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Developing Identities for Robust Careers in Engineering

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Cameron W. Coates, Armstrong State University

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Paper ID #15309Attraction and Retention of Inner-city Under-represented Minority Studentsfor Careers in STEM: Parent PerspectivesDr. Cameron W. Coates, Armstrong State University c American Society for Engineering Education, 2016Attraction and Retention of Inner City Under-represented Minority Students for Careers in STEM:Parent PerspectivesThe objective of this work is to identify the likely barriers to STEM success for students and parents withina specific inner city culture, provide a deeper understanding of these barriers and to suggest a solutionthat strategically removes or neutralizes these barriers. Surveys were issued to

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Developing Identities for Robust Careers in Engineering

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Monique S. Ross, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Allison Godwin, Purdue University, West Lafayette

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Paper ID #14743Engineering Identity Implications on the Retention of Black Women in theEngineering IndustryMrs. Monique S Ross, Purdue University, West Lafayette Monique Ross is a doctoral candidate in the Engineering Education department at Purdue University. Her research focuses are race, gender, and identity in the engineering workplace, specifically the experiences of Black women in engineering industry. She also has interest in preparing women and minorities for career advancement through engagement in strategies for navigating the workplace. She has a Bachelors degree in Computer Engineering from Elizabethtown

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Developing Identities for Robust Careers in Engineering

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Julie P Martin, Clemson University; Renata A Revelo , University of Illinois at Chicago; Shannon K Stefl, Clemson University; Stacey D Garrett, Clemson University; Stephanie G. Adams, Virginia Tech

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Paper ID #14862Ethnic Student Organizations in Engineering: Implications for Practice fromTwo StudiesDr. Julie P Martin, Clemson University Julie P. Martin is an assistant professor of Engineering and Science Education at Clemson University. Her research interests focus on social factors affecting the recruitment, retention, and career development of underrepresented students in engineering. Dr. Martin is a 2009 NSF CAREER awardee for her research entitled, ”Influence of Social Capital on Under-Represented Engineering Students Academic and Career Decisions.” She held an American Association for the Advancement of Science

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Developing Identities for Robust Careers in Engineering

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Joni M Lakin, Auburn University; Edward W. Davis, Auburn University; Virginia A. Davis, Auburn University

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- tion for the Fulbright Specialist Roster (2015), the American Institute of Chemical Engineers Nanoscale Science and Engineering Forum’s Young Investigator Award (2012), the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (2010), and a National Science Foundation CAREER Award (2009). Her Auburn University awards include the Excellence in Faculty Outreach (2015), an Auburn University Alumni Professorship (2014), the Auburn Engineering Alumni Council Awards for Senior (2013) and Ju- nior (2009) Faculty Research, the Faculty Women of Distinction Award (2012), and the Mark A. Spencer Creative Mentorship Award (2011). Dr. Davis is the past chair of Auburn’s Women in Science and Engi- neering Steering

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Developing Identities for Robust Careers in Engineering

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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DeLean Tolbert, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Monica E Cardella, Purdue University, West Lafayette

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labeled engineering or not, canserve a unique role for African American boys. These experiences may inspire them to pursueengineering degrees, can contribute to the students’ development of engineering skills,knowledge, behaviors. Furthermore, the experiences may positively impact their engineeringself-efficacy through their college years. Although all students may not continue into engineeringcareers these skills are transferable to many career and challenges. [1, 2] For those AfricanAmerican males, who complete STEM degrees, they will be our problems solvers who willaddress the technological challenges to come. While society is bombarded with propagandaaround the challenges and failures that African American male students experience

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Developing Identities for Robust Careers in Engineering

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Nicole M Yates, National Society of Black Engineers; Barry Nagle, Evaluation and Action Research Associates

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. Some literature fitsMEOs in with professional engineering organizations[31] whereas others classify them asextracurricular or cocurricular activities[39]. Regardless of classification, there is clear evidencethat MEOs support the achievement of minority students pursuing technical majors.How MEOs contribute to the success of URMs in engineering and other technical majorsSuccess for undergraduates in engineering culminates in the completion of the bachelor’s degree.To arrive at that point, minority students must overcome the many structural, institutional, andpecuniary challenges that so often deter their peers. Although there are many critical points in anacademic career at which minority students are discouraged from becoming engineers, most

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Viewing Engineering Education through the Lens of Social Science: A Candid Dialogue on Race and Gender

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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William H. Robinson III, Vanderbilt University; Ebony O. McGee, Vanderbilt University

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University as an Assistant Professor, and was promoted to Associate Professor in 2010. He is the first African American to earn promotion and win tenure in the Vanderbilt University School of Engineering. Currently, he serves as Associate Chair of the EECS De- partment. He also serves as the Director of Undergraduate Studies for both electrical engineering and computer engineering. Dr. Robinson leads the Security And Fault Tolerance (SAF-T) Research Group at Vanderbilt University, whose mission is to conduct transformational research that addresses the reliability and security of computing systems. Dr. Robinson’s major honors include selection for a National Science Foundation (NSF) Faculty Early Career Development

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Women in Engineering Division Technical Session - Development Opportunities for Diverse Engineering Students

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Kelsey Morgan Irvin, Washington University in St. Louis; Elizabeth Hiteshue, University of Pennsylvania; Mary Yvonne Lanzerotti, Air Force Institute of Technology; Michael Geselowitz, Stevens Institute of Technology

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Paper ID #14771Oral History Project of Underrepresented Leaders in Science, Technology,Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM)Ms. Kelsey Morgan Irvin, Washington University in St. Louis Kelsey Irvin is a senior at Washington University in St. Louis double majoring in the Cognitive Neuro- science track of Philosophy-Neuroscience-Psychology and Psychology and hopes to pursue a career in clinical psychology. She is currently working on her honors thesis, which involves using neural measures to research reward processing in preschoolers with depression.Miss Elizabeth Hiteshue, University of Pennsylvania Elizabeth Hiteshue

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Women in Engineering Division Technical Session - Retention Programs for Diverse Students

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Lisa Carlson, South Dakota School of Mines and Technology; Shaobo Huang, South Dakota School of Mines and Technology; Cassandra M Birrenkott, South Dakota School of Mines and Technology; Sarah Folsland, Woment in Science and Engineering

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females in science and engineeringIntroductionThe concerns of low numbers of women in STEM have led to studies on the attrition1 and theimplementations of programs for the female students2. Studies found that students who withdrawfrom STEM majors are less involved in extra-curricular engineering activities, have lowerengineering self-efficacy and career expectations, but higher anxiety1, 3. However, the averageGPA of women who withdraw from STEM is no different than that of others1. To increase theretention of women in STEM, solutions have been proposed by many studies such as facilitatingcommunities for females4-5, involving peer mentors6-9, and mentoring by faculty and/or womenengineers10.According to the American Association of University

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Out-of-school-time Engineering: Implications for Underrepresented Students

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Stephanie Luster-Teasley, North Carolina A&T State University; Radiah C. Minor, School of Agriculture and Envrinmental Sciences, North Carolina A&T State University; Vernal G. Alford III, North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University

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interested in pursuingopportunities in STEM careers. The North Carolina A&T State University (NCA&T) Case Studiesin Science and Engineering Enrichment Lab program is an informal science and engineeringeducation program in its third year of operation. It is a hands-on STEM program that uses guidedinquiry and case studies to teach critical process skills for scientific inquiry for middle schoolfemale, minority students. The overarching goal is to identify how an all-female environmentcoupled with informal STEM learning experiences can build female learner’s confidence inscience and math. Hence, this intervention seeks to counteract negative gendered stereotypes andpeer pressure that middle school girls experience in the 6th – 8th grade level

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Pathways to Success in STEM through Computer Science and Making

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Jumoke 'Kemi' Ladeji-Osias, Morgan State University; Cindy S Ziker, SRI International; Derrick Cornell Gilmore, Kentucky State University; Clay Gloster Jr, North Carolina A&T University (Tech); Kamal S. Ali, Jackson State University; Philip Puthumana, Verizon Foundation

