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Proceedings of the 2020 ASEE PSW Section Conference, canceled

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Sheree Fu, California State University, Los Angeles; Steven Matthew Cutchin; Karen Howell, University of Southern California; Shalini Ramachandran, Boise State University

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Oppression (2018)​2​ have discussed thephenomenon.There are many reasons why an algorithm may be considered “biased.” Incomplete or faulty datais one reason. For example, in a study published in Nature Communication​3​ researchersconfirmed for the first time that two of the top genomic databases, which are in wide use todayby clinical geneticists, reflect a measurable bias toward genetic data based on European ancestryover that of African ancestry. This deficit in African ancestry genomic data was identified duringan 18-month long study conducted via the Consortium on Asthma among African-AncestryPopulations in the Americas (CAAPA). When compared with current clinical genomicdatabases, researchers found a clearer preference in those databases for

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Proceedings of the 2020 ASEE PSW Section Conference, canceled

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Grace Gius, California Polytechnic State University San Luis Obispo; Ahmed Osman; Maggie Rose Nevrly, Cal Poly SLO; Benjamin David Lutz, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo

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and BackgroundDespite decades of targeted effort and resources, women remain dramatically underrepresentedin engineering fields (Yoder, 2012) and this underrepresentation can lead to a number ormarginalizing experiences. Researchers have demonstrated the ways in which masculine normsand values are reflected in engineering practice and therefore code the discipline as male(Dryburgh, 1999; Secules, 2019). At the same time, technical/social dualisms map intomale/female binaries in ways that inform and support beliefs about what counts as engineeringwork and what is peripheral to the practice (Faulkner, 2000, 2007). These factors combine towhat amounts for an unwelcoming or chilly climate for women in most engineering fields(Ambrose, Bridges

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Proceedings of the 2020 ASEE PSW Section Conference, canceled

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Nicholas Hosein, UC Davis; Lee Michael Martin, University of California, Davis; Andre Knoesen

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. flipped a transportationengineering course and used questionnaires and class video recordings to show students had apositive view toward the change. The more broadly defined, blended learning method combinesface-to-face interaction with online tools in a general sense. In order to better teachentrepreneurial skills to students, Sidhu et al. incorporated a mock startup company course whichtakes students from concept to low tech demo. By shifting focus away from the time consumingtechnical details, more teamwork, self-reflection, and inductive learning could be taught. In a verydifferent approach Weaver et al. used a series of case studies of existing startups to give students amore holistic view of what it takes to bring an innovation to market

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Proceedings of the 2020 ASEE PSW Section Conference, canceled

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Tina Smilkstein, Cal Poly San Luis Obispo

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future classes with thatinstructor they would worry it might be reflected in their grade. (That said, the one instructorthey had that was inappropriate with comments during my time at this school was let go the nextterm after the comments were reported. The comments were passed on by a small group ofstudents but as more students heard that someone had been brave enough to report the instructor,more students came forward. The emergency had been defined and visible action was taken). Iasked if they would go to the chair and, again, the answer was “NO”. They were again worriedabout being found out and said they would just grin and bear it. We are not able to be in theclassroom for every class of every instructor but we do have meetings with our

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Proceedings of the 2020 ASEE PSW Section Conference, canceled

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Shant Aram Danielian, University of California, Irvine; Vikram R Arun, University of California - Irvine; Natascha Trellinger Buswell, University of California, Irvine

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limitations impact thefindings of our work. First, as has been mentioned, at this stage in the research, we haveexamined only a subset of our total dataset. As we describe in the future work section, this workwill inform further analyses.3 ResultsIn the preliminary analysis presented in this paper, 30 student survey responses were analyzedand a total of seven content features, one layout feature, and two benefits were identified in thesurvey results. The results presented in this paper categorizes the data gathered based on CodingFramework presented in Section 2.3. In addition, the conclusions drawn are based from thispreliminary analysis, and as such may not reflect complete student sentiments of support sheets.Future work will incorporate all 227

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Proceedings of the 2020 ASEE PSW Section Conference, canceled

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Natalie Schaal, Loyola Marymount University; Meredith Jane Richter, Loyola Marymount University; Christian Tiong-Smith, Loyola Marymount University

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% 39% Yes No No 52% 61% 78% Figure 3: Association with minority groups of the 23 study participantsWith the demographic context provided by Figure 2 and 3 in mind, the main result of our studyso far is the master codebook itself, as shown in Table 2. The codebook follows the hierarchicalstructure depicted in Figure 1, and is divided into six topics: engineering discipline, engineeringexperience, engineering connection, support for success (during college), obstacles anddeterrents (during college), and reflection on engineering identity. Within this