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Innovative Methods to Teach Engineering to URMs

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Fred Bonner, Texas A&M University; Felecia Nave, Prairie View A&M University; Sherri Frizell, Prairie View A&M University; Carmen Villa, Texas A&M University; Helene Cook, Texas A&M University

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Minorities in Engineering

, Y. S., Guba, E. G. (1985). Naturalistic inquiry. Newbury Park, CA:Sage17. Strauss, A. & Corbin, J. (1998). Basics of qualitative research: techniques and procedures for developing grounded theory. (2nd ed). Thousand Oaks:Sage.18. Creswell, J. C. (2002). Educational research. Planning, conducting, and evaluating quantitative and qualitative research. NJ: Pearson Education. Page 14.784.9 7

Conference Session

Building Diversity in Engineering Graduate Programs

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Xiaoqing Qian, Alabama A&M University; Zhengtao Deng, Alabama A&M University; George Seweryniak, DoE Computational Science Division; Debbie McCoy, Oak Ridge National Lab

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Minorities in Engineering

Science (RAMS) Program inspired him to include ORNL into his plans for graduate school in mechanical engineering. "As long as I can do research with them, I'll be happy no matter what university [I get into]," he says. This is music to the ears of … RAMS program administrator, because attracting more underrepresented minorities to careers in science is exactly what she's trying to do. "The long-term goal is to prepare [underrepresented minorities] to become those critical staff scientists that we need for the future workforce, hopefully here [at ORNL]."….”RAMS program is aimed at increasing the number of under-represented populations in theworkplace by encouraging students to pursue advanced degrees in

Conference Session

Marketing Engineering as a Career Path to URMs

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

David Delaine, Drexel University; Adam Fontecchio, Drexel University

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Minorities in Engineering

collaboration and liaisons for Ph.D. granting programs • Assist in retention and recruitment of current/future BTD students • Provide a calendar for social events which other BTD students are planning or attendingWith the group established, members are invited, in this case consisting of the Drexel University,Delaware State, Temple University, and University of Delaware BTD cohorts. The members areencouraged to develop discussion boards for relevant issues involving their graduate educationand the pursuit of a Ph.D. Made up of only students, the network is effective in allowing for alltopics to be discussed, including those that are difficult to broach with administration. The factthat it is strictly a peer group is reinforced to

Conference Session

New Research and Trends Related to Minorities in Engineering

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Terrell Strayhorn, University of Tennessee, Knoxville

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Minorities in Engineering

; Terenzini, P. T. (2005). How college affects students: A third decade of research (Vol. 2). San Francisco: Jossey-Bass.8. Astin, A. W. (1993). What matters in college: Four critical years revisited. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass.9. Gonyea, R. M., Kish, K. A., Kuh, G. D., Muthiah, R. N., & Thomas, A. D. (2003). College Student Experiences Questionnaire: Norms for the Fourth Edition. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Center for Postsecondary Research, Policy, and Planning.10. Strayhorn, T. L. (2008). How college students’ engagement affects personal and social learning outcomes [Electonic Version]. Journal of College & Character, X. Retrieved November 27, 2008 from http://collegevalues.org/pdfs/Strayhorn.pdf.11

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Minorities in Engineering Division Technical Session 6

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Germysha Emily Little, Tennessee State University; Lesia L. Crumpton-Young, Tennessee State University; Shabnam Etemadi Brady; T'Shana DeShai Carter, Tennessee State University ; Lydia Davis, Tennessee State University

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Diversity

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Minorities in Engineering

underrepresentedstudents by serving as an integral part of a student’s development. Planning and professionalengagement with a mentor can help students to be successful in completing a degree in STEM and thepursuing a graduate degree in STEM. Mentoring can be especially essential for underrepresentedundergraduate students pursuing STEM degrees. Mentoring relationships provide students with apositive environment that can lead to networking opportunities and career opportunities after graduation,but only recently has research been conducted to fully understand the best practices of mentoringrelationships.Based on previous studies conducted, 82.4% reported positive outcomes for mentees.6 Students whohad a mentoring relationship usually had higher retention rates and