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, co-founded an online math education company, MathThink, and has additionally worked with companies including Oracle and Ernst & Young. Puthumana holds a BS degree in Accounting from the University at Albany and a dual-program MBA from Columbia University and the Haas School of Business at U.C. Berkeley. In addition, he is a Certified Public Accountant. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2016 Increasing STEM Engagement in Minority Middle School Boys through MakingAbstractAfrican-American and Hispanic males are significantly underrepresented in science, technology,engineering, and mathematics (STEM) careers. While youth start narrowing their

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Pathways to Success in STEM through Computer Science and Making

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Alicia Nicki Washington, Winthrop University; Shaefny Grays, North Carolina State University ; Sudipta Dasmohapatra, North Carolina State University

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Usefulness, & Professionaltoward ComputerScience12Freshman Undergraduate Communication Skills, Knowledge 5-point LikertEngineering Integration, Life-Long Learning, Team 7Attitude Survey Expectations, & Technical SkillsHigh School High School Confidence, Career, Self-Efficacy, 6-point LikertStudents’ Attitude Academic History, Knowledge, &to Engineering DemographicScale11Information High School, Confidence, Interest, Gender, 4-point LikertTechnology Undergraduate Usefulness, & ProfessionalAttitude Survey4Middle School Middle

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Women in Engineering Division Technical Session - Development Opportunities for Diverse Engineering Students

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Allie Copeland, Texas A&M University; Malini Natarajarathinam, Texas A&M University

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stereotyping predictions [11]. Gottfredson’s Theory ofCircumscription and Compromise 12] notes that career choice is often an effort for an individualto prescribe themselves into a social order; social elements such as gender, affluence, andintelligence often play a key part in career selection. Interestingly Gottfredson’s research alsonoted that at a very young age, youths begin associating prospective career options with genderand furthermore that gender appropriateness for career choice was a significant motivating factorin later years [13]. Additional research by Glick, Wilk, and Perreault [16] further bolsteredGottfredson’s position noting that when asked to define attributes for specified jobs universitystudents commonly listed gender as the

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Women in Engineering Division Technical Session - Retention Programs for Diverse Students

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Abbie B Liel P.E., University of Colorado, Boulder; Eva Leong

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retention is a challenge for all students, it isparticularly apparent for women and minority students whose representation in engineeringdecreases at every education and career milestone.1,2 As a result, women and minorities stillmake up a small fraction of those earning engineering degrees. At our institution, a publicuniversity in the state of Colorado, the undergraduate population is about 20% women and 8%underrepresented minorities (compared to 20% and 11% nationally). Moreover, only about 15%of practicing civil engineers in some subdisciplines, like structural engineering, are women.3 Incontrast, women now make up over 30% of lawyers and physicians, and over 70% ofpsychologists. Since no evidence exists that significant gender or racial

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Minorities in Engineering Division Poster Session

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Krystel Castillo P.E., The University of Texas - San Antonio; Mauricio Cabrera-Rios, University of Puerto Rico - Mayaguez; Michael W. Persans, University of Texas Rio Grande Valley; Hudson R. DeYoe, University of Texas Rio Grande Valley

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Rio Grande Valley, 1201 West University Drive, Edinburg TX 78539AbstractGrowing energy demand is connected to water availability and climate change and it placesadditional stress on the environment. Thereby, It is critical to prepare the next generation ofengineers and professionals to face the challenges in bioenergy, expand sustainable alternatives tofossil fuels1 and enable climate-smart agriculture2,3. To address this challenge, a career-orientedmultidisciplinary educational model is being implemented at three minority-serving institutions.This paper discusses the foundation of this educational program, which provides a robustresponse to the current sustainability issues by conducting multidisciplinary coordinatededucation, mentoring

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Minorities in Engineering Division Poster Session

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Mary R. Anderson-Rowland, Arizona State University

