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Design Mental Frameworks

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Tugba Karabiyik, Purdue University at West Lafayette; Ying Ying Seah, Purdue University at West Lafayette; Alejandra J. Magana, Purdue University at West Lafayette; Xudong Huang, Concord Consortium; Shannon Hsianghan-huang Sung, Institute for Future Intelligence; Charles Xie, Institute for Future Intelligence

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betweenstudents' interest and performance in engineering design. Moreover, students with high interestalso have a high performance and high self-recognition in engineering design and vice versa.Keywords: Engineering Identity, Interest, Performance, Self-recognitionIntroductionThe Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS 2018) projects employment growth for engineers over the2016 - 2026 decade [1]. However, some new studies show declining interest among students inthe U.S. to pursue careers in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) related field[2]. Therefore, it is vital to encourage students' engineering identity development from an earlyage to explore their interest in engineering to guide them to pursue careers in engineering. Oneway to increase

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Minorities in Engineering Division Technical Session 6

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Denise M. Driscoll, Purdue University at West Lafayette (PPI); Maeve Drummond Oakes, CISTAR, Purdue University

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. The program was designed to enable participants to build a supportive, professional network, creating cohorts that would continue well after the summer.3. The program was designed to build and assess participant gains not only in research experience but also in their professional development, mentor/cohort relationships, and plans for their career.4. The program was designed to have broad reach in who was impacted, with cascading impact because of the participants selected.The CISTAR REM program speaks to how we should be designing summer programs and isconsistent with the growing body of evidence, captured well in the following quote: “Empiricaldata suggest that, although students from underrepresented racial minority backgrounds

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The Challenges that Two-year College Students Face when Transferring to a Four-year College for Engineering and Engineering Technology Program

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Montana Epps, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo ; Jamie Bettencourt, Cuesta Community College; Daniel Almeida, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo; John Y. Oliver, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo; Lizabeth L Thompson , California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo; Chance Hoellwarth, California Polytechnic State University - San Luis Obispo; Jane L. Lehr, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo

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the Professoriate (AGEP) Alliance for Diversity and Strengths of STEM Faculty: A Culturally-Informed Strengths-Based Approach to Advance Early-Career Faculty Success. Dr. Almeida is also Co-Principal Investigator for the NSF Scholarships in Science, Technology, Engineering & Mathematics (S-STEM) grant, Engineering Neighbors: Gaining Access Growing Engineers (ENGAGE). Dr. Almeida’s graduate training is in Urban Education Policy – Higher Education from the University of Southern California.Dr. John Y. Oliver, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo Dr. Oliver is a professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Engineering at Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo. His field of expertise is in computer

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Student Division Technical Session 2

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Vanessa Elizabeth Santana, Purdue University; Scott R. Bartholomew, Brigham Young University

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ComputationalThinking and related STEM skills and careers before, and after, a thirteen-week project-basedintervention. More specifically, we followed the experience of students as they engaged inapplying acquired knowledge to design, build, and automate a model clubhouse. This work inprogress emphasizes the qualitative and quantitative findings of one student’s perceptions beforeand after the thirteen-week project-based program.MethodsThe project-based intervention, referred to as The SMART Clubhouse Unit, was implementedwithin a multi-age 4 and 5 grade classroom of a public elementary school (grades K-5; ages 5- th th12) located in the XXXX, USA. The class consisted of 24 students (14 males and 10 females),ages 9-11. The research team

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Pre-College Engineering Education Division Technical Session 8

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Emily Anna Dare, Florida International University; Benny Mart Reblando Hiwatig, University of Minnesota - Twin Cities; Khomson Keratithamkul, University of Minnesota; Joshua Alexander Ellis, Florida International University; Gillian Roehrig, University of Minnesota - Twin Cities; Elizabeth A. Ring-Whalen, St. Catherine University; Mark Rouleau, Michigan Technological University ; Farah Faruqi, University of Minnesota Twin cities; Corbin Rice; Preethi Titu, Kennesaw State University; Feng Li, Florida International University; Jeanna R. Wieselmann, Southern Methodist University; Elizabeth A Crotty, University of Wisconsin - Eau Claire

