Conference Session

Concurrent Paper Tracks Session II Skills Development

Collection

2016 ASEE International Forum

Authors

Autumn Marie Reed, University of Maryland, Baltimore County; Renetta G. Tull, University of Maryland, Baltimore County; David A. Delaine, Universidade de São Paulo; Darryl N Williams, Tufts University; Rovani Sigamoney, UNESCO

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Diversity, International Forum

evaluates programmatic inter- ventions designed to recruit, retain and advance diverse faculty at UMBC. Dr. Reed also routinely dis- seminates best practices learned from UMBC’s diversity initiatives at national and international venues. Dr. Reed is on the advisory board for the Mid-Atlantic Higher Education Recruitment Consortium.Dr. Renetta G. Tull, University of Maryland, Baltimore County Renetta Garrison Tull is Associate Vice Provost for Graduate Student Professional Development & Post- doctoral Affairs at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC: An Honors University in Mary- land), where she is the Co-PI and Founding Director for the National Science Foundation’s PROMISE: Maryland’s Alliance for

Conference Session

Concurrent Paper Tracks Session II Outreach

Collection

2016 ASEE International Forum

Authors

Terrell Lamont Strayhorn, The Ohio State University; Royel Montel Johnson, Center for Higher Education Enterprise

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Diversity, International Forum

small proportion of students majoring inhigh-demand fields such as engineering. The National Science Foundation(NSF) reports that 39% of URMs "plan to major" in science and engineeringfields as freshman, but less than half of these earn an undergraduateengineering degree; rates are startlingly lower for Blacks and Hispanics.One way to increase retention and graduation rates in engineering for allstudents is to enhance their overall skills and readiness for engineering-related work by way of cooperative education (i.e., co-op) and internships1that offer students "real-life, hands on" experience in their major subject. TheCenter for Postsecondary Research at Indiana University identifies suchexperiences as a "high-impact practice" that likely

Conference Session

Concurrent Paper Tracks Session II Courses

Collection

2016 ASEE International Forum

Authors

Dorian A. Cojocaru, University of Craiova; Anna Friesel, Technical University-Copenhagen; Daniel Spikol, Malmö University

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Diversity, International Forum

analytics (data-mining and reasoning) of practice-based andexperiential STEM. This data is used to create analytics support tools for teachers, learners andadministrators, providing frameworks for evidence-based curriculum design and learning systems.The PELARS project creates behavioral recording inputs, proving a new learning analytic that isscalable in application, and bridge qualitative and quantitative methods through reasoning andfeedback from input data. The project serves to better understand learners' knowledge in physicalactivities in laboratory and workshop environments, as well as informal learning scenarios.PELARS traces and helps assess learner progress through technology enhancement, in novel waysbuilding upon current research. The