Master of Science in Civil and Environmental Engineering both from Virginia Tech. Leadership development, workforce development, career development, professional work values, social ties, worker safety, and intersectionality studies are among his research interests.Dr. Denise Rutledge Simmons, P.E., University of Florida Denise R. Simmons, Ph.D., PE, PMP, LEED-AP is the Associate Dean for Workforce Development in the Wertheim College of Engineering and a tenured Associate Professor in the Department of Civil and Coastal Engineering at the University of Florida. Her research answers national calls for construction and civil engineering professionals to develop new competencies to navigate the changes of evolving work
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
including peer mentoring programs, time management seminars, financialaid and budgeting workshops, increasing career/job fairs and networking with companies, as wellas professional skills workshops including public speaking that can be implemented at not onlyMSIs, but also at other educational institutions to contribute to the mental wellness and overallwell-being of students.Keywords: Academic Distress, Academic Success, Anxiety, Depression, Mental Health, Stress,Well-BeingBackground and MotivationThe prevalence of mental health conditions among college students is steadily rising [1]. In theUnited States (U.S.), approximately 42% of college students suffer from depression and/oranxiety, 38% have been diagnosed with a mental health condition, and
, and they highlight hidden narratives of the broaderengineering transfer student experience.These dynamics amplify the importance of a better understanding of how displaced engineersconstruct positively formed professional identities as well as what influences displacedengineering students’ abilities to author and reconfigure their identities as professional engineers.In response, and to guide future data collection and research, this scoping literature review isgrounded in social cognitive learning theory and seeks to understand the current state of researchin displaced higher education student identity development; synthesize the salient impacts ofdisplaced students’ expected career outcomes, social experiences, and educational
engineering learning environmentsfor students across backgrounds [5]. The course seeks to build the foundational professionalskills of students with varying interests toward engineering through engineering designexperiences [6]. Ninth through twelfth grade students in the United States can enroll in thecourse as a one-semester or a full-year course depending on the participating school.Survey Development and Overview Pre and post-surveys were given to e4usa students during the 2021-2022 school year toexamine pre-college engineering student perspectives in the course. The surveys were developedby the e4usa research team, which includes engineering education and psychology researcherswith expertise in using Social Cognitive Career Theory (SCCT
cybersecurity is beneficial. Sometimes, however, the call for diversity incomputing can be complicated, as diversity is a complex concept. While most of the research ondiversity in computing focuses on gender and race/ethnicity, some interpret diversity in otherways. Undergraduate students are stakeholders in the assessment of cybersecurity as a diverseand inclusive subfield of computing--as they may or may not consider these concepts as theymake curricular and career decisions. A goal of the study is to enrich our understanding ofdiversity perspectives in the field, and so we sought complexity of interpretation over anarrowing or codifying of viewpoints. Data for this piece come from three sources: Q-sortrankings, group interview transcripts, and
additional campuses:Villanova University, Drexel University, and Gallaudet University. While all of these sites areprivate universities, they each offer distinct contexts and circumstances.The LTM Project builds on two past NSF ADVANCE funded efforts at RIT going back fifteenyears. In 2008, RIT received an NSF ADVANCE Institutional Transformation Catalyst award,Establishing the Foundation for Future Organizational Reform at RIT (#0811076), orEFFORT@RIT which identified career advancement barriers for RIT women faculty andestablished how well the university addressed issues in the recruitment, retention, andadvancement of women faculty. Results of a faculty climate survey [1] conducted as part of theproject, in conjunction with objective data review
) is due to the historical and demographic foundations that are not inclusive to womenand people of color that these fields were built upon. In their research, Lee et al. [1] andBlackwell et al. [2] both discuss how these factors continue to contribute to theunderrepresentation of women and people of color in the STEM industry. This is attributed to the“leaky pipeline” phenomenon where women lose interest in engineering as their careerprogresses due to continuous barriers such discrimination, inequitable resources andopportunities [2]. This further contributes to the loss of interest in STEM as young women andpeople of color achieve new milestones in their careers. Fixing the “leaks” in this pipeline,starting with addressing the dysfunctions
