et al.  Control Strategies for Driving a Group of Nonholonomic Kinematic Mobile Robots in Formation Along a Time-Parameterized Path , 2012, IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics.

[28]  Kaustav Mondal,et al.  Topical Concerns and Critical Questions Engineering Students Want/Need Answers To: Dependence on Key Groups , 2018, 2018 IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference (FIE).

[29]  Armando A. Rodriguez,et al.  Critical Questions to which Engineering Students Need Answers , 2012 .

[30]  Sebastian Scherer,et al.  VoxNet: A 3D Convolutional Neural Network for real-time object recognition , 2015, 2015 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS).