Paper ID #26141The NSF S-STEM Program 2010-2014 at Purdue University Northwest (Ex-perience)Prof. Harvey Abramowitz EngScD, Purdue University Northwest, Hammond BS Materials Science 1972 Columbia University MS Extractive Metallurgy/Mineral Processing 1975 Columbia University EngScD Extractive Metallurgy/Mineral Processing 1983 Columbia UnviversityMr. Roy L. Hamilton, Purdue University Northwest Throughout his career Roy L. Hamilton has been an advocate for providing the leadership and resources that promote educational opportunity for those who have traditionally been excluded from the American educational mainstream
Paper ID #27160Board 103: Work in Progress: NSF S-STEM Program: Recruitment, En-gagement, and Retention: Energizing and Supporting Students with DiverseBackgrounds in Mechanical EngineeringJamie R. Gurganus, University of Maryland, Baltimore County Jamie Gurganus works in the Mechanical Engineering Department at UMBC, focusing in the field of Engineering Education. She serves as the Associate Director of Engineering Education Initiatives for the College of Engineering and IT at UMBC and recently as Co-Director of Advancing Engineering Edu- cation Excellence (AEEE). Her research is focused on solving problems relating to
STEAM MachinesTM outreach camps across the Navajo Nation with the ambition to expand to Tohono O’odham Nation.Dr. Shawn S. Jordan, Arizona State University, Polytechnic campus SHAWN JORDAN, Ph.D. is an Associate Professor of engineering in the Ira A. Fulton Schools of En- gineering at Arizona State University. He teaches context-centered electrical engineering and embedded systems design courses, and studies the use of context in both K-12 and undergraduate engineering design education. He received his Ph.D. in Engineering Education (2010) and M.S./B.S. in Electrical and Com- puter Engineering from Purdue University. Dr. Jordan is PI on several NSF-funded projects related to design, including an NSF Early CAREER
can be tested in future research among Native American engineeringstudents, and that can be employed when considering educational interventions for currentstudents.References[1] B. L. Yoder "Engineering by the Numbers," in Engineering College Profile & Statistics Book, Washington DC: American Society for Engineering Education, 2016, pp.11-47.[2] R. W. Lent, S. D. Brown, and G. Hackett, “Toward a unifying social cognitive theory of career and academic interest, choice, and performance,” Journal of Vocational Behavior, vol 45, pp. 79-122, Aug. 1994.[3] R. W. Lent, S. D. Brown, and G. Hackett, “Contextual supports and barriers to career choice: a social cognitive analysis,” Journal of College Student
Administration (2012) from the University of Central Florida. Currently he is working on getting his Doctorate in Education - Measurement, Methodology, and Analysis track.Dr. Lisa Massi, University of Central Florida Dr. Lisa Massi is the Accreditation and Program Approval Specialist II for the College of Engineering & Computer Science at the University of Central Florida. She has been Co-PI of two NSF-funded S-STEM programs and program evaluator for three NSF-funded REU programs. Her research interests include factors that impact student persistence, professional identity development, and cultural identity in the STEM fields.Ms. Rachel Straney, University of Central Florida Rachel Straney is an Applications
that affords different levels of analysis that can be used to triangulatefindings. By doing so, the validity and reliability of the recommendations and implications canbe strengthened through maximum information and perspective, corroboration of data, andreduction of bias [18, 19]. Such methods might be used to clarify complex social, cultural, and/orpolitical phenomena [20] such as the lack of diversity in particular engineering fields.References[1] S. Cheryan, S. A. Ziegler, A. K. Montoya, and L. Jiang, “Why are some STEM fields moregender balanced than others?” Psychol Bull, vol.143, no.1, pp.1-135, Jan. 2017.[2] C. E. Foor, S. E. Walden. and D. A. Trytten, “I wish that I belonged more in this wholeengineering group: Achieving individual
. She holds a Ph.D. in Learning, Teaching, and Social Policy from Cornell University, and an Ed.M. in Administration, Planning, and Social Policy from the Harvard Graduate School of Education.Dr. Ebony Omotola McGee, Vanderbilt University Ebony McGee, associate professor of diversity and STEM education at Vanderbilt Universityˆa C™s Peabody College, investigates what it means to be racially marginalized in the context of learning and achieving in STEM higher education and industry. In partic ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2019 Development of the Persistence of Engineers in the Academy Survey (PEAS)AbstractThis paper reports the
