program includes up to 40 participants, rising juniors or seniors at Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs), who have interest in pursu- ing STEM disciplines at the graduate-level. Annually, Dean Vaughan supervises direction of the 4-week FAME/UD Summer Residential Program for 30-35 high school students, the RISE Summer Enrichment Program for incoming engineering freshmen and, in the past, the HEARD (Higher Education Awareness Response in Delaware) Project, a college awareness program, funded by the Department of Education through Philadelphia GEAR UP for College Network. Globally in the College, he manages academic programs and policies that impact the careers of all engineering students at both the
projects related to design, including an NSF Early CAREER Award entitled ”CAREER: Engineering Design Across Navajo Culture, Community, and Society” and ”Might Young Makers be the Engineers of the Future?,” and is a Co-PI on the NSF Revolutionizing Engineering Departments grant ”Additive Innovation: An Educational Ecosystem of Making and Risk Taking.” He was named one of ASEE PRISM’s ”20 Faculty Under 40” in 2014, and received a Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers from President Obama in 2017. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2018 Engineering Connections in a Native American Community and CultureAbstractThis Research Work in Progress investigates
institutionscontinue to push their goals and strategic plans of increasing the science, technology,engineering, and mathematics (STEM) workforce. Attempts to increase STEM enrollment atUniversities consistently include the same concepts; bridge programs, learning communities,research experiences and group projects [1]. While attempting to increase undergraduateretention of (URM), these experiences often focus solely on first-year students. In order to meettheir needs, diverse students must matriculate through the Colleges and Universities via thepipeline from secondary education to employment. NSF [2] reports show the attrition rates forblack and Hispanic or Latino students in STEM fields from 2007 to 2013 is low. When lookingat all the students earning
theretention-graduation rates of URM students in engineering, as well as the cultivation of middleand high school, community college students’ success in STEM.Topics that will be addressed include:–Developing innovative partnerships to increase the capacity and capability of academicinstitutions to recruit, admit, retain, educate and graduate underrepresented minority students inengineering–Establishing regional pilot projects across the United States–Measuring the impact of XXX’s STEM Integration Model Page 25.606.2 BackgroundThis is a critical time for our nation. While the United States has led the world in globalinnovation, economic competitiveness
success. Thecurriculum components integrate project-based learning and team-based design challenges withstudy skills development, time management strategies, and personal and professional skillsenhancement. Those will be discussed in another paper that focuses on First Year programs. Forthe remainder of this paper we will present another cornerstone of our college’s programs tosupport student success.Far too often, students who enter college aspiring to careers in engineering progress successfullythrough their freshman courses but do not survive the rigorous sophomore courses. Some of thesophomore engineering courses (e.g. Thermodynamics, Mechanics I, Chemical Processes,Applied Electromagnetics and Circuit Analysis) have pass rates in the range
, are not considered mainly because there is no access to them. Therefore, there is aneed to measure the efficacy of ECIs among underrepresented populations to determine itsvalidity and reliability. Traditionally, underrepresented populations score below nations’average on these instruments.5, 6To address this concern, in 2010 the National Science Foundation (NSF) funded a project whoseprimary objective is to test the efficacy of the Concept Assessment Tool for Statics (CATS)among bilingual engineering students from the University of Puerto Rico at Mayagüez (UPRM)(EEC-1032563). This study is composed of a 3-phase mixed method design, in which eachphase is guided by a specific objective and research question. Also, for this study we havedefined
attempt to get the new and at risk students to mingle with mature students and facultywithout enrolling them in a "special" program. The program's key objective is to get students toteach each other with mentors available to intervene only when necessary. In the Fall 2011 term,the project was started with virtually no funding. Laboratory space that was only being used20% of the time was made available to students to study in during the unused 80% of the classschedule.The motivation for this program and its objectives are discussed. Data collected following thefirst semester of operation is presented and discussed. Conclusions are drawn regarding theprograms impact on participating students.IntroductionStudents at every academic level are prone to
