skewed depending on a singular identity. Thisdistribution may also account for higher scores reported by students than professionals, as allstudents attended the same private institution known for having a student body with a highersocioeconomic status. While we accounted for this imbalance by analyzing each identityconstruct and refining the item set, we aim for balance among items in each measured construct.Further adjustments include rephrasing the responses to be true/false (vs. yes/no) to avoidconfusion of items that may result in false positives. We also plan to modify phrasing andremove items (e.g., “I do not have to work to pay for my college education (including workstudy.”) to ensure they are explicit about computing environments to
theperpetuating a culture of exclusion that is rooted in the “traditional” teaching method.As the engineering profession diversifies, the teaching styles need to diversify along with it.Lewis states that the engineering profession is especially biased towards men. Men teach as ifthey are the holder of information, and are transmitting it to students, whereas women thinkstudents should define their own learning experiences. This includes but is not limited toquestions, evaluations of success and teaching styles [10]. Women are also more likely to investtime into planning their courses and designing active learning opportunities which allow studentsto participate and engage in the course material and prioritize higher order thinking skills [11].This is
movement in education,” Curr. Issues Comp. Educ., vol. 25, no. 2, 2023.[4] J. Peloso, “Environmental justice education: Empowering students to become environmental citizens,” Penn GSE Perspect. Urban Educ., vol. 5, no. 1, pp. 1–14, 2007.[5] L. Pulido and J. De Lara, “Reimagining ‘justice’in environmental justice: Radical ecologies, decolonial thought, and the Black Radical Tradition,” Environ. Plan. E Nat. Space, vol. 1, no. 1–2, pp. 76–98, 2018.[6] M. L. Miles, A. Schindel, K. S. Haq, and T. Aziz, “Critical examination of environmental justice education: a systemic review.,” Rev., n.d..[7] R. D. Bullard, Dumping in Dixie: Race, class, and environmental quality. Routledge, 2018.[8] D. Schlosberg and L. B. Collins, “From
general, each of our participants appreciated the HyFlex modality for having the optionto choose remote attendance on any given day, while otherwise planning on being in-person astheir default mode of class participation. They spoke about their preference of the HyFlex formatas opposed to the fully in-person format, while the others also mentioned how HyFlexaffordances were useful and how their absence would have inhibited their course experience.Though a few interviewees did note that participating online on some or most days did result insome drop of attention levels, no one reported feeling any awkwardness in small groupconversations or miscommunication due to the HyFlex format.Accessibility Considerations and Accommodations Perhaps the
surveys will be taken to understand how the faculty understand their positionality, what they have learned during their participation in the professional development experience, and how they plan to continue the work beyond the professional development experience. A few faculty will also take part in an interview where they will be asked in greater detail about their experiences in the professional development experience and their viewpoints on the teaching and learning experiences of MS in STEM. To answer the third question, the students of the participating faculty will be asked to complete their course evaluations which will include questions that inform the work of the grant to measure the extent to which their
Paper ID #36943Teamwork Perception in Engineering Programs through the Lens of Genderand RaceDr. Raheleh Miralami, Mississippi State UniversityDr. Saeed Rokooei, Mississippi State University Saeed Rokooei is an assistant professor in the Building Construction Science program at Mississippi State University. His professional responsibilities include project planning and management as well as architectural design practice in private and public construction and engineering firms. He has taught in architecture and construction programs since 2006. Dr. Rokooei’s primary research interests include simulation and serious games
our study. We initially plan to recruit between 6 and 10 focus groups, each with4 to 6 participants. This number is typical in many qualitative studies that use focus groups [47].Our focus group will be semi-structured, with five prompts (discussed below) and a discussionfor each prompt. This focus group will follow a two-stage approach where participants firstexplore metaphors used in research individually, followed by a discussion with a partner in theirgroup. Our participants will consist of EER researchers from academia who have diversebackgrounds, genders, and ethnicities. We will advertise our study via email to universitiesglobally that have EER clusters and recruit participants from these clusters. We will ask participants the
