societies.The article also briefly describes how the NASA Fellowship Program (NAFP) has providedopportunities to integrate faculty and NASA projects in the above efforts. Currently, averageenrollment in the School of Engineering is about 750 students each semester. This student body isethnically, culturally, academically and economically diverse. About 18% of the School’s studentsare women and 54% are minority (28% Asian, 17% Hispanic, and 9% African American). TheSchool of Engineering has a strong interest in maintaining and strengthening its reputation forattracting minority and underrepresented students. Its enrollment has steadily increased in the pastfive years, while national enrollments at other engineering schools have been declining. It
from Spelman College, a M.S. in industrial engineering from the University of Alabama, and a Ph.D. in Leadership and Policy Studies from Peabody College of Vanderbilt University. Teaching interests relate to the professional development of graduate engineering students and to leadership, policy, and change in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics education. Primary research projects explore the preparation of engineering doctoral students for careers in academia and industry and the development of engineering education assessment tools. She is a National Science Foundation Faculty Early Career (CA- REER) award winner and is a recipient of a Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers
improve graduateengineering education through multi-campus approach. A summary of the diversity portion ofthe ERC’s strategic plan and progress in the past three years in relation to the milestones for“High Quality Diversity Effort” is highlighted. The key performance indicators show that ERCthrough its partnering institutions is making measurable impact in capacity building for a STEMworkforce as seen in the broad involvement of underrepresented minority students and faculty incenter activities. Project CARE was used as case example of college transition program that wasimplemented based on the proposed model activities. The results show that Project CAREcontributed to 86% educational growth and performance improvement among URM studentswho
Carolyn Labun is a Senior Instructor in the School of Engineer at the Okanagan campus of the University of British Columbia. Page 22.685.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2011 Education-Engineering Collaborative Research Project Exploding Stereotypes: Care and Collaboration in EngineeringOverview and AimsResearch has found that students in schools often hold stereotypes of STEM (Science,Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) subjects and careers: they view them as male-dominated, individualistic8 and uncaring. They are perceived to marginalize women.6 Thesestereotypes
College of Vanderbilt Univer- sity. Her teaching interests relate to the professional development of graduate engineering students and to leadership, policy, and change in STEM education. Primary research projects explore the preparation of graduate students for diverse careers and the development of reliable and valid engineering education assessment tools. She is a NSF Faculty Early Career (CAREER) and Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE) recipient.Mr. Paul Carrick Brunson, Paul Carrick Brunson AgencyMs. Nikitha Sambamurthy, Purdue University, West Lafayette Nikitha Sambamurthy is pursuing a Ph.D. in Engineering Education at Purdue University. Her research interests include: blended
the Latin American and Caribbean Consortium of Engineering Institutions; Member-at-Large on the Board of the Minorities in Engineering Division and Secretary/Treasurer of the International Division of the American Society for Engineering Education; and is on the Executive Committee and Strategic Planning Committee of the newly formed International Federation of Engineering Education Societies. Her email is petrie@fau.eduIvan Esparragoza, Pennsylvania State University Ivan Esparragoza is an Assistant Professor of Engineering at Penn State. His interests are in engineering design education, innovative design, and global design. He has introduced multinational design projects in a freshman
applications.Student InvolvementSolar technology is a well established technology that is employed in sophisticatedsystems by highly advanced organizations such as NASA. In the article “NASA TeamSuccessfully Deploys Two Solar Sail Systems”8, “unique propulsion technology thatcould enable future deep space missions” is discussed. This suggests the opportunitiesthat are available for student research starting from small scale individual or personalapplications to highly sophisticated systems. A nation such as Ghana situated well withinthe equator and the Tropic of Cancer can therefore engage students in development andresearch in solar technology. Students at Penn State and their Ghanaian counterparts willbe involved in cooperative projects that will be based
/Black (69%) and 15% were Latino.Data CollectionParticipants responded to the Survey of Summer Research Programs (SSRP), a 33-iteminstrument developed by the principal investigator for the purposes of the study. One subscale (3items) assessed students’ confidence in their ability to conduct research. Students responded on ascale ranging from 1 (no confidence at all) to 7 (complete confidence). The reliability coefficientfor this subscale for the study sample was 0.80.Independent variables included age (in years), sex (0 = male, 1 = female), race (0 = non-Black, 1= Black), year in college (0 = freshman/sophomore, 1 = junior/senior), frequency of meetingswith mentor (continuous), nature of project (1 “quantitative” to 3 “mixed methods
Paper ID #18605Improving Student Success and Retention through a Summer Research Pro-gram for First and Second Year Students at a Minority-Serving InstitutionDr. Melissa Danforth, California State University, Bakersfield Melissa Danforth is an Associate Professor and the Chair of the Department of Computer and Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at CSUB. Dr. Danforth is the PI for a NSF Federal Cyber Service grant (NSF-DUE1241636) to create models for information assurance education and outreach. Dr. Danforth is the Project Director for a U.S. Department of Education grant (P031S100081) to create engineering pathways
context. Prior to starting her career in education, Greses was a project manager for engineering projects and hydrologic and hydraulic studies. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2018 Talking Engineering: Students’ translanguaging in engineering educationAbstractWith the integration of engineering education in the K–12th classroom, students areexpected to be competent in the practices of engineering design. From the body ofstudents in the elementary and secondary education system, bilinguals and speakers oflanguages other than English are one of the fastest growing populations among schoolchildren. For them, language represents not only a powerful tool to
@fau.edu.Ivan Esparragoza, Pennsylvania State University Ivan E. Esparragoza is an Associate Professor of Engineering at Penn State Brandywine. His current research interests are in the areas of Global Engineering Education, Engineering Design Education, Innovative Design, and Global Design. He has introduced multinational design projects in a freshman introductory engineering design course in collaboration with institutions in Latin America and the Caribbean as part of his effort to contribute to the formation of world class engineers for the Americas. He is Vice-President for Region I and assistant of the Executive Director of the Latin American and Caribbean Consortium of Engineering
). The project, to expire in August 2006, was recently granted a one-year no-cost extension. The paper describes the processes for selection of scholars and renewalof scholarship, and includes data on department distribution, student demographics and retention.It describes programmatic elements that worked or did not work in retaining students in CSEMSdegree programs. The program’s retention rates exceed RIT’s averages – at each year level andwithin each of the four academic programs. The program has been successful in developing apartnership among the four academic departments, and has strengthened the coordinationmechanisms with the supporting units. Successful EMC2 elements are being deployed elsewhereat RIT to retain female and minority
Paper ID #6685How Underrepresented Minority Engineering Students Derive a Sense of Be-longing from EngineeringDr. Elizabeth Litzler, University of Washington Elizabeth Litzler, Ph.D., is the Director for Research at the University of Washington (UW) Center for Workforce Development (CWD) and an Affiliate Assistant Professor in UW Sociology. She directs re- search projects from conceptualization, methodological design, collection of data and analysis, to dis- semination of research findings. Dr. Litzler manages the Sloan-funded Project to Assess Climate in Engineering (PACE), which uses quantitative and qualitative methods
inequity mentioned above, a BDP program is proposed to help increasethe size and diversity of the graduate student population. The BDP program described herein wasinitially proposed as part of an NSF research project funded within the Network for EarthquakeEngineering Simulation (NEES) program, but it can be applied as a model for any multi-institutional research proposal. The proposed BDP model, based on the participants of the NSFproposal, is shown schematically in Figure 2. As shown in this figure, the proposed BDP iscentered around the University of Puerto Rico at Mayaguez (UPRM), a predominantly Latinoinstitution, and involves connecting the Latino students from UPRM with academic institutionsin mainland USA which in this case are the ones