Conference Session

Minorities in Engineering Division Technical Session 6

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Hua Li, Texas A&M University, Kingsville; Mary L. Gonzalez, Texas A&M University, Kingsville ; Mohamed Abdelrahman, Idaho State University; Melinda Dynyel Miller; Kai Jin, Texas A&M University, Kingsville; Maria Emilia Martinez, Texas A&M University, Kingsville

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Diversity

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Minorities in Engineering

college students through project based learningwith focus on difficult principles and concepts identified from first two-year college STEMcourses. Each SRP team consists of one faculty advisor, one student mentor, and 3-6 SRPparticipants. The entire MERIT project design structure is shown in Figure 1. Figure 1: MERIT project design structureAs originally planned, the first year of the MERIT project was mainly for project initiation anddevelopment, and the second and third year were designed for fully implementation andcontinuous improvement. Table 1 shows all the bottleneck courses chosen in the MERIT project.In the first year, only three courses were selected as the initial targeted bottleneck courses, whileall of the

Conference Session

Minorities in Engineering Division Technical Session 1

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jenni Buckley, University of Delaware; Marcos Miranda, Ohio State University ; Amy Trauth, University of Delaware; Marianne T. Johnson, University of Delaware; Michael L. Vaughan, University of Delaware; Tasha Zephirin, Purdue University-Main Campus, West Lafayette (College of Engineering); Darryl Dickerson, Purdue University-Main Campus, West Lafayette (College of Engineering); Rachel A. Davidson, University of Delaware

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Diversity

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Minorities in Engineering

theseorganizations to offer the recently recommended student interventions.ACKNOWLEDGEMENTSFunding for summer internship provided by the UD Office of the Associate Dean for Diversityand Inclusion.REFERENCES1. Yoder BL. Engineering by the Numbers. ASEE 2017.2. Page SE. The difference: How the power of diversity creates better groups, firms, schools, andsocieties. Princeton University Press; 2008.3. Planning Commission for Expanding Minority Opportunities in Engineering. 1974. Minoritiesin Engineering: A Blueprint for Action: Summary and Principal Recommendations. New York,NY: Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.4. Ross M, Yates N. Paving the Way: Engagement Strategies for Improving the Success ofUnderrepresented Minority Engineering Students. National Society of

Conference Session

Minorities in Engineering Division Technical Session 4

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Shabnam Etemadi Brady, Tennessee State University; Germysha Emily Little, Tennessee State University; Lesia L. Crumpton-Young, Tennessee State University; Sreyoshi Bhaduri, Virginia Tech

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Diversity

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Minorities in Engineering

regression analysis to further assess variables for predictabilitypurposes for persistence in STEM majors. The researchers also intend to continue datacollection. Data collection from more HBCUs across the nation will provide a morecomprehensive understanding of student experiences in STEM programs, such as engineering.The researchers plan to collaborate further with leaders across STEM departments to developmore data collection sites. Further research is warranted from these findings to assess linksbetween high school preparation and STEM performance at the university level. Demographicinformation, such as first-generation college experiences would also be helpful data to assessstudent experiences regarding persistence. Gathering data regarding

Conference Session

Women in Engineering Division Technical Session - Development Opportunities for Diverse Engineering Students

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jenni Buckley, University of Delaware; Amy Trauth, University of Delaware; Manuela Restrepo Parra; Laura Meszaros Dearolf, The Perry Initiative ; Lisa L Lattanza MD

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ASEE Diversity Committee, Diversity

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Minorities in Engineering, Women in Engineering

orthopaedics within the next 6 years.By 2022, we expect that we will achieve 30% female in the residency population, an acceptedcritical threshold for maintaining minority populations within professions [11]. Even with worst-case assumptions for our recruitment and retention results, we would nearly achieve this criticalthreshold by 2025. Again, planning for worst-case conditions, if we were to cease all of ourprogramming efforts after 5-10 years, we would still achieve at or near 30% female for a periodof time (5-10 years) before the effects of our intervention wear off. This may be enough time forthe culture of the field to shift enough, i.e., orthopaedics seen as more “female friendly” bymedical students, to have a permanent effect on gender

