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Track 1: Technical Session 1: Leadership and Leverage: How White Women Can Use Their Privilege and Power to Protect Black Women Leaders in Middle and Senior Management Positions

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2024 Collaborative Network for Engineering & Computing Diversity (CoNECD)

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Ershela L. Sims, WEPAN, Inc.; Stephani Page; Serita W Acker, Clemson University; Beth Anne Johnson, WEPAN, Lamar Creative Co., Clemson University

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leisure, so I started with a social justice mindset. It was interesting to see that the statistics for woman-identifying athletes in male-dominated sports are like those for first-year incom- ing engineering and computer science students.” In addition to owning her own business and her role at Clemson, Johnson serves as the past president of the WEPAN Board of Directors. She is honored to serve the WEPAN community alongside the executive leadership team. Together they will ensure WEPAN continues growing, and create a strategic plan, mapping out goals and objectives for three, five, and ten years into the future. Johnson is a writer, adventurer, and family woman outside of work. Together with her partner, Adam, they

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Track 2: Technical Session 9: Establishing and Sustaining Inclusive Learning Communities for Supporting Faculty Creating More Inclusive Engineering Classrooms

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Dianne Delima, University of California, Irvine; Pheather R Harris, University of California, Irvine

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series.The PDE design and faculty involvement.The Research Research Question: What is the impact of participation in TIME on faculty conceptions of diversity and inclusion in the classroom? Participants 12 faculty from six STEM Schools ● Biological Science ● Computer Science ● Engineering ● Health Science ● Pharmaceutical Science ● Physical ScienceParticipant overview. Data Collection and MethodologySurveys● Purpose of surveys were to understand faculty experiences during the professional development series and gauge their plans to continue the work beyond the professional development series.● Surveys were deployed a week

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Track 1: Technical Session 9: Credit Loss for Engineering Transfer Students: Visualizations Across Students and Structures

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Amy Jo Richardson, Virginia Tech Department of Engineering Education; David B Knight, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

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Strategic Plan Implementation in the College of Engineering. His research tends to be at the macro-scale, focused on a systems-level perspective of how engineering educa- tion can become more effective, efficient, and inclusive, and considers the intersection between policy and organizational contexts. Knight currently serves as the co-Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Engineering Education. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2024Credit Loss forEngineering TransferStudents:Visualizations Across Students &StructuresTHIS MATERIAL IS BASED UPON WORK SUPPORTED BY THE NATIONALSCIENCE FOUNDATION ENGINEERING EDUCATION AND CENTERSUNDER GRANT NUMBER DUE-1644138. ANY OPINIONS, FINDINGS,AND

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Track 3: Technical Session 8: Self-Advocacy Professional Programming as a Framework to Support Non-Academic Outcomes of STEM PhD Graduate Education

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Carmen Maria Lilley, The University of Illinois at Chicago

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offormal programs. Thus, some new efforts are being made into including socialization with othersin the program. Some of the challenges in the program were in sustaining engagement by students due totheir location over two campuses and their responsibilities and workloads of their graduatestudies. Thus, finding a common time was not possible so creating access through varyingdays/times and modalities was necessary. In addition, there were also challenges due to thepandemic affecting in-person event planning and the strain many students felt at that time. Inaddition, more participants are needed to measure self-advocacy knowledge and skills ofgraduate students more broadly before they engage in this type of professional development. If

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Track 6: Technical Session 5: Exploring Gender Representation Issues In Computing by Writing Interactive Fiction

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John K. Estell, Ohio Northern University; Stephany Coffman-Wolph, Ohio Northern University

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Education (CoED) divisions, and with the Ad Hoc Committee on Interdivisional Cooperation, Interdivisional Town Hall Planning Commit- tee, ASEE Active, and the Committee on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion. Estell has received multiple ASEE Annual Conference Best Paper awards from the Computers in Education, First-Year Programs, and Design in Engineering Education Divisions. He has also been recognized by ASEE as the recipient of the 2005 Merl K. Miller Award and by the Kern Entrepreneurial Engineering Network (KEEN) with the 2018 ASEE Best Card Award. Estell received the First-Year Programs Division’s Distinguished Service Award in 2019 and the Computers in Education Division’s Service Award in 2022. Estell currently

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Track 1: Technical Session 4: S-STEM Partnerships Supporting Low-Income Engineering Students: A Descriptive Case Study

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Walter C. Lee, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; David B Knight, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Sarah Rodriguez, Virginia Tech; Saundra Johnson Austin, Virginia Tech; Joseph Ronald Sturgess, Virginia Tech; Michelle D Klopfer, Virginia Tech Department of Engineering Education; Jacob R Grohs, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Amy Richardson, Virginia Tech Department of Engineering Education; Dustin Grote, Weber State University; James Nathaniel Newcomer, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

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Paper ID #40691S-STEM Partnerships Supporting Low-Income Engineering Students: ADescriptive Case StudyDr. Walter C. Lee, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University Dr. Walter Lee is an associate professor in the Department of Engineering Education and the director for research at the Center for the Enhancement of Engineering Diversity (CEED), both at Virginia Tech.Dr. David B Knight, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University David Knight is a Professor in the Department of Engineering Education at Virginia Tech and also serves as Special Assistant to the Dean for Strategic Plan Implementation in the College

