Paper ID #24894Design Projects as a Linkage Between Interests and Career Aspirations: AnExamination of Underrepresented, Incoming-Freshmen STEM StudentsMs. Lauren A Griggs Griggs, Virginia Commonwealth University Lauren received her B.S. in Engineering Science, with a concentration in Nanomedicine from The Uni- versity of Virginia in 2012. As a doctoral student in the Department of Biomedical Engineering at Vir- ginia Commonwealth University, Lauren was awarded the Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award Individual Predoctoral Fellowship through the National Institute of Health. As the Program Coor- dinator for
Paper ID #24814An Institutional Transformation Model to Increase Minority STEM DoctoralStudent SuccessDr. Marcia Gumpertz, North Carolina State University Marcia Gumpertz is professor of statistics at North Carolina State University. She serves as PI of N.C. State’s NSF AGEP project, AGEP North Carolina Alliance: An Institutional Transformation Model to Increase Minority STEM Doctoral Student and Faculty Success. This is a collaborative project with North Carolina A&T State University and the University of North Carolina at Charlotte.Dr. Rebecca Brent, Education Designs, Inc Rebecca Brent is President of Education
has published in scholarly and practitioner-focused jour- nals on topics including evaluation design, instrument validation, and the effectiveness of policy change. After graduating from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill with a B.S. in Psychology Adrienne completed a Masters of Education in Curriculum and Instruction at UNC Greensboro. She taught third grade before returning to UNC Chapel Hill to complete a PhD in Education. In addition to her evaluation work Adrienne has worked on multiple research projects, taught doctoral- level research methods and statistic courses, and mentored undergraduate and graduate students.Dr. Rosabel Deloge, Educational Consultant-Independent Retired Career &
based approaches to STEM equity, and gender and race stratification in education and the workforce.Dr. Cara Margherio, University of Washington Cara Margherio is the Assistant Director of the UW Center for Evaluation & Research for STEM Equity (CERSE). Cara manages the evaluation of several NSF- and NIH-funded projects, primarily working with national professional development programs for early-career academics from groups underrepresented in STEM. Her research is grounded in critical race and feminist theories, and her research interests include community cultural wealth, counterspaces, intersectionality, and institutional change.Dr. Emily Alicia Affolter, University of Washington Emily Alicia Affolter, Ph.D. is
Paper ID #25024Women of Color in Computing: A Researcher-Practitioner CollaborativeFrieda McAlear, Kapor Center Frieda McAlear is a Senior Research Associate at the Kapor Center and one of the principal investi- gators of the Women of Color in Computing Researcher-Practitioner Collaborative. She has a decade of experience managing projects, developing evaluation and research methodology and building nonprofit technology capacity with socially progressive organizations in the Bay Area, Europe and Southern Africa. In 2013, she worked as an evaluator for an HIV/AIDS clinic serving villages in Lesotho and as a Program
a growing number ofminority undergraduate students who are unable to continue their STEM studies because of theirinability to pass pre-calculus, the gateway to calculus, which is a requirement for all STEMmajors. This paper presents preliminary findings from a project funded by the U.S. Departmentof Education to increase the number and proportion of Latinx, particularly Latinas, whosuccessfully complete pre-calculus and persist to completion of a STEM degree. The focus ofthis project is a 5-hour, pre-calculus course at a public, 4-year institution, consisting of fourhours of classroom lecture and two hours of workshop facilitated by learning assistants (LAs).To increase the success rate of students in pre-calculus, the project aims to
, especially within Community col- leges and four-year institutions, through the college students’ intersections of gender, race, and sexuality.Dr. Sarah Rodriguez, Iowa State University Sarah Rodriguez, PhD, is an assistant professor of Higher Education at Iowa State University. Dr. Ro- driguez’s research addresses issues of equity, access, and retention for Latina/o students in the higher education pipeline, with a focus on the intersections of gender and race/ethnicity for Latinas in STEM. She has experience coordinating large-scale interdisciplinary research projects focused on engineering and other STEM disciplines which have been sponsored by the National Science Foundation (NSF). Dr. Rodriguez has also worked with
institutions.● We have a particularly high concentration of many emerging best practices including open-ended projects, with an emphasis on team-based work, and high student autonomy. We have noticed ways in which these approaches serve students with non-visible disabilities well and ways in which they present new challenges. We have been working together for the past two years to develop some strategies and best-practices to make these pedagogical approaches even more universally accessible as they become more prevalent across engineering institutions.● Today we would like to share with you some of this work we have been doing at the intersection of disability accommodations and emerging pedagogical practices. We will
