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Track 4: Technical Session 6: Building Bridges to Success: A Thriving Program

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2024 Collaborative Network for Engineering & Computing Diversity (CoNECD)

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Labrisha Nicole Mabry, Mississippi State University ; Mahnas Jean Mohammadi-Aragh, Mississippi State University; Lorena Andrea Benavides Riano, Mississippi State University

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help students strengthen their math skills, and they take a placementexam and are placed into a course to head start their academic career. Depending on thestudent’s performance on this exam, they will either be placed in college algebra, pre-calculus, or calculus. Our program has proven improvement in bridge participants' grades inCalculus and the following courses. 6 Components of Summer Bridge • Engineering laboratories Engineering • Creation of a 3D model of a tank. • Interaction with Ergon engineers on Research Project campus and on-site

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Track 4: Technical Session 1: Creating Pathways to Engineering through Sponsored Summer Camps

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2024 Collaborative Network for Engineering & Computing Diversity (CoNECD)

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Racheida S Lewis, University of Georgia; Stephan A. Durham, University of Georgia; Alison Leigh Banka, University of Georgia

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our leaders Engineering Discovery Laboratory and Fabrication• Analysis - understand how to analyze information and Design Studio spaces. Then, in the middle of the week, data relevant to solving engineering problems we'll take a field trip to a nearby lake to explore sustainability and environmental stewardship initiatives.• Conceptualization - create and design ethical After completing the camp, you will leave excited about engineering solutions engineering and filled with a passion for how you can

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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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, their professionalization. Assuch, in this paper, the focus is on how PhD graduate students from historically minoritizedcommunities perceive their sense of belonging within their research laboratories, theirprograms/departments and their professions. It is also discussed how teaching self-advocacyeducation impact how students navigate environments in higher education, such as in knowledgeof policies and help seeking. Challenges in sustaining this type of programming will also bediscussed and opportunities for expanding them more broadly within graduate programs at otherHSIs and institutions interested in expanding their supports to include non-academic outcomes ofstudents.Programming Students are given opportunities to attend seminars

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Track 8: Technical Session 7: Designing an open course to highlight the work of underrepresented STEM scholars

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2024 Collaborative Network for Engineering & Computing Diversity (CoNECD)

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Brianna B Buljung, Colorado School of Mines; Seth Vuletich, Colorado School of Mines; Madison Schaefer

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presently includes nine topics: facultydevelopment, cultural capital and cultural relevance, inclusive teaching, persistence, field work,laboratories, patents, funding and research, gender inclusive standards, and STEM librarianship.Each page in the disciplinary and special topics modules contains readings, videos, and websitesto explore as well as reflection questions. When adopted, the content can be used as is by faculty,or edited to meet their specific learning outcomes and course topics. Content was selected toprovoke discussion and introduce students to issues and resources. For example, the ElectricalEngineering page contains readings on gendered interests in computer engineering [11], andengineering identity in electrical engineering [12

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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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2024 Collaborative Network for Engineering & Computing Diversity (CoNECD)

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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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. Maher, A. M. Wofford, J. Roksa, and D. F. Feldon, "Finding a fit:Biological science doctoral students’ selection of a principal investigator andresearch laboratory," CBE—Life Sciences Education, vol. 19, no. 3, p. ar31, 22020. 2 Positionality: • Sought • Changed Advisors • Well-being negatively Departmental/Institutional • Changed Fields of Study impacted: cPTSD, physical Support regarding a • Graduated Late (6+ years illness, anxiety, depression, concern(s) and counting…) etc. Why is there a disconnect in How best does one navigateperceived efficacy of

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Track 3: Technical Session 5: Mycorrhiza Framework: towards an Engineering Education framework for Social and Environmental Justice

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2024 Collaborative Network for Engineering & Computing Diversity (CoNECD)

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Jorge A Cristancho, Purdue Engineering Education

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are everywhere –but are they harmful?" Nature, vol. 593, pp. 22-25, 2021. [Online]. Available: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-021-01143-3.[17] M. J. Barnett, P. Hancock, L. Klotz, et al., "Recycling bias and reduction neglect," Nature Sustainability, 2023. [Online]. Available: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41893-023-01185-7.[18] P. Singer, "Ethics and intuitions," The Journal of Ethics, vol. 9, pp. 331-352, 2005. [Online]. Available: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10892-005-3508-y[19] J. L. Hess, S. Miller, S. Higbee, G. A. Fore, and J. Wallace, "Empathy and ethical becoming in biomedical engineering education: A mixed methods study of an animal tissue harvesting laboratory," Australasian Journal of Engineering Education, vol. 26, no