Teacher Education, and Journal of Hispanic Higher Education. She earned her Ph.D. in Reading/Writing/Literacy from the University of Pennsylvania and has been a faculty member at UTEP since 2008.Miss Helena Mucino, University of Texas, El Paso Helena Muci˜no is a Ph.D. student in the Teaching, Learning, and Culture program at the University of Texas at El Paso (UTEP). She holds a master’s degree in Musical Education Research from the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM). She is currently working as a Research Assistant for an NSF-funded project at UTEP dedicated to broadening the participation of Latinx students in higher edu- cation. c American Society for Engineering Education
of peer support to achieve in higher education [2]. Co-curricular and informal learning opportunities can provide students access to expert thinking intheir disciplines, and can improve retention in the sciences [3]. S-STEM scholarship programswere designed to provide curricular, co-curricular, and financial support to students withfinancial need who are underrepresented in STEM fields. Results from S-STEM programindicate scholars experience greater retention and higher achievement than their peers, [4,5,6] yetlittle is known about how S-STEM scholarship programs shape students’ professional identitiesin their fields.The Cybersecurity National Science Foundation S-STEM scholarship project is a joint effortbetween two- year and four-year
foreducators to appreciate and acknowledge the linguistic repertoires of students as they engage inSTEM activities. In an effort to help teachers recognize these linguistic assets, this project soughtto create an environment where English and Spanish could be used as tools for meaning- andsense-making. The goal of this study is to inform how teachers can design engineering activitiesthat consider ELLs needs. In this paper, we present an example of how translanguaging practicesof teachers contributed to the understanding of science and engineering practices and theapplication of engineering design processes in the classroom.IntroductionThe population of Latinxs in the United States has grown exponentially in recent years. Many ofthese individuals can
interests include aircraft combat survivability and observational astronomy. Page 12.500.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2007 Development and Beta-Testing of a Distance-Learning Freshman Engineering Course SeriesAbstractThe projected shortage of engineers in the United States and the need to attract a more diverseengineering workforce remains a challenge for engineering programs across the nation. Recentcourt rulings prohibit our university from considering gender, race, or ethnicity in all activities ofthe university. However, one method for increasing diversity of the technical workforce
. Page 25.748.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2012 Improving Recruitment and Retention for Engineering Degree Students in a Rural Highly Underserved Community AbstractThis paper presents an ongoing STEP-NSF and Department of Education-CCRAA fundedproject and recent findings. The project promotes the increase of engineering enrollment fromsecondary schools through the baccalaureate level among students from Northern New MexicoCollege (NNMC). NNMC is a minority serving institution located in a rural area with povertylevels below the level established by the Federal Government. Hispanic and Native Americanstudents constitute 73% and 11% of
for the ASCE Concrete Canoe competition team. She teaches a two-quarter technical elective course, which integrates not just the technical components of the concrete canoe project, but vital project management skills. Professionally, Van Den Einde is a member of ASCE and is currently the Secretary and Treasurer for the San Diego Earthquake Engineering Research Institute (EERI) chapter. Van Den Einde has her heart in the students’ interests.Mr. Terrance R. Mayes, University of California, San Diego Terrance Mayes serves as Director, Student Life and Diversity, for the University of California, San Diego, Jacobs School of Engineering. In this role he founded, alongside the school’s diversity advisory council, the
average ACT scoresthan Caucasians, the proportion of these minorities that become engineers from the proposedprogram is expected to be larger than that of current graduating classes of engineers. Thissolution can be implemented immediately and is projected to be cost neutral to the US taxpayerbecause of additional federal and state taxes paid by the new engineers relative to those taxesthey would have paid (in some other profession) without this program.Keywords: retention rates; graduation rates; ACT; summer programs; engineer pipeline;Background The solution proposed to the well-documented United States engineer pipelinechallenge[4,5,6,7,8,9,10] has been revisited and revised as a result of another year’s data. [1] Thesolution previously
develop the skills and writing habits to complete doctorate degrees in engineering. Across all of her research avenues, Dr. Matusovich has been a PI/Co-PI on 12 funded research projects including the NSF CAREER Award with her share of funding be ingnearly $2.3 million. She has co-authored 2 book chapters, 21 journal publications and more than 70 conference papers. She has won several Virginia Tech awards including a Dean’s Award for Outstanding New Faculty, an Outstanding Teacher Award and a Faculty Fellow Award. She holds a B.S. in Chemical Engineering from Cornell University, an M.S. in Materials Science from the University of Connecticut and a Ph.D. in Engineering Education from Purdue University.Dr. Stephanie G