], BroadeningParticipation in Engineering [8], the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) MinorityUniversity Research and Education Program [9], and others. The NRT solicitation advancesinterdisciplinary research in data sciences and encourages projects that address underrepresentation inSTEM. The NCSU-NCCU collaborative project utilizes NRT funding to expand on existing researchcollaborations and leverages resources to develop a formal inter-institutional pilot program thatcontributes to diversifying the STEM community. 1The NCCU-NCSU Bridge-to-Ph.D. Program is inspired by the well-established, Fisk-Vanderbilt Masters-to-Ph.D. program, which aims
impressive for one small pilotcohort. School Participants Retention College/University at Cal Poly at College of Year Rate Pomona Engineering 2013-2016 24 100% 22 6 4Mission StatementThe mission statement of the Femineer® Program is to inspire and empower K-12 female studentsto pursue STEM in their education and future careers. The Femineer® Program helps students toacquire real skills in a fun and engaging way. There are four goals of the Femineer® Program: 1. Provide K-12 female students with project-based learning opportunities. 2. Provide professional development workshops to K-12 teachers who
several NSF- and NIH-funded projects, primarily working with national professional development programs for early-career academics from groups underrepresented in STEM. She is also currently serving as a Virtual Visiting Scholar of the AD- VANCE Research and Coordination Network. Her research is grounded in critical race and feminist theories, and her research interests include community cultural wealth, counterspaces, intersectionality, and institutional change.Dr. Emily Knaphus-Soran, Center for Evaluation & Research for STEM Equity (CERSE), University of Wash-ington Emily Knaphus-Soran is a Senior Research Scientist at the Center for Evaluation & Research for STEM Equity (CERSE) at the University of
virtual applications.lack an understanding of fundamental programming conceptsand that learning to program is difficult for many students [1], IV. CURRICULUM AND METHODOLOGY[6], [7]. As a result, CS educators have tried a variety of In this project, basic computing concepts—sequencing,instructional methods to assist beginning programmers [7]. variables assignments, operators (arithmetic and relational),Furthermore, results from other studies to discover why some conditionals, iteration—are introduced beginning with day-students have difficulty learning to program point towards the to-day examples with which students are familiar and canfundamentals of programming [8]. From the findings of these
Carbide Chemicals & Plastics, Inc., Charleston, WV Synergistic Activities: Project Leadership Team for STEM Achievement in Baltimore Elementary Schools (SABES), an NSF Funded Math Science Partnership with Baltimore City Public Schools Grant No. DUE- 1237992, 2012 – present. Co-Lead, STEM workgroup, Consortium for Urban Education, Baltimore, MD 2014-2015 Maryland State Department of Education STEM Equity workgroup 2014-2015 Professional Engineer, Commonwealth of Virginia, License No. 021864, 1996-2010 Board of Directors, Maryland Science Olympiad, 2010-present Champions Board, Mid Atlantic Girls Collaborative Network c American Society for Engineering Education, 20191Good morning! My name is
as 2004 chair of the ASEE ChE Division, has served as an ABET program evaluator and on the AIChE/ABET Education & Accreditation Committee. He has also served as Assessment Coordinator in WPI’s Interdis- ciplinary and Global Studies Division and as Director of WPI’s Washington DC Project Center. He was secretary/treasurer of the new Education Division of AIChE. In 2009 he was awarded the rank of Fellow in the ASEE, and in 2013 was awarded the rank of Fellow in AIChE.Rozwell JohnsonDr. Zoe Reidinger c American Society for Engineering Education, 2019 IntegratingInclusivePedagogyandExperientialLearningtoSupportStudent Empowerment,Activism,andInstitutionalChange
STEM, and particularly on assessment and metacognition, which can help support students who come from diverse intellectual and social backgrounds. She has current funding related to projects that seek to use metacognitive approaches to increase retention of underrepresented STEM students, including an NSF-sponsored project for which she developed and team-taught a course on metacognition for first generation and deaf/hard-of-hearing first year students. As part of an HHMI Inclusive Excellence project, she is also developing workshops to facilitate other faculty members using metacognitive modules in their courses.Dr. Scott Franklin, Rochester Institute of Technology Scott Franklin is a Professor in the School of
