20 declines to participate, we will fill with a similar schoolthat meets the same selection criteria. Figure 2. Map of Institutions Targeted for RDI participation.The diversity of partner institutions – large land-grant universities, major private institutions,minority-serving institutions, all located across the USA - provides a broad range of uniqueperspectives and experiences that can be shared and modeled. In the fourth year, we will develop a network of institutions hosting RDI interventionsand ‘train-the-trainer’ sessions with the initial collaborating institutions. Throughout the first fouryears of the project, our team will research doctoral students’ transition into graduate schoolbased on the nationwide RDI
underrepresentation of minoritizedwomen, including African American or Black, Hispanic or Latina/Latinx, and Native Americanor American Indian women. Therefore, the computing education research community (CER)have explored pedagogies to improve computing students' learning outcomes based on existinglearning theories. Few studies have reviewed pedagogies in the context of social constructivism.Social constructivism is a learning theory defined as the collaborative co-construction ofknowledge. Social constructivist pedagogies have enhanced learning outcomes for minoritizedwomen in other STEM fields, but their effects have not been studied extensively in CER. Wereference intersectionality theory to guide our search around gender/race/ethnicity, critique
started theiracademic journey at a community college46. In addition, 40% of those with a bachelor’s andmaster’s degree in engineering from 1999 to 2000 attended community colleges as part of theiracademic journey47. The main reason students choose to begin their higher education pathwaywith community colleges is the need to reduce financial costs of their education. According to a2005 National Research Council study, community colleges have not achieved their full potentialfor the following reasons:(1) a lack of understanding among parents, teachers, counselors, and students of theeffectiveness of community colleges in producing engineering graduates;(2) less than effective articulation agreements (policies and program designed to foster
experiences.Dr. Marie C Paretti, Virginia Tech Marie C. Paretti is an Associate Professor of Engineering Education at Virginia Tech, where she co- directs the Virginia Tech Engineering Communications Center (VTECC). Her research focuses on com- munication in engineering design, interdisciplinary communication and collaboration, design education, and gender in engineering. She was awarded a CAREER grant from the National Science Foundation to study expert teaching in capstone design courses, and is co-PI on numerous NSF grants exploring com- munication, design, and identity in engineering. Drawing on theories of situated learning and identity development, her work includes studies on the teaching and learning of communication
Engineering Experiment Station, TAMUS TEES Research Scientist, Texas A&M University System Internal Evaluator and Data Collector for TAMUS LSAMPDr. Shannon D. Walton, Texas A&M University Shannon D. Walton, PhD, is the Director of Recruiting for the Office of Graduate and Professional Stud- ies and the Director of Educational Achievement for the Dwight Look College of Engineering at Texas A&M University. Holding dual positions, Dr. Walton’s responsibilities range from the recruitment and retention of a talented and diverse graduate student population to the management of science, technol- ogy, engineering and mathematics (STEM) programs, like the NSF-funded Louis Stokes Alliance for Minority Participation
outstand- ing publication awards from the American Educational Research Association for her journal articles. All of Dr. Borrego’s degrees are in Materials Science and Engineering. Her M.S. and Ph.D. are from Stanford University, and her B.S. is from University of Wisconsin-Madison.Patricia Clayton, University of Texas at AustinGabriella P. Sugerman, University of Texas at Austin Gabriella Sugerman is a queer, white, female graduate student in biomedical engineering at The University of Texas at Austin. In addition to her research in biomechanics, she is focused on expanding participation in difficult dialogues around equity and inclusion within engineering higher education.Cassandra Prince, LGBTQ+ STEM Issues and Advocacy
students (which isvaluable), nor faculty-student relationships (which is also valuable), but also amongstfaculty as an essential component of post Covid education.In the past ten years, this single online, pre-engineering collaborative accounts for theequivalent of over 2% of Native American engineering students annually graduating witha bachelor’s degree in engineering [9], accomplished through building trust andcommunity. Throughout the program's tenure, student-student relationships, student-instructor relationships, and instructor-instructor relationships were all intentionallyfostered through the structure of the collaborative. The students are very capable andthe program supports their efforts through a culturally-appropriate emphasis
divisions.1. IntroductionThe IDEA Engineering Student Center at the University of California San Diego’s Jacobs Schoolof Engineering was established in 2010 to focus on engineering student diversity and inclusioninitiatives following a series of racially charged incidents affecting our campus’ Black students.IDEA is an acronym that stands for Inclusion, Diversity, Excellence, and Achievement. From itsinception, the IDEA Center aimed to focus on 1) outreach, 2) recruitment and yield, 3) academicsuccess and enrichment, and 4) retention and graduation for underrepresented minority (URM)students.The 2020-2021 academic year was pivotal for the IDEA Center for several reasons. First, it wasthe Center’s 10 year anniversary and the beginning of a strategic
Higher Education. She has created qualitative and quantitative instruments for outcome assessment in enginering education. She has also evaluated policy efforts towards engineering diversity and undergraduate research. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2019 WIP: Using a Peer Evaluation tool to explores minority bias at a Freshman-level Engineering cornerstone courseThis Work in Progress (WIP) paper explores the use of a peer evaluation tool to analyze ifminority biases exist when students evaluate their peers at a Freshman-level EngineeringCornerstone course. In 2002, this course was created partly in response to the particular emphasisin the use of methodologies that favor
, Merced in 2018. As a postdoctoral researcher at Purdue University, School of Engineering Education, Soheil is working on a multi-institutional project characterizing governance processes related to change in engineering education, and pursuing other research interests in epistemology and design, among other philosophical topics in engineering education.Dr. Atsushi Akera, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Atsushi Akera is Associate Professor and Graduate Program Director in the Department of Science and Technology Studies at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (Troy, NY). He received his M.A. and Ph.D. in the History and Sociology of Science, University of Pennsylvania. His current research is on the history of engineering
to helping students from under-represented minorities succeed in STEM-related fields. American c Society for Engineering Education, 2020 (Not) Feeling Lonely in a Team: implementation and assessment of equitable team formation practices (Work in Progress)Abstract: Modern engineering practice involves teamwork, collaboration, and communication,skills graduates should possess for long-term success in the field. However, teamwork inengineering curricula is often fraught with a range of challenges that extend beyond the content ofa given course or project. In engineering education, researchers have been interested inmechanisms for forming teams in