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CoNECD Session : Day 1 Slot 5 Technical Session 1

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2021 CoNECD

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Kathrine Ehrlich-Scheffer, Rochester Institute of Technology

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Boston, San Diego and finally Rochester, Kathy spent many years in the fitness industry while raising her daughter, wearing every hat from personal trainer and cycling instructor to owner and director of Cycledelic Indoor Cycling Studio. Kathy draws upon these many diverse career and life experiences while directing WE@RIT. In the spring of 2020, Kathy earned her Master of Science degree in Program Design, Analysis & Manage- ment through RIT’s School of Individualized Study, combining concentrations in Project Management, Analytics and Research, & Group Leadership and Development. An unabashed introvert, Kathy enjoys reading and spending time with her family, exploring the world of craft cocktails, and

Conference Session

CoNECD Session : Day 2 Slot 2 Technical Session 4

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2021 CoNECD

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Yousef Jalali, Virginia Tech ; Shernita Lee, Virginia Tech; Justin Grimes, Virginia Tech

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. Another initiativeis the Leadership Alliance, a more comprehensive program that involves more than 30institutions of different types (Ghee et al. 2014). One of the key aspects of this consortium is 8-10 weeks of summer research experience. Students from member MSIs accepted for theexperience in a research institution carry out a research project, receive mentorship, and gainresearch and professional skills. These programs and other similar ones have the potential tobuild capacity for the transformation of higher education and the workforce. Similarly, theHBCU/MSI Research Summit has the potential for broadening participation by creating acontext in which initial encounters-- between students, and students and faculty-- may lead toresearch

Conference Session

CoNECD Session : Day 3 Slot 2 Technical Session 1

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2021 CoNECD

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Emily Knaphus-Soran, University of Washington; Tiffany D. Pan, University of Washington; Eve A. Riskin P.E., University of Washington; Sonya Cunningham, University of Washington; Saejin Kwak Tanguay, University of Washington; Elizabeth Litzler, University of Washington

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Paper ID #28447Who benefits most from a holistic student support program in engineering?Dr. Emily Knaphus-Soran, University of Washington Emily Knaphus-Soran is a Senior Research Scientist at the Center for Evaluation & Research for STEM Equity (CERSE) at the University of Washington. She works on the evaluation of several projects aimed at improving diversity, equity, and inclusion in STEM fields. She also conducts research on the social- psychological and institutional forces that contribute to the persistence of race and class inequalities in the United States. Emily earned a PhD and MA in Sociology from the

Conference Session

CoNECD Session : Day 3 Slot 1 Technical Session 2

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2021 CoNECD

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Enrique Dominguez, University of Texas at Austin; Amy Marie Beebe, University of Texas at Austin

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positions such as Project Engineer, Lead University Recruiter, Logistics Engineer, Cost Engineer and Project Manager.Amy Marie Beebe, Women in Engineering Program Amy Beebe is the student program coordinator for the Women in Engineering Program (WEP) in the Cockrell School of Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin whose mission is to recruit, retain and graduate more women to advance gender equity in engineering. As a program coordinator, Amy assists in coordinating programming for current students which includes the WEP Leadership Collaborative student organizations, WEP’s Peer Assistance Leaders and WEP Kinsolving Living Learning Community. In addition to current student programming, she coordinates

Conference Session

CoNECD Session : Day 2 Slot 5 Technical Session 4

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2021 CoNECD

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Laura Bottomley, North Carolina State University

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understanding where their own skill level is and that they can learn to improve it, can lead tofrustration and the decision to leave engineering, particularly for members of groups that suffer fromimposter syndrome and the like.In a garden, different plants need different conditions for their best growth. Some plants benefit frompart sun/part shade, some cannot withstand full sun. In the garden metaphor, some students benefitfrom close proximity to mentors and advisors like living and learning communities and mentoringprograms. At NC State University WMEP hosts a Tools Workshop to allow students to learn skills, likesoldering, that they will need in laboratory and project work in a judgement free and community-centered atmosphere. Living and learning

Conference Session

CoNECD Session : Day 3 Slot 5 Technical Session 3

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2021 CoNECD

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Annette L. Pilkington, Colorado School of Mines; Amy E. Landis

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events to ensure students get the community networking and professional development that will help themsucceed at Mines and beyond.Although not the focus on this presentation, Mines offers Making the Connection Program sponsored by Halliburtonwhere accepted women students come to campus to connect with current students and faculty as well as other acceptedwomen. This program received the Women in Engineering Initiative Award from WEPAN (Women in EngineeringProActive Network) in June of 2016 for an outstanding project or initiative that serves as a model for other institutions topromote Women in Engineering. The visit program takes place three times a year and results in higher yield (67.53%)than our regular campus tours (39.9%) or other visit