Conference Session

Developing Quality Experiences that Retain Diverse Engineering Talent

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Rocio Alba-Flores, Georgia Southern University; Fernando Rios-Gutierrez, Georgia Southern University

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Diversity

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Minorities in Engineering

from faculty and students participating in the outreachactivities, in the near future we are planning to improve these programs by: • Increasing the availability of financial aid for prospective students from minorities to motivate enrollment • Creation of scholarships and grants with focus to minorities, to attract high performing students • Introduce techniques, other than standardized testing (SAT,ACT, etc.) as a measure of students potential that allows students from non-traditional educational experiences to succeed in the engineering programs • Creation of honor courses with focus in engineeringReferences[1] Georgia Southern University: Office of Strategic Research and Analysis, Comprehensive

Conference Session

Assessing URM Programs Targeting the K-16 Continuum

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Robert V. Pieri, North Dakota State University; Timothy D. Legg, North Dakota State University; Ann Marie Vallie, Turtle Mountain Community College; Lori Nelson, Fort Berthold Community College; Joshua Jason Mattes, Sitting Bull College; Michael Maloy Parker, Cankdeska Cikana Community College; G. Padmanabhan , North Dakota State University

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Diversity

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Minorities in Engineering

introductory engineering course would typicallyhave initial enrollments of 7 to 13 students each semester but within 3 to 4 weeks that enrollmentwould typically fall to half of the initial number. Both the student and instructor situations wereacerbated by a nationally recognized economic boom.Even weather became an issue with initial plans to teach the introductory engineering course in ahighbred distance education on-site mix. Several times significant winter storms caused thevisited TCU to be shut down while satellite TCUs were up and running. This was made worseby technological problems with the IVN system and connectivity problems. It seems that the 4to 5 courses scheduled each semester for this particular program would strain thatcommunication

Conference Session

Minorities in Engineering Division Technical Session 2

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kelly J. Cross, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; Ruby Mendenhall, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Jennifer R. Amos, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; Kathryn B.H. Clancy, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; Princess Imoukhuede, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign; Jennifer G. Cromley, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

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Diversity

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Minorities in Engineering

Paper ID #22654Intersecting Identities of Women in EngineeringDr. Ruby Mendenhall, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Ruby Mendenhall is an Associate Professor at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. She holds joint faculty appointments in Sociology, African American Studies, Urban and Regional Planning, Social Work and Gender and Women’s Studies.. She is currently a faculty member at the Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology and a faculty affiliate at the Institute for Computing in the Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences, Women and Gender in Global Perspective, and Gender and the Cline Center

Conference Session

Minorities in Engineering Division Technical Session 5

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Amy Trauth, University of Delaware; Jenni Buckley, University of Delaware; Sarah Ilkhanipour Rooney, University of Delaware; Joshua A. Enszer, University of Delaware; Tia Navelene Barnes, University of Delaware; Rachel Davidson, University of Delaware

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Diversity

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Minorities in Engineering

actually more comfortable approaching faculty.The differences in our findings offer implications for the cautionary nature of studies of diversityin postsecondary education. More specifically, our findings suggest that the “lens” – the methodsof data collection in a study and the units of analysis – does impact principal study findings, evenfrom the same undergraduate population. Given that the findings of our study were used to drivestrategic planning for diversity and inclusion efforts at our institution, we caution against relyingon a single methodology – however consistent the findings appear to be with existing literature –to set your course of action and/or generalize to larger populations. We most strongly advise amixed methods approach

Conference Session

MIND - Poster Session

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Gholam Ali Shaykhian, NASA; Rhoda Baggs, Florida Institute of Technology

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Minorities in Engineering

emergedfrom the object-oriented methodologies. A pattern is the abstraction for describingrecurring solutions to common problems in software design [1]. The notion of designpatterns is to build a body of knowledge to support the design and development. Craftingdesign patterns during the design phase will allow programs to share knowledge abouttheir design and is the basis for a recurring solution. More specifically, the concrete formwhich recurs is that of a solution to a recurring problem. The origin of design patterns liesin work done by an architect named Christopher Alexander during the late 1970s.Patterns have roots in many disciplines, including literate programming, and mostnotably in Alexander's work on urban planning and building