celebrated, Mexico is one of the countries withthe largest percentages of students performing below the baseline Proficiency Level 2 inmathematics and sciences among the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development(OECD) nations1. Given the crisis that Mexico faces in mathematics and science education in theP-12 levels, Universidad de las Américas Puebla started a research program to develop solutionsto help overcome this situation. This investigation is part of a broader project funded by theConsejo Estatal de Investigación Científica y Desarrollo Tecnológico de Campeche (CampecheState Council for Science and Technology). Its goal is to promote an early approach toengineering and science among the student population at the upper
of Maryland, Baltimore County Dr. Wendy Carter-Veale previously served as the Interim Director of AGEP PROMISE Academy Al- liance(APAA). Currently, she is the Internal Evaluator for APAA, Social Science Research Coordinator, and the Dissertation Coach for the Graduate School at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, and has worked with faculty, graduate students, and administrators at UMCP and UMB. She has been involved with graduate student retention, institutional survey administration, and with AGEP projects as a Dissertation Coach for PROMISE: Maryland’s AGEP, the University of Michigan AGEP, and the University of Pittsburgh’s Pitt STRIVE AGEP. She is a quantitative social science researcher and lead
Paper ID #15732A Sense of Belonging: Creating a Community for First-generation, Under-represented groups and Minorities through an Engineering Student SuccessCourseEmily E Liptow, California Polytechnic State University Emily Liptow is an AmeriCorps VISTA member at California Polytechnic State University. She works with the College of Engineering and the Center for Excellence in STEM (CESAME) on a variety of projects to promote equity in STEM. She recently finished her bachelors of science in Industrial and Systems Engineering at The Ohio State University, where she was also active with many social justice and diversity
Early Childhood Education/Special Education from Temple University in Philadelphia, PA and an M.A. in Education from LaSalle University in Philadelphia, PA. Dr. Nagle has completed graduate work in Educational Research Methodology at the University of North Carolina-Greensboro and earned his doctorate at George Wash- ington University in Educational Administration and Policy Studies.Professionally he has conducted 21 national and international research and evaluation projects and over 100 regional and local research and evaluation projects. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2016 Engineering achievement: An exploratory case study of minority
the Curtiss-Wright project already enrolled women majoring inteaching or home economics prior to the project. By contrast, at all-male RPI, the arrival of"engineeresses" created a culture shock. Local newspapers carried giant headlines, "RPI OpensDoors to Women: Institute Breaks 116 Year Old Rule Due To War Need ... Curtiss WrightWomen ... Invade RPI Campus" (Rensselaer Polytechnic 1943). Soon RPI discovered advantagesto having "Katie Kaddettes" on campus.27 Cadettes threw themselves into the school culture.They were cheerleaders, and actresses in the act troupe. They proved temptingly photogenic andadded glamour to the campus. Life magazine published a special feature titled: "The‘engineeresses’ were a curiosity, but acceptable as a
Bolha, TE Connectivity Mechanical/Project Engineer. Sara is a robotic automation project engineer in TE Connectivity's Global Technology group. She is responsible for design and implementation of flexible automated cells for TE Connectivity's 80+ North America and EMEA production facilities. “Experiences of Female Civil Engineers in the Workplace” by Ms. Amanda Hess, Senior Project Engineer; and Ms. Kate Aulenbach, Hydrologic and Hydraulic Engineer, Gannett Fleming, Inc, a civil engineering company in Central Pennsylvania. “Real Challenges Engineers Face in the Workplace - Working with People,” by Ms. Ms. Rachel Smithers. Area Manager, ArcelorMittal Steelton, LLC. Ms. Rachel Smithers
division bylaws;• developed and circulated newsletters on Diversity Committee efforts;• worked with the ASEE Board of Directors to get Figure 1. Example of Footsteps from approval for and to institutionalize the ASEE Best 2017 Annual Conference Diversity Paper;• piloted the footsteps project, where large stickers were placed on the floor throughout the convention center in Indianapolis in high traffic spaces (see Figure 3);• created the call for papers and an assessment tool for the ASEE Best Diversity Paper; and• worked with ASEE information technology staff to identify potential papers within the paper review
equity, and implicit bias in academia.Dr. Lizabeth T. Schlemer, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo Lizabeth is an Associate Dean and a professor at Cal Poly, SLO in Industrial and Manufacturing Engi- neering. In her role of Associate Dean, she advocates for equity and access. She has been teaching for 22 years and has continued to develop innovative pedagogy such as project based, flipped classroom and competency grading. Through the SUSTAIN SLO learning initiative, she and her colleagues have been active researching in transformation in higher education.Ms. Emily E. Liptow, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo Emily Liptow currently works at a tech startup accelerator in
