this capacity, he managed the departmental budget, curriculum design, fellowships, and scholarships. He graduated from the Naval Aviation Officer School as a U.S. Naval Officer and Aviator. Dr. Harris received his masters and doctoral degrees in mechanical engineering from the University of Mississippi and he holds bachelor degrees from the University of Kansas. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2017 TAMUS LSAMP PROJECT: 25 YEARS OF SUCCESS – FINDING AND IMPLEMENTING BEST PRACTICES FOR URM STEM STUDENTSIntroductionThe Texas A&M University System (TAMUS) Louis Stokes Alliance for Minority Participation(LSAMP) program, funded by the National
students in engineering disciplines.With a four year graduation rate exceeding that of Non-Bridge African American students in 2010,the efforts of the Bridge program are viewed favorably. The MSU Bridge program remains diligentin utilizing the best practices shared in this paper to continue to improve URM student outcomes.References[1] Reisel, J. R. (2012). Assessment of Factors Impacting Success for Incoming College Engineering Students in a Summer Bridge Program. International Journal of Mathematical Education in Science and Technology, Volume 43 Issue 4, 421-433.[2] Booth Womack, V., Dickerson, D., Solis, F., Stawlley, C. S., & Zephirin, T. (2014, June 15). Can an Engineering Summer Bridge Program Effectively
nomination in 2015. Six finalists were invited to present. Topics included two paperson engineering design, one with a focus on ethical and contextual decisions later in thecurriculum [9] and the second focused on problem framing and design considerations in the firstyear of the curriculum as a tool for underrepresented students to better identify their assets withengineering [10]. This paper, which reported on Mapping Assets of Diverse Groups for ChemicalEngineering Design Problem Framing Ability, by Svihla et. al. [10] was selected as the best 2016Diversity paper. One of the finalists, Mikel, et al. was from the Pacific Southwest Section ofASEE [11]; this paper focused on nontraditional adult students and factors that impacted theiracceptance in
, thereports and feedback were treated as exam-like constructs under a fixed mindset by the chaptersand not shared for best practices. Finally, the CFFs components, while purposeful, wereimproperly implemented within the EOYR and NRP’s episodic-oriented components, namely thereports. Thus, during the revision of the NRP, SHPE national leadership provided the NAC the 9opportunity to overhaul the program’s design but constrained to having measurable outcomes andalignment towards SHPE’s mission. The addressable threat for the NAC was that the significantchanges to the NRP would lead to a lack of participation by the chapters. However, the NRP wasintegrated
Measurement from the Graduate School of Education at Rutgers University. She has been involved in all aspects of educational and psychological research for over 20 years. Dr. Hirsch has extensive experience conducting longitudinal research studies and is proficient in database management, experimental design, instrument development, psychometrics and statistical programming. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2017 The Impact of an Undergraduate Research Program on Students’ Attitudes toward and Pursuit of Graduate Studies – A Follow-up StudyAbstractUndergraduate research experiences have been shown to have a positive impact on
become a communication point that begins discussions withfaculty and students across campuses, breaking the ice and creating communication channels thatdid not exist for potential transfer students.DiscussionInitial evidence suggests the S-STEM scholars experience additional supports that shepherd theirtrajectories within computer science, including access to mentors, clear pathways from two- tofour-year schools, research opportunities, and conference participation that further professionaldevelopment. The design of the S-STEM project is congruent with best practices for building acommunity of computer scientists with strong, positive identities in the field. While participantdata is abundant regarding students’ opportunity to build competence
author their identities as engineers and negotiate their multiple identities in the current culture of engineering. Dina has won several awards including the 2018 ASEE/IEEE Fron- tiers in Education Conference Best Diversity Paper Award, 2019 College of Engineering Outstanding Graduate Student Research Award and the Alliance for Graduate Education and the Professoriate (AGEP) Distinguished Scholar Award. Dina’s dissertation proposal was selected as part of the top 3 in the 2018 American Educational Research Association (AERA) Division D In-Progress Research Gala.Dr. Jessica Mary Smith, Colorado School of Mines Jessica M. Smith is Associate Professor in the Engineering, Design & Society Division at the Colorado
