Paper ID #42655(WIP) Persistence in an S-STEM project: Understanding the IntersectionalExperiences and Identities of Women in ComputingDr. Rachel Funk, University of Nebraska, Lincoln Dr. Funk has served as a research scientist with the Center for Science, Mathematics, and Computer Education at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln (UNL) since 2021. She specializes in research about student experiences. Dr. Funk currently serves as the project coordinator and lead researcher of a S-STEM grant seeking to better understand factors that influence the persistence of students in STEM.Leilani Marie Pai, Denison University Dr. Pai is
. He identifies with the pronouns ”He/They” and is known for his creativity, positivity, and outgoing personality.Dr. Racheida S. Lewis, University of Georgia Racheida S. Lewis, Ph.D. is an Assistant Professor at the University of Georgia in the Engineering Education Transformations Institute (EETI) and the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering. Dr. Lewis believes in creating a diverse engineering field and strives to do so through connecting with teaching, and mentoring future engineers. She has devoted her life to this mission through her leadership and lifetime membership in the National Society of Black Engineers. Ultimately, Dr. Lewis aspires to bridge together research and pedagogy within the
engineering education. Her current book project, On the Bleeding Edge: Gender, Immigration and Precarity in Semiconductor Engineering, investigates the intersections of gender, race/ethnicity, and immigration status among semiconductor engineers.Dr. Michael S Thompson, Bucknell University Stu is an associate professor and chair of the department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Bucknell University, in Lewisburg, PA. While his teaching responsibilities typically include digital design, computer-related electives, and senior design, his focusDr. Rebecca Thomas, Bucknell University Rebecca Thomas is the inaugural director for the Pathways Program at Bucknell University, where she oversees the rollout of Bucknell’s
capture the nuanced experiences of this group, as well as anacademic culture that inadvertently maintains exclusions. Future work will look to identify andamplify these root causes so that they can be attended to, in turn supporting the development ofeffective mental health interventions for all graduate students.ReferencesArksey, H., & O'Malley, L. (2005). Scoping studies: towards a methodological framework. International Journal of Social Research Methodology, 8(1), 19-32. https://doi.org/10.1080/1364557032000119616Anandavalli, S., Borders, L. D., & Kniffin, L. E. (2021). "Because Here, White is Right": Mental Health Experiences of International Graduate Students of Color from a
reconsider the role that spatial skills actuallyplay in training engineers. This paper argues that spatial skills testing and training interventionsare a misuse of the time and energy of people who want to help women and other historicallyexcluded students succeed in engineering. We must reframe our interventions withoutperpetuating deficit models about cognitive abilities like “spatial skills,” a construct which, inspite of its wide popularity in the STEM education community, has been very poorly formulated.References[1] S. G. Vandenberg and A. R. Kuse, “Mental rotations, a group test of three-dimensionalspatial visualization,” Percept Mot Skills, vol. 47, no. 2, pp. 599–604, Dec. 1978, doi:10.2466/pms.1978.47.2.599.[2] M. Peters, B. Laeng
assistant professor in the Department of Mechanical and Materials Engineering at Florida International University. Dr. Dickersonˆa C™s research agenda contains two interconnected strands: 1) systematic investigatiDr. Matthew W. Ohland, Purdue University Matthew W. Ohland is the Dale and Suzi Gallagher Professor and Associate Head of Engineering Education at Purdue University. He has degrees from Swarthmore College, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, and the University of Florida. His research on the longitudinal study of engineering students and forming and managing teams has been supported by the National Science Foundation and the Sloan Foundation and his team received for the best paper published in the Journal of
up disproportionate space 6 (0.42%) *Not coded as either inclusive or 967 (68.39%) marginalizing Inclusive Moves(1) Encouraging sharing. One way students increased the participation of other students was by encouraging sharing, which we define as proactively putting out an open-ended call for others’ input. To be coded as an encouraging sharing move, a student’s utterance had to go beyond simply asking for affirmation or refutation of an idea they themselves had stated. For example, when working on a problem about a firefighting hose, S made an encouraging sharing move when they put out a call for a peer’s idea: S: Yeah. What do you think Abe? What should we do?(2) Acknowledging
, University of North Texas Shirley Anderson is a Ph.D. student in Higher Education at the University of North Texas. She is also the Assistant Director of the Health Professions Advising Center at UT Dallas. Her research interests surround the topic of Marginalized Students in Healthcare. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2024 Culturally Relevant Practices at Hispanic Serving Institutions: A Systematic Review of Engineering Student Experiences AbstractOur study is rooted in Garcia et al.'s (2019) framework, which emphasizes Culturally RelevantPrograms (CRP) as crucial components of Hispanic-Serving Institutions (HSIs). These programstailor