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. Additionally, Dr. Dare has a passion for working with K-12 students to understand how changes in classroom instruction towards these integrated STEM approaches impact their attitudes towards and beliefs about STEM fields. In particular, she examines methods that positively impact girls, which may increase the number of women pursuing careers in STEM-related fields where they are currently underrepresented.Mr. Benny Mart Reblando Hiwatig, University of Minnesota - Twin Cities Benny is a PhD candidate in the STEM Education program at the University of Minnesota. He earned his bachelor’s degree in Secondary Education and took master’s coursework in Chemistry Education in the Philippines, where he also taught high school

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Construction Engineering Division Technical Session 5

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Luciana Debs, Purdue University Programs; Bhavya Rathna Kota, Purdue University at West Lafayette (PPI)

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Architectural Engineering, Construction Engineering

by others [10]. Thereverse belongingness is alienation, social isolation, or rejection, leading to depression in thelong term [11]. Among factors that influence the sense of belonging of women to a major areidentity or being valued [12]; stereotype-free educational environment [13]; formal and informalstudent organizations supporting female students [12]; family, faculty and peer support [7]. Onthe other hand, and specific to the construction industry, many prior studies indicate thatpresence of gender stereotyping, low sense of belonging, lack of support system, and lack offemale role models factor to women opting out of construction-related studies and careers [14],[15], [16].Previous research on sense of belonging found that only when an

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Critical Conversations on Being Valued

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Emily Gwen Blosser, University of Louisiana at Lafayette

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balancingwork and family [2], [8].To date, little research has examined messages present in outreach and media to understand howorganizations attempt to appeal to young women and encourage them to enter engineering giventhese gendered barriers. This article attempts to redress this omission by analyzing profiles offemale engineers from the website, Engineer Girl [4]. Engineer Girl is designed and maintainedby the National Academy of Engineering (NAE) to inspire young women to become engineers.The main research questions I deal with in this paper are: 1. How do female engineers on the website describe challenges they face as engineers to potential newcomers? 2. What types of advice and career guidance do female engineers provide to young women

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Designing and Evaluating Engineering Leadership Programs

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Ronald J. Bennett F.ABET, University of St. Thomas; Eugene Joseph Audette, University of St. Thomas; Elaine R. Millam, WorkWise Coaching & Consulting; Alanna K. Moravetz JD, Alanna Consulting LLC; Sheryl Niebuhr, University of St. Thomas and Sheryl Niebuhr Consulting LLC

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Engineering Leadership Development

organizational and individual career development, and adult learning, training design, and evaluation. In addition to 33 years teaching at the graduate level and serving as associate dean of the School of Education at two different times, founded and managed the university’s Career & Personal Counseling Center and related services, codesigned master’s degrees in Human Resource Development, and Learning Technology, and a doctorate in Organization Development. In addition, served as a career development consultant to several regional engineering firms, to American Express Corp, the State of Minnesota Department of Economic Security, the U.S. Department of Labor, and USAID.Dr. Elaine R. Millam, WorkWise Coaching & Consulting

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Entrepreneurship and Engineering Innovation Division Technical Session 3

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Heydi L. Dominguez, New Jersey Institute of Technology; Vibhavari Vempala, University of Michigan; Prateek Shekhar, New Jersey Institute of Technology; Aileen Huang-Saad, Northeastern University; Jacob Frederick Fuher, University of Michigan

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Paper ID #32286Engineering Students’ Perceptions of Entrepreneurship: A QualitativeExaminationMs. Heydi L. Dominguez, New Jersey Institute of Technology Heydi Dominguez is a fourth-year undergraduate student pursuing her B.S. in Mechanical Engineering and minoring in Innovation and Entrepreneurship at the New Jersey Institute of Technology. Her career interests include conducting research in the field of engineering education, particularly focused on en- trepreneurship and design education for engineering undergraduates. At NJIT, she is actively engaged in the Society of Women Engineers and Society of Hispanic

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Women in Engineering Division Technical Session 6

