Conference Session

Mentoring Graduate Students - Diversity and Assessment

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Sylvanus N. Wosu, University of Pittsburgh; Devdas M. Pai, North Carolina A&T State University

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Graduate Studies, Minorities in Engineering

effective community engagement and mentoring partnership with all stakeholders for the production of increased number of URM STEM PhDs. Evaluate Diversity and Equity outcomes and reward departments that make highest impact in closing student equity, diversity or educational outcomes gaps.A mathematical diversity model that presents diversity impact as a linear function of theintentional actions or performances in Access (A), Retention Rate (Rr), Graduation Rate (G),Quality (Q), Climate (C), and Receptivity (Re) is presented with the corresponding diversitycontribution coefficients. The Engineering Research Center (ERC) is shown as a case exampleof a purposeful development and utilization of organizational resources to

Conference Session

New Research and Trends for Minorities in Engineering

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ajit D. Kelkar, North Carolina A&T State University; Ram V. Mohan, North Carolina A&T State University; Vinaya Kelkar, North Carolina A&T State University; Keith A. Schimmel, North Carolina A&T State University; Earl Hilton Martin

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Minorities in Engineering

AC 2012-3718: EXPERIENCES LEARNED IN CONDUCTING A SUM-MER WORKSHOP ENTITLED ”INTEGRATING NASA SCIENCE, TECH-NOLOGY, AND RESEARCH IN UNDERGRADUATE CURRICULUM ANDTRAINING (INSTRUCT)” FOR HBCU/MI INSTITUTIONSDr. Ajit D. Kelkar, North Carolina A&T State University Ajit D. Kelkar is a professor and Chair of Nanoengineering Department at Joint School of Nanoscience and Nanoengineering. He also serves as an Associate Director for the Center for Advanced Materials and Smart Structures. For the past 25 years, he has been working in the area of performance evaluation and modeling of polymeric composites and ceramic matrix composites. He has worked with several federal laboratories in the area of fatigue, impact, and finite

Conference Session

New Research and Trends for Minorities in Engineering

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Nadgee Mar González García, University of Puerto Rico, Mayagüez; Laura Isabel Nieves, University of Puerto Rico, Mayagüez; Paola Beatriz Pacheco, University of Puerto Rico, Mayagüez; Rosaurelis Joanne Marín, University of Puerto Rico, Mayagüez; Aidsa I. Santiago-Román, University of Puerto Rico, Mayagüez

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Minorities in Engineering

. Specifically, thewords used in the CI are not translated in the best connotation, since Arabic words arecompound, i.e. one word can have more than one meaning. These findings were incorporatedinto our study’s research design, which is explained in the following section.Research DesignStatics is a pivotal course for engineering students especially in the areas of civil and mechanicalengineering. Previous work demonstrated the presence of naive conceptions (misconceptions)on statics concepts among mechanical and civil senior engineering students.10, 11 CATS has beendesigned to detect errors associated with incorrect concepts necessary for Statics. Thedevelopment of CATS began with the identification of central Statics concepts based on ananalysis of

Conference Session

Innovatiive Methods to Teach Engineering to URMs

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Michel A. Reece, Morgan State University; Tracy R. Rone, Institute for Urban Research, Morgan State University; Carl White, Morgan State University

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Minorities in Engineering

AC 2012-4444: IMPLEMENTATION OF COOPERATIVE LEARNING TECH-NIQUES TO INCREASE MINORITY STUDENT INTEREST IN RF/MICROWAVEENGINEERINGDr. Michel A. Reece, Morgan State University Michel A. Reece is currently a tenured professor and Research Director of the Center of Microwave, Satellite, and RF Engineering (COMSARE) in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Morgan State University. In this center, she pursues research in the areas of high frequency device char- acterization and modeling, highly efficient solid-state power amplifier design, and adaptable components design for software defined radio applications. She became the first female recipient at Morgan State to obtain her doctorate degree in

Conference Session

Developing Young MINDS in Engineering, Part II

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ruba Alkhasawneh, Virginia Commonwealth University; Rosalyn Hobson Hargraves, Virginia Commonwealth University

