is, students reported parent(s)/guardian(s) completed a “bachelor’sdegree” or “master’s degree or higher;” 20% (n2 = 596) were first-generation college students(FGCS), that is, students reported both parents/guardians obtained “less than a high schooldiploma,” “high school diploma/GED,” or “some college or associate/trade degree;” and 8% (n3 =228) did not report their parent’s educational background. Students that did not report parent’seducation level were eliminated from the study. First, we tested the internal consistency of thethree constructs in each of the subject-related identity measures (i.e., performance/competence,interest, and recognition). Analysis yielded Cronbach alpha values of α = 0.89 for physics interest,α = 0.89 for
disciplinary identities of doctoral degree holders as they begin to engage in their professions.Ms. Shawnisha Hester LGSW, University of Maryland, Baltimore County Shawnisha S. Hester is an Evaluation and Assessment Coordinator. She earned both her BA in Psychol- ogy and MA in Applied Sociology from the University of Maryland, Baltimore County. She went on to complete her MSW from the University of Maryland School of Social Work. Her research interests focus on using qualitative research methods that measure various phenomena and making connections via an interdisciplinary approach, qualitative evaluation and assessment measurements, increasing the number of minorities in STEM fields, and program development at the graduate
establish their own nicheand increase business revenue, so they began face-to-face marketing in their own communities.This door-to-door sales strategy allowed for the entrepreneurs to avoid the racial barriers,decrease advertising costs, establish their niche market and get direct feedback from thecustomers through strong connections within the community. [30] Their work to overcomeadversity seemed to strengthen the relationship between business management and the Blackracial identity. There was also increased innovation in business strategy. Although difficulties were faced by entrepreneurs in the early 1900’s, similar difficulties arestill evidenced by the discrimination that minority entrepreneurs face when seeking smallbusiness loans in today’s
diversity & inclusion in the engineeringcurriculum and advocating for more women and minority groups in faculty, staff, and student body.ReferencesAntonio, A. L., Chang, M. J., Hakuta, K., Kenny, D. A., Levin, S., & Milem, J. F. (2004). Effects ofracial diversity on complex thinking in college students. Psychological Science, 15(8), 507-510DeAngelo, Linda, Ray Franke, Sylvia Hurtado, John H. Pryor, and Serge Tran. (2011). CompletingCollege: Assessing Graduation Rates at Four-Year Institutions. Los Angeles, CA: Higher EducationResearch Institute. http://heri.ucla.edu/DARCU/CompletingCollege2011.pdfFutrelle, David. (2013, Feb 19). Discrimination Doesn’t Make Dollars, or Sense. Time Feb 2013).Retrieved from https://business.time.com/2013/02/19
of DesignInputs, the criteria that governs thesolution(s). Students have to identify forwhom their solution is being developed Prototyping & Testing Design Inputsas well as who will utilize the solution(patients, governments, physicians, etc.).It is these customer needs that thestudents strive to satisfy with their Solution Selection
the greatesthurdle in their effort to obtain a science or engineering education is financial…Options such asscholarships, …traineeships, …, support for research experiences and internships have proveneffective in providing incentives to students who pursue a career in S&E disciplines, while alsoproviding them with a good grounding in what it is like to work in the S&E fields.” 8 Theprogram takes this statement to heart, embedding some of the methods mentioned above into ourprogram. Page 13.458.5ScholarshipsMany low income students simply cannot go to college because Figure 2
learned. We found that thepersonalized advising service is crucial for the success of the program and identified specificadjustments that community college instructor and students need to make when they come to a four-year university.1. IntroductionIn recent years, alarming national statistics and trends have shown declining graduate andundergraduate enrollment, graduation rates, and participation of minority groups in Science andEngineering (S&E) fields, and in Computer Science in particular. According to NSF’s Scienceand Engineering indicators 2006, underrepresented minorities did not enroll in or completecollege at the same rate as Caucasians. In 2003, the percentage of African-Americans andHispanics who completed a bachelor’s or higher
46 Wednesday 23 40 21 Thursday 48 48 47 Friday 24 48 24 Time Morning 26 63 45 Afternoon 95 97 69 Evening 24 0 24 Instructor B 24 40 0 D 26 24 44 F 23 0 23 KD 24 24 0 S 24 24 0 V 0 24 24 WA 24 0 23 WE 0 24 0 Y 0 0 24In the present study we adapted a belonging intervention developed by Walton and