for posterity and toencourage engagement within other academic institutions and professional societies. Some of ourexamples and strategies can be scaled and adapted to address institutional or regional challengesor to increase awareness and engagement in other national societies. Outcomes seen throughinitiatives have resulted in increased connections with previously disenfranchised members tothe ASEE community, engagement across divisions, and expanded programming in support ofdiversity, equity, and inclusion practices.1. Importance of Diversity, Equity, and InclusionEngineers have a significant impact on society. Their actions shape future technology,infrastructure, and innovation. Improving workforce diversity has been shown to
;M University- Kingsville, is interested in sustainable manufacturing, renewable energy, sustainability assessment, and engineering education. Dr. Li has served as PI and Co-PI in different projects funded by NSF, DOEd, DHS, and HP, with a total amount of more than 2.5 million dollars.Prof. Mohamed Abdelrahman, Texas A&M University-Kingsville Dr. Abdelrahman is currently the Associate Vice President for Research and Graduate Studies and a Professor of Electrical Engineering at Texas A&M University Kingsville. Dr. Abdelrahman has a diverse educational and research background. His research expertise is in the design of intelligent measurement systems, sensor fusion and control systems. He has been active in
vary based on a respondent’s gender?Analysis of the research data generated by the survey is designed to contribute to a collectiveunderstanding of emerging themes regarding perceptions that pertain to female challenges andopportunities within the industry. Furthermore, the research is designed to identify areas ofdisparity between male and female observations and provide recommendations for areas offuture research.2. Literature ReviewDespite strides in gender equality gender division within occupational choices still stronglyexists where women are underrepresented in male-dominated fields and men underrepresented infemale-dominated fields [11]. A recent study in Japan shows that female-to-male ratios ofemployees correlate to gender
graduate assistant, a scienceeducation PhD student to help with program development and evaluation. In terms of expandingthe impact of the college, outreach and community engagement provided cradle to career serviceto students and their mentors; resulted in training teachers who implement new practices in theirclasses, and helped provide access to educational and career opportunities for people across thestate.Internally, efforts to produce lasting cultural shifts in inclusion on the college campus wereundertaken. These efforts included: i) sharing best practices in implicit bias training for facultysearches; ii) fostering collaborations between diversity/inclusion leaders with researchers todesign and implement broader impacts activities; and iii
University. His research in- terests include low-power, reliable, and high-performance circuit design for nano-scale technologies. He has many publications in journals and conferences and 5 U.S. patents. He was a recipient of the 2008 SRC Inventor Recognition Award, the 2006 IEEE Circuits and Systems Society VLSI Transactions Best Paper Award, 2005 SRC Technical Excellence Award, and the Best Paper Award of the 2004 International Con- ference on Computer Design. He is a technical program committee member of International Symposium on Low Power Electronics Design and International Symposium on Quality Electronics Design.Dr. Cheng Chen, San Francisco State University Dr. Cheng Chen is currently an assistant professor in the
panel brings together a group of men with diverse backgrounds and experiences to discusstheir perspectives and offer practical skills for men to effectively serve as advocates for genderequity. This paper augments the panel and captures the backgrounds, experiences, perspectives,and recommendations of the panelists, thereby providing a lasting resource for those unable toattend the panel or future interested individuals. The information we present targets men andadministrators, who will better understand the barriers to advocacy, learn best-practices ofeffective advocacy, and hear first-hand experiences of successful advocacy.BackgroundMany factors – systemic and non-systemic, conscious and unconscious, policy and climate – cannegatively impact
Appendix B: Expectationsfor Working with Collaborators and Need Experts).Examples of Accessible Design ProjectsHere we describe three example projects: Climbing Higher, e-NABLE Device and Research, andWild Thing Challenge and show examples of student-built prototypes (Fig. 1). To supportprototyping and best practices, students have access to a makerspace and are mentored by facultyand an independent design consultant. • Climbing Higher. Accessible climbing wall for adults with cognitive disabilities, in collaboration with Outdoors for All, a national organization that provides accessible recreational activities [17]. The team designed thermochromatic holds that change color when held by a climber in order to track progress
the Associate Dean for Student Affairs in the UMass Amherst College of Engineering. She has over 30 years experience in recruiting, retaining and graduating engineering students. From 2003 through 2007, she also served as Director of Education, Outreach and Diversity for CASA - an NSF Engineering Research Center. She has been a Co-PI and Program Director for several previous CSEM and S-STEM awards. Page 26.1543.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2015 The Impact of Federally Funded Scholarship Programs on the Success of Transfer Students at a Public
