Niehans, Shelley Lemons, Wright CollegeEngineering Team, Mia Angara and in memoriam: Melissa Mercer-Tachick- MUSE Consulting,NSF-HSI “Building Capacity: Building Bridges into Engineering and Computer Science”evaluator. This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant No. DUE-1832553. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation. Wright College IRB protocol # 108007 10REFERENCES[1] C. Adelman, Women and Men of the
profession.Recommendations include focusing on cohort formation, designating space and times for studygroups and encouraging use of campus career resources. Additional focus should be put towardsassisting students in applying for and obtaining internships, co-ops, and undergraduate researchexperiences early in their academic careers.This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under GrantNo.1644119. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in thismaterial are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the NationalScience Foundation.6.0 References[1] B. E. Hughes, W. J. Schell, B. Tallman, R. Beigel, E. Annand, and M. Kwapisz, “Do I ThinkI’m an Engineer? Understanding the Impact of
outside of academia.’Questions of validity for the percentage comparisons between ethnic groups exist for severalreasons: several female subjects identified as both White and Asian/ Hispanic, one subject didnot indicate their ethnicity (N=14), and the way that, when completing the survey, somerespondents selected all reasons, while others chose just two or three.Even though study statistics are not significant and are somewhat limited in their validity,reflecting on both the gender and ethnic comparisons brings out several statistics that we plan tocontinue to monitor as subsequent cohorts participate in the NRT. The strongest finding is thatwomen, both White and Asian/ Hispanic, appear to be more strongly attracted to theinterdisciplinary nature
classroom observations, analytic and reflective notes [34]were generated and logged in an audit trail, while the identification of codes and their origins werecarefully noted. It was also during this process that emerging themes were identified, whichinformed interview protocols for member check interviews. Throughout the coding process, wecompiled transcripts and field notes with the help of hyperRESEARCH. We assigned codes toeach data set, extracted the list of codes and used those to assign codes to the next data set, addingnew codes as they were generated.Once all qualitative data were completely coded, we analyzed them to identify themes in thecodes. With trustworthiness in mind, we identified themes that were common to at least threedifferent
wasa feeling of being overwhelmed with “no chance of getting a good grade.” On the positive side,these students remarked about an improved way to learn and the utilization of many outsideresources as necessities in this modality. Online Course (OLC): The comments replicated most often reflected a feeling ofdetachment and isolation, as well as a feeling of being on their own and learning by themselves.Similar to responses in the face-to face modality, these learners also provided a majority ofnegative comments stating that the courses were more rigorous and required additional time forstudying. Additionally, respondents believed they “learned a lot less” and faculty were viewed asrestrictive with limited access and delayed feedback. The
presentation from an earlier student team for the same CSR projectassignment.The literature regarding teaching presentation skills to students includes Stuart’s case study [8],which reviewed techniques used in a graduate presentation skills class. Stuart suggested thatthese techniques be adapted to presentation classes for undergraduates as well. Her class utilizedtechniques such as video recording of student presentations for later review by the student, peerrehearsals, and assessments of PowerPoint slides. Stuart’s graduate class established twofundamental rules for student presentations. First, every aspect of the presentation's preparationand delivery should reflect respect for the audience, and second, student presentations need to be"carefully
ProgramsPurpose: These unique platforms and programs help us to support and guide our students.EduGuide is a platform that provides a path to where the students want to go by using simplesteps of content and weekly challenges of reflection. YesSHECan is a program dedicated toencouraging more women to be part of STEM, and they have connections to professionalsdedicated to skillful workshops.! Topic: YesSHECan WorkshopsPurpose: We invite the YesSHECan program to our class 7 times to introduce six uniqueworkshops. The topics were: Resume Building, Self Discovery, Confidence Building,Communication Skills, Financial Literacy, and finally, Motivation and Time Management. Thestudents were enthusiastic about these workshops, and they were always very grateful to
is seen either via the lens of structural componentpresence/absence or via their thought process (content, discursiveness and reflectivity). Thisleads to the observation that students focus on articulating the claim rather than justification ofthe claim. Seah and Magana (2019) note that student arguments were not supported by sufficientor quality evidence to justify their design choices in Information Technology.IMPLICATIONSThese findings have implications for future research, for the development of instructionalmaterials for engineering classrooms, and for undergraduate engineering degree programs. Asengineering educators and researchers begin to explore this topic, they have many lessons tolearn from the extant research in science and math