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Sara Amani, Texas A&M University; Ebtihal Mohamed Youssef, Texas A&M University at Qatar; Rand Yehia Alagha, Texas A&M University at Qatar; Sara Hillman, Texas A&M University at Qatar; Annie Ruimi, Texas A&M University at Qatar

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on enhancing the role of women in the workplace and working on policiestoward the empowerment of women, our exploratory research study examines how attractive theengineering profession is for women in Qatar. The current paper focuses specifically on challengesthat women face during the very first step in their careers—the recruitment and hiring process.The paper employs a multi-method approach, gathering and analyzing data obtained via a surveyand interviews with engineering program alumnae who graduated from 2009 to 2020 in Qatar.When examining the challenges female participants faced during the recruitment and hiringprocess for engineering jobs in Qatar, the findings revealed that many women did not feelparticularly welcomed while trying

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Cooperative and Experiential Education Division Technical Session 2

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Kristen Koopman, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Robert S. Emmett, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Nicole P. Sanderlin, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

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,educators and students alike--especially in the wake of an unprecedented shift to remote workduring the COVID-19 pandemic. This literature review is a first step to understand and improvevirtual internship experiences for engineering students. It aims to establish a context for furtherresearch to understand how virtual engineering internships can best achieve their intended goals,both in terms of advancing individual student careers and learning as well as supportinginstitutional goals of access and equity in engineering education. The institutional focus emergeswithin the literature and represents a fundamental commitment, as universities may considercoordination of internships for students a key “structure of opportunity” for retention and access

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Computing and Information Technology Division Technical Session 4

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Stephanie J. Lunn, Florida International University; Monique S. Ross, Florida International University; Zahra Hazari, Florida International University; Mark A. Weiss, Florida International University; Michael Georgiopoulos, University of Central Florida; Ken Christensen P.E., University of South Florida; Tiana Solis, Florida International University

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research and instructional Interests include programming languages, computer ethics and student success and development. American c Society for Engineering Education, 2021 Uneven Playing Field: Examining Preparation for Technical Interviews in Computing and the Role of Cultural ExperiencesAbstractWhile starting a career may be challenging in any field, in computing the process tends to beaggravated by requirements of digital portfolios and technical interviews that necessitate codingextemporaneously. During the programming components, candidates are expected to offer asolution, while also giving consideration to the choice of algorithm and its time complexity.Although

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Pre-College Engineering Education Division Poster Session

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Katherine C. Chen, Worcester Polytechnic Institute; Shari Weaver, Worcester Polytechnic Institute; Gretchen Fougere, STEM Leadership Advisors

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Advisors Dr. Gretchen Fougere is an inventor, technology leader, and educator. Her broad, interdisciplinary train- ing prepared her well to have a successful career in industry-based technology development as well as education. Dr. Fougere has spent her career engaging people of all backgrounds to understand how engi- neering and design can enhance their lives. A significant fraction of her effort has focused on expanding STEM reach and impact through partners in industry, universities, and nonprofit entities. Her firm, STEM Leadership Advisors, is proud to have collaborated with WPI for this NSF-funded project and she also serves as Vice Chair of the Science Club for Girls. Dr. Fougere has had dual careers in

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Electrical and Computer Division Technical Session 3

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Phuong Truong, University of California, San Diego; Karcher Morris, University of California, San Diego; Nicholas Stein, University of California, San Diego; Katie Hsieh, University of California, San Diego; Ravi D. Patel; Farnia Nafarifard, University of California, San Diego; Chen Du, University of California, San Diego; Kien Truong Nguyen, University of California, San Diego; Truong Nguyen, University of California, San Diego

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Paper Award for the paper he co-wrote with Prof. P. P. Vaidyanathan on linear-phase perfect-reconstruction filter banks (1992). He received the NSF Career Award in 1995. While serving as department Chair (2014-2019), Prof. Nguyen and several faculty and student tutors developed a comprehensive hands-on curriculum for the ECE Dept. that emphasizes system-thinking and human-centric design. He is currently working on several projects with minority serving institutions on improving students enrollment in STEM fields. American c Society for Engineering Education, 2021 Virtual Technical & Professional Development Program for ECE

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Minorities in Engineering Division Poster Session

