Conference Session

Mentoring Graduate Students, Diversity, and Assessment

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Joy L. Colwell, Purdue University, Calumet; Jana Whittington, Purdue University, Calumet; Carl F. Jenks, Purdue University, Calumet

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Graduate Studies, Minorities in Engineering

. Page 22.1714.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2011 Writing Challenges for Graduate Students In Engineering and TechnologyAbstractGraduate education for most students is the move to deeper exploration of knowledge throughpersonal involvement, primarily through research and writing. By thesis or directed project,many graduate programs in engineering and technology incorporate substantial written research-based projects into the master’s level curriculum to prepare graduates for professional careers orfor further study at the doctoral level. Students in the engineering and technology fields faceseveral challenges in moving to written projects of

Conference Session

Myths About Gender and Race

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Peggy Layne, Virginia Tech

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society, Minorities in Engineering, Women in Engineering

faculty members, the pipelineextends through graduate school, an academic appointment, and promotion through the ranks ofassistant, associate, and “full” professor. Interviews of women engineering deans illustrate thelimitations of the pipeline metaphor for describing the careers of female engineering academics.BackgroundThe pipeline metaphor reinforces the myth of linearity in education and career progression. Flowthrough the pipeline is linear, with no provision for changes of direction or speed, and no reentryonce one exits, or “leaks” out of the pipe. While not overtly gendered, the unidirectional,constant flow image of fluid in a pipe is similar to that of the (male) ideal worker who gives fullattention to his job, without distraction or

Conference Session

Build Diversity in Engineering Graduate Programs

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Allison Kang, University of Washington; Lisa A. Peterson, University of Washington; Elena Maria Hernandez, University of Washington

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Minorities in Engineering

research project is different, the majority of students are involved in a small,independent research project under the mentorship of a graduate student/postdoctoral fellow anda faculty member. Frequently, these summer positions lead to ongoing research, as students areoften invited by their mentors to continue with their research throughout the academic year.Weekly lunch seminars give students the opportunity to hear from carefully selected speakersabout the variety of research careers connected to genomics. Students are coached to askquestions, and the speakers are encouraged to make the sessions as interactive as possible,encouraging student engagement, and personalizing the talks to their interests

Conference Session

Attracting Young Minds: Part I

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Wenshen Pong, San Francisco State University; Amelito G. Enriquez, Canada College; Hamid Shahnasser, San Francisco State University; Cheng Chen, San Francisco State University; Nilgun Melek Ozer, San Francisco State University; S. (Ed) Cheng, San Francisco State University; Hao Jiang, San Francisco State University; Hamid Mahmoodi, San Francisco State University

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Minorities in Engineering

decisions in the form of curriculumchoices9,10,11,12,13,14,15. Many of these middle school and high school students passively eliminatetechnical career options by not choosing courses that are not needed for these STEM fields9. Inmany cases, students who pursue STEM courses have made these career decisions before theyfinish high school so that STEM career exploration summer programs before their senior year, orbefore they start college may be too late. With this consideration, the SEI team is planning todevelop a curriculum that will be implemented in an engineering institute for middle schoolstudents.AcknowledgementsThis project was supported by a grant from the US Department of Education through theMinority Science and Engineering Improvement

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Panel on Recruiting and Retaining Women and Underrepresented Minority Students

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Hyun Kyoung Ro, Pennsylvania State University; Rose M. Marra, University of Missouri, Columbia; Ardie D. Walser, City College of the City University of New York, Grove School of Engineering; Patrick T. Terenzini, Pennsylvania State University, University Park; Lois Calian Trautvetter, Northwestern University; Susan M. Lord, University of San Diego

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Minorities in Engineering, Women in Engineering

practicing engineer in industry,government, or non-profit organization. We also explored if being active in engineering clubs orprograms for women and/or minority students played a role in their career planning. Whenwomen and underrepresented minority students actively participated in these types ofengineering clubs or programs, they were, indeed, more likely to plan to work in engineering, butthey were also more likely to expect to focus on management or sales rather than on becomingpracticing engineers. After two engineering faculty members prominent in promoting a more diverse studentbody commented on these findings, the floor was opened for a discussion of the findings andtheir implications for engineering and engineering education

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Innovative Methods to Teach Engineering to URMs