., Charleston, WV Synergistic Activities: Project Leadership Team for STEM Achievement in Baltimore Elementary Schools (SABES), an NSF Funded Math Science Partnership with Baltimore City Public Schools Grant No. DUE- 1237992, 2012 – 2018. Advancing Excellence in P-12 Engineering Education contributor 2017 and 2018 100K in 10 project team, 2019 Professional Engineer, Commonwealth of Virginia, License No. 021864, 1996-2010 Board of Directors, Maryland Science Olympiad, 2010-present; Chair, 2017 - present Co- Lead, STEM workgroup, Consortium for Urban Education, Baltimore, MD 2014-2015 Maryland State Department of Education STEM Equity workgroup 2014-2015 Champions Board, Mid Atlantic Girls Collaborative Network
efforts.IntroductionFinancial, physical, and human capital resources are used to provide additional efforts intendedto support undergraduate students in STEM, particularly underrepresented racial, ethnic, gendergroups in certain disciplines [1]-[3]. With U.S. demographic projections indicating a growth indiversity of the population, we can anticipate an increasingly diverse population ofundergraduate students. In preparation for this shift in demographics and in response to historicalissues of diversity in STEM, it is important that we begin to rethink our offerings of studentsupport.The larger project in which this paper is situated aims to help colleges improve their studentsupport investments by developing and testing the validity evidence for an instrument
Exploring Student Perceptions of Teamwork in a Summer Outreach ProgramAbstractIncreasing numbers of summer outreach programs aim to engage students in science, technology,engineering and mathematics (STEM). A common approach to these programs is project-basedlearning (PBL), which often involves working in teams. Ideally, students participating in theseprograms work together in teams to apply the STEM knowledge gained from their programexperiences; these intentional communication and collaboration experiences are also likely toenhance students’ teamwork skills. However, team experiences are not always positive, andsome team members may not feel welcome to contribute. Team experiences can negatively affectstudents’ sense
- sin–Madison. She relies on her historical background and training to identify and analyze research from a broad array of disciplines that pertains to contemporary women and underrepresented minorities in STEMM, to participate in WISELI’s ongoing research projects, and to disseminate current research to academic communities.Carmen Juniper NeimekoKatherine Fallon, University of Wisconsin, Madison c American Society for Engineering Education, 2019Helping Engineering Student Organization Members “Break the Bias Habit”Jennifer T. Sheridan, Manuela Romero, Christine Bell, Eve Fine, Katherine Fallon, Carmen JuniperNeimeko, and Mary E. Fitzpatrick 1AbstractThe College of Engineering (CoE) at UW-Madison, in
systems engineering and technical project management. Tanya taught mathe- matics at the Denver School of Science and Technology, the highest performing high school in Denver Public Schools. She is a PhD student in the School of Education at University of Colorado Boulder studying Learning Sciences and Human Development.Dr. Beth A Myers, University of Colorado Boulder Beth A. Myers is the Director of Analytics, Assessment and Accreditation at the University of Colorado Boulder. She holds a BA in biochemistry, ME in engineering management and PhD in civil engineering. Her interests are in quantitative and qualitative research and data analysis as related to equity in education. c American
education as more inclusive, engaged, and socially just. She runs the Feminist Research in Engineering Education (FREE, formerly RIFE, group), whose diverse projects and group members are described at feminis- tengineering.org. She received a CAREER award in 2010 and a PECASE award in 2012 for her project researching the stories of undergraduate engineering women and men of color and white women. She has received ASEE-ERM’s best paper award for her CAREER research, and the Denice Denton Emerging Leader award from the Anita Borg Institute, both in 2013. She was co-PI of Purdue’s ADVANCE pro- gram from 2008-2014, focusing on the underrepresentation of women in STEM faculty positions. She helped found, fund, and grow
. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2019 Storytelling And Utopia AsResistance To Marginalization Of African American Engineers At A PWI Chanel Beebe April 2019 WATCH AND REFLECT https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RD2o6soOe1I How did that make you feel? What stuck with you? What did you see? Key pointsEducation should prioritize active learning and embodied knowledgeEducational opportunities are different for different groups of people Marginalization exists AGENDA• My Story• Background of Project• Phase 1 and Phase 2• Phase 3• Summary of Findings• Recommendations• TakeawaysPROJECT BACKGROUND: MY
