TY - GEN
T1 - First year students developing a systems perspective in the grand challenge scholars program
AU - Trowbridge, Amy
AU - Zhu, Haolin
AU - Collofello, James
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2018 IEEE.
PY - 2019/1/29
Y1 - 2019/1/29
N2 - This work investigates how participation in the National Academy of Engineering (NAE) Grand Challenge Scholars Program (GCSP) influences first year engineering students' development of a systems perspective. Students in the NAE GCSP participate in curricular and extracurricular activities to gain research/project experience, an interdisciplinary perspective, an entrepreneurial mindset, multicultural awareness, and social consciousness. At Arizona State University, most GCSP students begin program participation in their first year, primarily through a GCSP specific course designed to help them to develop an interdisciplinary perspective. Each year, approximately 20-25 percent of the incoming GCSP freshmen get involved in the program before classes start, during a weeklong summer program. To evaluate how these GCSP activities influence students' development of systems perspective, qualitative research methods were used to analyze students' end of semester course reflections. Results of a thematic analysis of the data indicate that first year students participating in these activities experience a change in how they think about engineering, recognizing the complexity of problems facing society and the need to consider societal factors (e.g. policy, culture) when developing engineering solutions.
AB - This work investigates how participation in the National Academy of Engineering (NAE) Grand Challenge Scholars Program (GCSP) influences first year engineering students' development of a systems perspective. Students in the NAE GCSP participate in curricular and extracurricular activities to gain research/project experience, an interdisciplinary perspective, an entrepreneurial mindset, multicultural awareness, and social consciousness. At Arizona State University, most GCSP students begin program participation in their first year, primarily through a GCSP specific course designed to help them to develop an interdisciplinary perspective. Each year, approximately 20-25 percent of the incoming GCSP freshmen get involved in the program before classes start, during a weeklong summer program. To evaluate how these GCSP activities influence students' development of systems perspective, qualitative research methods were used to analyze students' end of semester course reflections. Results of a thematic analysis of the data indicate that first year students participating in these activities experience a change in how they think about engineering, recognizing the complexity of problems facing society and the need to consider societal factors (e.g. policy, culture) when developing engineering solutions.
KW - First-year experiences
KW - Grand Challenge Scholars Program
KW - Interdisciplinary
KW - Social Impact
KW - Systems Perspective
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U2 - 10.1109/WEEF-GEDC.2018.8629597
DO - 10.1109/WEEF-GEDC.2018.8629597
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85062865023
T3 - 2018 World Engineering Education Forum - Global Engineering Deans Council, WEEF-GEDC 2018
BT - 2018 World Engineering Education Forum - Global Engineering Deans Council, WEEF-GEDC 2018
PB - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
T2 - 2018 World Engineering Education Forum - Global Engineering Deans Council, WEEF-GEDC 2018
Y2 - 12 November 2018 through 16 November 2018
ER -