, and that this contributes to broader racial and gender inequalities in pay, prestige andpower. “[S]cience degrees and occupations are associated with greater prestige and rewards thanany other field of study. In a technologically advanced society, the status and power of those inscience makes them the new elite” [29, p. 113]. Therefore, it is imperative that science andengineering disciplines are equally accessible to all, regardless of race or gender. The politicalnature of social justice arguments makes them uncommon in a discipline that prefers to maintainits objectivity [30]. However, the “equality case” for diversity is the only argument that takesinto account pre-existing power structures that reproduce racial and gender inequalities
Research Council(NRC) [4] , “...HBCUs enroll smaller percentages of African American students in S&E majorsthan do PWIs but graduate a larger percentage speaks to the efficacy of these institutions inretaining these students” [p. 156]. This fact debunks the negative message communicated aboutHBCUs only graduating the highest number of Blacks in STEM due to the high percentage ofBlacks enrolled. According to the NRC, the report highlights the effectiveness of HBCUs inincreasing participation and success of minority students. Although HBCUs face challenges suchas flat or declining enrollment because of an inability to compete with other more resourcedinstitutions with scholarship funds for prospective students or online learning opportunities
could indicate apreference for specific topic(s) on their application. The grant team reviewed studentapplications and assigned qualified students to faculty mentors, following student preferences ifthere was sufficient room available in that project. Students selected for the four-week researchexperience were expected to complete the appropriate first-year curriculum for their major beforeparticipation in the program. Students who were not on track to complete the first-yearcurriculum were referred to another summer program at CSUB for first year students who werestruggling with their first-year curriculum. First year transfer students were also accepted if theywere at the lower-division curriculum level within the major. First year transfer
Women in Information Technology (NCWIT) and, in that role, advises computer science and engineering departments on diversifying their undergraduate student population. She remains an active researcher, including studying academic policies, gender and ethnicity issues, transfers, and matriculation models with MIDFIELD as well as student veterans in engi- neering. Her evaluation work includes evaluating teamwork models, broadening participation initiatives, and S-STEM and LSAMP programs.Dr. Rebecca Brent, Education Designs, Inc Rebecca Brent is President of Education Designs, Inc., a consulting firm located in Chapel Hill, N.C. She is a certified program evaluator and a faculty development consultant. Brent received
that engineering students have to have an innate initial propensity inmathematics versus an ability that is learned. For these reasons, many students who did not fare well in the traditional high schoollevel math sequence, attempting to try a similar path in college may be settingthemselves up for a repeat conclusion. According to Snyder and Dillow (2011), morethan 1.7 million students enter the community college system. Based primarily uponperformance on a placement test, approximately 60% of these students are placed intoone, if not more, developmental mathematics course(s). Fully 80% of them do notcomplete any college-level mathematics courses within as many as three years (Bailey,Jeong, & Cho, 2010).At our North Dakota Tribally
and organize focus group interviews withunderrepresented students conducting undergraduate research in general. The objective is to assessthe process of attaining their research position. In this regard, focus group interviews will beutilized to facilitate collective reflection and dialogue by providing students opportunities toopenly discuss their learning experiences with fellow peers.Resultantly, Phase 3 of this long-term project involves developing communication channels withfaculty in the school of engineering who have underrepresented minorities conducting researchunder their supervision in order to assist each other in identifying and recruiting more students.REFERENCES[1] Russell, S. H. (2006). Evaluation of NSF support for
artwork, brochure, logos, and user experience design for website and mobile app. Also, videography service including editing, captioning and voicing-overs was provided. • Real-Time Text Display: The R&D center’s goal is to improve accessibility in classrooms and theaters. Captions to be displayed above whiteboard in a classroom or on the stage utilizing Microsoft’s Kinect or similar to track motion of one or more person(s) was developed.U.S. LawsIn order to understand what employers need to know beforehand, there are U.S. laws in place foruniversities and employers to abide when dealing with DHH students or/and DHH employees.Universities to provide auxiliary aids and services to DHH students: Section
