region and beyond. Many of our citizens, however, AfricanAmericans in particular, were left behind as de jure segregation prevented African Americansfrom enrolling into ETSU. Only court orders, especially Brown v. Board of Education, finallyopened the door to integration. African American faculty did not exist on the campus prior to themid-to-late 1970s. And the institution struggled to hire and retain faculty into the 1990s. ETSU,by the end of the 20th century, increasingly reflected a world that was rapidly changing. Thoseadvancements began with racial diversity but increasingly included gender diversity, sexualdiversity, differing abilities, religious diversity, and ethnic diversity. ETSU is more diverse todaythan at any other time in its
more duct tape! Institutionalization of ADVANCE initiatives. American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference Proceedings, Columbus, OH. https://peer.asee.org/28706[10] Padden, C., & Humphries, T. (1988). Deaf in America: Voices from a Culture. Harvard University Press.[11] National Association of the Deaf. (2019). Community and Culture – Frequently Asked Questions. https://www.nad.org/resources/american-sign-language/community-and-culture- frequently-asked-questions/[12] Najarian, C. G. (2008). Deaf Women: Educational Experiences and Self-Identity. Disability and Society 23(2), 117-128.[13] Burke, T. B., & Nicodemus, B. (2013). Coming Out of the Hard of Hearing Closet: Reflections on a Shared Journey
statistics mathematics courses.Many ET graduates successfully complete the calculations in the FE exam, applyingprinciples of algebra and trigonometry rather than differential equations and linearalgebra.In 2009 ETC/ETD organized the ET National Forum (ETNF) to provide a voice inadvancing ET education. In 2020 ETNF conducted a survey of practicing mechanical,electrical, and civil engineers that identifies 13 specific math topics and asks practicingengineers two questions: (1) how frequently they use skills that are reflective of each ofthe 13 math topics, and (2) how important to the practice of engineering in general theyview each skill to be. The majority (251) of the 350 responses came from various officesof Bechtel, Inc., 46 came from various
research that indicates that the need to supportengineering faculty in curriculum development efforts so that all identities are represented andfully integrated into the engineering curriculum, assignments, and assessments [33], [37], [38].This is critical because students who have minoritized identities are able to recognize that notonly is their own identity excluded from the curriculum, but also other minoritized identities,which can amplify these students’ sense of isolation and lack of belonging in the engineeringmajor and career. Designing curricula, assignments, and assessments that reflect diverseperceptions of engineers and engineering work can help cultivate the professional formation ofengineering identity and encourage students with
review response as “just part of the game,” thesescholars are a part of a coalition of authors who have penned an anti-racist reviewer’s guide [19].In the development of this guide, the coalition has identified this kind of behavior for what it is:the centering of a particular way of knowing and communicating to the exclusion of other ways.The reviewer’s exclusionary behavior maps onto several faces of oppression, most notably,marginalization (of particular ways of making knowledge) [20]. Further, the proposedcommunication and knowledge-making suggested by the reviewer reflects Western ways ofknowing, making knowledge, and communicating [21]; as such, this aligns with culturalimperialism and, following Dotson, is a form of epistemic violence [22
Whiteraters, suggests that the intersectional effects of gender and race primarily manifest within thegroup of White raters (see Figure 4.1 and 4.2). This may imply that White students assessed theirpeers differently based on the targets’ race and gender, though it also reflects a larger sample forthose cells. Our analysis revealed that the gender-based differences in peer ratings arepredominantly associated with White raters. Notably, the most substantial disparities in predictedpeer rating means between female and male targets were observed when White studentsevaluated their Asian teammates, suggesting that Asian male students underperformed orcontributed less than Asian female students in course small group activities from the perspectivesof their
to cater to diverse learning needs better. The findings of this study can informpolicies and practices aimed at fostering inclusive educational environments, supporting STEMstudents with ADHD, and enhancing educational outcomes.AcknowledgementsWe would like to acknowledge Cooperative Institutional Research Program (CIRP), the HigherEducation Research Institute (HERI), and the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). Inaddition, this research is supported by the U.S. National Science Foundation (2043430). Anyopinions, findings, and conclusions, or recommendations expressed in this material are those ofthe author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.References[1] “NIMH » Attention-Deficit
. Hammond is the 2020 recipient of the TEES Faculty Fellows Award and the 2011 recipient of the Charles H. Barclay, Jr. ’45 Faculty Fellow Award. Hammond has been featured on the Discovery Channel and other news sources. Hammond is dedicated to diversity and equity, which is reflected in her publications, research, teaching, service, and mentoring. More at http://srl.tamu.edu and http://ieei.tamu.edu. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2024 Tactile Learning: Making a Computer Vision Course Accessible through Touch-Based InterfacesThe term "visual learner" is a ubiquitous concept in education. It is often associated withexperiential or example-based teaching that
in shifting student bias towards inclusion in the three interventions. The mostpromising approach is student-led, where senior students worked to change the student culturedirectly.Introduction and BackgroundImproving diversity in STEM fields is an important goal and has been widely studied. It is well-known that students and professionals in STEM careers in the USA do not reflect the generalpopulation of the country [1]. For example, white men make up 31.6% of the general populationwhile they make up 51% of scientists and engineers. Black men make up 6% of the populationand 3% of the STEM workforce. The percentage of non-white and non-Asian people in the USAis 31.3% while the percentage of this sub-population working in STEM is just 12%. In
