instructors collaborated in co-teaching the first-yearexperience university seminar course that the students had to take the fall quarter of the academicyear. This collaboration built a strong connection between the two instructors and the students.The course provided a more casual environment beyond the structured technical content of eachinstructor's respective discipline-specific courses.Additional Engineering Course MeetingsThe standard first-year engineering course is typically taught twice a week, with each sessionlasting an hour and fifty minutes. Throughout the year, the engineering class for SSP studentswas extended to three days, providing increased contact hours with their instructor. Thisadjustment facilitated greater access to laboratory
persistence and retention of low-income engineering transfer students.Athena Wong, University of California, IrvineDr. David A. Copp, University of California, Irvine David A. Copp received the B.S. degree in mechanical engineering from the University of Arizona and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in mechanical engineering from the University of California, Santa Barbara. He is currently an Assistant Professor of Teaching at the University of California, Irvine in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering. Prior to joining UCI, he was a Senior Member of the Technical Staff at Sandia National Laboratories and an adjunct faculty member in Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of New Mexico. His broad
Professional Communication Department at Texas Tech University. Previously, she served as Professor and Director of Technical Communication and Rhetoric at Texas Tech and as Associate Professor at Utah State University. Her scholarship focuses on online education, program development and assessment, and user-experience design.Dr. Mario G. Beruvides P.E., Texas Tech University Dr. Mario G. Beruvides is the AT&T Professor of Industrial Engineering and Director of the Laboratory for Systems Solutions in the Industrial Engineering Department at Texas Tech University. He is a registered professional engineer in the state of Texas.Jason Tham, Texas Tech University Jason Tham is an associate professor of technical
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Paper ID #43413Green Roofs and their Carbon FootprintCaitlyn Blaine Christian, EIT, Oklahoma State University Caitlyn Christian, EIT is a recent graduate from the Architectural Engineering program at Oklahoma State University. She graduated with honors and with a graduate certificate in Integrative Design of Building Envelopes. She is currently working as a structural engineer at Thornton Tomasetti in Kansas City, MO. Her work focuses on steel connection design, complex geometrical structures, and construction engineering.Prof. Christina McCoy, Oklahoma State University Christina McCoy, SE, RA teaches Architectural
2014 report indicate thatneurodiverse individuals make up only around 3% of science and engineering doctoral degreerecipients [10].Graduate students face a unique set of challenges when compared to undergraduate students,with faculty advisors playing a large role in student success. Several studies have noted specificchallenges related to advisors, including work-life balance, which may be impacted by facultyexpectations, and hierarchical faculty-student relationships [11]-[13]. Satterfield et al.’s [14]literature review focused on the experiences of graduate students during their studies andexplored how individual factors (the influence of the student’s advisor), programmatic factors(isolation and teaching assistantships), and external
developmentinitiative. What emerged was a year-long positive leadership development program that inspiredour leaders to learn, experiment with, and reflect on positive leadership approaches, which inturn initiated a culture shift in the College. This paper defines positive leadership and supplies arationale for its use in our context; describes the program model that we implemented; identifiesdata-gathering mechanisms; and discusses key findings and recommendations for deliveringpositive leadership-based training to engineering faculty and staff leaders.Background and MotivationSTEM professors rarely pursue or receive formal leadership education even though theyregularly direct laboratory groups, develop research collaborations, and manage teaching teams[1
engagement in science andengineering, and developing a diverse STEM workforce. However, Watts et al. [29] found thatactivities aimed at broadening participation of underrepresented groups in STEM fields were lessfrequently reported. Kamenetzky [30] reported that teaching and training were commonly cited,followed by broad dissemination and infrastructure enhancement. Cultural differences amongSTEM fields and political considerations may play a significant role in the types of broaderimpacts mentioned or omitted in research proposals [24], [30] . Roberts [24] found thatresearchers who mentioned societal benefits in their proposals were not more likely to proposedissemination of their results to relevant stakeholders compared to those who only
. Her prior work experiences include product management, consulting, tutoring, marketing, and information technology.Rachel Eve Gail Swan, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University Rachel Swan is an undergraduate student at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University (ERAU). Since 2022 she has been an Undergraduate Research Assistant in the ERAU Wireless Devices and Electromagnetics Laboratory (WiDE Lab). She has also been an Undergraduate Research Assistant at the ERAU Biologically Inspired Design-for-Resilience (BID4R) Lab since 2023. Her research projects and interests include hardware security for RF applications and machine learning. She is a recipient of the ERAU’s 2023 Outstanding Electrical Engineering Undergraduate
