of technology. It was noted that being ableto expose students to DEI topics would help them use their engineering education to impactindividuals at all levels of society.In particular, an elective “Option” was chosen over a minor or certificate, as done in otherinstitutions, to avoid administrative burdens and to address concerns about engineering studentsoverloading themselves with additional course requirements. We also discuss the process ofcreating and obtaining approval for the program, including handling faculty and administrativereception and securing broad buy-in for the proposal.Our DEI Scholar created a reference list of like-minded universities such as MIT that includedDEI electives, courses, or concentrations as a part of their
Division (EPPD); Engineering Ethics Division; Equity, Culture,and Social Justice in Education (ECSJ); Liberal Education/Engineering and Society Division(LEES); Minorities in Engineering Division (MIND); and Women in Engineering Division(WIED)]. Participants received information detailing the purpose, informed consent form, andsurvey link. A total of 212 participants completed the survey. Fifty-eight incomplete responses(i.e., completed less than 75%) were removed, and the remaining 154 responses were analyzed.Closed-ended data were processed using SPSS, and open-ended responses were coded in Excel.Quantitative analysis included obtaining frequencies and the disaggregation of data based onrespondent demographic information. Open-ended responses
Paper ID #44366WIP: The Role of Classroom Teaching Practices on the Academic Success ofEngineering College Students with ADHDNolgie O. Oquendo-Col´on, University of Michigan Nolgie O. Oquendo-Colon is an Engineering Education Research PhD student at the University of Michigan. He holds a MS and BS in Industrial Engineering from the University of Puerto Rico at Mayaguez.Miss Xiaping Li, University of Michigan Xiaping Li is a Ph.D. candidate in Engineering Education Research at the University of Michigan. Her research interests encompass faculty development and change, neurodiverse college student learning experiences and
Paper ID #42724WIP: ”This is What We Learned”: Sharing the Stories of Experiences ofIndigenous-Centered, Engineering & Community Practice Graduate Programat Cal Poly HumboldtDr. Qualla Jo Ketchum, Cal Poly Humboldt Qualla Jo Ketchum (she/her/) is an Assistant Professor in the School of Engineering at Cal Poly Humboldt. She is a citizen of the Cherokee Nation and her Indigeneity impacts all she does from her technical research in water resources to her pedagogical practices and educational research around identity, indigenizing engineering practice and teaching, and the structural issues impacting Indigenous engineers. Dr
Paper ID #42125Borderlands First-Generation-in-Engineering Experiences-Learning with andabout Students at the Nexus of Nation, Discipline, and Higher EducationDr. Sarah Hug, Colorado Evaluation and Research Consulting Dr. Sarah Hug is director of the Colorado Evaluation & Research Consulting. Dr. Hug earned her PhD in Educational Psychology at the University of Colorado, Boulder. Her research and evaluation efforts focus on learning science, technology, engineering. She leads a social science and evaluation organization that focuses on inclusive excellence, broadening participation, and democratizing science.Raena Cota, New
Paper ID #38563Work in Progress: Engineering Health Equity: Perspective and Pedagogy ofInterdisciplinary Teaching and Learning and Impact on Learners’ SocialIdentityDr. Mayari I. Serrano, Purdue University, West Lafayette Mayari Serrano Anazco is a visiting clinical assistant professor at the College of Engineering and John Martinson Honors College at Purdue University. She earned her Bachelor’s degree in Biotechnology En- gineering at Ecuador’s Army Polytechnic School and her Master’s and Ph.D. degrees in Computer and Information Technology from Purdue University. After obtaining her Ph.D., she was appointed as the first
gender.Underrepresented students, in particular, were oversampled given that they are more likely to beaffected by inequities in assessment and reporting practices.Interviews were conducted with two goals in mind: to understand how underrepresented studentsfeel about their institutions current assessment and reporting practices, as well as to betterunderstand their experience learning mathematics, a core subject/precursor to engineering. Theresearchers wanted to more broadly understand what factors dissuade students from pursuingengineering, and so were interested in both students’ identity and confidence development aswell as their experience learning math. This paper, however, focuses only on highlighting thelearnings from what students said about assessment