Engineering and Technology at Old Dominion University (2016–2019), Department Head and Professor of Engineering Education at Virginia Tech (2011–2016) and held faculty and administrative positions at Virginia Commonwealth University (2008–2011) and the University of Nebraska-Lincoln (1998–2008). Her research interests include: Broadening Participation, Faculty and Graduate Student Development, International/Global Education, Teamwork and Team Effectiveness, and Quality Control and Manage- ment. In 2003, she received the CAREER award from the Engineering Education and Centers Division of the National Science Foundation. Dr. Adams is a leader in the advancement and inclusion of all in science, technology, engineering
and universities, professional organizations, workforce developers,and private industry, we must understand the cultural, linguistic, educational, familial, andgender barriers women and minorities face.Barriers Women and Underrepresented Minorities Face in STEM in College and Careers Authors in [9] completed a systematic review of the literature to create an index ofbarriers that prevent women and minorities from seeking degrees and jobs in technology andengineering fields. The first barrier is a global issue that is related to gender bias [10]. Women allover the world are working in engineering and technical fields at a consistently low rate becauseengineering and technical jobs have been held primarily by men. Women must fight
womenincluding a lack of role models, implicit biases discouraging participation, limited exposure toSTEM fields, and stereotype threat; however, the impact of introductory mathematics onstudents’ desire to pursue an undergraduate STEM degree remains an area of interest for manyeducators and researchers. The significance of mathematics in a student’s intellectual growth isimmense, as it enhances their analytical thinking, problem-solving proficiency, and logicalreasoning. Additionally, it creates a strong base for pursuing STEM fields, which can lead toprofitable career prospects. [23] showed that mathematics courses could be the turning point forwomen in deciding not to choose STEM careers, which supports the finding that “if womenpersisted in STEM at
amentored-career pathway experience that reflects their interests. We interviewed Rachel twice, inFall 2021 and again in Spring 2022. Our first interview in Fall 2021 was conducted at SPU,where we interviewed all 16 participants in the first cohort. The first interview protocol wassemi-structured and focused on the three different pathways offered by the program and theirperceptions of them: graduate school pathways/research, professional pathways/internships, andentrepreneurship pathways. Rachel was one of the 16 interview participants, and her interviewstood out to us because of a strong impression of lacking self-efficacy and being worried abouther future career pathway. The lead author was the primary interviewer and followed up withRachel and
Abstract Your Voice is Power is a curriculum that seeks to promote racial equity and increaseinterest in computing careers by integrating elements of computing, music, social justice, self-expression, and entrepreneurship. The curriculum consists of five modules lasting 60-90 minuteseach. Students engage with music through lyrical analysis to extract and explore present themesof social justice using the OUTKAST Imagination framework. Students then engage withmusical concepts from a computing perspective to create their own remixes using EarSketch, aweb-based, learn-to-code through music platform developed at Georgia Institute of Technology(Georgia Tech). These elements are further supported by discussions around racial justice andthe
©American Society for Engineering Education, 2023 Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging (DEIB) in ET programs in the USAbstractInstitutions in the US that provide Engineering Technology (ET) degrees prepare both 2-year and 4-year graduates for careers in government, industry, and/or business. Graduatesfrom ET institutions are one of the most diverse of the science, technology, engineering,and mathematics (STEM) fields. The 2-year ET graduates employed in technician rolesalign well with the 15.XX Classification of Instructional Programs (CIP) codedesignations, the corresponding US Bureau of Labor Statistics occupationalclassification, and employers have a good understanding of their role.Diversity is a strength
, ethics, and respect that directly impact their future successwithin their careers [13]. In fact, there is a growing awareness that, in addition to application oftechnical knowledge, capstone courses’ primary efficacy is their role in allowing students tohone and practice teamwork skills while simultaneously fostering proficiency in other non-technical areas like independent learning and critical thinking [14]-[15]. In a 2021 studysurveying 489 companies who employed engineers, Hirudayaraj et. al. [16] found that, of 26“soft” skills linked to career success, industry firms rated entry level engineers as beingproficient in only two of them (“global and cultural awareness” and “social responsibility”). In
