Conference Session

Mentoring Minority Students

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Frances Carter-Johnson, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Patricia Ordóñez, University of Puerto Rico Río Piedras ; Renetta G. Tull, University of Maryland Baltimore County (UMBC); Miguel Alfonso Nino, University of Maryland, Baltimore County

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Minorities in Engineering

Page 23.562.3emphasizing mutual interdependence among the members.”13 Below are the words of a group offive tenure track female professors who peer-mentored one another through the process of tenure,which best capture the spirit of group peer mentoring. The professors range in age from 37 to 62,were in different stages of the tenure process, and in different fields. Despite this variability, theycame together to write and develop as scholars for 14 months. Together they wrote an article onnavigating the tenure process, which included the following statement: Initially, mentoring focused on helping each peer develop as an individual agent for her own productivity. As time went on, however, the group itself became an object of agency

Conference Session

It Takes a Village: Engineering Beyond the Classroom

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Elizabeth Litzler, University of Washington; Cate Samuelson, University of Washington

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Minorities in Engineering

identifies four main areas whichunder-represented minority students in engineering described as helpful to their development of asense of community and belonging: co-curricular/extracurricular involvement, peer support,faculty and department support, and residence programs. The study demonstrates that under-represented minority engineering students were able to derive a sense of integration, communityand belonging using multiple means, and that the support mechanisms they used changed a bitover time. By understanding the different ways that under-represented minorities are able tointegrate into their college campuses and ultimately find a sense of community and belonging,engineering programs can work to develop strategies to better support under

Conference Session

New Approaches in Engineering

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Karen T. Marosi, Bucknell University; Barbra Steinhurst, Bucknell University

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Minorities in Engineering

lasting supportive cohort of peers among the Backstage Bucknell participants. 2) Students greatly valued activities such as academic preparedness sessions in mathematics and physics as well as time management workshops that were geared toward helping them develop useful and necessary skills for success in their first semester. Meaningful instruction in writing was difficult to execute in this compressed time frame. 3) Nearly all participants felt that the program was of an appropriate length to achieve the goals of the Backstage Bucknell and would recommend the program in this format to another student. Gains in the three focus areas of the program were possible

Conference Session

New Approaches in Engineering

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ishbah Cox, Purdue University; Monica Farmer Cox, Purdue University, West Lafayette

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Minorities in Engineering

ReviewMost studies connecting music and STEM have occurred within K-12 education. In a study ontest scores of students in urban Ohio who are involved in an organized instrumental musicclasses versus students who were not involved in instrumental music classes, Kinney5 discoveredthat students involved in instrumental music classes outperformed students who were notinvolved with instrumental music classes.Middle school and high school students in band, compared to students not enrolled in band,received a greater number of academic honors6 and scored higher than their peers on classroomtests7 and on the SAT tests.8 Abril and Elpus9 constructed a study based on demographics ofparticipants in high school music ensembles throughout the United States. The

Conference Session

Minority Student Success

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Annita Alting, Grove School of Engineering, The City College of the City University of New York; Feridun Delale, City College of the City University of New York; Joseph Barba, City College of the City University of New York

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Minorities in Engineering

interested in transferring to a bachelor’s program in engineering.The purpose of the course is to introduce potential Grove students to the practice of engineering Page 23.249.4research in the engineering disciplines the school offers. The course consists of a group researchassignment, lab and library visits, guest lectures on engineering ethics and statistics, groupreports and presentations, math tutoring, and writing exercises analyzing a research article andexploring a research problem. A program description is provided in appendix 2. The studentswere recruited by Grove’s office of student programs using its contacts in many communitycolleges and

Conference Session

New Approaches in Engineering

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Audrey Lynn LaVallie, Turtle Mountain Community College; Eric Asa, North Dakota State University; G. Padmanabhan P.E., North Dakota State University

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Minorities in Engineering

students reiterated that these studies were much longer than any previous study they had undertaken in the past and that they had not worked before in a collaborative effort. The students were also able to note that planning and execution followed distinct stages- literature search, experimental design, data collection and evaluation , and drawing of conclusions. Exposure to technical writing was invaluable for most of the students- although writing skills are poor across the board in the U.S., scores are particularly low at TCCs. Science and math scores on assessment tests such as the Praxis (for secondary education students) are moderately lower than national medians, but English skills are very much lower. In