displaced student professional identity development related tothese intrinsic factors and their intertwined relationships with context and politics wereassociated with identity invisibility. Identity invisibility is multidimensional, but overall, in thisreview it referred to the ways higher education structures and demographics in a resettlementarea rendered displaced students “invisible,” based on their social identities, whether it was in thelack of concern for people seeking refuge in immigration laws or school planning and policies.This influence primarily impacted the types and levels of support displaced students receivedupon arrival to their resettlement institutions, but it also had to do with the invisibility ofdisplaced peoples
, or stretch, assignments are critical levers of mobility [1].Organizations and managers curate and allocate these types of assignments informally, usingthem as a means to develop leadership skills, identify people ready for promotion and the “fasttrack”, and build succession plans [2], [3]. Software engineering managers in Tobias Neely etal.’s [1] case flagged that stretch assignments need to have an element of building new skills andcapacities (stretches were routinely described as “getting out of your comfort zone”) and anelement of visibility in the organization and to managers and leaders. Career advancement forthese engineers, in other words, revolved around proving competence in novel areas that hadstrategic importance to the business
Alliance members brought with them based on their previous experiences, which ultimatelymay influence early dynamics within the Alliance as it formed, particularly as agendas were beingset and five-year plans were being created. Our two research questions for this study are:RQ1: What were the Alliance members’ prior experiences in collaborative networks that they bring into the new Alliance? 1 We use the definition of racial/ethnically underrepresented groups as defined by one of the partner organizations,which aligns with U.S. federal statute and the National Action Council for Minorities in Engineering. However, as re-searchers we recognize a need to include Southeast Asians, such as Hmong Americans, who are also underrepresentedin STEM
policy, andenable environmental sustainability [42]. Under this model, participation where patients canco-plan, co-create, and co-evaluate new technologies to serve the goals of their communities isessential to creating more just, healthier futures. It requires building with and seeing technologynot as an end, but as one part of a greater strategy.What stops us from building with? Meritocracy, depoliticization, and objectivity inengineering educationEngineering education today is unprepared for the task to realize this community-driven,justice-based patient participation. Far too much of the instruction of engineering focuses solelyon the technical, teaching students’ how to solve complex math and science problems withsingular solutions. This
resources to pursue computing courses.3. *How much do you agree with the following statements? a. *Race has no impact on the work I plan to do professionally. b. *The technologies that we often use are neutral and racially unbiased. c. *University computing departments are neutral and racially unbiased. d. *Professional computing environments are neutral and racially unbiased. e. *My race advantages me in the field of computing in terms of internships and job opportunities.4. *Please note how much advantage (in terms of internships and job opportunities) do you think there is for being the following in computing: a. *A woman b. *A man c. *A non-binary person d. *A White person e. *An Asian person f. *A Black person g. *A
context, and the best ways to support students’ persistence to degree completion.Dr. Walter C. Lee, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University Dr. Walter Lee is an associate professor in the Department of Engineering Education and the director for research at the Center for the Enhancement of Engineering Diversity (CEED), both at Virginia Tech.Dr. David B Knight, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University David Knight is a Professor in the Department of Engineering Education at Virginia Tech and also serves as Special Assistant to the Dean for Strategic Plan Implementation in the College of Engineering. His research tends to be at the macro-scale, focused on a systems-level perspective of how engineering
improvements in economic institutions, which contradicts the belief that unrestrictedmigration produces institutional deterioration [24].MethodologyFollowing the methodology of [25], a systematic literature review was conducted in 3 phases:planning, development, and reporting (see Table 1). Phases Activities Planning Identify the needs of the review Formulate the research question. Define the review protocol. Development Identify relevant research. Extract and synthesize relevant data. Report
of separation. In theseinstances, she cannot make space for her identities as an international aerospace engineer, norcan she authentically make space for her disability identities as an engineering college student.While Srihari often describes instances that contribute to a narrative of separation among herdisability and international identities, she also experiences instances that contribute to a narrativeof coherence based on her involvement with extra-curricular activities. I'm one of the directors for the [event planning team at my school]. So we do the concerts and like the large scale events. And my professors always ask me, “How does that relate? How is that related to programming? It just doesn't add up.” But