Conference Session

CoNECD Session : Day 1 Slot 3 Technical Session 4

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2021 CoNECD

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Leisa D. Thompson, University of Virginia; Zhen Wu

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revise socio-educational systems rather than “fixing” the women anddemonstrated sustainability of systemic change initiatives. For faculty and staff in undergraduatecomputing interested in making similar improvements, the strategies discussed are worthconsidering, and if found suitable, customizing, trying, and revising.ES-UP is an on-going project. With previous funding, we worked with institutions that wererequired to create collaborative teams that included both computing and engineering departmentsand our recruitment and retention strategies were implemented for both disciplines [23].Recently, we have created a new implementation and consulting process that serves smallinstitutions (e.g., liberal arts colleges and universities and community

Conference Session

CoNECD Session : Day 1 Slot 3 Technical Session 1

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2021 CoNECD

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Leila Zahedi, Florida International University; Hossein EbrahimNejad, Purdue University at West Lafayette (COE); Monique S. Ross, Florida International University; Matthew W. Ohland, Purdue University at West Lafayette (COE); Stephanie J. Lunn, Florida International University

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less attracted to these majors but also that when they do explore these majors,they choose not to stay.IntroductionRetention and graduation rates in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM)careers are a worldwide concern [1], which has led to a shortage of professionals in STEM fields.Additionally, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, computer science (CS) is the onlySTEM field where there are more jobs available relative to the amount of graduating students. Ithas also been reported that computing occupations are projected to increase, to nearly half amillion new jobs; which is by far more than any other group in STEM (U.S. Bureau of LaborStatistics). More importantly, the disparate representation is of concern because

Conference Session

CoNECD Session : Day 1 Slot 8 Technical Session 4

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2021 CoNECD

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Mauro Rodriguez Jr, California Institute of Technology; Indhira María Hasbún, Florida International University; Jose Luis Estrada, University of San Diego; Dora Louise Renaud

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questions Q1-4 and Q9 and is associated withsetting up goals, starting projects, and working/managing others. Factor F3 involved questions Q5,Q7, and Q8 and is associated with direct influence over a team or community. Factor 4 (Q17-19)focused the professionals’ self-efficacy towards affecting their community.3. Results3.1 EFA results Due to the low sample size of 25 usable professionals’ entries after the data imputation, EFAwas not ran on the professionals’ responses. Moreover, the Central Limit Theory for theassumption of normality is not applicable; hence non-parametric tests had to be conducted. Instead,the factor distribution from the student data was used, and further analyzed, when analyzing theprofessionals’ responses, see Table 3 of

Conference Session

CoNECD Session : Day 3 Slot 6 Technical Session 2

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2021 CoNECD

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Matthew Bahnson, North Carolina State University at Raleigh; Derrick James Satterfield, University of Nevada, Reno; Adam Kirn, University of Nevada, Reno

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Nevada, Reno. He graduated with his Masters in 2019 from the University of Nevada, Reno, and plans to pursue a career in academia in the future. His research interests are in graduate student attrition rates within academia, engineering identity development, and factors that influence decision making on persistence.Dr. Adam Kirn, University of Nevada, Reno Adam Kirn is an Associate Professor of Engineering Education at the University of Nevada, Reno. His research focuses on the interactions between engineering cultures, student motivation, and learning ex- periences. His projects involve the study of student perceptions, beliefs and attitudes towards becoming engineers, their problem-solving processes, and cultural

Conference Session

CoNECD Session : Day 1 Slot 2 Technical Session 3

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2021 CoNECD

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Karis Boyd-Sinkler, Virginia Tech; Cynthia Hampton, Virginia Tech; Taylor Lightner, Virginia Tech; Natali Huggins, Virginia Tech ; Cherie D. Edwards, Virginia Commonwealth University ; Walter C. Lee, Virginia Tech; David B. Knight, Virginia Tech

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the field, gaining a betterunderstanding of the mentoring experience from their perspectives can provide vital informationregarding how volunteerism contributes to the new cultural norms of engineering.Project OverviewThis paper is situated in a larger project that aims to understand the impacts of broadening participationvolunteerism at the pre-college, undergraduate, and graduate levels on those doing the volunteering. Thepurpose of this work-in-progress is to explore the impacts of broadening participation volunteerism onstudents from underserved communities at the undergraduate level. We utilized Volunteer FunctionInventory (VFI) (Clary et al., 1995) as a theoretical framework to understand the aims, benefits, andconsequences of

Conference Session

CoNECD Session : Day 4 Slot 1 Technical Session 3

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2021 CoNECD

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Danyelle Tauryce Ireland, University of Maryland, Baltimore County; Cindy Greenwood, University of Maryland, Baltimore County ; Erica L D'Eramo, University of Maryland, Baltimore County; Katherine Bell O'Keefe

