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Track 6: Technical Session 3: Teaching Equity through Assets-Based Journaling: Using Community Cultural Wealth to Guide Student Reflections

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Gabriella Coloyan Fleming, University of Texas at Austin; Jessica Deters, University of Nebraska - Lincoln; Maya Denton, University of Oklahoma

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Hiroshima • 80 students, 3 TAs, 4 co-instructors from one US institution • Classes in Tokyo held at a Japanese university • Class format: primarily project-based learning • Reflection assignments • 2 pages each • 1 at the beginning of class, 2 during, 1 at end • Prior to the last reflection due date: class about CCW 10 INTRODUCTION METHODS RESULTS IMPLICATIONS & CONCLUSIONS● The class was taught by one member of the author team at the home institution for students at that US-based institution● Students earned 3 credit hours (engineering elective) towards

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Track 7: Technical Session 7: Challenges and Opportunities to Address Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion within the Professional Construction Industry

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Andres Nieto, Virginia Tech; Homero Murzi, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Abiola Akanmu, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Anthony Olukayode Yusuf, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Sheryl Ball, Virginia Tech; Walid Saad; Andrea Nana Ofori-Boadu, North Carolina A&T State University (CoE)

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United States[1]. This makes this sector appear in the list of the most important industries in the U.S.economy. Employment of construction workers is projected to grow 4% from 2022 to 2032[1]; however, maintaining the current workforce and satisfying the future demand forconstruction-related workforce will become more difficult due to the aging and laborshortage issues in the construction industry [2], [3]. Workforce development priorities in the construction industry are not just aboutneeding more people but also critically ensuring a more diverse community of workers. Thesolution to real-scenario engineering problems not only requires multidisciplinaryteamwork but also a diverse team. A diverse team “promotes fresh perspective and ideas

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Track 8: Technical Session 6: A work in progress narrative literature review exploring the impact of minority engineering programs on the experiences of Black students in undergraduate engineering programs

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Stephanie A Damas, Clemson University; Lisa Benson, Clemson University

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- sity. Her research focuses on the interactions between student motivation and their learning experiences. Her projects include studies of student perceptions, beliefs and attitudes towards becoming engineers and scientists, and their development of problem-solving skills, self-regulated learning practices, and epistemic thinking. Other projects in the Benson group involve students’ navigational capital, and re- searchers’ schema development through the peer review process. Dr. Benson is the past editor of the Journal of Engineering Education, an American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) Fellow, a member of the European Society for Engineering Education (SEFI), American Educational Research As- sociation

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Track 6: Technical Session 6: Stewardship of the Stories: Learning from Black Engineering Students' Lived Experiences

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Tanya D Ennis, University of Colorado Boulder; Donna Auguste Ph.D., Auguste Research Group, LLC; Cynthia Hampton Ph.D., Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

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engineering student participants who were currently orformerly enrolled at a predominantly White university? And relatedly, in what ways did thesenuances lead to components of deeper stories?We introduce a new term, a Sounding Line, for the marker-based methodology we developedfor this analysis. A Sounding Line marker reflects a research participant’s communication, in themoment, taking measure of the interviewer, determining if they are to be trusted with thepersonal, culturally-sensitive, and perhaps highly revealing stories from their lived experiences.This paper is about the methodology we developed and applied, in 2023, to the initial datasetfrom 2019-2021.Listening to these stories evoked an awareness among the research project interviewers

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Track 8: Technical Session 3: Exploring Engineering Faculty Views on their Role in Broadening Participation in Engineering

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Gerica Brown, University of Dayton

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. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2024 Exploring Engineering Faculty Views on Their Role in Broadening Participation in EngineeringAbstractBroadening participation in STEM is an initiative of critical importance within the United States.In order to maintain its global prominence in STEM fields, as well as maintain national securityand other technological advances, the US must produce over one million more STEMprofessionals than what is currently projected. Broadening participation is a term used todescribe increasing the participation of underrepresented groups in STEM fields. This includesproviding STEM exposure, access, and opportunities for individuals from underrepresentedgroups. According to the