measureable benefits. These benefits include increased confidence andinterest in science and engineering pursuits. Students also acquire a meaningful understanding ofthe engineering design process, and particularly its iterative nature. The communitycontextualization has been observed to provide further benefits by making the relevance ofSTEM a central feature of the student engagement. Further study is needed to determine if thisalso facilitates communication between students, families, and community members, positioningthese students as STEM ambassadors able to relate the value of engineering to their community.References1Kosovich,J. J., Hulleman, C. S., Barron, K. E., & Getty, S. (2015). A Practical Measure ofStudent Motivation: Establishing
: Oct. 14, 2018].[3] D. Bennett and S. A. Male, “An Australian study of possible selves perceived byundergraduate engineering students,” Eur. J. Eng. Educ., vol. 42, no. 6, pp. 603–617, 2017.[4] J. Shane, C. L. del Puerto, K. Strong, K. Mauro, and R. Wiley-Jones, “Retaining womenstudents in a construction engineering undergraduate program by balancing integration andidentity in student communities,” Int. J. Constr. Educ. Res., vol. 8, no. 3, pp. 171–185, 2012.[5] S. Aguirre-Covarrubias, E. Arellano, and P. Espinoza, “‘A pesar de todo’ (DespiteEverything): The Persistence of Latina Graduate Engineering Students at a Hispanic-ServingInstitution,” New Dir. High. Educ., vol. 172, pp. 49–57, 2015.[6] Center for the Advancement of Engineering
inengineering.The RStudio integrated development environment was used to perform the statistical analysis [8]. All statistical tests were conductedwith an alpha=0.05. A standard t-test is used to compare means. For the odds ratio estimate, the Fisher’s Exact Test for Count Datafrom the R-“stats” package is used[8]. The cohen.d function from the EffSize package estimates the effect size for all t-tests[9]. Thisis a measure of the strength of the difference between means and we use d ≤ 0.2 for a small (S) effect, 0.2 < d ≤ 0.8 is considered amedium (M) effect, and d > 0.8 is a large effect [9]. The statistical power is also estimated using the “pwr” package in R using defaultvalues for all non-required parameters [10]. A comparison of means is
levels in lumbar herniated discs in patients with sciatic pain. European Spine Journal, 22(4), 714-720. 9. Andrade, P., Visser-Vandewalle, V., Del Rosario, J. S., Daemen, M. A., Buurman, W. A., Steinbusch, H. W., & Hoogland, G. (2012). The thalidomide analgesic effect is associated with differential TNF-α receptor expression in the dorsal horn of the spinal cord as studied in a rat model of neuropathic pain. Brain Research, 1450, 24-32. 10. Andrade, P., Hoogland, G., Del Rosario, J. S., Steinbusch, H. W., Visser‐Vandewalle, V., & Daemen, M. A. (2014). Tumor necrosis factor‐α inhibitors alleviation of e- experimentally induced neuropathic pain is associated with
Application to the Research Study Example(s) Guidelines1. Include descriptions of the Attend to the contextual features that Examine the cultural context elements Types of organizations and affiliations the cultural context in which the give meaning to events that relate to the such as values, social rules, etc. in the interviewee has and what honors or awards storied case study takes protagonist’s values, social rules, backdrop summary were received place. meaning systems, and conceptual Review transcript and identify values, Values and
programs such as S-STEM for just such students with unmet financial need. Thescholarships allow the students to work less or not at all, and to put more of their energy intoacademics. At Arizona State University, the author has led such scholarship programs with anAcademic Success and Professional Development classes for nearly 15 years. During this timeshe has continually done research on the best way to support and encourage students to do wellacademically, to graduate, and to go right on to graduate school. This research has used groundedtheory and Social Cognitive Career Theory to understand how best to recruit and retain students.Beginning with seminars, over the years, the author developed a successful two-credit AcademicSuccess and
. Indianapolis.8. Perez-Castilleos, R, & Santhanam, P. R. (2014). Student-led Mentoring Program Fostering Retention of FemaleUndergraduate Students in STEM Fields. Proceedings of American Society for Engineering Education. Indianapolis.9. Clark, J. I., Godd, S. L., Des Jardins, A. C., Foreman, C. M., Gunnink, B. W., Plumb, C., & Stocker, K. R. (2015).Peer Mentoring Program: Providing early intervention and support to improve retention and success of women inengineering, computer science, and physics. Proceedings of American Society for Engineering Education. Seattle.10. Kim, D. L., Lee, Y. H., & Oh, M. S. (2012). Effect of Women in Engineering Programs on the Retention ofFemale Engineering Students. Presented at the Inaugural International