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, especially women and underrepresented minority students, and her research in the areas of recruitment and retention. A SWE Fellow and ASEE Fellow, she is a frequent speaker on career opportunities and diversity in engineering. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2016 Understanding How the 4.0 Guaranteed Plan WorksAbstractFor many students, a good college experience requires more than can be found in just theclassroom. Some student groups such as female, underrepresented minority, transfer students, orthose with unmet financial need can do very well in a college or university with just a littleencouragement and help. In fact, the National Science Foundation has been supportingscholarship

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Pathways to Success in STEM through Computer Science and Making

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Stacy Kastner, Mississippi State University ; Sarah B. Lee, Mississippi State University; Tori Holifield, Mississippi State University

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degree in Computer Science at Mississippi State Univer- sity, and her PhD in Computer Science at the University of Memphis. She brings software development and project management experience to the classroom from her career in industry. Her research interests include interdisciplinary project and team-based learning to promote gender equality in digital literacy and human and social aspects of software engineering.Tori Holifield, Mississippi State University Tori Holifield is an English graduate student at Mississippi State University pursuing an emphasis in Linguistics. She is a teaching assistant for the English department and a tutor for Academic Athletics. c American Society for

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Out-of-school-time Engineering: Implications for Underrepresented Students

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Aaron Kyle, Columbia University; Rachel Lauré Sattler, Columbia University, Biomedical Engineering Department; Hanzhi T. Zhao, Columbia University, Department of Biomedical Engineering; Christine Kovich, HYPOTHEkids

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Nevada, Rachel graduated salutatorian of her high school class and then pursued a decade long career as a professional dancer. Post performing career, she returned to higher education, graduating summa cum laude from Fordham University in 2014, with a B.S. in Engineering Physics. She has since completed her M.S. in Biomedical Engineering at Columbia University, where she is currently a PhD candidate under the guidance of Professor X. Edward Guo in the Bone Bioengineering Laboratory. She is passionate about both her research and teaching, pursing opportunites to mentor and guide the next generation of engineers with gusto.Hanzhi T. Zhao, Columbia University, Department of Biomedical EngineeringMs. Christine Kovich

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Out-of-school-time Engineering: Implications for Underrepresented Students

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Lisa Shatz, Suffolk University; Kerrie Pieloch, Suffolk University; Emily Shamieh, Latino-STEM Alliance

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for an NSF grant which provides schol- arships and career counseling to engineering students at Suffolk University. Her role in the project is to assess career development trajectories for the scholarship students, create program evaluations, collect assessment data and disseminate information to the STEM community.Emily Shamieh, Latino-STEM Alliance Emily Shamieh, Latino-STEM Alliance Emily Shamieh is a leader of the Latino-STEM Alliance. She has spent over 30 years as a bilingual educator, including 19 years as an Elementary School principal, plus another 7 years as a Budget Director & Assistant Commissioner for the Massachusetts Department of Public Health. During her career, Ms. Shamieh has been active

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Developing Quality Experiences that Retain Diverse Engineering Talent

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Daniel Christe, Drexel University (Eng. & Eng. Tech.); Brian J Wisner, Drexel University; Jay J. Bhatt, Drexel University (Eng. & Eng. Tech.); Antonios Kontsos, Drexel University

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. A final survey and individualizedassessments were conducted to evaluate the effectiveness of the program and progress of theindividual students, respectively. Students demonstrated familiarity with basic research methodsand universally reported increased interest in STEM education and careers, with several continuingto work in their labs beyond the program’s formal duration.Keywords — Research-based Learning, Community Colleges, Minority ParticipationIntroductionDespite efforts, underrepresented minority (URM) and female students are disproportionatelyrepresented in STEM disciplines based on their fraction in United States demographics. Femalesand URMs face unique challenges in STEM compared with their white male peers, which need tobe

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Institutional Capacity and Supportive Structures in Engineering Education

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Robert W. Whalin, Jackson State University; Ismael Pagán-Trinidad, University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez Campus; Evelyn Villanueva, US Army Engineer Research and Development Center; David W. Pittman PE, US Army Engineer Research and Development Center