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Minorities in Engineering

activities which are designed to improve student learning outcomes.Dr. Rosalyn S. Hobson, Virginia Commonwealth University Page 25.711.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2012 Identifying significant features that impact URM students academic success and retention upmost using qualitative methodologies: focus groupsAbstract:The purpose of this research is to develop a hybrid framework to model first year studentacademic success and retention for Under Represented Minorities (URM) comprisingAfrican Americans, Hispanic Americans, and Native Americans. This model was

Conference Session

Developing Young MINDS in Engineering, Part II

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ivan Lopez Hurtado, Northern New Mexico College; Jorge Crichigno, Northern New Mexico College

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Minorities in Engineering

initiatives of theDepartment of Engineering Faculty, several strategies were implemented with the followingmain goals: increase the pipeline of potential engineering students, recruit students for theengineering programs, retain them and ultimately, graduate them. Page 25.748.2   1  The strategies described in this paper were selected from best practices well documented in theliterature. It was clear that only a comprehensive and synergistic approach would revert theattrition trend that other programs have experienced at the College.The strategies

Conference Session

Attracting Young Minds: Part I

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Aileen M. Walter, National Action Council for Minorities in Engineering, NACME, Inc.; Saundra Johnson Austin, National Action Council for Minorities in Engineering, NACME, Inc.

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Minorities in Engineering

that achieving success inincreasing underrepresenting minority participation in engineering study requires a multifacetedstrategy to address the continuum from middle school to workforce entry. The multifacetedXXX strategy integrates our programs designed to increase the number of underrepresentedminorities who earn their baccalaureate degrees in engineering. These initiatives include, Pre-Engineering Programs, Scholarships and University Relations; Research; and Policy.The session will address XXX’s STEM Integration Model with a focus on partnerships, best-practices and data driven strategies with the goal of expanding the engineering pathway. Morespecifically, we will highlight XXX’s college and university partnerships to increase

Conference Session

Developing Young Minds in Engineering: Part I

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Katherine S. Zerda, University of Houston; Stuart A. Long, University of Houston; Fritz J. Claydon, University of Houston

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Minorities in Engineering

school districts, nonprofits, and corporations to expose youngsters toexciting math, science, and engineering design activities led by engineering undergraduates. Italso includes a residential summer engineering program for precollege students and theirundergraduate engineering student mentors. Once admitted to engineering, incoming collegestudents gain access to a system of academic Best Practices that includes first-year commoncohorts for math, science and engineering courses, collaborative learning workshops, academicsuccess tools, personal skills enhancement, formalized peer mentoring, and service learning.Returning and transfer students access supplemental collaborative learning workshops in supportof sophomore- and junior-level engineering

Conference Session

Attracting Young Minds: Part II

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Amelito G. Enriquez, Cañada College; Wenshen Pong, San Francisco State University; Hamid Shahnasser, San Francisco State University; Hamid Mahmoodi, San Francisco State University; Hao Jiang, San Francisco State University; Cheng Chen, San Francisco State University

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Minorities in Engineering

-program student survey designed to measure perception ofover-all usefulness of the research internship program. Results show that the research internshipprogram was successful in its achieving its goals of helping students prepare for transfer, solidifytheir choice of major, increase their confidence in applying for other internships, and enhance theirinterest in pursuing graduate degrees. Overall, students were satisfied with the program, and wouldrecommend it to a friend. More details of student responses to the post-program survey includingtheir perception of the usefulness of and satisfaction with specific program activities are given inAppendix A

Conference Session

Innovatiive Methods to Teach Engineering to URMs

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jorge Crichigno, Northern New Mexico College; Ivan Lopez Hurtado, Northern New Mexico College

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Minorities in Engineering

protocol stack. Due to its importance, routing has been included in the 2008 ACMand IEEE Computer Society Guidelines for Engineering Information Technology 1 as afundamental unit in the body of knowledge belonging to the networking track. Additionally, CEPincludes a course in Routing Concepts and Protocols as part of the program.The Routing course offered at our institution is based on Routing Protocols and Concepts ofCEP. The base text book is 12. However, it is substantially complemented with material from 4, 5,7 . The course covers interior gateway routing and includes both intra-domain static routing anddynamic routing protocols. Students study how routers discover remote networks and determinethe best path or paths to them. They design