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Jameka Wiggins, University of Maryland, Baltimore County; Jamie R. Gurganus, University of Maryland, Baltimore County

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[3]. These students were then dissected into various subgroups such as ethnicbackground, scholar program, and race to analyze their individual pre- and post-emotional stateassessment scores. Of the data obtained from the assessment, the Social Cognitive Career Theory (SCCT),was used as the framework to develop the Engineering State of Mind Instrument (ESMI).Contributing variables to emotional states of students, such as feelings of inclusion, coping self-efficacy, and engineering career success expectations were examined [3]. Data from this studyrevealed that students from underrepresented groups such as the Black, Latinx, and AmericanIndian populations feel less included in their engineering classes, in comparison to the

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Minorities in Engineering Division Technical Session 4

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Eleazar Marquez, Rice University; Samuel Garcia Jr., NASA EPDC

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their white counterparts in attaining STEM degrees. According to the National Science Board,from 2000 and 2015, the number of science and engineering degrees awarded to Hispanic studentshas increased from 7% to 13% compared to 61% awarded white students [3]. These trendssignificantly impact the professional and career trajectories of students and limit the diversificationof the STEM workforce. For example, according to Pew Research Center Black and Hispanicgroups continue to be underrepresented in STEM fields [4]. Today the Black communitycompromises 9% of all STEM workers, while 7% of the total STEM population is represented bythe Hispanic community. Moreover, The Pew Research Center studied perceived reasons whywomen Blacks, and Hispanics are

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

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Elizabeth A. Adams, Fresno City College; Carol Haden, Magnolia Consulting, LLC; Claire L. A. Dancz, Clemson University; Yushin Ahn, California State University at Fresno; Karen Willis, Fresno City College

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Diversity, NSF Grantees Poster Session

Paper ID #32798Scholarships in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics(S-STEM) Engineering Scholars Program at a Two-Year College: Prelimi-naryInterventions and OutcomesDr. Elizabeth A. Adams, Fresno City College Dr. Elizabeth Adams teaches full time as an Engineering Faculty member at Fresno City College in Fresno, California. She a civil engineer with a background in infrastructure design and management, and project management. Her consulting experience spanned eight years and included extensive work with the US military in Japan, Korea, and Hawaii. In 2008 Elizabeth shifted the focus of her career to education

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

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Michael Jason Babcock, Whatcom Community College; Tommaso Alessandro Vannelli, Whatcom Community College; Dan Hanley, Western Washington University; Eric Davishahl, Whatcom Community College

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(15.2%) compared to enrollment patterns in the general student population (21.7%). Disparitiesin enrollment are partnered with inequitable rates of course completion, with historicallyunderserved students completing 71% of these courses with a grade of C or better, compared toan 82% course success rate for their peers. These demographics mirror national demographictrends that indicate student access to degree and career opportunities in STEM offered by twoyear colleges disproportionately favors students who identify with hegemonic norms in STEM[2],[3]. The SEECRS project represents one institutions attempts at designing programming todismantle structures that reproduce these disparities.Beginning in 2018, Whatcom Community College started

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Design Methodologies 2

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J. Blake Hylton, Ohio Northern University; Patrick James Herak, Ohio State University; Todd France, Ohio Northern University; Sherri Youssef, Ohio State University

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engineering design as to how variousdesign experiences, especially introductory experiences, may influence student attitudes towards thesubject and towards engineering more broadly.Student attitudes is a broad and well-studied area and a wide array of instruments have been shown tobe valid and reliable assessments of various aspects of student motivation, self-efficacy, and interests. Interms of career interests, the STEM Career Interest Survey (STEM-CIS) has been widely used in gradeschool settings to gauge student intentions to pursue STEM careers, with a subscale focused onengineering (Kier et al 2014). In self-efficacy and motivation, the Value-Expectancy STEM AssessmentScale (VESAS) (Appianing and Van Eck, 2018) is a STEM-focused adaptation of

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Designing and Evaluating Engineering Leadership Programs

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Angie Moussa, University of Massachusetts Lowell ; Yanfen Li, University of Massachusetts Lowell