Committee (NAC), that advises the Administrator of the EPA on environmental policy issues related to the implementation of the former North American Agreement on Environmental Cooperation and was a member of the Good Neighbor Environmental Board (GNEB) that advises the President and Congress of the United States on good neighbor practices along the U.S. border with Mexico. Dr. Santiago’s history of service started in Puerto Rico as Director of the Water Quality Area of the PR Environmental Quality Board, in charge of Compliance, Permit, and Planning Bureau, that included Industrial and Non-Industrial permits, Leaking Underground Storage Tanks (LUSTs), and watershed restoration activities. As Director, she implemented
/content/article/sense-belonging-matters-s-why-academic-culture-needs-change (accessed Jan. 30, 2022).[7] J. R. Stark, “Black and African American Women Postdocs in STEM: Their Experiencesand Career Plans,” Ed.D., University of Pennsylvania, United States -- Pennsylvania, 2021.Accessed: Jan. 30, 2022. [Online]. Available:https://www.proquest.com/docview/2572582316/abstract/1D6772B35B5F423CPQ/1[8] I. H. Settles, M. K. Jones, N. T. Buchanan, and K. Dotson, “Epistemic exclusion:Scholar(ly) devaluation that marginalizes faculty of color,” Journal of Diversity in HigherEducation, vol. 14, pp. 493–507, 2021, doi: 10.1037/dhe0000174.[9] D. D. Bernal and O. Villalpando, “An apartheid of knowledge in academia: The struggleover the" legitimate
Principles of Environmental Justice. https://climatejusticealliance.org/ej-principles/18. Pulido, L. (2017). Geographies of race and ethnicity II: Environmental racism, racial capitalism and state-sanctioned violence. Progress in human geography, 41(4), 524-533.19. Robinson, C. J. (2020 [1983]). Black Marxism, revised and updated third edition: The making of the black radical tradition. UNC press Books.20. Pulido, L., & De Lara, J. (2018). Reimagining ‘justice’ in environmental justice: Radical ecologies, decolonial thought, and the Black Radical Tradition. Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space, 1(1-2), 76-98.21. Whyte, K. (2016). Indigenous experience, environmental justice and settler colonialism. Environmental Justice
included in this data were those students with disabilities who considered to have a "Definitions" section. who "identified as students with were included in this data disability. The report also However, the disability disabilities under IDEA, according were those who "identified as(Q3) Is a definition wrote, "Disability is defined definitions state that it to an IEP, IFSP, or a services students with disabilitiesgiven for as an individual reporting at includes those who receive plan") under IDEA, according to an“disability” or how least moderate difficulty on services covered
represent the livedexperiences of individuals who are dis/abled in one or more ways. Each of the dis/ability theoriesare imagined as a pigment being mixed into a one-gallon paint can, to create a particular shade,viscosity (thickness), and density of paint that is unique to each person. Figure 2 depicts thepigments being initially added to the bucket (representing the proposed framework) from a bird’seye or plan view. Each pigment can be imagined as having a different density and viscositycausing it to separate from the other pigments when initially added. “The pigments that arecommonly included in the mixture are the medical model of dis/ability, social model ofdis/ability, dis/ability studies in education, critical dis/ability studies, dis
Technology) from Moi University in Eldoret, Kenya. I am extremely passionate about teaching and public information dissemination. Creating a safe, friendly and productive environment for my target audience to learn is my top priority. With a strong background in electrical engineering, I am a meticulous python programming-based data analyst with vast experience working with a variety of synthetic aperture radar datasets, arising from my two years postgraduate research studies as a Master of Engineering student. A Critical thinker continuously looking at ways of improving teacher-student engagement processes, I am adept in organizing work flow, creating lesson plans, presenting ideas in a compelling way, interacting with
is adding newgames and activities to invoke critical thinking and team building. Adding a new curriculum iscritical to adjust the students attending year after year as well as remaining innovative.Furthermore, adding activities, there are plans to translate lessons from Coding Academy intoSaturday workshops. These short courses would help refresh students on material and/or buildupon previous lessons from the summer curriculum. By supplying students with these extralessons Coding Academy cultivates the learner and offers accessibility for students for whomsummer classes, and or weekday lessons are not possible.One question asked in the Coding Academy survey was if the students planned on learning othercoding languages. Thirty-two percent of