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Track 1: Technical Session 5: From De Facto To De Jure and Beyond. It's More Than Just Weather. What The "Chilly" Climate Really Feels Like for Black Doctoral Students in STEM

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Dreama Heaven Rhodes, Arizona State University; Motahareh Darvishpour Ahandani, Arizona State University, Polytechnic Campus; Brooke Charae Coley, Arizona State University; Kerrie G Wilkins-Yel; Jennifer M Bekki, Arizona State University; Dailynne Major; Nicholas A Smith; Debalina Maitra, Arizona State University, Polytechnic Campus; Juan David Gutierrez, University of Massachusetts Boston

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Coley, Arizona State University Brooke C. Coley, Ph.D. is Founding Executive Director of the Center for Research Advancing Racial Equity, Justice, and Sociotechnical Innovation Centered in Engineering (RARE JUSTICE)—an unprece- dented testbed for innovating and modeling antiracist and equitable engineering futures—and Assistant Professor of Engineering, both at Arizona State University. Across several national projects funded pri- marily by the National Science Foundation, Dr. Coley’s research lies at the intersection of racial equity, mental health and qualitative research methods encompassing critical theory, participatory action research, and arts-based research methods. Her work is anchored in an intentional

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Track 5: Technical Session 2: Adoption of an Advocates and Allies Program to a Predominantly STEM Campus

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Adrienne Robyn Minerick, Michigan Technological University; Sonia Goltz, Michigan Tech; andrew storer, Michigan Technological University; Patricia Sotirin, Michigan Technological University

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has come from all colleges at the institution, although participation has not beenproportional to the number of faculty in each college. Colleges with overt and regularendorsement from the leadership of DEIS efforts have had the greatest level of participation.Colleges and disciplines with historic resistance to DEIS concepts demonstrated the lowestparticipation rates.The survey was designed by internal evaluators on the project and refined by an externalevaluator as well as graduate students on the project to measure perceptions of support forindividuals hailing from minoritized groups (gender, race/ethnicity). The survey also asks aboutperceptions of the extent to which inequities existed on Michigan Tech’s campus with regard tocampus

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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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Paper ID #40671Advancing Inclusion: A Professional Development Series for Faculty at aHispanic Serving InstitutionDr. Dianne Delima, University of California, Irvine Dr. Dianne G. Delima is the Project Policy Analyst for The Institute for Meaningful Engagement (TIME). Dr. Delima received her doctorate in Higher and Postsecondary Education at Teachers College, Columbia University, where she focused on the learning experiences of first-generation college-going students of color and faculty members’ use of a funds of knowledge approach for teaching in college classrooms. Her research has been published in College Teaching and

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Track 7: Technical Session 5: TechArts & Crafts: Supporting STEM Capital Development for Marginalized Students

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Shaundra Bryant Daily, Duke University; Sandra Roach, Duke University; Alia Carter, Duke University; Raeven King; Mark Nabeta

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completedactivating different sounds and musical notes in theirScratch programs! This project fuses art and musiccomposition in an incredibly inventive way. 10 Foiled @Mon View Housing ProjectsIn a similar workshops, students construct foil sculpturesthat connect to the Makey Makey invention kit andScratch to trigger sounds and music when touched. Theirimaginations shape both the 3D artwork and the soundsthey design. 11 AMAZE-ing Creations @ beSocial CharlotteAnd one of my favorites, students code maze games inScratch using arrow keys to move characters through thelevels. The students created a game controller out ofPlay-Doh which when

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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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focuses on how school structure and curricular emphases both result from and perpetuate social inequalities.Dr. Emily Knaphus-Soran, University of Washington Emily Knaphus-Soran is a Senior Research Scientist at the Center for Evaluation and Research for STEM Equity (CERSE) at the University of Washington. She works on the evaluation of several projects aimed at improving diversity, equity, and inclusion in STEM.Pauline Charlotte Dott, University of Washington Pauline C. Dott is a Ph.D. candidate in Learning Sciences and Human Development at the University of Washington in Seattle. She received her BS in Applied Learning and Development from the University of Texas at Austin and her M.Ed. from the University of

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Track 7: Technical Session 1: Faculty Perceptions of Key Concepts in Degree Curriculum: Identifying the Role of Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Justice