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(1985-1998; Vicks- burg, MS). He has authored/co-authored over a hundred technical papers and reports during his career in private industry, government and academia. His current research interests are nearshore wave trans- formations, coastal structures, tsunami inundation, hurricane surges, high performance computing, and engineering education.Prof. Ismael Pag´an-Trinidad, University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez Campus Ismael Pag´an-Trinidad, Professor (1982-date) and Chair (1994-date), Department of Civil Engineering and Surveying, University of Puerto Rico at Mayag¨uez (UPRM); Principal Investigator/Program Man- ager of the Educational and Research Internship Program (ERIP) under the UPRM-ERDC (US Army Corp of

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Developing Quality Experiences that Retain Diverse Engineering Talent

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Jamie Bracey, Temple University College of Engineering; Gregory D Jones Jr, Temple University; Nadif Bracey, Morgan State University; Keyanoush Sadeghipour, Temple University

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Pennsylvania Math, Engineering & Science Achievement (MESA) initiative, a 10-state STEM consortium providing direct services in STEM education, teacher professional development and engineering education.Gregory D Jones Jr, Temple University Gregory Jones is a Civil Engineering senior at Temple University, and the current President of the College of Engineering’s award winning National Society of Black Engineers chapter. Active in student leadership and community outreach, Greg is committed to increasing minority engineering recruitment, retention, and successful career transition in the US and abroad.Nadif Bracey, Morgan State University Nadif Bracey is an Electrical Engineering senior at Morgan State University, Vice

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Institutional Capacity and Supportive Structures in Engineering Education

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Emily E Liptow, California Polytechnic State University; Katherine C. Chen, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo; Robin Parent, California Polytechnic State University; Jaclyn Duerr, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo; Dylan Henson, California Polytechnic State University

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to support their academic and social transition to college. To achieve thesegoals, the course curriculum emphasized career exploration, collaboration with peers, writtenreflections, and diversity and global learning opportunities.We identified with Yosso’s theory of “navigational capital,” which captures the knowledge andskills of underrepresented or underprivileged students that enable them to navigate institutionsand communities where a dominant culture prevails 27. Rather than taking a deficit approach (i.e.minority students need to be fixed), this study focuses on cultivating the strengths and assets offirst-generation and URM students to guide them toward success in engineering. In addition tosupporting these students, this course and

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Women in Engineering Division Technical Session - Retention Programs for Diverse Students

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Jennifer L. Groh, Purdue University, West Lafayette

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perception of littleopportunities for advancement. Conversely, a positive workplace climate also helps to explainwhy women stay in the engineering workforce.3,5For women in engineering careers, those who persist were found in one study to possess highlevels of self efficacy, to describe themselves in terms of their identity as an engineer, and to bemotivated by the innovations and challenges afforded by engineering. This study also reasonedthat those who persist possess an ability to adapt and thrive “despite working in a male-dominated culture characterized by difficulties associated with the workplace, includingdiscrimination”. In contrast to this, women who left the engineering profession were “less likelyto recognize options in navigating the

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Developing Quality Experiences that Retain Diverse Engineering Talent

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Rocio Alba-Flores, Georgia Southern University; Fernando Rios-Gutierrez, Georgia Southern University

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clear image of what a career in engineering is about. On otherhand, some effective (short-term) methods that can be used for attracting and retaining femaleand minorities in engineering include having minority and female faculty members to visit highschools to give presentations and motivate students to go into the engineering fields, offersummer opportunities for high schools students to work with faculty, and to implementrecruitment policies that identify minorities to be accepted into the engineering programs, etc.In the next sections we describe the particular efforts that have been implemented for attractingand retaining female and minority students and the description of the activities.Problem IdentificationWe investigated the race and

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Expanding the Perspectives of Underrepresentation in Engineering

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Luis Leyva, Vanderbilt University; Jacob Massa, Rutgers University; Dan Battey, Rutgers University

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women’s and LGBTQ+ individuals’opportunities for co-constructing positive gender and engineering identities. 11Such marginalizing influences of the technical/social dualism brought Faulkner to posit that theheterosexist ideology underpinning the dualism must be destabilized in order to broadenopportunities in engineering for women and gender-nonconforming populations includingmembers of the LGBTQ+ community. 11 Despite this call for challenging such heterosexism,much research drawing on Faulkner’s 2000 article minimally disrupts the mapping fromtechnical/social to heteronormative masculinity/femininity in exploring engineering as agendered discipline and career. 11,12 Only a small subset of this research examines gender issuesin relation to

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Expanding the Perspectives of Underrepresentation in Engineering

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Michele Yatchmeneff, University of Alaska Anchorage; Herbert P. Schroeder, University of Alaska, Anchorage; Matthew E. Calhoun, University of Alaska, Anchorage

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universitylevel.The number of students who complete the required courses in high school, pursue STEMdegrees, and graduate with STEM degrees, demonstrate that ANSEP is successful at encouragingAlaska Native students to consider STEM degrees, pursue STEM degrees, persist in STEMdegrees, and pursue STEM careers upon graduation11–14. Because of this success, ANSEPPrecollege component participants were the focus of this study. ANSEP is a longitudinal STEMeducation and academic enrichment model that works with Alaskan students starting in middleschool through doctoral degrees and subsequent professional endeavors11–14. ANSEP targets therecruitment of Alaska Native students, but it does not discriminate, so all students are welcometo apply to attend ANSEP

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Dissecting the Nuances that Hinder Broad Participation in Engineering

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Renetta G. Tull, University of Maryland, Baltimore County; Damon L Tull; Shawnisha Hester, University of Maryland, Baltimore County; Anthony Michael Johnson, University of Maryland Baltimore County

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gravitational force of Dark Matter. Eachengineering department (system) has its own black hole where all of the elements of thedepartment process in orbit, as shown in Figure 3.2. The department chair, senior and juniorfaculty, staff, students, courses, new and mature research programs, federally research centersare all in orbit around the departmental black hole. Figure 3.2 also illustrates a damaged researchprogram and a struggling student and junior faculty member. This is a crowded orbit. In closeorbit to the black hole are the department chair and senior and ‘star’ faculty who, during thecourse of their careers, have developed enough momentum and skill to withstand thegravitational forces and opposing forces in this orbit and to assist others in

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Women in Engineering Division Technical Session - Retention Programs for Diverse Students

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Rachel Lauren Shapiro, Northeastern University; Emily Olina Wisniewski, Johns Hopkins University; Emma Kaeli, Northeastern University; Tyler Byrne Cole, Northeastern University; Paul A. DiMilla, Northeastern University; Rachelle Reisberg, Northeastern University

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in Chemistry & Chemical Biology and Chemical En- gineering at Northeastern University. During his academic career at Carnegie Mellon University, Boston University, and Olin College he has been the recipient of the first Whitaker Young Investigator Award from the BMES, a Searle Scholar Award, and an Early Career Development Award from the NSF as well as a three-time recipient of the Omega Chi Epsilon Outstanding Faculty Award from the North- eastern Student Affiliate of AIChE. He also has led industrial R&D teams at Organogenesis Inc. and Polymerix Corporation developing tissue-engineered medical products and drug- generating biodegrad- able polymers, respectively, and has co-founded Automated Cell, Inc. In

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Dissecting the Nuances that Hinder Broad Participation in Engineering

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Rajeev K Agrawal, North Carolina A&T University (Tech); Myron L. Stevenson, North Carolina A&T State University; Clay Gloster Jr, North Carolina A&T University (Tech)

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careers. The state’s universities produced21,191 STEM graduates in 2014, the 10th most in the United States according to the Departmentof Education. Between the 2012-2013 and 2013-2014 academic years, North Carolinauniversities produced the 10th most underrepresented minority graduates in STEM fields in thenation. My College Options and STEMconnector report 26.2% of North Carolina High Schoolstudents are interested in STEM compared to 25.5% nationally for 2013. Statistically, NorthCarolina is a model for increasing diversity in STEM fields, but a large inclusion gap remains inSTEM graduates. From 2009 through 2013, North Carolina universities produced four timesmore White engineering and computer science undergraduates than African American