Paper ID #37065Managers, Reporting Structures, and Re-Orgs: Volatility and Inequalityin Early-Career Engineering and Implications for EducatorsDr. Shannon Katherine Gilmartin, Stanford University Shannon K. Gilmartin, Ph.D., is a Senior Research Scholar at the Stanford VMware Women’s Leadership Innovation Lab and Adjunct Professor in Mechanical Engineering at Stanford University.Sara Jordan-Bloch, Stanford University Sara Jordan-Bloch, PhD, is a sociologist and senior research scholar at the Stanford VMware Women’s Leadership Innovation Lab, where she also directs the Seeds of Change initiative. ©American
–findings. In addition, weunderstand that the path to becoming an anti-racist and socially just researcher is not completelylinear; it is complex and nuanced as students challenge their ways of knowing. Regardless ofwhat the path looks like, or how circuitous it is, our goal remains to provide graduate studentswith the skills to become socially just engineering researchers. This paper outlines the process ofcreating a course for graduate students that helps prepare them for engineering research withequity and justice in mind. By outlining the course development, structural components, and theinitial findings from the first offering of the course within our 3-year longitudinal study, we hopeto provide other engineering departments with encouragement
Paper ID #42860Board 114: Amplifying Resilience and Becoming Critical Advocates: ThreeBlack Engineering Students’ Experiences in a Multi-Institutional SummerCamp CollaborationDr. Jae Hoon Lim, University of North Carolina Dr. Jae Hoon Lim is a Professor of Educational Research at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. Her research explores the dialogical process of identity construction among students of color and examines the impact of sociocultural factors on their academic experiences. She has served as a co-PI for multiple federal grant projects, including a 1.6 million grant from the National Science Foundation
Paper ID #41494Factors Driving and Impeding STEM Student Motivations and Success ¨Ms. Claudia Calle Muller, Florida International University Claudia Calle M¨uller is a Ph.D. student in Civil and Environmental Engineering at Florida International University (FIU). She holds a B.S. in Civil Engineering from Pontificia Universidad Cat´olica del Per´u (PUCP). Claudia has 4+ years’ experience in structural engineering designing reinforced concrete residential and commercial buildings in Peru; 2+ years’ experience in entrepreneurship building a successful health coaching and wellness business; and 4+ years
Paper ID #44536Constructing the Future from Where We Already Stand: A Workshop BridgingLatine Everyday Ingenuity and Connected LearningDr. Raul Mishael Sedas, Caltech; LIGO Educational researcher and evaluator of out-of-school environments focused on engineering. Learning scientist and designer interested in design-based activities that foster and enhance STEAM+Design learning for the empowerment of non-dominant populations. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2024 Constructing The Future From Where We Already Stand: A Workshop Bridging Latine Everyday Ingenuity and
Paper ID #41408How to Develop a Culture of Coding for the Future: A Case Study of themegaGEMS Coding AcademyGeorge Zaccheus Sikazwe, University of the Incarnate Word George Z. Sikazwe is an undergraduate electrical engineering student at the University of the Incarnate Word in San Antonio, Texas. Mr. Sikazwe is passionate about applying engineered solutions to real-world problems. As a student research assistant in the Autonomous Vehicle Systems Research Laboratories his focus is in computational intelligence, specifically applications of deep learning onto hardware. For the GEMS (Girls in Engineering, Math, and Science
Paper ID #37167Changing the Way We Educate to Prioritize Minority Students’ MentalHealth and Enhance Their Well-Being ¨Ms. Claudia Calle Muller, Florida International University Claudia Calle M¨uller is a Ph.D. student in Civil and Environmental Engineering at Florida International University (FIU). She holds a B.S. in Civil Engineering from Pontificia Universidad Cat´olica del Per´u (PUCP). Claudia has 4+ years’ experience in structural engineering designing reinforced concrete resi- dential and commercial buildings in Peru; 2+ years’ experience in entrepreneurship building a successful health coaching
Paper ID #41607Teaching Social Justice in Infrastructure: A Community of Practice Frameworkfor the use of Case StudiesDr. Claudia Mara Dias Wilson, New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology Dr. Claudia Mara Dias Wilson is an Associate Professor in civil engineering at the New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology (New Mexico Tech). She earned her B.S., M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from the Florida State University. Although she specialized in earthquake mitigation and the development of control algorithms for semi-active dampers to reduce seismic vibrations on buildings, her research interests are broad and include topics