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Track 4: Technical Session 7: Siloed Efforts and Collaboration Among STEM Equity Initiatives: An Organizational Network Analysis

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Daniel Mackin Freeman, University of Washington; Emily Knaphus-Soran, University of Washington; Pauline Charlotte Dott, University of Washington

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approach to address this issue, and it involves transforming a directednetwork into an undirected one while accounting for missing ties. The survey data initiallyrepresented directed relationships between organizations, indicating the strength of connection ineach category (contact, information sharing, and co-planning). To prepare the data for SNA, asymmetrization process was employed using the average or mean method. We employed thisprocedure to treat relationships as bidirectional, assuming mutual organizational interactions.While no approach to dealing with missing data in SNA is perfect, alternative methods, such asdeletion of missing data or imputation, risk the loss of valuable information. Symmetrizationcircumvents this issue by leveraging

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Track 4: Technical Session 4: The Pink Paradox: Tensions in How STEM Toys are Marketed Toward Girls

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Theresa Green, Purdue University; Artre Reginald Turner, Purdue University at West Lafayette; Ruth Wertz P.E., Purdue University at West Lafayette (COE)

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present narratives drawn from traditionally feminine hobbies and interests,such as caring for animals, planning parties, and focusing on friendships, which assume aspecific set of life experiences and interests. Using stereotypes in marketing these toys may beharmful to young children, especially those who are already less likely to see themselves inrepresented in engineering, and are also developing their engineering identity, sense of self, andfuture career aspirations.This review concludes by describing areas of future research, namely, the need to understand therelationship between toy narrative, engineering identity, and children’s interest in and access toSTEM toys. Understanding the relationships between these constructs can help girls

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Track 4: Technical Session 3: Considerations for assessment, evaluation, and continuous improvement of a pre-college STEM summer program for promising Black high school students

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2024 Collaborative Network for Engineering & Computing Diversity (CoNECD)

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Jesika Monet McDaniel, Virginia Tech Department of Engineering Education; Cynthia Hampton Ph.D., Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Kim Lester, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

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type, academichistory, geographic region, and college attendance of family. The students interacted inthis space and could understand and relate to each other regardless of their academicdifferences. During the two weeks of the program, students participated in numerousactivities with the goal of exposure to a faculty, student, and professional network. Thispaper is a stepping stone for further program evaluation that further serves theparticipants’ voices.A combination of program theories emerges in the planning and establishment ofDISTINCTION, including organizational learning and systems theory, or a focus oncontinuous improvement as well as adjustments in coordinated ways that speak to theentirety of the program [5]. The structural

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Track 8: Technical Session 5: Disrupting Computing Department Cultures, One Cohort at a Time

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Alicia Nicki Washington, Duke University; Shaundra Bryant Daily, Duke University; Cecilé Sadler, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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• Extensions to STEM disciplines • Long-term impacts of participationAs we continue to expand our reach, we're exploringopportunities to extend the 3C Fellows program beyondcomputing to encompass broader STEM disciplines likebiology, chemistry, engineering, and math. We are alsolooking at partnerships with technology companies tobring this program to industry. Our goal is to have over1,000 total participants from computing and STEM withinthe next 5 years.In addition, we want to evaluate the long-term impacts ofthe program beyond the two-year completion. We plan to 20conduct longitudinal monitoring changes in diversity attheir institutions and measuring shifts in workplace culturesand

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Track 6: Technical Session 7: Qualitatively Exploring How Finances Constrain Undergraduate Engineering Student Experiences, Mental Health, and Career Opportunities

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Emily Fitzpatrick, University of Nebraska-Lincoln; Jessica Deters, University of Nebraska - Lincoln

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DISCUSSIONThe first author led the efforts to conducted a preliminary data analysis for thisconference presentation and developed a visualization to describe trends that theynoticed in the data. On this slide, we plan to walk through the data analysis process:open coding, themes, visualization, and verification. Open coding was done withMAXQDA by a 4-author team, financial themes were identified by a 3-author team,visualization was done by a 3-author team, and preliminary verification was done by athree-author team. This big (and small) project has very much function in ‘stages’ andwe are still in a preliminary stage. 9 Preliminary Findings INTRODUCTION

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Track 2: Technical Session 7: Assessing Key STEM Identity Constructs among Hispanic Engineering Students and Professionals

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Dayna Lee Martínez, Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers, Inc.; Kimberly D Douglas P.E., Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers, Inc.; Esther Gonzalez; Andrea D. Beattie, Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers, Inc.