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Jean Kampe, Michigan Technological University; Douglas E. Oppliger, Michigan Technological University

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Minorities in Engineering

does not extract funds from the host schools but,rather, helps those institutions garner financial support from corporate and local stakeholders.There are no prerequisites (academic or otherwise) for participation imposed on students by theHSE program; project interest is the deciding factor. There are in-curricular instances of HSEteams and, in those few cases, prerequisites for participation are a decision of the host school.High School Enterprise Objectives High School Enterprise offers secondary students an opportunity to engage in STEMpractice in an environment that is at once “real life” with workplace demands/expectations andyet a safe place to try, to fail, and ultimately to learn. It is hoped that HSE equips high schoolstudents

Conference Session

CANCELLED: This session has been replaced by session W269 in room 223: Panel: Building Effective Pathways and Programs for Women and Minoritities

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Hyun Kyoung Ro, Pennsylvania State University; Rose M. Marra, University of Missouri, Columbia; Patrick T. Terenzini, Pennsylvania State University, University Park; Ardie D. Walser, City College of the City University of New York, Grove School of Engineering; Lois Calian Trautvetter, Northwestern University; Susan M. Lord, University of San Diego

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Minorities in Engineering

practicing engineer in industry,government, or non-profit organization. We also explored if being active in engineering clubs orprograms for women and/or minority students played a role in their career planning. Whenwomen and underrepresented minority students actively participated in these types ofengineering clubs or programs, they were, indeed, more likely to plan to work in engineering, butthey were also more likely to expect to focus on management or sales rather than on becomingpracticing engineers. After two engineering faculty members prominent in promoting a more diverse studentbody commented on these findings, the floor was opened for a discussion of the findings andtheir implications for engineering and engineering education

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New Research & Trends for Minorities in Engineering

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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K.L. Jordan, Michigan Technological University; Susan Amato-Henderson, Michigan Technological University; Sheryl A. Sorby, Michigan Technological University; Tammy L Haut Donahue, Michigan Technological University

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Minorities in Engineering

AC 2011-659: ARE THERE DIFFERENCES IN ENGINEERING SELF-EFFICACY BETWEEN MINORITY AND MAJORITY STUDENTS ACROSSACADEMIC LEVELS?K.L. Jordan, Michigan Technological University K.L. Jordan completed her Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in Mechanical Engineering from Michigan Technological University in 2006 and 2008 respectively. During her undergraduate tenure she was an active member of the National Society of Black Engineers (NSBE) and currently serves on the Board of Directors. She is also the President of the ASEE student chapter at Michigan Tech. As the recipient of a King-Chavez-Parks graduate fellowship, Ms. Jordan has agreed to seek an engineering faculty position upon completion of her Ph.D. degree. She is also

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Myths About Gender and Race

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Carroll Suzanne Seron, University of California, Irvine; Erin A. Cech, University of California, San Diego; Susan S. Silbey, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Brian Rubineau, Cornell University

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society, Minorities in Engineering, Women in Engineering

in sociology at UC San Diego. Her research examines individual-level, cultural mechanisms that reproduce inequality, especially those pertaining to sex segregation in science and engineering fields. Her dissertation investigates the self-expressive edge of inequality, analyzing how gender schemas and self-conceptions influence career decisions of college students over time. She also studies the role of professional culture in wage inequality, cross-national beliefs about work time for mothers (with Maria Charles), and, in a Social Problems article, perceptions of inequality among high-level professional women (with Mary Blair-Loy). She earned Electrical Engineering and Sociology degrees from Montana State

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Myths About Gender and Race

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Alice L. Pawley, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Jordana Hoegh, Purdue University

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society, Minorities in Engineering, Women in Engineering

in engineering educationresearch on underrepresentation. We find it important to remind the engineering educationresearch community of the theoretical and methodological limitations of homogenous reliance onone metaphor to guide research studies. This paper critically explores the discourse of “pipeline”as an aim to (re)introduce to engineering education researchers both the method of discourseanalysis as well as alternative metaphorical frameworks. We use empirical data collected forADVANCE Purdue’s Academic Career Pathways study using oral history and participatoryresearch methods to explore the consequences of pipeline metaphor’s predominance. These dataare the academic stories of STEM faculty and help us explore: 1) what theoretical