Paper ID #21193CAREER: Actualizing Latent Diversity: Building Innovation through Engi-neering Students’ Identity DevelopmentDr. Allison Godwin, Purdue University, West Lafayette (College of Engineering) Allison Godwin, Ph.D. is an Assistant Professor of Engineering Education at Purdue University. Her research focuses what factors influence diverse students to choose engineering and stay in engineering through their careers and how different experiences within the practice and culture of engineering foster or hinder belongingness and identity development. Dr. Godwin graduated from Clemson University with a B.S. in
measured by college entranceexaminations. Upon completion of high school, a smaller percentage of Black and Hispanicmales are ready for college and they earn fewer college degrees than their white counterparts.According to a 2015 report [2], the number of college degree holders among Black and Hispanicmales varies from 12% to 21%, versus 38% for white men. Nationally, initiatives are underwayto develop the STEM pipeline through out-of-school time activities via partnerships betweenhigher education, school districts and community organizations [3].Figure 1: Black and Hispanics are underrepresented in the science and engineering workforce compared to their representation in the general
underrepresented group. In addition to scholarshipsupport, CLEAR Scholars are provided with an intentional set of activities that promotes studentretention, achievement, and persistence to graduation through: (a) Community-building througha cohort model; (b) Leadership and career development; (c) Engagement with industry; (d)Advising through mentoring; and (e) Resources for academic success (hence the acronymCLEAR). The ultimate goal of this project is to produce engineering graduates with lowerstudent loan indebtedness and greater preparation for post-degree roles.Entering the ProgramStudents apply for the CLEAR Scholars program as rising sophomores. To qualify, they must beengineering majors with a GPA of at least 2.7 earned in freshman math, science
]; n.d.a.).One way to accomplish this initiative is to model educational practices after the innovativeresearch and development processes characteristic of engineering businesses. According to [1],innovators within the engineering business model tend to be risk-averse, spending time andmoney on those innovations designed to address well-defined, specific needs. By contrast,engineering educators have traditionally focused upon knowledge creation and technologicalexploration, with less regard for market needs, associated cost, regulatory hurdles, etc. Ifengineering and computer science programs align with the innovators’ order, then studentswould first identify a social and/or industry need and then through coursework, obtain theknowledge and design
that a crucial factor in students’ learning and development ofengineering identity is how they are socialized into a research community. Our study (funded byNSF EEC RFE 1606868) draws on theories from the fields of education and science andtechnology studies, such as expertise [7], identity formation [8], and situated learning [9]. To investigate learning in labs, we collected qualitative data about students’ everydayinteractions with communities of graduate students, postdocs, and PIs. We conducted participantobservation in two engineering laboratories in a medium-sized public university for the academicyear of 2016-2017, which included attending meetings and shadowing undergraduates during labwork. The labs are about the same size and
to choose engineering and stay in engineering through their careers and how different experiences within the practice and culture of engineering foster or hinder belongingness and identity development. Dr. Godwin graduated from Clemson University with a B.S. in Chemical Engineering and Ph.D. in Engineering and Science Education. Her research earned her a National Science Foundation CAREER Award focused on characterizing latent diversity, which includes diverse attitudes, mindsets, and approaches to learning, to understand engineering students’ identity devel- opment. She is the recipient of a 2014 American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) Educational Research and Methods Division Apprentice Faculty Grant
Engineering Education Research. His teaching interests include develop- mental psychology; sociocultural theories of communication, learning, and identity; qualitative methods; and discourse analysis.Dr. Michelle Ferrez, University of California, San Diego Michelle is currently the Director of the IDEA Engineering Student Center at UC San Diego, Jacobs School of Engineering (Inclusion-Diversity-Excellence-Achievement). Dr. Ferrez has twenty three years of experience on diversity in STEM access, retention, and success programs in higher education (4 year and community colleges), K-12 and graduate student pipeline programs, and the role of four-year minority serving institutions in creating educational equity in STEM. Her
graduate with little development of leadership skillsand engineering educators do not currently have sufficient understanding of how engineeringstudents develop into leaders.This NSF ECE supported project seeks to close that gap by improving our understanding of therole leadership plays in the process of becoming an engineer. Specifically, this work investigatesthe role of leadership as a component of the development of an engineering identity inundergraduate students. By building on the idea that seeing oneself as an engineering leaderrequires the development of an engineering identity in combination with the development of aleadership identity, this work investigates the process of becoming an engineering leader andleverages the central role
, especially, the experiences of under- represented undergraduate engineering students and engineering educators. She is a qualitative researcher who uses narrative research methods to understand undergraduate student and faculty member’s experi- ences in engineering education. Dr. Kellam is interested in curricular design and has developed design spines for environmental and mechanical engineering programs when she was a faculty member at UGA, and recently helped design the EESD PhD program at ASU. She teaches design courses, engineering sci- ence courses, and graduate courses focused on qualitative research methods. She also serves as a Senior Associate Editor of the Journal of Engineering Education.Dr. Anna Montana
is home to a dynamic, interdisciplinary mix of undergraduate and graduate students and a post-doctoral researcher from various colleges and de- partments at Virginia Tech who work together to explore engineering and construction human centered issues with an emphasis on understanding difference and disparity.Dr. Cassandra J. Groen, Virginia Tech Dr. Cassandra Groen is a post-doctoral researcher in the Department of Engineering Education and the Myers-Lawson School of Construction at Virginia Tech. Her primary research interests include pro- fessional identity formation in undergraduate civil engineering students, grounded theory methods, and theory development. Her current work includes the exploration of
intuitive.• Extensible - the educational game should be extensible to enhance the breadth and depth of existing course material with multi-level modular design.• Adaptive - the game should be adaptable to various STEM fields - math, science, engineering, cybersecurity, etc.• Real technical skills - students should be able to apply their technical skills outside the game environment.2.2 How does the game design meet the goals?Engaging: Engagement is achieved through the design of game framework interfaces. Since our gameprimarily targets STEM courses that develop a student’s problem-solving capability, we designed our gameto be a narrative-based game in which the player assumes the role of an investigator, a detective, or anengineer