mirrors a statement in factor 2 in which a participant sawthe value of having different people working together to solve a problem—they both note the benefit ofdiversity of thought. The difference between factors appears to be the way in which a generalized notionof diversity is viewed as related to demographic markers of diversity.DiscussionDiversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) is ubiquitous in the current computer science higher educationclimate, yet definitions vary, as do perspectives regarding what forms of diversity are valued ineducational spaces. As DEI plans become commonplace for securing federal funding [28], understandinghow students, staff and faculty conceptualize the value of diversity will only increase in importance.The Q-sort
study'sexploration of everyday ingenuity and engineering interest within Connected Learning Spaces.Through collaborative efforts, the study sought to illuminate the contextual nuances shapingyouth engagement and learning experiences within community-based settings.Data Sources The data for this study were derived from virtual co-design sessions with the participants,each spanning between fifty and one hundred minutes. Detailed plans of the design sessions areprovided in Appendix A to contribute comprehensively to the field. Data sources encompassedvarious elements, including the video recordings of the planning and timeline (detailed inAppendix A) design sessions. Additionally, the study incorporated accompanying field notesrecorded by a research
?MethodsParticipant recruitment and context: As part of the external evaluation plan for the project, weinvited instructors of two associated large-scale (>2000 students per semester) required first-yearengineering courses to talk with us at two different points in the academic year (mid-year, andend-of-year) about their experiences of overseeing and improving student teaming in the courses.At this university, where engineering features prominently in the university’s identity andinternational reputation, students admitted to be undergraduates are not required to choose anundergraduate major as part of their application. Instead, they indicate interest in being admittedto the engineering college, and are administratively labeled as “first year engineering
Paper ID #42714Equitable Attainment of Engineering Degrees: A Tri-University Study andImprovement EffortKian G. Alavy, The University of Arizona Kian Alavy is Director of Strategic Planning and Initiatives for the Division of Undergraduate Education and a doctoral student in Higher Education at the University of Arizona. Kian is interested in the history and evolution of undergraduate education offices at research universities in the United States, particularly their current nationwide organization around high-impact practices (HIPs). He earned his MA in Middle Eastern and North African Studies at the University of
the lab in Fall quarter—forming relationships with their lab mentor, becoming familiar with the lab research, and developing a research plan for the Winter and Spring Quarters. GEAR students then spend Winter and Spring quarters conducting their research project in the laboratory. • Mentorship: GEAR offers an extensive support system through various levels of mentorship including the GEAR Central Mentor who acts as a bridge between the GEAR students and laboratories, graduate lab mentors who provide regular guidance to the GEAR students, and faculty Principal Investigators (PIs). • Socials and Workshops: GEAR socials and workshops offer opportunities for relaxing, team building, and exploring
engineering and STEM fields in general. This, in turn,creates a more equitable engineering field that can be welcoming and comfortable, andencourage authentic selves while learning and practicing engineering. Studying these perceptionscan potentially identify “features” that have been perpetuating the unwelcoming anduncomfortable environment that makes the participation of LGBTQIA+ engineers difficult.Specifically, this pilot study can contribute to reimagining how the pedagogical and assessmentapproaches in classrooms help with such research by engaging the students to help with thereimagination, which I find to be a knowledge gap in engineering education scholarship. To doso, I plan to conduct a survey based on bell hook’s engaged pedagogy as a
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
&M University. He is also the Assistant Lab Director at the Sketch Recognition Lab.Dr. Shawna Thomas, Texas A&M University Dr. Thomas is an Instructional Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineer- ing at Texas A&M University. She is a member of the Engineering Education Faculty in the Institute for Engineering Education & Innovation at Texas A&M. She enjoys project-based learning and incorporat- ing active learning techniques in all her courses. She received her Ph.D. from Texas A&M University in 2010, focusing on developing robotic motion planning algorithms and applying them to computational biology problems including protein folding. She continued this work as
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
than a personalpassion for social justice. Although that is a commendable starting point, we also need to gainsolid grounding in literature related to critical race theory, developing White racial literacy, socialjustice in engineering education, liberative pedagogy, and culturally-responsive teaching andmentoring. While we have developed a basic foundation in these theories and frameworks, we willcomplete a more extensive literature review starting in summer 2021, which will guide our futurework. In parallel to a literature review, we will run four focus groups with students who completedthe social justice modules in both design classes to gain an understanding of their identities andinterests. We plan to refine our modules and implement them
bridge forMariabella to connect to engineering. In contrast, Mariabella discussed the value of working inthe more open design context, where the group took up her idea as a meaningful experience. Mariabella’s experiences offer insight into what it might take to engage more youth frommarginalized backgrounds in engineering. Designing and developing ways for youths’knowledge and experiences to not only be elicited, but also have an impact is one direction thatmay support more youth connecting with engineering. Borrowing from science education: …lesson planning for agency requires teachers not only to allow space for students to exercise control over their own commitments to knowledge, but also to imagine students as
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
performingsections was observed by an independent educator who shared a few observations. The studentsdid not ask many questions, and the questions that did come up were occasionally hostile. Anexample student question in one of these sections was “Why should girls get specialscholarships? This is unfair to me as a white male, and I should get the same chances.” Whenthe students broke into groups to work on solutions and strategies to improve diversity cultureone group of male students actually made a plan to form a “white male club” that would focuson supporting their rights. This result is disappointing, but consistent with the literature onbacklash from more privileged groups during diversity dialogs [23]. In the future, the teamplans to restructure the
, 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
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researchers on the REDPAR team; in the third year of their RED grant, each teamis invited to participate in a follow-up focus group. Focus group discussions are conducted viavideo conference and/or telephone call and last for approximately 60 minutes each. This paperutilizes data from the second and third cohorts of RED teams’ baseline focus group discussions(n=12) and follow-up focus groups (n=13). The focus groups ranged in size from 2 to 10participants, with an average of 5 participants. Baseline focus groups were designed to gatherinformation on the initial stages of their change projects while follow-up focus groups discussedimplementation of their plans, adaptations that were made, and the skills utilized to createchange.Focus group transcripts