dedicated students who participated in the co-design of theInclusive Teaching Toolkit, as their engagement and thoughtful contributions shaped this work.We especially thank Frannie Ello, the third member of our initial team in designing this toolkit,without whom this work would not have been possible.References[1] S. Ghosh and S. Coppola, ‘This Class Isn’t Designed For Me: Recognizing Ableist Trends In Design Education, And Redesigning For An Inclusive And Sustainable Future’. arXiv, Feb. 19, 2024 [Online]. http://arxiv.org/abs/2403.15402.[2] J. T. McDonald et al., ‘Program Encryption Toolkit: A Tool for Digital Logic Education and Undergraduate Research’, in 2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access, 2021.[3] C. N. Onyeador et al
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in the accommodations processStudents were asked about positive and negative experiences, and supportive or unsupportiveactions. Participants then had the opportunity to describe these experiences. Around 140 studentsresponded to questions about their experiences. 40 students described having a positiveexperience, while 67 students reported not having positive experiences in the accommodationsprocess. 22 students reported having negative experiences, while 104 students reported nothaving negative experiences in the accommodations process. These results are summarized intables 2-3.Table 2. Student positive experience(s) Theme n Example comments Emotional 23 “[Saying] I am there for you, take
,findings could inform guidelines and professional development for faculty and administrators onfacilitating constructive race dialogues among student populations. Outreach targeting familiesand communities may also be warranted to align messaging across spaces. Future work can delvedeeper into student backgrounds including where students spend their formative years and thetype of college they currently attend.References[1] K. Lajtha and S. Saini, “Biogeochemistry statement on #ShutDownSTEM and Black Lives Matter,” Biogeochemistry, vol. 149, no. 3, pp. 237–237, Jul. 2020, doi: 10.1007/s10533-020- 00682-7.[2] N. Subbaraman, “How #BlackInTheIvory put a spotlight on racism in academia,” Nature, vol. 582, no. 7812, Art. no. 7812, Jun. 2020
fiveundergraduates identify as disabled [11]. Yet, in engineering such substantive data is almostentirely unavailable. The National Science Foundation (NSF)’s 2023 Diversity and STEM:Women, Minorities, and Persons with Disabilities report states, “compared with data for othergroups, data on postsecondary degrees earned by persons with disabilities are limited” [1] and assuch, provides no data on disabled engineering undergraduate students and diminutive data ondisabled engineering doctoral students. Whether it be funding, available statistics, access, orsupport, the lack of care toward disabled students in engineering is apparent and intentional [12]–[16].This paper explores the availability of data for disabled students in postsecondary engineeringprograms
+ stress OR Latin* student + stress OR Indigenous student + stress”, “Black student + distress OR Latin* student + distress OR Indigenous student + distress”, “Black student + trauma OR Latin* student + trauma OR Indigenous student + trauma.”To appropriately scope the literature review, we used multiple exclusion criteria. First, anyliterature focusing on faculty, graduate students, or postdoctoral students was omitted. Second,literature published before the year 2000 was excluded as much has changed in the field oftrauma studies since the 1990’s. Lastly, any guest editorials or conference proceedings that didnot include a paper were excluded from the literature review.After an initial search through the journal databases, we screened the
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, or stretch, assignments are critical levers of mobility [1].Organizations and managers curate and allocate these types of assignments informally, usingthem as a means to develop leadership skills, identify people ready for promotion and the “fasttrack”, and build succession plans [2], [3]. Software engineering managers in Tobias Neely etal.’s [1] case flagged that stretch assignments need to have an element of building new skills andcapacities (stretches were routinely described as “getting out of your comfort zone”) and anelement of visibility in the organization and to managers and leaders. Career advancement forthese engineers, in other words, revolved around proving competence in novel areas that hadstrategic importance to the business
members play an integral part in creating organizational change in graduateeducation; thus, their readiness for change can greatly impact the success of the change initiative.Change readiness can be defined as an individual’s or organization’s ability and willingness tosuccessfully undertake and adapt to change [39], [40]. Change readiness has been studied at boththe individual and organizational level [41]. According to Rafferty et al.’s [40]MultilevelFramework of the Antecedents and Consequences of Readiness for Change, individuals areready for organizational change if they believe that 1) change is needed, 2) the individual ororganization can undertake the change, and 3) there will be positive outcomes from the change.Most literature is