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Engineering Leadership Development

problems. These non-technical skills allowstudents to understand the social, political, economic, cultural, environmental, and ethical aspectsof their future jobs[1]. The development of leadership is especially important for students whowish to pursue management careers including project management (PM) which is a highlyneeded and promising career path. Few undergraduate students are exposed to PM during theirundergraduate curriculum, and most PM courses are based on literature and reading. TheNational Research Council Board on Engineering education noted that undergraduate curriculumneeds to be reformed in order for undergraduates to get extensive exposure to interdisciplinary,hands-on skills, creative design, and systems thinking[2]. At the

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First-Year Programs: First-Year Experiences

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Randy Hugh Brooks, Texas A&M University

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and discuss summer internship options.Following are comments from two professors that have taught students both the previouscurriculum and the new curriculum: • “The previous foundational courses had minimal coding using MATLAB, which is still used in some following courses, but did not supply the programming foundation required to code confidently. Students were left to develop this ability on their own when needed later in their collegiate career” [5]. • “Having just completed two decades in the auto industry, I was surprised that foundational courses did not include significant coding, so, previously, I had my students complete programming activities beyond those in the initial standard curriculum” [6

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First-Year Programs Division Poster Session

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Matthew Lucian Alexander P.E., Texas A&M University-Kingsville; Breanna Michelle Weir Bailey P.E., Texas A&M University-Kingsville; Rajashekar Reddy Mogiligidda, Texas A&M University-Kingsville; Mahesh Hosur, Texas A&M University-Kingsville; David Hicks, Texas A&M University-Kingsville; Michael Preuss, Exquiri Consulting, LLC

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their experiences as engineers, as other programshave done [3]. Three other panels presented for the benefit of the participants, one panel perweek of the SBP. The first panel consisted of persons who were recent engineering graduates ofTexas A&M University-Kingsville. They were asked to speak about the transition from anacademic to professional work environment. The second panel consisted of engineeringgraduates who worked in other professions outside of engineering, and they discussed how theyused their engineering skills in performing non-engineering jobs. The third panel consisted ofseasoned or retired engineers, who spoke about the variety of things each had accomplished overthe course of their careers. There were 16 guest speakers. Of

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Cross-cultural Sensitivity, Moral Imagination, and Diversity in Engineering Ethics Education

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Jani C. Ingram, Northern Arizona University; Angelina E. Castagno, Northern Arizona University; Ricky Camplain; Davona D Blackhorse, Northern Arizona University

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Careers in the Chemical Sciences. She received an associate degree from Yavapai College, a bachelor of science degree in chemistry from New Mexico State University, and a doctoral degree in chemistry from the University of Arizona. She was a staff scientist at the Idaho National Laboratory for twelve years before joining the faculty at Northern Arizona University.Dr. Angelina E. Castagno, Northern Arizona University Angelina E. Castagno, PhD, is the Director of the Din´e Institute for Navajo Nation Educators, and a Pro- fessor of Educational Leadership and Foundations at Northern Arizona University. Her teaching, research, and consulting focus on equity and diversity in U.S. schools, with a focus on Indigenous education

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The Curriculum at Two-year College's Engineering Technology and Engineering Transfer Programs

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Raymond Edward Floyd, Northwest College

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(2011), an IEEE eBook, Shaping an Engineering Career: Book 2: Dual Career Ladders (2013), and another text, So You Want to be an Engineer? (2015). American c Society for Engineering Education, 2021 Do Engineers Need A Code of Ethics?AbstractProfessional organizations and societies may have a Code of Ethics, Rules of Conduct, Canonsof Conduct, or some similarly named set of operating rules governing the expected ethicalconduct of their membership. In many cases, in the preamble of the documents will be found theword “guidelines”, or words within the document such as “perceived harm” or “where possible”.These words provide the engineer some personal

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Community-Engaged Engineering Education Challenges and Opportunities in Light of COVID-19 Paper Presentations 1

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Whitney Gaskins, University of Cincinnati; Paula Davis Lampley Esq., University of Cincinnati; Krizia Leonela Cabrera-Toro, University of Cincinnati