AISES, NSBE, SHPE, and SWE; and a group project with report andpresentations. During the second freshmen semester, the NACME students meet for an houreight times during the semester. Topics include resumes, School and University resources,engineering in industry, consulting, and graduate school. Two particular helps for empoweringthe students were developed: a Check List for the detailed time management schedule10 and aCheck List for an effective resume.14At the beginning of the first semester the freshmen students are given instructions on how theirassignments and extra curricular events (such as attending an AISES, SHPE, NSBE, or SWEmeetings) can earn them points in the course. Since extra credit points can be earned, any
. Suggestions on pre and post program assessment methods to measure studentconfidence and interest in STEM related careers are discussed. Projected assessmenttechniques seek to track the effectiveness of the four key areas: academic excellence,leadership, technical/professional development and teamwork in the promotion of STEMcareer interest and pursuits amongst minority pre-college student participants. Page 14.1324.2IntroductionThis study was implemented in collaboration with the Student Teacher EnhancementPartnership (STEP) program, hosted at the Georgia Institute of Technology (GaTech),which partners advanced undergraduate and graduate students, STEP
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 undergraduate and graduate level. Dean Vaughan is focused on
is the recipient of multiple teaching and advising awards including the COE Excellence in Teaching Award (2008, 2014), UIC Teaching Recognitions Award (2011), and the COE Best Advisor Award (2009, 2010, 2013). Dr. Darabi has been the Technical Chair for the UIC Annual Engineering Expo for the past 5 years. The Annual Engineering Expo is a COE’s flagship event where all senior students showcase their Design projects and products. More than 600 participants from public, industry and academia attend this event annually. Dr. Darabi is an ABET IDEAL Scholar and has led the MIE Department ABET team in two successful ac- creditations (2008 and 2014) of Mechanical Engineering and Industrial Engineering
and over 25 part-time faculty since 2009.Prof. Hamid Shahnasser, San Francisco State University Hamid Shahnasser received the B.E. degree in electrical engineering from McGill University, Montreal, MS degree in electrical and computer engineering from Carnegie-Mellon University and his Ph.D. from Drexel University Pennsylvania. He is currently a professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at San Francisco State University and the Engineering graduate program coordinator. His areas of interest are communication networks and computer systems. Dr. Shahnasser has been a research faculty consultant to NASA Ames Research Center projects since 1990 and has collaborated on several research grants with that
College of Engineering10,15,16. This concern persists when evaluatingmarginalized ethnic groups especially Black and Hispanic29, and women36,39 in the College of Engineering10,15. As a result, there arenumerous strategies developed to respond to attrition including but not limited to: first year seminar, collaborative or cooperativelearning projects, service learning/projects of social importance, hands-on design projects, community service, student-facultyinteraction, tutoring, summer bridge programs, mentoring, undergraduate research programs, etc10,16,45. Service learning is listed as a method to increase retention, traditionally responding to classroom and academic climate, gradesand conceptual understanding, and self-efficacy and self
have short exchanges with industry representatives, have a formalmeal at a very nice hotel, and listen to a keynote from a very charismatic engineer from industry,who happened to also be an underrepresented minority.Week Meeting Topics (Fall 05)(2 hrs.)1 Introductions, Time Management (general) Icebreaker, General course information How to “Study” to Get a 4.02 Ice Breaker, Chapter 1: Studying Engineering Video 2: Time Management, How to Catch Up If You Get Behind3 Ice Breaker, Chapter 2: Introduction to Engineering and Engineering Study Video 3: Presentations, Group activity 1-group assignment, project choice4 Engineering student panel – CEMSWE leaders
EVANS is a Post Doctoral Fellow and Research Associate in the Evaluation Services center, College of Education, Criminal Justice, and Human Services, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati Ohio, USA. Page 14.80.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2009 A NSF-Supported S-STEM Scholarship Program for Recruitment and Retention of Underrepresented Ethnic and Women Students in Engineering AbstractThis paper describes a scholarship project, funded by the National Science Foundation’s S-STEM Program, to enhance recruitment of underrepresented