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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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2024 Collaborative Network for Engineering & Computing Diversity (CoNECD)

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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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laboratories, classrooms, and their broader departments. Yet, graduatestudents broadly, as well as graduate WOC more specifically, rarely described mental healthwith their STEM graduate advisors (Mousavi et al., 2018; Wilkins-Yel et al., 2022; Wilkins-Yelet al., 2023). To date, there is a dearth in research examining how systemic agents, such asSTEM graduate advisors, actively support graduate Women of Color’s mental health. Extensive research documents the harmful and toxic ways in which graduate advisorsnegatively affect Black and Latinx graduate students. However, there have been fewer attemptsto highlight how graduate advisors can positively support graduate students, especially Black andLatinx graduate women in STEM. Understanding the

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Track 1: Technical Session 8: Cutting the Curb for Students with Disabilities Transitioning to Higher Education

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2024 Collaborative Network for Engineering & Computing Diversity (CoNECD)

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Seth Vuletich, Colorado School of Mines; Brianna B Buljung, Colorado School of Mines; Jamie Marie Regan, Colorado School of Mines

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, 2022. [Online]. Available:https://www.proquest.com/docview/2051258067/abstract/CB7CF9CB623D477APQ/1[27] S. B. Meade, “Identifying Evidence Based Transition Strategies and the Barriers to EffectiveTransition Planning for Students with Learning Disabilities,” Ed.D., Northcentral University,United States -- Arizona. Accessed: Sep. 26, 2022. [Online]. Available:https://www.proquest.com/docview/1885095263/abstract/36A04BED8DBD4B12PQ/1[28] H. Jeannis, J. Joseph, M. Goldberg, K. Seelman, M. Schmeler, and R. A. Cooper, “Full-participation of students with physical disabilities in science and engineering laboratories,”Disability and Rehabilitation: Assistive Technology, vol. 13, no. 2, pp. 186–193, Feb. 2018, doi:10.1080/17483107.2017.1300348.[29] J. C

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Track 5: Technical Session 1: Peru in State College

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2024 Collaborative Network for Engineering & Computing Diversity (CoNECD)

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Lauren A Griggs Griggs, Pennsylvania State University ; Julio Urbina, Pennsylvania State University

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guiding questions for the evaluation of the program, assummarized in this paper include:importance of being globally articulate and engaged. Thestudents worked for about two weeks on this project with5 students from Universidad Nacional de Ingenieria inPeru in a fabrication laboratory (FabLab) of anotherinstitution, Universidad ESAN, also in Lima, Peru.The quantitative measure for assessing the success of the NSF Pathways project wasdetermined on the retention and graduation rates of students in STEM fields after afive-year period. In 2017, the four-year retention rate for these students stood at a 10commendable 100%. Furthermore, it is

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Track 6: Technical Session 2: Enhancing the Cultural Competence of K-12 STEM Teachers through a Global Research Experience

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2024 Collaborative Network for Engineering & Computing Diversity (CoNECD)

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Margaret Pinnell, University of Dayton; Leanne Petry, Central State University; Kelly Bohrer, University of Dayton; Kellie Schneider, University of Dayton; Marjorie Langston Langston; Elizabeth Generas

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- chemistry. Her research interests include oxidation-reduction reactions at the surface of electrodes for sensor applications, corrosion mechanisms of materials, as well as their electrochemical degradation. She currently serves as the American Association of University Professors (AAUP) – CSU Chapter President, the Director of Faculty Development in the Center for Teaching and Learning (CTL) as well as Chair of the Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) Council at CSU. She advocates for the incorporation of high im- pact practices such as problem-based learning into educator lectures, laboratories, and outreach activities to engage students and the community in the education process, particularly STEM education.Kelly Bohrer

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Technical Session: Transforming Engineering Education Is Possible! A Descriptive Case Study of Reimagining Engineering Education and Delivering a Wake Forest Engineering Student Experience Promoting Inclusion, Agency, Holistic Learning, and Success

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2024 Collaborative Network for Engineering & Computing Diversity (CoNECD)

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Olga Pierrakos, Wake Forest University

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intentional aligned andbuild around the Wake Forest University Institutional Mission and Vision: Excerpts from WFU Institutional Mission –“Wake Forest is a distinctive university that combines a liberal arts core with graduate andprofessional schools and innovative research programs... It is a place where exceptionalteaching, fundamental research and discovery, and the engagement of faculty and students in theclassroom and the laboratory are paramount...The University sustains a vibrant residentialcommunity with a broad-based program of service and extracurricular activities... Central to itsmission, the University believes in the development of the whole person – intellectual, moral,spiritual and physical...While national