community was purposefully expanded to include center and university, parents andwomen of color in STEM to further improve the self-efficacy of the girls [27], [28].MethodologyThis research is part of a larger exploratory, longitudinal, 2-year mixed methods study. Theinitial phase was focused on unveiling areas of challenge in student perception, CT thinkingpractices, and STEM +CT integration. Student voice was optimized to help refine and evolve theintegration of STEM and the CT activities. CT thinking practices were pulled by the universityresearch team from Weintrop et al.’s Taxonomy of CT [15]. Those practices include DataCollection, Data Creation, Understanding a System as a Whole, Understanding the RelationshipBetween Parts of a System
activity/action done during the fieldwork session (students were required to focus on one particular/small activity/action) b) Identify Problem(s)/shortcoming(s) in the way the activity/action was done c) Suggestion(s) as to how the activity/action could be improved for the futureAnalytical ReasoningFor students of the PEEC camp, as well as those in the surveying course offered in a regularsemester at the university, the greatest challenge was the trigonometry calculations. In a regularsemester course also a huge effort had to be made by the faculty member and the teachingassistants to guide the students through such calculations. At the PEEC camp also, the graduatestudents and the faculty member made such huge effort. Without
the launcher will be used. A blast deflector to prevent the motor's exhaust from hitting the ground will be used and ensure that dry grass is cleared around each launch pad in accordance with the Minimum Distance table, and increase the distance by a factor of 1.5 if the rocket motor being launched uses titanium sponge in the propellant. • Size: The rocket will not contain any combination of motors that total more than 40,960 N-sec (9208 lb-sec) of total impulse. The rocket will not weigh more at liftoff than one-third of the certified average thrust of the high power rocket motor(s) intended to be ignited at launch. • Flight Safety: The rocket will not be launched at targets, into clouds
belonging in engineering?To analyze the data scores were computed and the appropriate statistical analysistechniques were applied.Question 1Are there differences in students’ engineering self-efficacy across academic levels?This question asks if there is a difference in the engineering self-efficacy of a sophomoreengineering student as compared to a freshman engineering student, and so forth. Thisquestion seeks to find the result for all students, regardless of ethnicity. Table 3 shows theANOVA table for the subscales contributing to engineering self-efficacy. The resultsshow that there is/are marginally significant difference(s) between means of the fourclasses (Freshman, Sophomore, Junior, Senior) for math outcome expectations (F =14.356, p = 0.0
. 10, 4 (1994), 42–44.[26] Katterfeldt, E.-S. et al. 2009. EduWear: smart textiles as ways of relating computing technology to everyday life. IDC’09 (2009), 9–17.[27] LaBahn, J. 1995. Education and parental involvement in secondary schools: Problems, solutions, and effects. Educational Psychology Interactive. (1995).[28] Liston, C. et al. 2007. Guide to Promising Practices in Informal Information Technology Education for Girls.[29] Loucks, H. 1992. Increasing parent/family involvement: Ten ideas that work. NASSP Bulletin. (1992).[30] Lovell, E. and Buechley, L. 2010. An e-sewing tutorial for DIY learning. IDC’10 (2010), 230–233.[31] Margolis, J. 2008. Stuck in the shallow end: Education, race, and computing.[32
, the class was changed to two semester credit hours. Since the first two CSEMSNSF grants, each grant program has been continued with an S-STEM NSF grant #0728695 fortransfer students and #1060226 for native and graduate students. Due to word of mouth about thegood information that the students receive and the suggestion of Academic Advisors, theattendance in the Academic Success Class grew to 179 in Fall 2013 with a majority of thestudents being non-scholarship holders.This large class was difficult to work with and still keep the class a small supportive, networkingtype of environment. Each of the six meetings of the class was held six times to keep theattendance under 30 students and to accommodate the numerous different schedules of