can build self-efficacy directly and encourage moremastery experiences.Contextual examples of each of Bandura’s four sources of self-efficacy in undergraduateengineering education: first, mastery experiences could consist of completing practice problemsto master theory, engaging in project work and hands-on activities to build engineering skills,and successfully working in teams and giving technical presentations. Second, role models whoshare a similar identity in populations of upper year students, alumni, outside speakers, or facultymay provide vicarious experiences. Third, classmates, teaching assistant, professors, mentors,friends and family may all provide social persuasion, and fourth, an individual's’ personal orextra-curricular
the 2015 Best Diversity Paper.Mejia, et al., [3] presented a paper nominated by the K-12 and Pre-College Engineering Divisionexploring Latinx adolescents’ perceptions of engineering and their engineering abilities afterparticipation in community-based design projects. Students were from working class familiesand most had parents with limited education who worked in farming or other manual laboractivities. The adolescents, ages 14-17, worked in teams to identify a problem in theircommunity and to use engineering design to solve the problem. Most of the participants changedboth their perceptions of engineering as well as their self-efficacy as they worked on theseprojects. The design experience influenced participants’ perceptions of
Technology, Athens, Greece. He has published more than 50 referred journal and conference papers and 4 book chapters. He has been project manager and a member of several research and industrial grants. Dr. Agrawal actively serves as committee member and reviewer for conferences and journals in his area of research. He is a senior member of IEEE and a member of ACM, and ASEE.Mr. Myron L. Stevenson, North Carolina A&T State University Myron Stevenson is a candidate for a Masters of Information Technology degree at North Carolina A&T State University. He earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in Mass Communications from Elon University in 1998. Myron has over 15 years experience in information technology. He is currently a
something like that... [my] BS [major] was more one sided – professor taught, we took it and we applied in a test but it was basically just saying it back and that’s it. That was the idea, that was the concept of teaching which not my favorite but its undergrad so I accepted it as that and wanted to get good grades that’s all.Many evidence-based teaching approaches exist from active learning techniques to project-basedlearning to peer instruction. With the emergence of Engineering Education as an establishedresearch field and the existence of Centers for Teaching and Learning at many institutions ofhigher education, access to effective instructional practices should be plentiful. Still, manyengineering and related STEM
&T State University, an MBA in Management from Wake Forest University, and a Ph.D. in Leadership Studies from North Carolina A&T State University. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2014 Paper ID #9234 As Co-Principal Investigator and Statewide Project Director for the North Carolina Louis Stokes Alliance for Minority Participation program (NC-LSAMP), and Co-Principal Investigator and administrative man- ager for the NSF Innovation through Institutional Integration (I-3) project, she is a strong advocate for broadening the participation of underrepresented populations who major
participate in the REM program. Eachsemester, the REM program began with a Research Studio lasting approximately 8 hours beforestudents began the laboratory experience. The Research Studio included an introduction of tissuetest systems and overall EFRI project goals, completion of laboratory safety training, anintroduction to research ethics, technical writing, and basic laboratory practices, participation ina team building exercise, discussion of the projects to which each student would be exposed, anddiscussion of the expectations for and of RPs. Once RPs completed the Research Studio, each RPwas paired with a graduate student mentor and the mentor’s project. After completion of theResearch Studio, each student was required to spend 3 hours on lab
predominantly from rural communities, and yet they have chosenSTEM in contradiction to the research.Table 1: Hispanic Enrollment by Gender at ##### Fall 2005 – Fall 2011 ##### Year Male Female Total Fall 2005 62 41 103 Fall 2006 85 61 146 Fall 2007 96 66 162 Fall 2008 109 72 181 Fall 2009 125 77 202 Fall 2010 141 89 232 Fall 2011 163 97 260By 2030, projections indicate the U.S. population to be 20.1% Hispanic. The percent ofHispanics in the 18-24 age group is expected to be even
related.They can play a role by giving input concerning the state-of-the-art technologicalaspects of the curricula for the students who will be the potential employee in thegovernment institutions and private sectors.2. Research and State-of-the-art TechnologyA large portion of the time is spent on the research activities. Periodic (weekly ormonthly or quarterly) report to the team or group and divisional members allowsupdating the progress of the work. Mutual discussion via internal meetings isconducive to the project advancement. Participants/fellows have manyopportunities to present their research findings/results in nationalmeetings/conferences/symposia as well as in the research journals. Figures 1 and2 depict the style of benefits of the NASA