supporting students.Project Mission and Reflection on the COVID-19 Impact on ProjectThe COVID-19 pandemic and its resultant impact across all sectors of the economy, education,and even people’s daily lives have challenged us to embrace system-wide digital transformationinitiatives and rapid-cycle innovations. Like many post-secondary institutions, FAU isreconfiguring itself and the education it is providing students in ways previously unexpected. TheTitle III Leadership Team has been working within our own College of Engineering and ComputerScience as well as in close collaboration with our State College partners to maximize our strengthsand resources in ways that enable us to more efficiently reach every student desiring to completea quality post
-test toassess the effect of the classroom intervention on students.For qualitative analysis, student reflection data, prompted with open-ended questions, will becollected to provide insight to improve the intervention strategies. Thematic coding will be usedto analyze the open-ended questions.ConclusionThe Engineering Education Pilot program described in this paper aims to produce data that willinform one another to understand how this intervention is able to provide supports for students’career pathways. In this paper, we outline the theoretical bases for this work, SCCT, and IBM.Together, these frameworks inform the types of interventions to be implemented with 8 th-gradestudents in low-income areas. The results of this work should provide
of representation is the model constructed socially about a punctual element of the social object.This framework has been helpful to research the representations about the health and disease, externaldebt, values transmitted by the massive media, women’s role in society, feminism, moral conduct, theconception of body, or the students’ body seen by their teachers, among others [10]. Nevertheless, the three elements of the SR are organized in a structure that changes through timebecause of periods of crisis related to the individual and group reflection, dialogue between groups, anddifferent life experiences. For Abric [11], this structure has a stable core and a flexible periphery. Thecore is compact and creates a rigid and complex
. Participating faculty first attenda workshop to learn what elements of the classroom process they should focus on and how toprovide helpful observations to their colleagues. They meet in their groups after the classroomobservations have been made to debrief one another and then submit a reflection paper on theirexperiences to the project leadership team. The goal of the program is for faculty to be able toobserve and be observed by colleagues in a non-evaluative environment.The Peer Observation Program has been run three times (spring semesters of 2018, 2019 and2020) with the number of faculty participants at 11, 13 and 15, respectively.(c) SOS (Steering Online Success) STEMDuring spring 2020 the university, like most, transitioned to fully online
equity, which is reflected in her publications, research, teaching, service, and mentoring. More at http://srl.tamu.edu and http://ieei.tamu.edu.Samantha Ray, Texas A&M University Samantha Ray is a Computer Engineering PhD student at Texas A&M University. Her research focuses on creating intelligent systems for tasks that require human-like levels of understanding. She has previously worked on human activity recognition (HAR) systems for promoting healthy habits and educational tools using sketch recognition and eye tracking.Dr. Paul Taele, Texas A&M University Paul Taele, PhD, is an Instructional Assistant Professor in the College of Engineering’s Department of Computer Science and Engineering at Texas A
opportunities for current students, and toopen up the pool of possible students interested in this field. Expanding educational opportunitiesby developing online delivery of wind energy graduate courses is one strategy to address muchneeded diversity in the field. Building upon the literature of previous successful consortiumdevelopment, a new replicable model for setting up a consortium was created, called the Rapidmodel, with the name reflecting the goal to implement a new consortium within one year.Researchers conducted a study to determine the effectiveness of the model, through observingprogram meetings, interviewing faculty, staff and administrators engaged in the consortiumdevelopment work, and examining course sharing outcomes. Researchers
those next in line to successfully compete for tenure-track facultylines are not receiving sufficient mentoring, the structural systems of power in higher educationare persisting. If this is the case, the call to action in diversifying the engineering professoriate isgoing unheard.Funding AcknowledgementThis research is sponsored by the National Science Foundation (NSF) Alliances for GraduateEducation and the Professoriate (AGEP; award numbers: 1821298, 1821019, 1821052, and1821008). Any opinions, findings, conclusions, or recommendations are those of only theauthors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the NSF.ReferencesAllen-Ramdial, S.-A. A., & Campbell, A. G. (2014). Reimagining the pipeline: Advancing STEM diversity