assignedfemale at birth. Commonly this refers to the sex that was assigned to them on their original birthcertificate. This sex may or may not represent their biological sex [13].productivity. Participants were in various stages of their careers and served in various roles attheir institutions as students, employees, educators, and researchers. The participants describedhaving a variety of less apparent or invisible dis/abilities. These included anxiety, attentiondeficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), depression, dyslexia, environmental allergies, hearingloss, Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS), migraines, panic disorder, polycystic ovary syndrome(PCOS)4, post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), scent sensitivity, temporary partial vision loss,and traumatic
engineering education. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2023 Analyzing the Needs of Engineering Teaching Assistants: Examining Hidden Deficit IdeasIntroductionThe lack of preparation of graduate students for the professoriate has been documented bydifferent scholars [1, 2]. It is well known that graduate education prepares students to pursuedifferent career paths [1], but a large majority of engineering graduate students will followprimarily corporate and industry positions while a small percentage will chase faculty careers[3]. According to Choe and Borrego [3], doctoral international engineering students are morelikely to pursue an academic career. Nonetheless, it
Artificial Intelligence (AI). Her career in higher education began at Howard University as the first Black female fac- ulty member in the Department of Computer Science. Her professional experience also includes Winthrop University, The Aerospace Corporation, and IBM. She is a graduate of Johnson C. Smith University (B.S., ’00) and North Carolina State University (M.S., ’02; Ph.D., ’05), becoming the first Black woman to earn a Ph.D. in computer science at the university and 2019 Computer Science Hall of Fame Inductee.Shaundra Bryant Daily, Duke University Shaundra B. Daily is a professor of practice in Electrical and Computer Engineering & Computer Sci- ence at Duke University and Levitan Faculty Fellow, Special
useful, compared to what they see and think when it's a male and a white male technology.”It should be noted that one of the participants did not report encountering exclusionary orharmful day to day practices in academia and entrepreneurial spaces. Dr. S explained how shebenefitted intellectually and career-wise from being situated in environments that recognized theimportance of diversity. She commented, “There are things that were different from when I came from my PhD, like I said, is that it was a much more diverse and highly interdisciplinary environment. So, I had to just develop new skills, especially in terms of how to work with people and people with different personalities, much larger groups.”This
less prevalent instudents in first year RedShirt programs that enroll women, ethnic minorities, students from lowsocioeconomic status families, and students who would be the first generation in their family to attendcollege (Ennis et al., 2011). To the extent that they are constructed as counterspaces, RedShirt programscan help with the development of engineering identity through forming a strong cohort amongparticipants, helping integrate an engineering and cultural identity and facilitating discussions aboutengineering as a career that includes diversity, equity and inclusion practices (Knight et al., 2021).From a research perspective, less is known about what happens to RedShirt students as they transitioninto their major during the middle
competency in STEMclassrooms germinated from the best ambitions but proved hollow [5]. These intentions oftenlacked the depth of multicultural sensitivity as the efforts and outlooks suffer from simplicity [5]. Previous research literature germane to students of Colors’ university experiences inSTEM stipples vexatious challenges that impede full participation and a sense of belonging [6].These include but are not limited to; a negative campus climate shaped by microaggressiveoccurrences [7]; dominant culture reinforcement in STEM classrooms that serve to excludestudents of Color [2], deficient social networking for career advancement opportunities [1],absence in the perception of the community [6], and racists stereotypes, tokenism
for academic careers; the Department of Education’s (DoE) STEMGROW Program to encourage students Latino(a) students and students with disabilities to pursue STEM careers; ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2023 Paper ID #38753 and DoE’s Program YES SHE CAN that provides support and mentoring to female pre-college students. She is also a member of two advisory committees to the UTEP’s President: The Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion committee and of the Women’s Advisory Council, in which she served five years as Chair. She is also Co-PI in the NSF Engineering Research Center for Advancing