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Track 1: Technical Session 7:Beyond Math Readiness: Understanding Why Some Women Pursue Engineering

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Olivia Ryan, Virginia Tech Engineering Education; Susan Sajadi, Virginia Tech

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collection for this study were: interviews, background information,‬ ‭and memos written directly after the interview. The findings reported in this paper are part of a‬ ‭larger study interested in understanding engineering students' math experiences during COVID‬ ‭and a holistic view of their choice of major.‬‭ he screening questionnaire asked students to report their current math class, planned major,‬T‭intended major when they started college, demographic information, and questions about their‬ ‭high school years. The participants self-described their gender and racial/ethnic identity, so the‬ ‭descriptors used in the table are the participants' words. Six people were included in this study;‬ ‭their information with pseudonyms can be found

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Track 7: Technical Session 3: The Missing Misrecognition in Recognition and Engineering Identity Research

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Annie Yong Patrick, Georgia Tech; Joseph M LeDoux, Georgia Institute of Technology; Sara Schley Schley, Rochester Institute of Technology (NTID)

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African American (Student Demographics | Institutional Research & Planning, n.d.).Student 11 commented earlier in this paper that she was the only African-American student inmany classes. Yet, these experiences are not limited within the classroom but were alsoexperienced on campus as described by Student 6: We've experienced that as black people at XYZ University in general. Those microaggressions of something as simple…well I guess it's not simple…assuming our major and assuming that we're not engineers at a predominantly engineering school. Or even that we don't even go here when we're on campus. It's kind of like, ‘Oh are you visiting? Are you someone else's friend? Are you from [another university in the

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Track 1: Technical Session 3: Examining how Graduate Advisors in STEM Support Mental Health among Black and Latinx Graduate Women

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Kerrie Wilkins-Yel, University of Massachusetts Boston ; Stephanie Marando-Blanck, University of Massachusetts; Pavneet Kaur Bharaj, California State University, Bakersfield; Aisha Farra

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your life. They check in with me to make sure that I am reaching my goals, but to also ensure that I am taking care of myself. They do not expect their students to drop everything in order to do their research, and will plan meetings around our schedules. – Irene, Latinx woman, ChemistryBy reassuring their advisees that their graduate work should not supersede their personal lives,Irene’s advisors disrupted the notion that graduate students in STEM should push themselves totheir breaking point to complete their academic responsibilities. They supported their students'mental health by stressing the importance of developing what Celeste, a Latinx woman inStatistics, considers a “rich and fulfilling” life beyond

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Track 2: Technical Session 2: Disaggregating data from peer-led, small group discussion workshops for engineering and computer science undergraduates: Examining "belonging" and "mentorship" outcomes for underrepresented student populations

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Ryan Sauve, Cornell University; Celia Evans PhD, Cornell University; Lisa Schneider-Bentley, Cornell University

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,” Institutional Research & Planning. Accessed: Dec. 18, 2023. [Online]. Available: https://irp.dpb.cornell.edu/surveys/pulse-surveys

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Track 1: Technical Session 2: Tailoring DEIA Programming through Current Field Analysis: Promoting Allyship in STEM of University Graduate Students

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Mia Leigh Renna, University of Maryland College Park; Emily Lawson-Bulten, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

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, China, Vietnam,Philippines, South Korea, Taiwan, and Pakistan), two are in North America (Mexico andCanada), with the remaining country being Russia (identifies as both Asian and European)marking a substantial proportion of foreign-born workers within STEM hailing from Asian orWhite backgrounds [13-14]. Immigrant STEM workers with a bachelor’s degree or higher aremore prevalent than those without [13]. Moreover, the expected stay rates of noncitizen STEMdoctorate recipients planning to remain in the U.S. after graduation remained consistently high,especially among students from China and India [13].In 2021, approximately 3% of the total workforce identified as having at least one disability,encompassing both physical and cognitive disabilities

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Track 7: Technical Session 2: Lessons Learned from Development of an Elective Undergraduate Course on DEI in STEM

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2024 Collaborative Network for Engineering & Computing Diversity (CoNECD)

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Leigh S McCue, George Mason University; Christopher Alexander Carr, George Mason University; Kevin William Kuck, George Mason University; Dhiambi Otete; Violet Veronika Reges

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showcased his skills for technical reading and writing and being able to bridge the gap between client and engineer. In his role as an Intern Engineering Inspector at CES Consulting LLC, Kevin demonstrated a strong commitment to quality assurance and control, ensuring that construction aligned with design plans and bringing errors to the attention of senior inspectors for correction. His involvement extends beyond his work and academic pursuits; His membership in the National ASME and AIAA organizations reflects his commitment to his field and his versatile interests. Additionally, he has taken on leadership responsibilities as the GMU ASME President, where he has organized informa- tional sessions and collaborated

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Track 8: Technical Session 8: The Role of an Artificial Intelligence Certificate in the Computing Identity Formation of Hispanic-Serving Community College Students who Work

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2024 Collaborative Network for Engineering & Computing Diversity (CoNECD)

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Sarah L Rodriguez, Virginia Tech; Taylor Y. Johnson, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Paul Charles Bigby Jr., Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

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identity through competence at work they working? directly, and recognition at work - Where are they working? indirectly.As we seen from the participant quotes, what they are learning is showing upat their jobs almost immediately. They work in a number of fields, from truckingto travel planning to floral delivery, and the AI concepts are helping them all.Computing identity has been augmented through interest, performance,competence and recognition, and all four constructs are on display throughinteractions at work.So what comes next?A future direction for research will be to investigate other aspects of theframework for students who work on the microsystem, mesosystem, and otherlevelsAlso better exploring the