Conference Session

NAFP Panel Discussion

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mohan Aggarwal, Alabama A&M University; Benjamin Penn, NASA/Marshall Space Flight Center; Ravindra Lal, Alabama A&M University

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Minorities in Engineering

university, although it may not necessarily be a money making enterprise. Tuitionwaivers should be given to good minority and other graduate students. More funding for teachingand research assistants should be provided for the first year entering students. Part of the indirectcost should be given back to the department. In-state and out of state tuition matter should besimilar to other state institutions. An incentive plan for excellence in teaching and researchshould be revitalized.A timeline of events for the graduate programs in physics at Alabama A&M University is listedin Table 1. Table 1Timeline for graduate program in physics at Alabama A&M UniversityAug 1978

Conference Session

Influence of Race and Culture

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Shonda Bernadin, Georgia Southern University; Frank Atuahene, Ph.D

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Minorities in Engineering

of theseresults.Bibliography 1. Bernard, Pamela J., “When Seeking a Diverse Faculty, Watch for Legal Minefields”, The Chronicle for Higher Education, Diversity in Academic Careers, Volume 53, Number 6, September 29, 2006 2. Elgass, Jane, “Minority Faculty increases despite stiff competition”, The University Record, University of Michigan-Ann Arbor, November 23, 1992 3. Woo, Deborah, “The Status of Minority Faculty at UCSC: Recruitment, Retention, and Faculty Diversity Plans”, University of California, Santa Cruz, Report on Diversity, August 1995, 4. Mayhew, Matthew J. and Heidi Grunwald, “Factors Contributing to Faculty Incorporation of Diversity- Related Course Content”, The Journal of Higher

Conference Session

Special programs and activities for minorities in engineering

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Gerald Watson, North Carolina A&T State University; Xiaochun Jiang, North Carolina A&T State University; Marcia Williams, North Carolina A&T State University; Sanjiv Sarin, North Carolina A&T State University

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Minorities in Engineering

Louis Stokes Alliancefor Minority Participation (NC-LSAMP) project has seen a positive impact in the past few years.A longitudinal study has been carefully planned and data are being collected. So far, academicperformance has been evaluated by comparing student GPA between the control group and theexperimental group for the past two years. However, there are some other factors that can helpassess the effectiveness of the project. In this study, two important factors were chosen to assistthe evaluation of the NC-LSAMP Project: graduation rate and gate-keeping course performance.Results from the Wilcoxon Rank Sum Test revealed that students in the experimental groupperformed significantly better than those in the control group for both measures

Conference Session

Research in Minority Issues

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jennifer Turns, University of Washington; Angela Linse, Temple University; Tammy VanDeGrift, University of Portland; Matt Eliot, University of Washington; Jana Jones, Microsoft Corp.; Steve Lappenbusch, University of Washington

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Minorities in Engineering

, developing and revising a teachingstatement, identifying and annotating teaching artifacts, developing a diversity statement,compiling a complete draft portfolio, and outlining a professional development plan. The ETPPis peer-led and peer-focused. Participants rotate the leadership role for each session andfacilitate the sessions without supervision by faculty or professional staff.Key features of this program include: a) a focus on graduate students, b) a series of activitiesthat collectively help students develop a teaching portfolio, and c) a peer-led structure with astrong peer evaluation component. The program has these elements for three primary reasons.First, we have an interest in helping improve the flow in the engineering educator pipeline

Conference Session

MIND - Poster Session

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Linda Shaykhian, NASA; Gholam Ali Shaykhian, NASA

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Minorities in Engineering

-solving skillsA problem solution can be a single command line code (that sorts a vector, for instance),or may involve several functions (for example, evaluating the shortest path in thetraveling salesman problem [9]). For the latter, the solution may require going throughseveral steps for planning and analysis of the problem, elaborating the problem bydefining the tasks involved [1, 6]. These steps must address: What is exactly required?What must be done first? What can be left until later? What is already known to approachthe current problem? This strategy can help characterize the problem and visualize howto achieve the target solution by measuring progress made in each step. Once this is done,then options for different solutions can be

Conference Session

Attracting Young Minds: Part I

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Aileen M. Walter, National Action Council for Minorities in Engineering, NACME, Inc.; Saundra Johnson Austin, National Action Council for Minorities in Engineering, NACME, Inc.