Paper ID #43457The Paint Bucket Model of Dis/ability in STEM Higher Education: Axioms1-3Dr. D. C. Beardmore, University of Colorado Boulder D. C. Beardmore earned their Ph.D. in Civil Engineering from the University of Colorado Boulder. They are currently the Engineering GoldShirt Program Manager for the Broadening Opportunities through Leadership and Diversity (BOLD) center at the University of Colorado Boulder. Their current and historical positionality statements can be found at dcbeardmore.com.Dr. Angela R Bielefeldt, University of Colorado Boulder Angela Bielefeldt is a professor at the University of Colorado Boulder
Paper ID #41492Addressing Issues of Justice in Design Through System-Map RepresentationsDr. Alan Cheville, Bucknell University Alan Cheville studied optoelectronics and ultrafast optics at Rice University before joining Oklahoma State University working on terahertz frequencies and engineering education. While at Oklahoma State he developed courses in photonics and engineering design. After serving for two and a half years as a program director in engineering education at the National Science Foundation, he served as chair of the ECE Department at Bucknell University. He is currently interested in engineering design
professor at the University of Colorado Boulder in the Department of Civil, Envi- ronmental, and Architectural Engineering (CEAE) and Director for the Engineering Plus program. She has served as the Associate Chair for Undergraduate ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2023 Culture of productivity: multidimensional impacts on STEM graduate students (work-in-progress)AbstractThose who do not conform to the ideology of the “ideal” normative human body/mind are oftenexcluded from Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM). Lacking thediversity in experience and perspectives that diverse students, staff, and faculty bring to STEMimpedes our society’s progress to
Paper ID #37033Counterspaces: Underrepresented Students Find Community and Support-iveLearning Spaces During a Global PandemicDr. Janet Y. Tsai, University of Colorado, Boulder Janet Y. Tsai is a researcher and instructor in the College of Engineering and Applied Science at the University of Colorado Boulder. Her research focuses on ways to encourage more students, especially women and those from nontraditional demographic groups, to pursue interests in the field of engineering. Janet assists in recruitment and retention efforts locally, nationally, and internationally, hoping to broaden the image of engineering
Paper ID #42549Accommodations for Disabled Students in STEM Fields: Research Considerationsand a Literature ReviewSage Maul, Purdue University Sage Maul (they/them) is a third year PhD student in Purdue University’s School of Engineering Education. Sage’s research explores structural factors on student experiences for disabled students and in electrical and computer engineering courses. Sage graduated with a Bachelor’s of Science in Electrical Engineering from Purdue and worked in industry for 5 years before starting graduate school. Their experiences with accommodations in undergrad and getting diagnosed with ADHD as an
Paper ID #42294Exploring the Landscape of Graduate Student Mental Health: Populations,Methods, and Terminologies-Who is Missing from the Conversation?Miss Motahareh Darvishpour Ahandani, Arizona State University, Polytechnic Campus Motahareh Darvishpour Ahandani is currently pursuing her Ph.D. in Engineering Education Systems and Design at Arizona State University. Serving as a research assistant, she brings with her six years of industry experience as a woman engineer. Her research interests focus on the mental health of international engineering graduate students, with a particular emphasis on the experiences of
Paper ID #36923Decolonization of Academia: Is the Word Latinx a Form of Colonization?Ms. Karen Dinora Martinez Soto, Virginia Tech Karen Martinez Soto is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Engineering Education at Virginia Tech. She received her B.Sc. in Aerospace Engineering from the University of Oklahoma and is pursuing her M.Sc. in Aerospace Engineering at Virginia Tech. Her research interests are focused on teaching and assessment for conceptual understanding, curriculum development for the middle years, and student cultural competencies.Dr. Homero Murzi, Virginia Tech Dr. Homero Murzi (he/´el/his) is an