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Community Engagement Division, Equity, Culture & Social Justice in Education, Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

inquiry tool will be administered tocamp participants throughout high school to measure their interest in engineering, intent to majorin STEM and overall college readiness. In this paper we will describe how the program wasimplemented, the experience of the participants and share the data from the pre-post survey.Keywords: pre-college, gender, race/ethnicity, engineeringIntroductionCreating equitable access to science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM)education and career opportunities should begin at a pre-college level in order to reduce gendergaps and racial/ethnic disparities. The United States government has invested in STEMdisciplines to address the low presence of URMs (African Americans, Hispanics, and NativeAmericans

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Graduate Studies Division Technical Session 3

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Ella L. Ingram, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; Rachel McCord Ellestad, University of Tennessee at Knoxville; Cory Hixson, Colorado Christian University; Julia M. Williams, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology

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then made a career transition to teach high school physics. Having sparked my love for education, I went back to school to earn my M.S. in Industrial & Systems Engineering (2015) and my Ph.D. in Engineering Education (2016). My first faculty job was at Rowan University in southern New Jersey, where I had the honor of helping develop their first-year engineering and B.S. in Engineering Entrepreneurship programs. I’m now blessed to be at CCU contributing to what God’s doing through our Industrial and Systems Engineering program and university.Dr. Julia M. Williams, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology Dr. Julia M. Williams is Professor of English at Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology. Her research areas include

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

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Sarah M. MacGillivray, Education Development Center; Clara McCurdy-Kirlis, Education Development Center

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build their capacity to participate in the science,technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) and information and communicationstechnology (ICT) workforce of the future. The ITEST program is unique in that it is the only NSFprogram devoted to STEM workforce development at the primary and secondary school levels.With a focus on populations traditionally underrepresented in STEM fields, it aims to develop adiverse and innovative pipeline to STEM careers. Funded by revenue collected from the H-1B visaprogram, which permits U.S. businesses to use overseas workers to fill vacant positions U.S.occupations, ITEST aims to remedy the shortage of highly skilled workers while also addressingthe diversity issues and inequities present in STEM fields

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Cooperative and Experiential Education Division Technical Session 3

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Tracy L. Ross, Actua; Lisa Romkey, University of Toronto

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learning opportunities for youth. There is a breadth of research on the impact ofthe programs on the participants, but very little on the impact of the experience on theundergraduate student instructors and the transferability of skills developed in their outreachwork to their future academic and career opportunities. The goal of this project is to address thisgap, through the development and assessment of a “Future Skills” framework for transferableskill development.This work in progress paper documents our efforts towards this goal, in the context of theemployment of undergraduate students associated with Actua, which is a large, national STEMoutreach organization. Actua partners with universities and other organizations to support andfacilitate

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Biomedical Engineering Postcard Session (Best of Works in Progress)

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Mark A. Chapman, University of San Diego

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of globally engaged scientists/engineers that seek career opportunities andcollaborators throughout the world. Prior to the start of the program, accepted students will be required to attend ten 90-minute weekly training sessions over Zoom. These training sessions will focus on material that issuitable for virtual delivery. As such, these sessions will consist of lectures and activitiescentered around the culture of the host country (inside and outside the lab), genetics, genomics,and computer programing. In addition, this training program will include a journal club in whicheach student will present a paper from the lab they will be joining at SciLifeLab. Students willlead a discussion of the assigned article. This activity will

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

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Karin Jensen, University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign; Kelly J. Cross, University of Nevada, Reno; Joseph Francis Mirabelli, University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign; Evan Ko, University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign; Jeanne L. Sanders, University of Nevada, Reno

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Paper ID #33558Community Building for the NSF PFE: RIEF Program: Year 2Dr. Karin Jensen, University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign Karin Jensen, Ph.D. is a Teaching Assistant Professor in bioengineering at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Her research interests include student mental health and wellness, engineering stu- dent career pathways, and engagement of engineering faculty in engineering education research. She was awarded a CAREER award from the National Science Foundation for her research on undergraduate mental health in engineering programs. Before joining UIUC she completed a post-doctoral