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andmentors to share their experiences, achievements, and advice. Because this is anovernight event, participants are hosted by current freshmen who living on the CWITLiving Learning Community, which allows the participants to get the true collegeexperience while also meeting our current students.The Cyber 101 ProgramTarget Audience: high school senior and junior girls interested in learning the basics ofcybersecurityApplication and Selection Process: We promote the program through direct emails tojunior and senior high school girls via lists obtained from the UMBC UndergraduateAdmissions office and emails to teachers via contacts of ours who forward themessages to Project Lead the Way (engineering) and computer science teachers intheir networks. In

Conference Session

CoNECD Session : Day 3 Slot 3 Technical Session 1

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2021 CoNECD

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Justin Charles Major, Purdue University at West Lafayette (COE); Allison Godwin, Purdue University at West Lafayette (COE); Adam Kirn, University of Nevada, Reno

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College of Engineering Exceptional Early Career Teaching Award.Dr. Adam Kirn, University of Nevada, Reno Adam Kirn is an Associate Professor of Engineering Education at University of Nevada, Reno. His research focuses on the interactions between engineering cultures, student motivation, and learning ex- periences. His projects involve the study of student perceptions, beliefs, and attitudes towards becoming engineers, their problem-solving processes, and cultural fit. His education includes a B.S. in Biomed- ical Engineering from Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology, a M.S. in Bioengineering, and a Ph.D. in Engineering and Science Education from Clemson University. American

Conference Session

CoNECD Session : Day 3 Slot 5 Technical Session 1

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2021 CoNECD

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Mayari Illarij Serrano Anazco, Purdue University at West Lafayette ; Suzanne Zurn-Birkhimer, Purdue University at West Lafayette ; Grace Gilan Kraus, Purdue University at West Lafayette

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, Professional response) andIndirect (Role models, Effort-increase workload and maintain workload), State of mind - remember,Disclose-disclose to familiar person and disclose to authority figure.In the following example, the graduate student subject used two advocating strategies;verbal-amend and disclose to authority: “Remind myself I’m not the problem, the other person is. Try to make them understand the bias they are projecting and in some cases, go to HR or their supervisor.” P107The remaining two graduate participants used the indirect advocating strategy of disclosing theincident to a familiar person coupled with the conceding strategies of ignoring the aggression and Table 2: Description of codes in Direct Advocating

Conference Session

CoNECD Session : Day 3 Slot 8 Technical Session 2

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2021 CoNECD

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Philippa Anne Martin, University of Canterbury; Eileen Frances Britt, University of Canterbury

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Frances Britt, Eileen Britt is a Clinical Psychologist and member of the Motivational Interviewing (MI) Network of Trainers, an international collective of MI trainers and researchers who promote excellence in the practice and training of MI. Eileen teaches MI at the University of Canterbury on the Postgraduate Diploma in Clinical Psychology programme, as well two postgraduate papers on MI within Health Sciences, and has experience in providing MI training to a range of health practitioners. She has been involved in a recent project training MI to staff from the College of Engineering at the University of Canterbury. American c Society for Engineering

Conference Session

CoNECD Session : Day 3 Slot 6 Technical Session 1

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2021 CoNECD

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Katreena Thomas, Arizona State University, Polytechnic campus; Brooke Charae Coley, Arizona State University, Polytechnic campus; Michael Lorenzo Greene, Arizona State University, Polytechnic campus; Jeremi S. London, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

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investigating the role of professional organizations(NSBE and BLGOs) in the success of Black engineering students. Professional organizationshave long served as spaces of support for the Black community. The larger project focused onthese two specific types of entities to understand how organizations centered on the professionaland civic commitment might differentially support engineers with a shared racial identity.However, there are many different types of spaces that students can engage in for support andcommunity, this study was designed to uncover the various spaces the Black engineeringstudents describe as counterspaces. This work sought to address the following researchquestions: RQ1: Through their stories, what are identified as

Conference Session

CoNECD Session : Day 1 Slot 7 Technical Session 1

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2021 CoNECD

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Laura Bottomley, North Carolina State University; Crystal R. Emery, URU The Right to Be, Inc.; Valeria Sinclair Chapman

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Paper ID #28475 Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, introduced Changing the Face of STEM at the Na- tional Academy of Sciences (NAS) in Washington, D.C. URU returned to the NAS for its third engage- ment on June 10, 2019, where Emery unveiled the ”You Can’t Be What You Can’t See” Virtual Reality Project, aimed at closing the identification gap for young marginalized students within the STEM realm. IN 2019, Crystal lead URU in a successful effort to became a programmatic partner of 100Kin10, an organization formed in response to President Obama’s call during his 2011 State of the Union address to train 100,000 new STEM teachers in a decade. Emery believes that perseverance, faith, and trusting in a