; 1 SB Mentor Tenets: Community & Legacy 3 SB Growth ID Empathy Activity SS Basic Mentoring Skills D A D a S Hardware Introduction a PS Mental Health Skills for Mentors y SS Hacker Card Game y SS Afternoon Social 2 PS Art of Listening 4 SS Afternoon SocialThe training delivered by the Bulls-EYE PRIDE PI. Each day of the training program and itsusefulness to culturally responsiveness is described as followsDay 1: The first day of the training begins with introductions. Mentors mention what major theyhave declared and do brief
Smith1 Smarr1 Gilbert1 jam323@ufl.edu kyla@cise.ufl.edu tiffan3@ufl.edu ssmarr@ufl.edu juan@ufl.edu 1 Department of Computer & Information Science & Engineering University of FloridaAbstractIn 2014, an American land-grant research university in the South began a new cycle of theNational Science Foundation (NSF) Scholarships in Science, Technology, Engineering, andMathematics (S–STEM) grant entitled the Human-Centered Computing Scholars (HCCS):Fostering a New Generation of Underrepresented and Financially Disadvantaged Researchers.This project was a continuation of NSF Grant No. 1060545, which supported students at
Black Engineers 2016.5. Frehill LM, Moving beyond the double-blind: WIE and MEP programs and serving the needsof women of color in engineering. 2008 Proceedings of ASEE.6. Johri, Aditya, and Barbara M. Olds, eds. Cambridge handbook of engineering educationresearch. Cambridge University Press, 2014. Ch.167. Ohland MW, Brawner CE, Camacho MM, Layton RA, Long RA, Lord SM, Wasburn MH.Race, gender, and measures of success in engineering education. J Eng Educ. 2011;100(2):225.8. Meyer M, Marx S. Engineering dropouts: A qualitative examination of why undergraduatesleave engineering. J Eng Educ. 2014;103(4):525-48.9. Foor, C. E., Walden, S. E. and Trytten, D. A. (2007), “I Wish that I Belonged More in thisWhole Engineering Group:” Achieving Individual
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inengineering.The RStudio integrated development environment was used to perform the statistical analysis [8]. All statistical tests were conductedwith an alpha=0.05. A standard t-test is used to compare means. For the odds ratio estimate, the Fisher’s Exact Test for Count Datafrom the R-“stats” package is used[8]. The cohen.d function from the EffSize package estimates the effect size for all t-tests[9]. Thisis a measure of the strength of the difference between means and we use d ≤ 0.2 for a small (S) effect, 0.2 < d ≤ 0.8 is considered amedium (M) effect, and d > 0.8 is a large effect [9]. The statistical power is also estimated using the “pwr” package in R using defaultvalues for all non-required parameters [10]. A comparison of means is
levels in lumbar herniated discs in patients with sciatic pain. European Spine Journal, 22(4), 714-720. 9. Andrade, P., Visser-Vandewalle, V., Del Rosario, J. S., Daemen, M. A., Buurman, W. A., Steinbusch, H. W., & Hoogland, G. (2012). The thalidomide analgesic effect is associated with differential TNF-α receptor expression in the dorsal horn of the spinal cord as studied in a rat model of neuropathic pain. Brain Research, 1450, 24-32. 10. Andrade, P., Hoogland, G., Del Rosario, J. S., Steinbusch, H. W., Visser‐Vandewalle, V., & Daemen, M. A. (2014). Tumor necrosis factor‐α inhibitors alleviation of e- experimentally induced neuropathic pain is associated with
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postsymposium surveys, and workshop evaluations. This paper discusses the outcomes of the firstyear of the three-year funded PFMF program, including survey results and lessons learned.Background and Structure of the PFMF ProgramPoor enrollment of African Americans and other underrepresented minorities in STEMdisciplines is a critical, established problem. Though estimates demand great increases in collegecompletion in STEM areas to drive the U. S. economy, less than a quarter of minorities havecollege degrees [1]. This makes minorities a critical focal point as the nation works to addressgaps in STEM degree production. Science leaders agree overwhelmingly that increased diversityin the sciences is critical [2]. Increased diversity in STEM thought
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parallel cooperation and development of theinstructors also has had positive benefit. The fact that such a model can be incorporated withminimal to no curricular change suggests potential benefit at other institutions as well.REFERENCES[1] S. McGuire, Teach Students How To Learn. Sterling, VA: Stylus Publishing, 2015.[2] K. Leary and M. DeRosier, “Factors Promoting Positive Adaptation and Resilience during theTransition to College.” Psychology, vol. 3, no. 12A, pp. 1215-1222, 2012.[3] J. Himel, “The Understanding and Promotion of Resilience in College Students.” Ph.D.dissertation, Dept. of Clinical Psychology, Antioch University, Keene, NH, 2012[4] R. Palmer, D. Maramba, and T. Dancy II, “A Qualitative Investigation of Factors Promotingthe