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Minorities in Engineering

expectations outlined in the Memorandum Of Understanding (MOU) • To increase operational efficiency of linkage programs • To ensure evaluation is integrated across all XXX linkage programs • To target funding opportunities for the integration modelA program action-logic model and evaluation process was used to develop the XXX STEMIntegration Model. A logic model defines a situation and priorities, as well as the inputs, outputs(i.e., activities, participants, etc.) outcomes and anticipated impacts (short, medium, long-range)of a program, as well as the assumptions and external factors associated with the plan andcontext. The logic model shows the chain of connections of how a program is expected to workto achieve the desired

Conference Session

Developing Young MINDS in Engineering, Part II

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Quamrul H. Mazumder, University of Michigan, Flint

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Minorities in Engineering

students assume responsibility for their own learning. Classroom instruction shouldensure students comprehend both the learning objectives and the outcomes of the material7. Thistype of teaching encourages the development of confidence among students. Therefore, lessonsmust be planned in such a way that students are able to think about the content and activelyengage themselves in the learning process. An example of this is direct instruction, whichfeatures “systematic sequencing of lessons, including the use of review, presentation of newcontent and skills, guided student practice, the use of feedback, correctives, and independent Page

Conference Session

Attracting Young Minds: Part II

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Cameron Denson, Utah State University; Chandra Y. Austin, Auburn University; Christine E. Hailey, Utah State University

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Minorities in Engineering

other states. MESA USA is a partnership ofMESA programs in eight states: Arizona, California, Colorado, Maryland, New Mexico, Oregon,Utah and Washington. MESA USA programs are based on the academic enrichment modeloriginating in California. It includes many of the following elements: SAT/ACT preparation,study skills training, hands-on activities, competitions, career and college exploration throughfield trips and guest speakers, parent leadership development, individual academic plans, andteacher training opportunities. Annually, students in MESA USA programs participate in anational engineering design competition.5An exploratory study funded by the National Science Foundation examines the influences MESAactivities have on students' perception

Conference Session

Developing Young Minds in Engineering: Part I

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Katherine S. Zerda, University of Houston; Stuart A. Long, University of Houston; Fritz J. Claydon, University of Houston

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Minorities in Engineering

American Engineersand Scientists (MAES), and Engineers Without Borders (EWB). In order to maximize the impactof our individual efforts and to forge tight coordination between outreach efforts, we aligned ourstrategies two years ago. At that time the college co-located the leadership of all five studentengineering societies so that they now share office and study space, placing them in closephysical proximity with each other and with the general PROMES student community, many ofwhom are members of these societies as well. Each organization maintains an online GoogleCalendar, making it available to leaders of all of the other teams. Twice a month, student leadersmeet together with program staff to plan and coordinate upcoming outreach events

Conference Session

Summer and Cohort Programs for Minorities: Student Success

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Robert W. Whalin, Jackson State University; Qing Pang, Jackson State University

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Minorities in Engineering

. A learning communityatmosphere is created as the students are housed together in a dormitory and evening andweekend activities are planned. Periodic visits to engineering employers are arranged for thecohort. The students meet upper class and graduate engineering students, alumni from previoussummer cohorts provide formal lectures and all expenses (tuition, room and board, and books)are paid from a US Department of Education Title III grant. Two previous papers by the authorsprovided some of these data that are included herein for completeness. Results in the papersindicate that one, two, and three year retention rates were increased by 22%, 25%, and 29%respectively when compared with students in the identical ACT Math score group (17-25

Conference Session

Summer and Cohort Programs for Minorities: Student Success

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Darryl Dickerson, Purdue University; Freddy Solis, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Virginia Booth Womack, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Tasha Zephirin, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Carol S. Stwalley, Purdue University, West Lafayette