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April Townson, Rowan University; Cheryl A Bodnar, Rowan University; Kaitlin Mallouk, Rowan University; Stephanie Farrell, Rowan University; Raquel Wright-Mair, Rowan University

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academic disciplines. This understanding is critical to ensuring that students from allbackgrounds are appropriately supported in pursuing their degrees and faculty are equipped todiscuss these topics with their students. In this pilot project, researchers from RowanUniversity’s College of Engineering and College of Education who were interested in exploringDEIJ implementation in the classroom in a cross-collaborative manner explored the followingresearch questions: (1) What level of relevance do faculty members place on DEIJ as part oftheir degree program curriculum? and (2) How do faculty members’ conceptions of DEIJcompare across disciplines?There is scant literature on faculty members' conceptions of Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, andJustice

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Track 2: Technical Session 3: The Good, the Bad & the Ugly: a Practitioner's Look "Under the Hood" of Implemented Program Recommendations Four Years After a Needs Assessmentor supporting LGBTQIA+ engineering students

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Kathrine Ehrlich-Scheffer, Rochester Institute of Technology (COE)

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eventually led her to a position in IT for a semiconductor IP start-up. Fast forward through coast-to-coast moves to Boston, San Diego and finally Rochester, Kathy spent many years in the fitness industry while raising her daughter, wearing every hat from personal trainer and cycling instructor to owner and director of Cycledelic Indoor Cycling Studio. Kathy draws upon these many diverse career and life experiences while directing WE@RIT. In the spring of 2020, Kathy earned her Master of Science degree in Program Design, Analysis & Manage- ment through RIT’s School of Individualized Study, combining concentrations in Project Management, Analytics and Research, & Group Leadership and Development. An unabashed

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Track 3: Technical Session 4: Scripts of Whiteness in engineering: An analysis of the literature

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R. Jamaal Downey; Joel Alejandro Mejia, The University of Texas at San Antonio; Diana A. Chen, University of San Diego; Gordon D Hoople, University of San Diego; Susan M Lord, University of San Diego

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agenda toconfront social oppression at whatever levels it occurs [22, p.9]. The lead author is an outsider toengineering and comes from the discipline of education– more specifically a critical and focusedon racial literacy. It was his task to examine engineering culture through the literature inengineering/education and Whiteness. The themes that emerged might often be seen simply asproblems the discipline faces rather than their own findings. In this paper, we follow Jerry Rosiek and Kathy Kinslow (2016) in choosing to capitalizeBlack but not white, because “Capitalized, it signifies a conscious project of resistinginstitutionalized racism. We chose not to capitalize “white” because at this point in our historythere is no collective

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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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understand major choice in specific‬ ‭engineering disciplines, but this study will focus on engineering major choice generally.‬‭ igure 1‬F‭Conceptual Model from Main et al.’s study‬‭[40]‬‭.‬‭ ote: This study focuses on the high school life stage from the conceptual model. The figure was‬N‭adapted to highlight this portion of the model.‬‭ ethodology‬M‭Qualitative researchers study things in their natural setting to make meaning of phenomena as‬ ‭people experience them‬‭[41]‬‭. A common type of methodology‬‭in qualitative research are case‬ ‭studies – a case study allows researchers to study a phenomenon in its bounded context‬‭[42]‬‭.‬ ‭This project used a case study to understand the factors influencing women students' pursuit of‬

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Track 3: Technical Session 7: Promotion of Student Well-being via Successful Navigation through Conflict Resolution Pathways

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Boni Frances Yraguen, Vanderbilt University; Bettina K Arkhurst; Stuart Montgomery, Georgia Institute of Technology; Derek Ashton Nichols, Georgia Institute of Technology; Jennifer Molnar, Georgia Institute of Technology