national educationalservices on a regular basis. For twelve consecutive years ISU has been ranked by PrincetonReview to be among the ‘Best in the Midwest’ [9], and in 2015 ISU was listed to be amongnation's ‘Best Value Colleges’ [10] by the same organization. The predecessor program of MET,mechanical design technology had been offering degrees and producing quality graduates since1978. This program was academically strong and had been continuously accredited by NationalAssociation of Industrial Technology (Presently Association of Management, Technology andApplied Engineering) with no major deficiencies. In 2008 COT applied for an ABETaccreditation for the MET program and the accreditation was granted in fall 2009. Sincelaunching the MET program
capitalize on, particularly graduatestudents who needed to find short term summer jobs. Many of those that found jobs nevercame back to school and dropped graduate school. The department was growing andexperiential learning student internships at a local civil engineering company orgovernment entity were difficult to obtain for rising seniors and graduate students. TheChair asked if the laboratory could accommodate two or three internships during summer1991. ERDC made an on the spot commitment to accommodate up to ten experientiallearning internships during the summer of 1991. This conversation initiated a summerexperiential learning research internship program, thriving to this day.Summer Experiential Learning Research InternshipsThe recruiting
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
Studentsthrough Enhanced Mentoring and Summer Research Programs”, 124th ASEE AnnualConference & Exposition, Columbus, Ohio, June 2017[10] R. Whalin and Q. Pang, “Emerging Impact on Graduation Rates/Times From A SummerEngineering Enrichment Program”, 121st ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, Indianapolis,IN, June 2014[11] J. Volcy and C. Sidbury, “Developing a Summer Bridge Course for Improving Retention inEngineering”, 120th ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, Atlanta, GA, June 2013[12] E. Perez and O. Castillo, “Summer Immersion Program for First-Year Engineering Studentsas a Strategy to Increase Retention: First-Year Results”, 123rd ASEE Annual Conference &Exposition, New Orleans, LA, June 2016[13] Hunter, Mary Stuart, et al. Helping
a 10 hour per week commitment of research from undergraduate students. In addition toresearch hours, students are required to attend monthly professional development sessionsfocused on best practices in research, program deliverables, and community building. Exampletopics include maximizing your research experience, communication, research ethics, academicwriting, poster design, and an overview to graduate school. At the conclusion of the program,students are required to present their research as a poster and write an associated researchabstract.To apply for the program, students connect with a faculty member and write a short 1 to 2 pageresearch proposal describing the type of work they will be doing, the importance of the research,and a
) have some of but not all of the same issuesand therefore best practices. S-STEM wants to study what works best, where, and with whom.This paper provides examples of approaches to seize the opportunity leading to successfulmethods which had a positive impact on students and project success. Not all approaches havebeen successful and therefore embody the challenges faced by programs, particularly in thesettings of these MSIs. We take this chance to offer suggestions based on lessons learned fromthe missteps. Offer support for the new rules for S-STEM and how they can help projects tohave better impacts on local students as well as the broader MSI community.Institutional ContextThe two S-STEM projects discussed herein were housed at two different
and advisor to the student chapter of the National Society of Black Engineers. Dr. Rogers has been recognized for his teaching, research, and service efforts through numerous invited seminars and awards. Notable awards include the 2015 Partner of the Year Award from RIT’s Multicultural Center for Academic Success, the 2016 Richard and Virginia Eisenhart Provost’s Award for Excellence in Teaching from RIT, the 2017 Emerging Investigator designation from Environmental Science: Water Research & Technology, the 2017 Henry C. McBay Outstanding Teacher Award from the National Organization for the Professional Ad- vancement of Black Chemists and Chemical Engineers, and the 2018 Dr. Janice A. Lumpkin Educator of
glaciology. In recent years, he has focused on issues of mathematical education and outreach and he has developed a wide range of K-12 outreach projects. His current interests include the mathematical education of teachers, the scholarship of outreach, computational mathematics, and complex dynamics. Page 26.896.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2015 Fundamental Research: Impacts of Outreach on Entering College Students Interests in STEM (Fundamental)IntroductionThe need to train qualified science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM
skills,” sense of belonging, and learningexperiences for peer leaders and female CS students. Additionally, pair programming and peerinstruction may be viable practices that will help benefit women in computing with regards tolearning experiences and learning outcomes, but not their retention or persistence. Highlycollaborative course offerings, such as flipped classrooms and “trio of best practices”classrooms, were shown to improve learning experiences, learning outcomes, retention, andpersistence of minoritized women in computing. Future research is still needed aroundpedagogical impacts on individual intersections such as Black women, Latina women, andNative American women. Additionally, future quantitative studies should provide
student’s successful engineering knowledge, practices, and values during the semester? 2. What factors other than the course contribute to developing student’s successful engineering knowledge, practices, and values during the semester? 3. What have you lost or retained about your own culture in favor of engineering culture? II. MethodA. SettingIn fall 2016, over 3,600 students registered for a FYE foundation course at asouthwestern university. The FYE program at this institution has undergone numerouschanges. These revisions are well-grounded in research and best practices. The course istaught to all those first-year students in about 30 sections. Instructors manage
ofresearch, (4) an interactive tour of the conference hardware competition which provides concreteexamples of cutting edge research, (5) a small group Q&A with graduate students engaged inresearch, and finally (6) a panel discussion with diverse research faculty committed to post-secondary engineering education. The challenges associated with this approach to outreach, theadvantages of incorporating a STEM intervention into a technical research conference, andsuccessful methods for locating a group of underserved students are discussed. In addition, thescale and impact of the intervention are evaluated through open-ended and quantitative surveys.The survey results document the positive student reaction to this intervention. The positivestudent
in the workforce and their daily life. She is a subject matter expert in product design/development and digital engineering/manufacturing especially from prototype or service to marketplace. Prior to joining NTID, Dannels worked for several engineering corporations.Mr. Chris Campbell, Rochester Institute of Technology Chris Campbell is a Research Associate Professor with the Center on Access Technology at the National Technical Institute for the Deaf, one of the colleges at Rochester Institute of Technology. His research and development focus is on access technologies that will positively impact post-secondary educational experiences for deaf and hard-of-hearing individuals.Mr. Brian Trager, Rochester Institute of
women and underrepresented minorities. He received his M.S. in Industrial & Systems Engineering from Virginia Tech and his B.S. in Industrial Engineering from Clemson University.Dr. Holly M Matusovich, Virginia Tech Dr. Matusovich is an Assistant Professor and Assistant Department Head for Graduate Programs in Vir- ginia Tech’s Department of Engineering Education. She has her doctorate in Engineering Education and her strengths include qualitative and mixed methods research study design and implementation. She is/was PI/Co-PI on 8 funded research projects including a CAREER grant. She has won several Virginia Tech awards including a Dean’s Award for Outstanding New Faculty. Her research expertise includes using
Enterprise for STEM Learningpartnership between JHU and Baltimore City Schools. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2017 Impact of Student Driven Engineering Design ProjectsAbstractAs part of a National Science Foundation (NSF) funded Math and Science Partnership (MSP)between an urban, east coast, city school district and a private research university, city youthfrom three high-minority, high-poverty neighborhoods were taught the engineering designprocess both in-school and afterschool. Those in the afterschool program had STEM experts asmentors as well as a paid facilitator. They engaged in engineering projects from NPASS2 byEducation Development Center, Inc. and from Engineering Adventure by the
100 million hits per year. Professor Nelson is also currently serving as principal dean for the UIC Innovation Center, a collaborative effort between the UIC Colleges of Architecture, Design and the Arts; Business Administration; Medicine and Engineering.Ashkan Sharabiani, Exelon Corporation I am a Senior Data Scientist at Exelon Corporation. My area of expertise is to apply Machine Learning and Big Data Analytics methods in real life problems and drive efficient solutions by creating data products. Prior to joining Exelon, I was a PhD student in Industrial Engineering and Operations Research at the University of Illinois at Chicago. During my graduate studies I was involved in several data analytics projects in