Jersey Institute of Technology Prateek Shekhar is an Assistant Professor - Engineering Education division at New Jersey Institute of Technology. His research is focused on examining translation of engineering education research in prac- tice, assessment and evaluation of dissemination initiatives and educational programs in engineering dis- ciplines. He holds a Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Texas at Austin, M.S. in Electrical Engineering from University of Southern California and B.S. in Electronics and Communica- tion Engineering from India.Jacqueline Handley, University of Michigan Jacqueline Handley is a graduate student at the University of Michigan, in Science Education. Her back
Paper ID #37423Intersectionality Between Race and Gender in LSAMP-NSF STEM ProgramMentorshipMs. Jennifer Ackerman, Texas A&M University I am a third year PhD student at Texas A&M University in College Station, and am a first-generation, queer, female student from New York. I am in the higher education administration program and my research interests include engineering education for underrepresented students, especially women in the field. I am interested in how their mental health is affected by being an outsider in and out of the classroom.Am´ rica Soto-Arzat, Texas A&M University e The second author is
Paper ID #39829White Male Allyship in STEM Higher Education: An Autoethnographic StudyMr. Nagash Antoine Clarke, University of Michigan Nagash Clarke is a doctoral student at the University of Michigan working with Dr. Joi-Lynn Mondisa. In his research, he examines mentoring and its particular implications for minoritized populations, as well as white male allyship in STEM higher education. He received a Bachelor’s in Chemistry from Pace University and Masters degrees in both Chemical Engineering and Engineering Education Research from the University of Michigan. He teaches chemistry at Washtenaw Community College.Dr. Joi
Paper ID #39738It’s No Mystery, So It Must Be Intentional: How Institutions Fail toSupport Black STEM Doctoral Students’ Mental HealthDr. Brooke Charae Coley, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Brooke Coley, PhD is an Assistant Professor in Engineering at the Polytechnic School of the Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering at Arizona State University. Dr. Coley is Principal Investigator of the Shifting Perceptions, Attitudes and Cultures in EngineDr. Jennifer M. Bekki, Arizona State University, Polytechnic Campus Jennifer M. Bekki is an Associate Professor in The Polytechnic School within the Ira A. Fulton Schools of
Paper ID #37145Impact and Lessons Learned: Student Day at ETSU Equity and InclusionConferenceDr. Mohammad Moin Uddin, P.E., East Tennessee State University Dr. Mohammad Moin Uddin is a Professor in the Department of Engineering, Engineering Technology, and Surveying at East Tennessee State University. He holds a joint appointment as a Professor of Engi- neering and Engineering Technology Program and as a Graduate Faculty member of the Graduate School. He also serves as the Director for the TTU-ETSU Joint Engineering Program. Dr. Uddin is an exemplary engineering technology educator. He has made significant contributions
affairs administrator at Barnard College and as a Researcher and Administrative Coordinator for the Center for Understanding Race Education, under the direction of Professor Amy Stuart Wells. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2023 An NSF-Funded Professional Development Series for Advancing Inclusion at a Hispanic-Serving Institution INTRODUCTION Higher education scholars have extensively detailed the factors that contribute to thewithdrawal of racially minoritized Black and Hispanic college students from the STEM (Science,Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) field (see [1]-[3] for examples). These factorsinclude unwelcoming and
. Cristobal is currently working with the lead researcher of a S-STEM grant seeking to better understand factors that influence the persistence of students in STEM. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2024 (WIP) Persistence in an S-STEM project: Understanding the Intersectional Experiences and Identities of Women in ComputingThis work-in-progress paper uses storytelling to examine the intersectional experiences of fourwomen in computing. All participants were involved in a National Science FoundationScholarships in STEM (S-STEM) project and identified with a historically marginalized racial orethnic group. This work contributes to a conversation about potential methods and considerationsfor such
Paper ID #38724Analysis of Learning Assistants’ Beliefs of Status and Their Role asStatus InterventionistsHarpreet Auby, Tufts University Harpreet is a graduate student in Chemical Engineering and STEM Education. He works with Dr. Milo Koretsky and helps study the role of learning assistants in the classroom as well as machine learning applications within educational research and evaluation. He is also involved in projects studying the uptake of the Concept Warehouse. His research interests include chemical engineering education, learning sciences, and social justice.Dr. Milo Koretsky, Tufts University Milo Koretsky is