and engineeringspecifically."CitationsAlimahomed, S. (2010). Thinking outside the rainbow: Women of color redefining queer politics and identity. Social Identities, 16(2), 151–168. https://doi.org/10.1080/13504631003688849Cech, E. A., & Waidzunas, T. J. (2011). Navigating the heteronormativity of engineering: The experiences of lesbian, gay, and bisexual students. Engineering Studies, 3(1), 1–24. https://doi.org/10.1080/19378629.2010.545065Cooper, K. M., & Brownell, S. E. (2016). Coming Out in Class: Challenges and Benefits of Active Learning in a Biology Classroom for LGBTQIA Students. CBE—Life Sciences Education, 15(3), ar37. https://doi.org/10.1187/cbe.16-01-0074Jennings, M., Roscoe, R
. Conrad received her Ph.D. degree in Physics from the University of Missouri – Columbia in 1990. Page 14.464.1Gary May, Georgia Institute of Technology Gary S. May received the B.S. degree in electrical engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology in 1985 and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering and computer science from the University of California at Berkeley in 1987 and 1991, respectively.© American Society for Engineering Education, 2009 He is currently a Professor and the Steve W. Chaddick School Chair of the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the
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DiversityCommittee members and delegates whose hard work and dedication have truly impacted ASEEand the engineering environment. We especially thank Kristen Constant for phrasingsuggestions.References[1] C. Herring, “Does diversity pay?: Race, gender, and the business case for diversity,” American Sociological Review, vol. 74, no. 2, pp. 208–224, 2009.[2] N. M. Carter and H. M. Wagner, “The bottom line: Corporate performance and women’s representation on boards (2004-2008),” Catalyst, vol. 1, 2011.[3] S. Devillard, W. Graven, E. Lawson, R. Paradise, and S. Sancier-Sultan, “Women Matter 2012. Making the Breakthrough,” McKinsey \& Company, 2012.[4] B. L. Yoder, “Engineering by the Numbers,” in American Society for Engineering Education
Paper ID #12057Reflections on Experiences of a Successful STEM Scholarship Program forUnderrepresented GroupsDr. Sedig Salem Agili, Pennsylvania State University, Harrisburg Sedig S. Agili received his BS, MS, and Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Marquette University in 1986, 1989, and 1996, respectively. Currently he is a Professor of Electrical Engineer- ing teaching and conducting research in signal integrity of high-speed electrical interconnects, electronic communications, and fiber optic communications. He has authored numerous research articles which have been published in reputable peer refereed
(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the NationalScience Foundation. Page 26.1385.12References1. Schreiner, L.A., & Pattengale, J (Eds.). (2000). Visible solutions for invisible students: Helping sophomores succeed. Monograph Series No. 31. Columbia: National Resource Center for the First-Year Experience and Students in Transition, University of South Carolina.2. Gump, S.E. (2007). Classroom research in a general education course: Exploring implications through an investigation of the sophomore slump. The Journal of General Education, 56: 105-125.3. Graunke, S.S., & Woosley, S.A. (2005). An exploration of
, Black people aren’t smart,” or that we can’t do something … I’ve had white people say … “Oh, no, you all can’t do that.” [My response to that is] “Are you serious because I think we have the same type of brain the last time I checked!” … I just like to [put] that in people’s face[s], so when I graduate and have that degree, I’m [going to] have it on my wall. I’m [going to] have a picture on Facebook. I’m [going to] throw that everywhere just so I can [say] … “So now what, because obviously, we’re working in the same office and I’m making more than you!”… I want to prove people wrong because so many people [think] Black people can’t do [engineering].A female student in the coed focus group at HBCU2
AC 2012-4681: SELECTION OF EFFECTIVE GROUPS IN ENGINEER-ING PROJECTS USING MANAGEMENT THEORY PRACTICEMr. Brian Robert Dickson, University of Strathclyde Page 25.1148.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2012 Selection of Effective Groups in Engineering Projects using Management Theory PracticeA study that is a work in progressIntroductionMany engineering courses incorporate group projects as standard. The challenge for mostacademics is selecting groups that are well balanced and will produce a fair result for allgroup members, that measure their technical abilitie,s and their
Alternative high school weatherization of homes, and environmental and economic analysis of project(s). Mohawk, MI 49950 Grades: 10-128 Melvindale High School Randy Thomas: Number of Students: 37 Cyber Cards: Design and build a hybrid or Michigan Tech large urban city Physics, Chemistry Minority: 13 fuel cell vehicle & Public high school (Gr.9-12) Women: 10 NSF - ITEST