jobs.(Department of Labor Bureau of Labor Statistics, Employed Persons by DetailedOccupation, Sex, Race, and Hispanic or Latino Ethnicity 2017) 6Why does the lack of women in tech matter?Innovation - Having women on teams affects productivity, innovation, problemsolving, collective intelligence of the team (see www.ncwit.org/businesscase forsources)Increasing women’s participation could increase the talent pool available to fill the3.5 million computing related job openings expected over the next 10 yrs(see www.ncwit.org/resources/numbers#;Department of Labor Bureau of Labor Statistics, Employment Projections(Occupational Category: 15-1100)Increasing diversity would
also serves as the Director of education and global initiatives at an interdisciplinary research institute called the Institute for Critical Technology and Applied Science (ICTAS) at Virginia Tech. He is the founding director of an interdisciplinary lab called Learning Enhanced Watershed Assessment System (LEWAS) at VT. He received a Ph.D. in civil engineering from VT. His research interests are in the areas of computer-supported research and learning systems, hydrology, engineering education, and international collaboration. He has served as a PI or co-PI on 16 projects, funded by the National Science Foundation, with a $6.4 million research funding participation from external sources. He has been directing/co
Worcester community. The other half of the day is spentin hands-on engineering workshops. Evenings and weekends are dedicated to fun and buildingcommunity. In addition to the opportunity to come back to campus as TAs, all programparticipants are invited to semi annual reunions as well as follow-up celebrations for theirservice learning projects. The program maintains a Facebook group and regularly emails thecamp participants about outreach opportunities at WPI.Slide 7 The program is shaped by six design principles that are research- based. Do we have any
strategic campaign with and for engineering educators who want to enactstructural change that addresses inequity in engineering. We also hope to foster space andopenness for dialogue with those who might not yet see the need for structural change in thisfield, but who are interested in making engineering education better and more accountable toequity, diversity, and engagements with diverse publics and needs. This work is part of anoverarching Relational Organizing/Action Research (ROAR) project, in which we are interestedin achieving two goals as outcomes of research with and about engineering educators: (1)changing rewards structures in ways that value engineering education research contributions; and(2) enacting structural change that enhances
Education (FREE, formerly RIFE, group), whose diverse projects and group members are described at feminis- tengineering.org. She received a CAREER award in 2010 and a PECASE award in 2012 for her project researching the stories of undergraduate engineering women and men of color and white women. She has received ASEE-ERM’s best paper award for her CAREER research, and the Denice Denton Emerging Leader award from the Anita Borg Institute, both in 2013. She was co-PI of Purdue’s ADVANCE pro- gram from 2008-2014, focusing on the underrepresentation of women in STEM faculty positions. She helped found, fund, and grow the PEER Collaborative, a peer mentoring group of early career and recently tenured faculty and research
serves as Director of the Center for Research in SEAD Education at the Institute for Creativity, Arts, and Technology (ICAT). Her research interests include interdisciplinary collaboration, design education, communication studies, identity theory and reflective practice. Projects supported by the National Science Foundation include exploring disciplines as cultures, liberatory maker spaces, and a RED grant to increase pathways in ECE for the professional formation of engineers.Dr. Donna M Riley, Purdue University-Main Campus, West Lafayette (College of Engineering) Donna Riley is Kamyar Haghighi Head of the School of Engineering Education and Professor of Engi- neering Education at Purdue University
engineering pedagogy.Dr. Nadia N. Kellam, Arizona State University Dr. Nadia Kellam is Associate Professor in the Polytechnic Engineering Program at Arizona State Uni- versity. Prior to this position, she was an Associate Professor at the University of Georgia, where she was co-director of the interdisciplinary engineering education research Collaborative Lounge for Un- derstanding Society and Technology through Educational Research (CLUSTER). In her research, she is interested in understanding how engineering students develop their professional identity, the role of emo- tion in student learning, and synergistic learning. A recent research project uncovers the narratives of exemplary engineering faculty who have
Grant System Could Be Costing Us Great Ideas https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/18/upshot/why-the- medical-research-grant-system-could-be-costing-us-great- ideas.htmlGunnarsson, Birch, and Hendricks. 2019 CoNECD Annual Conference.Fixed: The Science/Fiction of Human Enhancementhttp://www.fixedthemovie.com/ Gunnarsson, Birch, and Hendricks. 2019 CoNECD Annual Conference.AssignmentsSee handout for full details> Weekly written reflections> Participation> Individual analysis paper on topic of choice> Team project addressing any social justice issue and proposing a solution Gunnarsson