qualitative methods.9 As part of the broader project (NSF-DUE 0431642), differentmembers of our interdisciplinary team analyze and report on strands and themes specific to oneof four under-represented or under-served populations 10-12 as well as themes that lendthemselves to cross group analysis.13-16This paper reports on experiences of mixed-race Native American undergraduate students inmultiple engineering disciplines. The coding of qualitative data generated from 29 ethnographicinterviews brought forth certain unanticipated phenomenon. ≠ No Native American student was raised on or came to college from a reservation. ≠ Twenty-seven students report the racial category of Native American in combination with one or more other
– Provide funding for faculty to integrate undergraduate students in their research projects. Strategy 3 – Produce an informational campaign targeting underrepresented groups at the K-12 level. Strategy 4 – Establish partnerships with corporations having a strong commitment to diversity. Strategy 5 – Develop a faculty led task force for undergraduate diversity to help in recruitment efforts. Strategy 6 – Develop a student diversity team to increase student awareness of benefits of diversity. Strategy 7 – Increase undergraduate scholarships through solicitation of funds that
).Hypothesis/PilotBased on the work of Oldenburg’s (2001) “Third Place” (also known as “alternative space”) andYosso et. al’s cultural wealth (2005), the hypothesis of our work is that the social media platformfunctions as a “third place,” (virtual as it is), and that a level of meaningful mentoring can takeplace in that space. As an initial pilot to test the hypothesis, we developed a session with womenin engineering in 2015 at an annual “WEPAN - Women in Engineering Proactive Network”conference, with collaborators from four universities from various regions of the country.Building on earlier collaborative NSF ADVANCE grant funded success around mentoringwomen in STEM, this panel aimed to showcase potential projects to support the careeradvancement
focus of many in education and in industry. To maintain its position as atechnological leader, the United States must not only continue to produce high-quality STEMfield graduates but accelerate this production. The priority of this effort is revealed by PresidentBarack Obama’s push to produce an additional one million STEM graduates within a decade andan additional 100,000 new teachers in these fields (Feder, 2012). The sheer number of graduatesrequired to fill the projected jobs in STEM fields will require both increasing the number ofstudents entering these fields but also reducing the rate that college students exit these fields.One of the keys to increasing the number of STEM professionals is to understand why studentswho start STEM
: How do students perceive the benefits and drawbacks of co-op participation? A. Both co-op and non-co-op students positively perceive co-op participation as providing in-depth experience.Both co-op and non-co-op students described the depth of experience gained through co-opparticipation as one of its primary benefits. The students attributed this depth of experience bothto the length of the co-op terms and to the multiple rotations with the same company. Theydescribed how this structure of co-op terms allowed students to become “immersed” in the co-opcompany and to learn more from in-depth projects. For example, Chris, a first-year engineeringstudent, wanted to “get more of an in-depth experience” and thus chose to pursue a co-op
Paper ID #25883First-Generation College Students and Othering in Undergraduate Engineer-ingProf. Harriet Hartman, Rowan University Professor of Sociology, Chair of Sociology and Anthropology Department and IRB Chair, Rowan Uni- versity. Co-p.i. of RED NSF RevED project at Rowan University. Editor-in-chief, Contemporary Jewry.Dr. Ralph Alan Dusseau P.E., Rowan University Dr. Ralph Dusseau is a Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Rowan University in Glass- boro, New Jersey. Dr. Dusseau is also serving as the Associate Chair of the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering. Dr. Dusseau was an Assistant
/assessment, grant evaluation, analytics related to student success, and system design. His passion is analyzing institutional data related to student academic factors, psycho-social factors collected using surveys, and demographics to uncover factors impacting student success that could be used in strategic decision making. Some of the current projects have an objective of finding differences among the FTIC and Transfer student population at UCF with respect to student success and engagement metrics, factors impacting retention, graduation and time to graduation. Mr. Nair holds a Bachelor’s degree in Engineering (1997) and couple of graduate degrees - Masters in Industrial Engineering (2001) and Business