haveunderscored the importance of individual-level psychological variables to diversity dynamics inorganizations as well [24].Such attitudes reflect individuals’ impressions and beliefs about people, objects, or issues [25]and are often deeply ingrained during early life and last throughout adulthood [26]. Connectingemployees’ attitudes about diversity to their prior socialization, Roberson et al. [22] state that,“[E]mployees not only bring their personal experiences with them but generational and historicalexperiences from their families and social groups” (p. 495). The attitudes that are more popularor carry more weight at a certain level, such as a nation, organization, or workgroup, thenbecomes that shared culture at that level [27], a phenomenon
, stereotype attitude, organizational culture, working environment, and jobrecruitment issues [6], [22]. Not only that, some studies on the women working in constructionshow that the majority of them work in secretarial or office positions than in the field [6], [13].Expanding further on issues of underrepresentation, in the study conducted by Fielden, et. al[13], it is reported that the construction industry has a poor image and the workers are consideredas ‘cowboys’ creating a macho stereotype. Sadly, the view of construction as a “man’s world” isstill reflected even in recent studies of women participation in construction [23]. Coupled withthat, women’s social image as being delicate and sensitive deters girls from considering pursuinga career in
men opt for technology [1]. Within different fields, thesegregation shows as differences in occupations, wages, and career paths. Research hasshown that the careers of women and men diverge upon labor market entry and continue todiverge along the career [2]. Much of the divergence reflects the horizontal segregation ineducational choices, but also the career paths of women and men with the same educationalbackground differ in many respects. This vertical segregation has not been studiedextensively in Finland. Understanding the gender differences is necessary to design effectivemeasures to reduce the vertical segregation and promote equality in the engineeringprofession.Horizontal and vertical gender segregationAll over the world, women and
persistence. Developingwelcoming environments for students to build friendships, gain experience with research, andallowing them to present their research to others can all be beneficial. Going forward, weencourage educators to offer increased opportunities in alignment with the work described here,to foster student interest, and to broaden participation in graduate fields.AcknowledgementThis study is based on work supported by the National Science Foundation [CollaborativeResearch: Florida IT Pathways to Success (Flit-Path) NSF# 1643965, 1643931, 1643835]. Anyfindings, conclusions, and recommendations expressed in this work do not necessarily reflect theviews of the National Science Foundation.References[1] “Report - S&E Indicators 2018 | NSF
instructors adopted digital technologies “as a replacement forthe missing physical learning environments, with the learning process remaining the same. Thisresulted in ineffective learning when compared to traditional face-to-face learning environments”(p. 294). 82 students in the Qatar study participated in written reflections about their experiencesand eight students were interviewed. The students felt that the emergency remote learningenvironment needed to “be supported by teaching activities that involve more participationthrough interactive activities and teamwork” [15, p. 13]. Overall, the surveys and interviewsshowed that the quality of instruction suffered after the move to remote teaching in Spring 2020.MethodologyThe results in this paper
training of mathematics teachers that is at the core of this problem. Since enrollment at UIC, Janet had dedicated her studies and research efforts on Mathematics Socialization and identity amongst pre-service elementary teachers, an effort at understanding the reasons for lack of interest in the subject with a view to proffer solution and engender/motivate interest amongst this group that will eventually reflect in their classroom practices. She is currently a Graduate Assistant with UIC Engage, a commu- nity focused project that provides help for less-privileged students from K-8 in mathematics, reading and writing. She continues to work as a substitute teacher occasionally to keep abreast with current practices
. There is aseparable outcome one is trying to obtain or avoid, such as a reward or punishment. Commonexternal factors are grades or evaluations, which are metrics that have been constructed to“measure” a student’s success and serve as motivation for improvement. Another type ofexternal factor can be derived from another person, such as the opinion of a mentor, friend, orpeer. Intrinsic motivation comes from internal drives and is defined as doing an activity for itsinherent satisfaction [12]. These actions reflect ideas like core values, personal interests, andone's sense of morality. Intrinsic and extrinsic motivation are considered to be part of the "locusof causality," meaning they are the perceived sources of motivation.The study of rural
visualization embedded in the textbook. These visualizationswere integrated in the e-textbook and offered students the chance to see aspects of iterationdemonstrated immediately after the relevent paragraph.The design of the visualization reflected the appearance of the block-based language the studentswere using on their first encounter with iteration. The horizontal green segmented rectangle is thelist which moves from right to left on each iteration so that a single list item becomes the value ofthe iteration variable (”price” in this example). Figure 1: Example of a Textbook VisualizationTo interact with these visualizations, students clicked on the four arrow icons seen at the top ofthe figure. Clicking the ‘¿’ button