justice is not servicing students. In order to changeperspectives and for students to develop the skills and competencies through a critical lens,integration to solve this challenge is paramount [18].Other barriers were more geared to ensure that the students were able to ease into the discussionsand topics by first understanding their positions through reflexive conversations and writtenwork. The barriers discussed did not reflect impediments geared towards faculty, but how as aprofessor Armanios et al. [19] could help mitigate any negative feelings and ensure theclassroom was ‘safe’ and comfortable’.Moving forward in the exploration of concrete steps, perhaps understanding the ease of gettingpermission to discuss the subject of DEIJ and the
expressed in this material are those of the author and do notnecessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.References[1] N. Walker, Neuroqueer heresies: Notes on the neurodiversity paradigm, autistic empowerment, and postnormal possibilities. Fort Worth, TX: Autonomous Press, 2021.[2] N. Walker, “Throw Away the Master’s Tools: Liberating Ourselves from the Pathology Paradigm,” in Loud Hands: Autistic People, Speaking, Washington, DC: The Autistic Press, 2012, pp. 225–237.[3] R. Chapman, “Neurodiversity Theory and Its Discontents: Autism, Schizophrenia, and the Social Model of Disability,” in The Bloomsbury companion to philosophy of psychiatry, Ş. Tekin and R. Bluhm, Eds., London, UK ; New York, NY: Bloomsbury
arguments and consumable as capital. This abstraction of life into quantified energy and materialflows, unaccompanied by locally specific social, historical, and geopolitical contexts and understandings,is itself a death-making practice supporting global environmental injustices. The quantifications becomeanalyses of death, holding fixed a background of Global Racial Empire that assures access to land whileseparating land from life to plunder resources. This is reflected in the way that impact categories are allgeared toward understanding damage that would result from product making, forefronting sets ofrelationships in which humans are inherently damaging to the environment. Figure 1: a) Construction of validity for LCA, where increasing the
’ professional development and thedevelopment of a community project, critical indicators, including student end-of-semestersurvey, reflection items, and the success of the implementation of the semester communityproject present evidence of the effectiveness of the model for this program. Specifically, end-of-semester survey results indicate positive trends concerning understanding, applying, anddescribing the Foundry overall. Additionally, presentations indicate a level of understanding ofthe Foundry as all community event designs were required to integrate the model as part of theirplanning and implementation. In terms of retention and engagement, end-of-semester surveyresults indicate that the majority of the students in the program will persist in
, Kim,& McDermott [57]. To recap key aspects of the discussions and opinions appearing in the precedingpages, I offer Table 4, in which I have listed my subjective rankings of various factorsthat help women’s participation and achievement in STEM fields, based on my personalobservations and experiences in the US and Iran over a 48-year academic career. I couldhave listed inhibiting factors, but perhaps accentuating the positive is preferable as wellas more intuitive (higher scores reflect greater desirability). The total score should betaken with a grain of salt, as not all factor have the same importance.Table 4. A comparative summary of factors helping women’s participation/achievementin STEM educational programs and careers (on
woman (she/her) Engineering Yes Dr. O Black woman (she/her) Engineering Yes Dr. Wu Black woman (she/her) Natural Science YesData AnalysisThe data was analyzed using a general inductive analytic plan, meaning we analyzed theinterviews in line with the conceptual framework and study’s objectives [63], [64]. The first stepof the data analysis involved reading through the transcripts so the lead researcher couldfamiliarize themselves with the data. Next, the lead researcher identified significant statements ineach of the interviews pertaining to codes reflective of the Collins’ [11] domains of powerframework. The interpersonal domain code was created to describe when a participantmentioned
Niehans, Shelley Lemons, Wright CollegeEngineering Team, Mia Angara and in memoriam: Melissa Mercer-Tachick- MUSE Consulting,NSF-HSI “Building Capacity: Building Bridges into Engineering and Computer Science”evaluator. This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant No. DUE-1832553. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation. Wright College IRB protocol # 108007 10REFERENCES[1] C. Adelman, Women and Men of the
experiment with a pass/fail and/ormastery learning approach for the base requirements of the course.4.2 Instructor 2 Reflection Starting in Fall 2022, I began teaching at Loyola with a primary audience of adult learnersthrough the school of continuing studies. Before my current role, I held roles at both an R1institution and a small private institution. The latter was focused on expediting students into theworkforce by offering associate degrees centered around computer science. Neither my currentinstitution nor the ones I previously mentioned required prerequisite for CS 1. Through a variety ofinstitutional contexts, I was able to observe students succeeding in CS 1 without having taken theprerequisites that are widely required in CS
and how they're doing many things to try to make it more inclusive for us nonwhite individuals of the school... I think inclusive teaching includes making sure that examples you see in the classroom have our races introduced to these classes. So sort of making sure that we're heard as well, making sure the examples aren't only focused on white individuals. [Student 8 Interview]In addition, students voiced beliefs about the importance of seeing themselves reflected in theirpeers and faculty. They expressed that this fosters a sense of community among individuals whoshare similar backgrounds and perspectives. For instance, one student highlighted the importanceof female representation in STEM classes
of Appearance and Reflected Appraisals forMixed-Race Identity: The Role of Consistent Inconsistent Racial Perception,” Sociology of Raceand Ethnicity, vol. 2, no. 4, pp. 569–583, Oct. 2016.