helping students engage indiscussions of engineering research’s impact on society. However, we have yet to find anexample of an introductory level course that discusses these topics geared toward theprofessional development of graduate engineering students within a broad range of career andresearch interests. Thus, we sought to develop a course that would help graduate studentresearchers understand the terminology around inequities and justice; interrogate well-knowncases of engineering research across a range of applications, technology, and higher educationbias and discrimination; reflect and discuss how their own research areas impact society; andform a plan for how they may address or actively prevent potential injustices. The course
of Factors Affecting Women Participation in Managerial Positions in Selected Public Organizations in Jimma Zone, Oromia, Ethiopia,” 2015.[15] S. Cheryan, E. J. Lombard, L. Hudson, K. Louis, V. C. Plaut, and M. C. Murphy, “Double isolation: Identity expression threat predicts greater gender disparities in computer science,” Self Identity, vol. 19, no. 4, pp. 412–434, May 2020, doi: 10.1080/15298868.2019.1609576.[16] C. M. Jagacinski, “Engineering Careers: Women in a Male-Dominated Field,” Psychol. Women Q., vol. 11, no. 1, pp. 97–110, Mar. 1987, doi: https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1471- 6402.1987.tb00777.x.[17] B. A. Karanian, A. Parlier, V. Taajamaa, and G. Monaghan, “Engineering Emotion : Students tell Stories about
withinmovement building, an emergent line of research has turned to social movement schools (SMSs):organizational sites designed to bring together, educate, train and mentor individuals to beeffective and committed movement actors [6]. These intentional spaces empower theirparticipants to enact change [4], impact participants’ subsequent careers [7] and lead to thediffusion of a movement praxis across generations [5]. However, this literature has so faroverlooked the resource mobilization processes through which participants build the capacity forchange-making. This gap is important, because accessing, producing, and distributing resourcesare key to the survival and success of social movements [8], [9].Resource mobilization theory emphasizes the
Graduate Academy for Teaching Excellence Fellow, a Global Perspectives Fellow, a Diversity Scholar, a Fulbright Scholar, a recipient of the NSF CAREER award, and was inducted into the Bouchet Honor Society. Homero serves as the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) Chair for the Commission on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (CDEI), the Program Chair for the ASEE Faculty Development Division, and the Vice Chair for the Research in Engineering Education Network (REEN).Marisela Martinez-Cola ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2023 Work-in-Progress: Towards advancing grassroots transformative advocacy strategies for work justice of BIPOCx contingent
Education, 2023Intersectionality Between Race and Gender in LSAMP-NSF STEM Program MentorshipAbstractRace and gender disparities exist in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM)fields, where their intersectionality promotes the greatest achievement gap. Minority students andfaculty are less represented in these fields. In engineering, especially, a hostile climate develops ifyou are a person with disabilities and/or non-cisgender and/or non-White man; and it is highlylikely that you will be part of a minority in the field. This can lead to stress, anxiety, and feelingsof isolation and hopelessness in a person’s academic and career pursuits. We researched if raceand gender affect the relationship
Paper ID #39250Unexpected Accomplices: Effective Mentoring between a Black and WhiteWoman Despite Historical Issues of Privilege, Power, and PositionalityDr. Meagan Eleanor Ita, Arvinas Dr. Meagan Ita is a Research Scientist at Arvinas working to develop disease modifying therapies for neu- rodegenerative diseases. Her career passion is to develop novel biotechnologies and therapeutics to better understand human physiology with the goal of equitably extending healthspan, ideally at the intersection of healthcare and STEM education. Meagan has experience as a Postdoctoral Scholar in Engineering Education from The Ohio State
University of Washington. Engineering education is her primary area of scholarship, and has been throughout her career. In her work, she currently focuses on the role of reflection in engineering student learning and the relationship of research and practice in engineering education. In recent years, she has been the co-director of the Consortium to Promote Reflection in Engineering Education (CPREE, funded by the Helmsley Charitable Trust), a member of the governing board for the International Research in Engineering Education Network, and an Associate Editor for the Journal of Engineering Education. Dr. Turns has published over 175 journal and conference papers on topics related to engineering education
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