Conference Session

Adaptive and Supportive Learning Environments

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

W. Vincent Wilding, Brigham Young University; Thomas Allen Knotts IV, Brigham Young University; William G. Pitt, Brigham Young University; Morris D. Argyle, Brigham Young University

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Chemical Engineering, Minorities in Engineering

process was to come upwith a working definition of “leadership” with enough substance that we could deal in concreteprinciples and practices. Through discussions with our Industrial Advisory Board, we developeda list of leadership characteristics important in engineering practice which constitutes thisworking definition.Although there are team experiences in most of our courses, we have designated one course ineach semester from the second semester of the sophomore year through graduation in which tofocus on and assess leadership skills. In each team experience in these courses, students use thelist of leadership characteristics as a basis for giving feedback to their teammates. Then eachstudent uses the feedback from his/her teammates to develop

Conference Session

Attracting Young Minds: Part I

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Aurenice Menezes Oliveira, Michigan Technological University

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Minorities in Engineering

’ transfer and attainment of a baccalaureatedegree. The program helps community college students transfer to a four-year institution byaddressing the opportunities and challenges for students who want to pursue abaccalaureate degree. It encourages academically and economically disadvantaged studentsas well as minority students, Hispanic-American, Native American, and African-American,to continue their education beyond community college. The program includes academictutoring and comprehensive advising, 3-credit university-level course, competitive stipend,and room/meals. Students live on the University campus while completing anundergraduate research internship with a faculty member and graduate students. Theprogram has achieved a success transfer

Conference Session

Minorities in Engineering Poster Session

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Wei Zheng, Jackson State University; Jianjun Yin, Jackson State University

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Minorities in Engineering

Solving (CPS); and to communicate the potential impact of thisscaffolding on underserved minority students’ higher-order skill development through Project-Based Service Learning (PBSL). It contends that adoption of engineering design process inexperiential learning could promote students’ demands for cognitive and metacognitive strategiesof Self-Regulated Learning (SRL) and Creative Problem Solving (CPS), and scaffolding withquestion prompts based on cognitive research findings could better facilitate SRL and CPSprocess of underserved minority students, and lead to their enriched metacognitive experience,meaningful accomplishment, and improvement of self-efficacy and higher-order skills. Theoverall goal of the presented scaffolding instruction is

Conference Session

Developing Young Minds in Engineering: Part I

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Monica Farmer Cox, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Jeremi S. London, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Benjamin Ahn, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Porsche Amanda Williams; Cameron Michael McGhee, Purdue University

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Minorities in Engineering

practices in universities and industries. Ahn’s research has been strongly motivated by challenging, ex- citing, and inspiring experiences he has had as a Teaching Assistant in first-year engineering classes and as a Graduate Assistant for Purdue’s Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowships (SURF) program and Purdue’s Minority Engineering Program (MEP). In the future, he wants to be a global innovator for higher engineering education.Mrs. Porsche Amanda WilliamsMr. Cameron Michael McGhee, Purdue University Louis Stokes Alliance for Minority Participation Page 25.908.1 c American Society

Conference Session

Developing Young Minds in Engineering: Part I

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Maria M. Larrondo-Petrie, Florida Atlantic University; Ivan E. Esparragoza, Pennsylvania State University

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Minorities in Engineering

AC 2012-3600: MIND LINKS 2012: RESOURCES TO MOTIVATE MI-NORITIES TO STUDY AND STAY IN ENGINEERINGDr. Maria M. Larrondo-Petrie, Florida Atlantic UniversityDr. Ivan E. Esparragoza, Pennsylvania State University Ivan E. Esparragoza is an Associate Professor of engineering at Penn State, Brandywine. His interests are in engineering design education, innovative design, global design, and global engineering education. He has introduced multinational design projects in a freshman introductory engineering design course in collaboration with institutions in Latin America and the Caribbean as part of his effort to contribute to the formation of world class engineers for the Americas. He is actively involved in the International