demographic data.AcknowledgmentsThis study is funded and supported by two sources, the National Science Foundation (NSF) andPurdue University. The study is based on work supported by the NSF under the Graduate ResearchFellowship Program (GRFP). The study was also supported by a Seed Grant for InnovativeApproaches to Enhancing Inclusive Excellence and Sense of Belonging through PurdueUniversity’s Office of Diversity, Inclusion and Belonging (ODIB). Any opinions, findings,conclusions, or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do notnecessarily reflect those of the NSF or Purdue University.References[1] National Center for Science and Engineering Statistics, Directorate for Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences
metacognitive processes.Bielefeldt (2014) emphasizes that female students’ reflective essays have significantlyimpacted students’ own perception of engineering and the profession’s role within society. A second strand of scholarly work emphasizes the role of experiential learning throughsummer programs (Groppi & Tappero, 2015), student exchange programs (Fox et al., 2018),mentored grant-funded research projects (Espiritu et al., 2021; Perez & Plumlee, 2022), andinternships (National Academies, 2017). Groppi and Tappero (2015) analyze a team-basedsummer program on renewable energy (culminating in service-based learning projects) whichthey find serves to increase the retention rate of students from underrepresented minoritygroups as well
playing field for the production of texts in standard English. The power of GenAIas a writing tool is based on its large training data set; however, that apparent diversity belies theprimacy of language practices from younger, white, more affluent users in the training data(Bender et al. 2022). GenAI programs like ChatGPT utilize machine learning, organizinglanguage into tokens, representing units of meaning, often phrases, each assigned vectors tocharacterize relationships between tokens. Trained on vast text data, initially supervised byhumans, then refined through a reward model, these systems predict the likelihood of tokens in atext stream. Despite their capabilities, they predominantly reflect white mainstream AmericanEnglish, with limited
also experienced by students in the class. The authors found that a simple,extended pause after asking a question can be a wonderful place to start promoting studentengagement. Usually (eventually) someone spoke up to start a dialogue when the silence wasallowed to linger. Active learning strategies are the next step, shown to increase studentengagement and knowledge retention [28] active or cooperative learning strategies consist ofpauses and time for students to reflect on and further absorb course content. These methods arevaried by discipline and take many forms, but the result is a delineation from traditional lectures[29] to combat fatigue experienced by both students and educators [19].Building positive student-centered learning
conducted theinterviews. The first author’s experience created a bias that undoubtedly informed their responseto the participants and motivated the probing questions they offered. The first author engaged inself reflection in the attempt to recognize their assumptions between interviews. They are stillworking to identify their implicit biases. The first author provides an in-depth consideration oftheir current and historical understanding of their positionality on their websitedcbeardmore.com.The second author (she/her/hers) has experienced dis/ability through close family members’challenges with depression, cancer, anxiety, ADHD, and hearing loss. She has also workedclosely with students facing an array of dis/abling conditions and non-normative
problems to solve, defining the problem space, making design decisions toprioritize certain technical features over others, etc. - are always shaped by cultural norms. Theengineers' social and political beliefs are always reflected in their practices and their work [16],[17]. Engineering as a heterogeneous practice should be aware of its entangled social justiceissues and work with the communities when creating designs [11], [18], [19].Engineering education is moving towards perceiving engineering as a sociotechnical field notonly because of the shifting ideology described above but also because the movement can betterengage students’ identities, hence broadening participation in engineering [8], [20]. Becauseengineering has been heavily
. It represents a behavioral aspect of well-being and has beenrecognized as a significant predictor of various learning behaviors and achievement outcomes[11, 12]. According to Renshaw and Bolognino (2016) [6], academic efficacy encompasseselements of both cognitive and behavioral well-being. However, their analysis suggests that itpredominantly reflects behavioral well-being rather than cognitive well-being. This implies thatacademic efficacy is more closely associated with the persistent pursuit of goals anddetermination rather than solely cognitive abilities or beliefs about one's capabilities.3. METHODOLOGY3.1 Methods Both quantitative and qualitative data were collected concurrently for the concurrentmixed-methods study as
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andthe R.O.S.E Research Group at the University of Cincinnati. Without your support and guidanceduring the writing process, this document would not be what it is. We are honored to be a part ofthese outstanding groups of scholars.This work is based on research supported by the National Science Foundation Grant Awardunder Grant No. 2212690. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendationsexpressed in this material are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of theNational Science Foundation. References[1] K. J. Jensen and K. J. Cross, “Engineering stress culture: Relationships among mental health, engineering identity, and sense of inclusion,” J. Eng. Educ., vol