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attrition in the biomedical sciences," Journal of College StudentRetention: Research, Theory & Practice, vol. 22, no. 2, pp. 205-226, 2020.[31] B. J. Barnes and J. Randall, "Doctoral student satisfaction: Anexamination of disciplinary, enrollment, and institutional differences," Researchin Higher Education, vol. 53, pp. 47-75, 2012.[32] E. Zerbe, G. M. Sallai, and C. G. Berdanier, "Projections as preparationfor persistence: Exploring expectations for engineering graduate school," in2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access, 2020.[33] M. Artiles and H. Matusovich, "Doctoral Advisor Selection in ChemicalEngineering: Evaluating Two Programs through Principal-Agent Theory,"2022.[34] M. Bahnson, M. Wyer, C. Cass, and A. Kirn, "Graduate

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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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key readings, provide more time for completion, incorporate structured opportunities to discuss and apply concepts.2. Offer practical guidance - Share models and provide opportunities to practice applying concepts to deliverables and initiatives beyond the classroom.3. Give project feedback - Provide mechanisms like office hours, mentors, or peer groups to give deliverable feedback.4. Build in accountability - Use tools like checklists, 18 partnerships, or program completion certificates tied to deliverable implementation.5. Facilitate community building - Incorporate networking opportunities within and across Cohorts. Clarify expectations around Fellows

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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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global leader in innovation is of utmost importance especially during a time weresolving the world’s most pressing and complex issues, including the recent pandemic, climate,environmental challenges, and a sustainable economy require innovative solutions. This need isreflected in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) occupation growthwhich has increased 79% since 1990 and is projected to grow by 10.8% by 2031 (U.S. Bureau ofLabor Statistics, 2022). The demographics of the United States are undergoing a profoundtransformation, marked by the significant and growing presence of Hispanic and Latinoindividuals within the population. According to the U.S. Census Bureau, as of 2020, Hispanicsand Latinos constituted approximately 18.7

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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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ongoing research project. Students are provided with housing and paid a stipend for the summer. This experience intentionally provides an opportunity for students to establish a network at VT prior to starting classes while gaining familiarity with the institution and surrounding area. METHOD - PART ICIPA NTS Participants in an S-STEM grant (n = 60). • US Citizen • Full-time students - at least 12 credits per

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Track 2: Technical Session 5: Understanding Decision Processes Related to Pathways of Community College Engineering Students

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Rene Alberto Hernandez, Virginia Tech; David B Knight, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Walter C. Lee, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Amy Richardson, Virginia Tech Department of Engineering Education; Sarah Rodriguez, Virginia Tech; Bevlee A. Watford, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

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faculty and administrative positions. She is a licensed civil engineer with a Ph.D. in Engineering Education from Virginia Tech.Dr. Sarah Rodriguez, Virginia Tech Sarah L. Rodriguez is an Associate Professor of Engineering Education and an affiliate faculty member with the Higher Education Program at Virginia Tech. Her engineering education research agenda centers upon engineering and computing identity development of historically marginalized populations at higher education institutions. Currently, Dr. Rodriguez is involved with several large-scale interdisciplinary research projects focused on institutional environments and STEM identity development are sponsored by the National Science Foundation (NSF) and the Kapor

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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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minifigures. Inone study conducted with girls aged six to eleven, some girls preferred the look of the minidollsbecause of the different clothing options that they have, while others projected body image idealsonto the minidolls, claiming that they “could never be that skinny” [14, p. 258]. The lattercomment raises concerns about the target audience of the LEGO Friends minidolls. If girls arenot able to identify with the minidolls, they may feel excluded from playing with these toy sets.In addition, LEGO’s choice of introducing minidolls for the LEGO Friends sets instead ofusing the traditional, block-shaped minifigures may suggest to girls that their LEGO toys areinherently different and the original LEGO product lines aren’t “meant for them

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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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coalitions with the mission of advancing equity, inclusion, and jus- tice for military servicemembers and veterans. Renna obtained her B.S. from Clemson University and her M.S. from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Recognized as a 2021 Tilman Scholar awardee and 2023 Clark Doctoral Fellowship recipient, Renna also holds professional certifications in Project Management Professional, Lean Six-Sigma Green Belt, and LEED Green Associate. Additionally, Renna is a National Security Fellow with the Truman National Security Project. As a military veteran, Renna served honorably in the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers for over 8 years in multiple capacities.Emily Lawson-Bulten, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign