Conference Session

Undergraduate Track - Technical Session II

Collection

2018 CoNECD - The Collaborative Network for Engineering and Computing Diversity Conference

Authors

Adam Stark Masters, Virginia Tech

Tagged Topics

Undergraduate Education

Movement’s ability to contribute to diversity and inclusionefforts in STEM? (2) In what ways are making communities addressing or attaining the goal ofincreasing access to the STEM fields?The Maker Movement continues to advance today as making activities take place incommunities, in K-12 schools and on college campuses. This literature review includes asummary of current practices and identification of areas in need of improvement. From this, mid-course correction suggestions are made.Background on Making, Maker Spaces and the Maker MovementThe terms ‘making,’ ‘maker space’ and ‘Maker Movement’ came into public consciousness inthe mid-2000s and are largely tied to the company, Make:, led by founder Dale Dougherty [1].Dougherty started Make: with

Conference Session

Race/Ethnicity Track - Technical Session I

Collection

2018 CoNECD - The Collaborative Network for Engineering and Computing Diversity Conference

Authors

Karis Boyd-Sinkler, Virginia Tech; Amy L. Hermundstad, Virginia Tech; Mayra S. Artiles , Virginia Tech Department of Engineering Education; Canek Moises Luna Phillips, Rice University; Benjamin David Lutz, Oregon State University; Walter C. Lee, Virginia Tech

Tagged Topics

Race/Ethnicity

discussed in the following sections.3.1. Data CollectionT he data analyzed in this paper was collected at a large, predominantly white research institutionin the mid-Atlantic U.S. Participants were recruited from a survey that was distributed toundergraduate students in a living-learning community (LLC) and graduate students, both enrolledin the same college of engineering. T his sampling approach was purposive (Creswell & PlanoClark (2007) as diversity-related initiatives were ongoing at the institution and we aimed toleverage these efforts to facilitate discussion. Data was collected using semi-structured interviews,conducted by six different researchers. Though no attempts were made to match the race or genderof the participant with the

Conference Session

Undergraduate Track - Technical Session III

Collection

2018 CoNECD - The Collaborative Network for Engineering and Computing Diversity Conference

Authors

Elizabeth R. Kurban, University of Maryland, College Park; Paige E. Smith, University of Maryland, College Park

Tagged Topics

Diversity, Undergraduate Education

Maryland. Paige has over 20 years of experience with recruiting and retaining diverse populations in engineering. Under her leadership, the Women in Engineering Pro- gram received the 2008 National Engineers Week Introduce a Girl to Engineering Day Award. She is the principal investigator for a National Science Foundation’s Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics Talent Expansion Program (STEP) grant called the Successful Engineering Education and Development Support (SEEDS) Program. SEEDS extends successful women in engineering retention programs to all first-year and new external transfer students in the Clark School. Paige is the co-lead for the Mid-Atlantic Girls Collaborative (MAGiC), a regional