racial identity (i.e., visibility ofPOC) was often equated with inability and stereotypes in engineering [40]. Thus, claiming thatcolor-neutral attitudes exist in engineering negates the lived experiences of POC and thehypervisibility they are constantly exposed to in classroom, laboratories, or team activities.Colorblindness, and the idea that attitudes and behaviors in engineering are race-neutral, alsolead to issues of “otherness,” racialization, and cultural dissonance [41], [42], all of which havedetrimental effects on students of color. Moreover, colorblindness institutionalizes racism without asking for accountability whenracist acts occur. For instance, McGee argued that racism in STEM continues to exist becauseracially hostile
of Puerto Rico at Mayag¨uez with a B.S. and Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering. She earned an NSF RIEF award recognizing her effort in transitioning from a meaningful ten-year teaching faculty career into engineering education research. Before her current role, she taught STEM courses at diverse institutions such as HSI, community college, and R1 public university.Justin Ortagus, University of Florida Justin C. Ortagus is an Associate Professor of Higher Education Administration & Policy and Director of the Institute of Higher Education. His research typically examines the impact of online education, community colleges, and state policies on the opportunities and outcomes of underserved college students. His recent
Paper ID #43089Corsi-Rosenthal Box Learning Module: How Can We Make Clean Air Accessiblefor Schools? (Resource Exchange)Aaron Richardson, University of Connecticut Aaron Richardson studies and teaches with a focus on social and racial justice, accessibility, and creating relevant curriculum that will make use of students’ lived experiences and knowledge to help them bring their own personal meaning to their education and into the classroom. Aaron Richardson’s interest in the Corsi-Rosenthal Learning Module project revolved around accessible, relevant science and engineering education for students by using phenomena that
Microbiology at a Hispanic-serving community college in Miami, Florida. As an educator, they utilized equitable teaching practices & encouraged student agency to ensure positive learning outcomes. Their first year of PhD research focused on undergraduate student perceptions of social responsibility in STEMM, with special emphasis placed on the importance of science communication & policy advocacy, as well as the intersection of institutional culture & transformational change towards cultivating more inclusive & equitable access for underrepresented minority students in STEMM fields. They are now pivoting to explore critical mentorship & building out a new study. Outside of their research, they are the
to erode trust in the data (11/24 participants) and can lead to a more dangerousinterpretation of variability (2/24 participants). These results have important implications forcommunication on interdisciplinary teams and teaching statistics to engineering students.IntroductionVariability is ubiquitous in engineering but its impact is often ignored, sometimes to dangerouseffect. For example, in the 1940s the U.S. Air Force had serious issues with uncontrollableaircraft: At the height of this calamity 17 pilots crashed in a single day [1]. The standard at thetime was to design aircraft for “the average man,” with non-adjustable controls assuming fixedhuman dimensions. Gilbert Daniels [2] studied the measurements of 4063 pilots, and found
Foundation has supported Dr. Solomon’s research through grants such as the Research Initiation Award, Excellence in Research (EiR), and Improving Undergraduate STEM Education (IUSE). He was selected as a summer faculty research fellow at NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology (Caltech), in 2019 and 2020. Dr. Solomon received the Faculty Achievement Award from Tuskegee University in 2023. Dr. Solomon has published and presented 50 technical papers in various journals and AIAA and ASEE conferences.Mr. Hang Song, Auburn University Hang Song is currently affiliated with Auburn University, where he plays a pivotal role in the field of environmental research, particularly in the application of
Anti-Mirroring Related Alter Position Alter Alter Position Alter Subcodes Alter Gender Alter Gender Type of Type of Support SupportFindings & DiscussionProfessors and FacultyWitnessingOne of the simplest and most common ways professors and faculty witnessed nonbinaryengineering students was by respecting their preferred pronouns; respecting students’ pronounsis especially impactful due to the structural positions faculty hold in the laboratory and classroomsettings. Leon, Zayn, and Gwen Douglas shared experiences where they were happy that theirprofessors gendered them
mining and learning analytics in engineering education, broadening student participation in engineering, faculty preparedness in cognitive, affective, and psychomotor domains of learning, and faculty experiences in teaching online courses. He has published papers at several engineering education research conferences and journals. Particularly, his work is published in the International Conference on Transformations in Engineering Education (ICTIEE), American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE), Computer Applications in Engineering Education (CAEE), International Journal of Engineering Education (IJEE), Journal of Engineering Education Transformations (JEET), and IEEE Transactions on Education. He is also serving