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Minorities in Engineering

scheduledwith academic activities while students receive relative flexibility to plan their weekends. Theacademic component of the program consists of non-credit bearing course equivalents toChemistry I, Calculus I, English, and Matlab programming, which are gateway courses of thefreshman year. These courses are taught at an accelerated pace by professors or graduateteaching assistants, preparing students for the cultural shift to life in a college classroom.Table 1: Sample week in the engineering summer bridge program. Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday PREP CLASS PREP CLASS PREP CLASS PREP CLASS PREP CLASS 8:00 - 8:20 8:00 - 8:20 8:00

Conference Session

Enhancing the Underrepresented Student Experience

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kari L. Jordan, Ohio State University; Sheryl A. Sorby, Ohio State University

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Minorities in Engineering

goals in engineering (15). SCCT has threeoverlapping models aimed at understanding how people: 1. Develop basic academic and career interest 2. Make and revise their educational and vocational plans, and 3. Achieve performances of varying quality in their chosen academic and career pursuits. Within these models, self-efficacy (described later), outcome expectations, goals, andother factors such as gender, race, and barriers help shape a student’s career path. An example ofa barrier would be negative contextual influences, or adverse learning conditions (15). Thesetheories are somewhat foundational when understanding the constructs of self-regulation andself-efficacy. Addressing engineering diversity issues should actually

Conference Session

It Takes a Village: Engineering Beyond the Classroom

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Luz M Rivas, Iridescent; Dara Olmsted, Iridescent

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Minorities in Engineering

Paper ID #6189Be A Scientist: Family Science for MinoritiesMs. Luz M Rivas, IridescentDara Olmsted, Iridescent Dara holds a Bachelor’s degree in Anthropology from Harvard University and a Master’s in Environmental Policy and Urban Planning from Tufts University. She has taught science overseas and at Harvard, worked for a watershed association, helped to make Harvard more sustainable, run farmers’ markets, and directed Harvard’s Food Literacy Project. Page 23.241.1 c American Society for

Conference Session

Attracting Young Minds: Part II

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jeffrey H. Rosen, Georgia Institute of Technology, CEISMC; Anna Newsome, Georgia Institute of Technology, CEISMC; Marion Usselman, Georgia Institute of Technology

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Minorities in Engineering

the previous year and plans to dedicate more than six hours per week to FLL.Power Ratings by Type of Team and Percent Minority Page 22.1195.5Figure 3 shows the average power ratings of different types of teams in 2010. Not surprisingly,youth organization-based teams had the lowest power ratings, and independent teams had thehighest. Teams with the highest percent minority representation had the lowest power rating(Figure 4). These data held true for 2009 teams as well.Use of Power Rating to Assign Teams to Qualifying CompetitionsThe basic reason to assign power ratings was to give

Conference Session

Attracting Young Minds: Part I

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Aurenice Menezes Oliveira, Michigan Technological University

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Minorities in Engineering

-traditional students needs. (Community Colleges are proven training grounds for future community leaders and we know that there are many non-traditional students among them. These students can require specific assistance related to their needs).2.1. Students’ Requirements:Students must be pursuing a Community College degree in one of these fields:  Computer Science  Mathematics  Science  Engineering  Technology (mechanical or electrical engineering)In addition, students must also:  Have a minimum GPA of 2.80 on a 4.00 scale;  Have completed your freshman year at a partner community college;  Plan to continue your education at a four-year institution (not necessary our institution).2.2

Conference Session

Broadening Participation of Minority Students in and with K-12 Engineering

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Caridad Cruz, Universidad de las Americas, Puebla; Rocio C. Chavela Guerra, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Aurelio Lopez-Malo, Universidad de las Americas, Puebla; Enrique Palou, Universidad de las Americas, Puebla

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering, Minorities in Engineering

subterráneos [The engineer] is analyzing the underground estudiando el nivel de presión y las distintas plans to study the pressure level and the different rocas formadas por magma. rocks formed by magma.F. El ingeniero de mi dibujo está checando que The [male] engineer in my drawing is checking los cimientos de la construcción estén the foundation of the building is correct. correctos.G. Está corroborando que los materiales sean [The engineer] is confirming that the materials adecuados. are appropriate.H. La ingeniera está resolviendo unos problemas. The [female] engineer is solving problems. The La