to help practitioners navigate their careers, help practitioners betterunderstand their students and colleagues, and help administrators/mentors develop an asset-basedand systemic-based understanding of neurodivergence.References[1] H. B. Rosqvist, N. Chown, and A. Stenning, Neurodiversity Studies: A New Critical Paradigm. Taylor & Francis Group, 2020.[2] A. Cuellar, B. Webster, S. Solanki, C. Spence, and M. A. Tsugawa, “Examination of Ableist Educational Systems and Structures that Limit Access to Engineering Education through Narratives,” presented at the 2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, American Society for Engineering Education, 2022.[3] T. Sorg, “Where are We, and Where to Next? ‘Neurodiversity’ in
space to choose whether to revealtheir identities or a safe space to interact with their identities, such as having their cameras off inonline spaces or discussing identities in a supportive manner (Mohammed, T. F. et al., 2021; vonVacano, C. et al., 2022). One paper discussed how underrepresented students connect better witha human centered approach to engineering problems (Rodriguez, S. L. et. al., 2020). Three papersdiscussed the importance of focusing learning on the skills groups of students need to acquirebased on the content (Nasri, N. et al., 2021; Scutt, H.I. et al., 2013; Furner, J. M., & Duffy, M. L,2022). In general, the papers cover the importance of focusing teaching the students present asopposed to a general body of students
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strategies must be based in thecontext of these strategies, a one-size-fits-all approach would decontextualize the curriculum andwork against successful incorporation of social impacts into technical courses. Concurrentdevelopment of curriculum and accreditation assessment assignments will decrease overhead forcourse design and improve quality. This may be done during initial course design or at any stageof revision or improvement. Limitations to this work include a small sample size of facultyparticipants and continued program rollout.References[1] E. O. McGee, Black, Brown, bruised: How racialized Stem education stifles innovation.Harvard Education Press, 2020.[2] Y.-J. Chang, T.-Y. Wang, S.-F. Chen, and R.-H. Liao, “Student Engineers as Agents
they had and some points they wanted to focus on. They were mostly satisfiedwith ChatGPT’s generated outlines, though they both decided to finetune them on their own.ChatGPT as a Tool for Equitable Access Based on the aforementioned case studies, I believe that I successfully presentedevidence of ChatGPT being leveraged by students to gain more equitable access to courses. Allof these case studies contained evidence of instructors observing how students used ChatGPT toimprove their individual learning and course experiences. Although this is true mostly forinternational students, I also gathered evidence of domestic students using ChatGPT to gainstronger access to course materials and succeed in classes. I draw upon Lalueza et al.’s [42
to cater to diverse learning needs better. The findings of this study can informpolicies and practices aimed at fostering inclusive educational environments, supporting STEMstudents with ADHD, and enhancing educational outcomes.AcknowledgementsWe would like to acknowledge Cooperative Institutional Research Program (CIRP), the HigherEducation Research Institute (HERI), and the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). Inaddition, this research is supported by the U.S. National Science Foundation (2043430). Anyopinions, findings, and conclusions, or recommendations expressed in this material are those ofthe author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.References[1] “NIMH » Attention-Deficit
with Mention(s) of Words with the Root "Just" in Bold The Clean Air Coalition builds power by developing grassroots leaders who organize their Clean Air communities to run and win environmental justice and public health campaigns in Western Coalition New York. GJEP explores and exposes the intertwined root causes of social injustice, ecological Global Justice destruction, and economic domination. GJEP envisions a world in which all societies are Ecology Project justly and equitably governed with full participation by an engaged and informed populace living in harmony with the natural world and one another. We specialize in
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better overall participation in the course. Wehope to observe an impact on DFW rate and to reduce differential success.References [1] ASEE, SEFI Joint Statement on Diversity, Equity and Inclusion https://diversity.asee.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/ASEE-SEFI_DEIStatement.pdf . [2] National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. (2023). Advancing antiracism, diversity, equity, and inclusion in STEMM organizations: Beyond broadening participation. [3] Wilson, J., Towsend, T., Hargraves, R. H., Butler, S., & Allison, K. (2022). Anti- Racism, Equity, and Inclusion at Urban Institutions: An Introduction to the Special Topic Issue. Metropolitan Universities, 33(2), i-xiii. [4] Blonder, B., Bowles