college consistently ranked at the bottom of student concerns across everyyear and engineering major. We also needed a better understanding of how the studentsexperienced the program structure of our women in engineering program and if it could beimproved to better reflect the needs of this new student cohort. Finally, we wanted to know howprevalent these declining engagement trends were on campus and what, if any, steps could betaken to improve them. This paper focuses on focus groups held with undergraduate women inengineering students, and contextual interviews held with other campus programs, clubs andorganizations. First, we present a summary of what we learned about this new cohort of studentsas well as the key survey findings that informed
approaches related to airport challenges. The design competitionrequires student teams to interact with airport operators and industry experts to get input on theirdesign ideas and solution [2]. This paper explores the number and value of these interactions byevaluating the winning design proposals.Statistics are used to analyze trends in the winning design proposals which may reflect theimportance of number of the experts contacted by student teams and their demographics. Thewinning design proposals contain written sections that discuss the team’s reported benefits oftheir interactions with industry experts. Thematic analysis is used to identify themes for designproposals from first, second, and third place teams. The paper presents a study of
departments.AcknowledgmentsThis material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation (NSF) No.EEC-1653140 and 2123016 given to the second author. Any opinions, findings, and conclusionsor recommendations expressed in this material do not necessarily reflect those of the NSF. Wewant to give a special thanks to the institutional liaisons, Dr. Hector Cruzado, Dr. Sindia Rivera-Jimenez, Dr. Heather Shipley, Dr. Kimberly Cook-Chennault, and Dr. Paul Barr who assisted uswith collecting participant data in the first stage of sampling. We also want to thank theparticipants for sharing their experiences with us and the readers of this work.References[1] National Center for Science and Engineering Statistics, “Women, Minorities, and Persons with
for women in science expanded but gendersegregation still existed. In the nineteenth century, women participated in aspects of science butmainly engaged in data-gathering rather than idea-creation [26] and were largely invisible andconcentrated in nurturing career tracks [39]. Prior to the 20th century and beyond, womensupported science but not pioneers in the field; reflective of the patriarchal society they lived in.Commonly known as biological determinism, the physical, psychological, and intellectual natureof women prohibited them from producing great science [38]. The Nineteenth and earlyTwentieth centuries posited if women were incorporated into scientific employment, they weresegregated in it with stereotypes of appropriate sex roles
rooted at the intersection of my identity as ablack woman. I have had to defend myself at times against tenured professors and illuminatemaltreatment and disrespect. The most frequent abuses I have experienced were at the handsStaff Researchers that direct and maintain campus user facilities (like a cleanroom, or an opticalanalysis laboratory). A Staff Researcher or technician (white males in my instances) either threwaway equipment while I was using it (disposing of my gloves while I was using the scanningelectron microscope) or antagonizing and questioning my “right” to be in the space, in aninstance where I was using an x-ray diffraction tool in a characterization laboratory.Summary: Panelists describe both internal reflection and external
all perspectives.Heuristic for an Accomplice’s Ethic of Care and AccountabilityIn order to establish coalitional accomplice relationships that appreciate and celebrate difference,the authors suggest three heuristic activities that can establish trust and build a sharedunderstanding. This heuristic reflects a Black Feminist epistemology, not only because it is builtin pursuit of an ethic of care but also because it invests in knowledge-making in action. ForBlack Feminist theorists, this means that the experiential knowing that occurs in situ establishesthe basis for relationships. Importantly, we use a heuristic because there is no one-size-fits allapproach to activist work or to establishing ally, advocate or accomplice relationships. Yet
, findings, and conclusions, and recommendations expressed in thisreport are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the NSF.References[1] R. Sowell, Doctoral Initiative on Minority Attrition and Completion., Washington, DC: Council of Graduate Schools, 2015.[2] M. Ong, C. Wright, L. L. Espinosa, and G. Orfield, “Inside the double bind: A Synthesis of empirical research on undergraduate and graduate women of color in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics,” Harv. Educ. Rev., vol. 81, no. 2, pp. 172–208, Jun. 2011, doi: 10.17763/haer.81.2.t022245n7x4752v2.[3] M. Cabay, B. L. Bernstein, M. Rivers, and N. Fabert, “Chilly climates, balancing acts, and shifting pathways: What happens to