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Andrea Turcatti; Terrell Bennett

their abilities have higher academic performance and will consider a larger array ofcareer options. Improving self-efficacy is therefore very important to the academic and futuresuccess of students.Understanding the design process and the application of technical skills is important for students.Outside of some labs and capstone courses, these concepts are not often put into practice inacademic settings. Since students do not have many opportunities to work on real-world problemsthroughout their college career, the UTDesign EPICS team wanted to measure the impact ofworking on real-world projects on learning the design process and motivation to complete work.We surveyed the students after the semester on these topics. We also wanted to measure

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Kristine Denman; Joel Robinson; Tariq Khraishi

the National Science Board published a report drawing attention to the growing need forengineers in the workforce, and the concurrent deficit of the U.S. workforce to meet that need.One of the key challenges they identified is retaining students in engineering programs. Manyfactors influence persistence, including both individual (demographics, prior academicperformance, self-efficacy) and institutional (teaching quality, faculty-student relationships,academic support services, financial support, and opportunities for professional development)[1,2,3]. While some of these factors cannot be changed (e.g., sex, parental income status,race/ethnicity, first-generation college student), others can be influenced. The research identifies

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Chadia Affane Aji; M. Javed Khan

. The study was based on a quasi-experimental within-subject design. Theindependent variables (dimensions) were Self-Efficacy, Intrinsic Value, Test Anxiety, CognitiveStrategies Use, and Self-Regulation. A semester-long intervention which consisted of active-learningpedagogy was implemented in selected lower level math and aerospace engineering courses.Participants. The participants were undergraduate students at an HBCU who had registered in thecourses in Spring 2019 in which the intervention was implemented. There were 48, 38, 21, 25, and 9students registered in the MATH107 Pre-Calculus, MATH108 Pre-Calculus Trigonometry,MATH207 Calculus I, AENG200 Introduction to Aerospace Engineering, and AENG242 AerospaceStructures I courses respectively

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M. Javed Khan; Chadia Affane Aji

noted thatin 2011 Blacks were 11% of the total workforce, but only 6% were employed in STEM-relatedcareers. This was in contrast to Whites who were 71% of the workforce with 67% of them in STEMcareers. It is pertinent to point out that according to the 2015 census12, Blacks/African-Americanswere 13% of the US population and Whites were 72% of the population. While there are severalstructural reasons for this disparity13, one of the challenges is the retention of underrepresentedstudents in STEM disciplines in college. A literature study14 in 2013 identified six factors resultingin students to leave engineering, these being (i) classroom and academic climate, (ii) grades andconceptual understanding, (iii) self-efficacy and self-confidence, (iv

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Roli Varma

, limited early exposure to computing, competent preparation in science andmathematics, lack of self-efficacy to succeed in computing, the small proportion of womenamong computing faculty and student populations, differential treatment by male peers,prominence of geek culture, and a pervasive sense of not belonging to computing9,10,11,12,13,14,15,16.This has led some to see computing as a masculine field17,18.In contrast, women in many developing countries have increased their presence in computing. Inrecent years, scholars have begun to turn their attention to women in computing outside westerncountries19,20,21. Studies show that computing is a popular major among women in mostdeveloping countries. This is despite the fact that women in developing

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Madalyn Wilson-Fetrow; Dayra Fallad-Mendoza; Benjamin Fetrow; Christopher Fetrow; Vanessa Svihla

sense of ownership, competency and belonging that allows students to growfurther as they enter new research experiences. References1. Byars-Winston, A.M., Branchaw, J., Pfund, C., Leverett, P., and Newton, J., 2015​, —”​Culturally diverse undergraduate researchers’ academic outcomes and perceptions of their research mentoring relationships.” International Journal of Science Education, Vol. 37, No. 15, pp. 2533-2554.2. Carpi, A., Ronan, D. M., Falconer, H. M., & Lents, N. H., 2017​, —”​Cultivating minority scientists: Undergraduate research increases self-efficacy and career ambitions for underrepresented students in STEM,” Journal of Research in Science Teaching, Vol. 54, No. 2, pp

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Cody Crosby; Anita Patrick; Margo Cousins; Laura Suggs; Mia Markey

. Cousins also coordinates the department’s National Science Foundation (NSF) Research Experiencefor Undergraduates (REU) Site BME CUReS Cancer weekly summer seminars. Her academic interests includeimplementing and measuring psychosocial interventions that have been demonstrated to improve success for targeted at-risk populations, such as social-belongingness, growth mindset, and self-efficacy. Ms. Cousins holds a Master of Arts inHigher, Adult, and Lifelong Education (HALE) from Michigan State University, and a Bachelor of Science in Biologyfrom Washington State University. Her work has been recognized through staff excellence awards in 2019, 2011, and2008, and the engineering outstanding first-year group facilitator award in 2017. She has worked

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Chadia Affane Aji; M. Javed Khan

are cognitive engagement and self-efficacy. Thus,the learning environment was based on authenticity, inquiry and collaboration. Flight simulationsoftware was used to engage students in a real word scenario. Flight data was collected by thestudents, processed, analyzed and interpreted by the students. Teams of two students while flyingtheir own missions were provided the opportunity to discuss their data analysis. Next, studentswere engaged in a discussion about the data analysis and interpretation. The math concepts studiedduring the camp were the Pythagorean theorem and similar triangles, while the science conceptinvestigated was the standard atmosphere. The mission associated with the math concepts was alanding approach in a Cessna 172

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Krista Nicklaus; Daniel Puperi; Patricia Clayton

Effects of Doctoral Teaching Development on Early Career STEM Scholars’ College-teaching Self-efficacy. http://www.wcer.wisc.edu/publications/workingPapers/papers.php (2015).6. Flaherty, C. Online conversation shines a spotlight on graduate programs that teach students how to teach. Inside Higher Ed https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2019/12/13/online- conversation-shines-spotlight-graduate-programs-teach-students-how-teach (2019).7. Kusano, S. M. et al. Preparing future engineering educators through round-table practicum course discussions. in ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition, Conference Proceedings (2014).8. Pinder-Grover, T. A. Active learning in engineering: Perspectives from graduate student instructors. in ASEE Annual