college plans, facing significant challenges such as technologicalbarriers, financial hardships, and inadequate learning environments at home due to COVID-19[10], [11]. These issues were compounded by increased food and housing insecurities and mentalhealth struggles due to the stress of the pandemic [12]. Despite some support from institutions andorganizations, such as ScholarMatch, many students lacked sufficient resources and assistance,exacerbating educational inequalities, and underscoring the need for targeted support to ensuretheir academic success [13], [14]. A study by Lee et al found that students from low socioeconomicbackgrounds greatly valued the ability to study at their own pace, citing it as the primary benefitof online learning
undergraduate researchers and not large ambiguousresearch aims that is more commonly done in graduate school training.STEM Research - Future ThinkingWe next sought to understand the impact of undergraduate research on ND and NT individualfuture career plans. Previous research has indicated that participation in undergraduate researchopportunities significantly increases the chance of individuals pursuing graduate school [23].With the desire to increase representation and diversity in graduate school programs, we soughtto understand if participation in undergraduate research impacts career plans differently from NDto NT individuals. Both ND and NT participants had similar low percentages for disagreeing andstrongly disagreeing that they received quality
push researchers andeducational practitioners to reformulate and package non-scientific ideas in a scientific andpositivist way to be able to achieve their goals (e.g., research funding, new course design). Toprevent such efforts and gain a better picture of different world views, we may utilize AIprograms as artificial assessors, reviewing proposals and plans primarily through textual andnatural language processing methods. However, we again need to set rule-based conditions andexceptions for AI programs on what to consider Scientific and Non-scientific and whereIndigenous ways of knowing fall into that spectrum. So for either AI or human decision-makers,choices need to be made on the chain of logic and reasoning employed to appropriately
datacorrectly and arrive at a logical conclusion based on the data. An outcome from ABET’scriteria for accrediting engineering programs was also included in this category: Shows an abilityto function effectively on a team whose members together provide leadership, create acollaborative and inclusive environment, establish goals, plan tasks, and meet objectives.Skills OutcomesThe Skills outcomes include general college skills that are important to work on in any course,particularly for new-to-college, first generation and traditionally underserved populations ofstudents. This category includes outcomes such as being able to properly cite sources, being ableto layout calculation work and explain process, and being able to use scientific
weekly grades during the course, including the final course grade. • Answers to the end of module survey.We are planning to study various correlations between the answers provided in the survey andthe course activity.ConclusionThis paper presents work in progress, describing in detail a proposed intervention for includingthe selection of a professional role model in the curriculum of a given discipline. A pilotexperiment is under way, and we will have partial results available during the conference.Our long-term goal is to show that selecting a professional role model and analyzing it from thestudents’ own perspective will increase student identification with the domain of study, theirmotivation and engagement and will contribute to
user perspectives. In thefinal class discussions, students reported having a greater appreciation for the impact ofengineering design choices on populations and noticing exclusionary designs in many aspects oftheir day-to-day life.3.2 Instructional Team ReflectionAs described in Section 2.1, the instructional team was made up of a mechanical engineeringfaculty member and an instructional designer trained in secondary education. The makeup of thisteam is of note as the faculty member was encouraged to use pedagogical strategies in this coursebeyond the active, problem-based approach she has previously used. This often-created frictionwithin the instructional team as discussion heavy and fluid class session planning was outside ofthe comfort
University." HumboldtJournal of Social Relations 1 (45): 34-51. DOI: https://doi.org/10.55671/0160-4341.1219[6] Cal Poly Humboldt. Vision. Strategic Plan. 2023. https://strategicplan.humboldt.edu/[7] Brayboy, B. M. K. J. (2005). Toward a Tribal Critical Race Theory in education. Urban Review, 37(5),425–446. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11256-005-0018-y[8] Laurier Students’ Public Interest Research Group (LSPIRG). (2015). Know the Land TerritoriesCampaign. Retrieved from http://www.lspirg.org/knowtheland[9] Personal communication, Mark Parman, 2022[10] Archibald, J.A. (2008). Indigenous storywork: Educating the heart, mind, body, and spirit.Vancouver: UBC Press.[11] Wilson, S. (2008). What Is an Indigenous Research Methodology? Canadian Journal of