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Minorities in Engineering Division Technical Session 1

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2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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A. Ayanna Boyd-Williams, North Carolina A&T State University; Shea Bigsby, North Carolina A&T State University; Clay Gloster Jr, North Carolina A&T State University; Evelyn Sowells-Boone, North Carolina A&T State University; Mark A. Melton, Saint Augustine's University

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leadership studies at North Carolina A&T State University. Her research interests include multi-criteria decision making, intellectual sustainability in higher education, corporate social responsibility and ethics, and East Asian higher education systems. She has presented numerous workshops on issues related to minority affairs, graduate admissions and funding opportunities, intellectual capital management and investment, core professional development competencies, and graduate research and teaching assistant training and assessment.Dr. Shea Bigsby, North Carolina A&T State University Dr. Shea Bigsby is the Coordinator of Graduate Writing Services in the Graduate College at North Car- olina A&T State

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Minorities in Engineering Division Technical Session 6

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2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Michael Maloy Parker, Cankdeska Cikana Community College; Lori Nelson, Nueta Hidatsa Sahnish College; Robert V. Pieri, North Dakota State University; Austin James Allard, Turtle Mountain Community College; Ann Vallie; Josh Mattes, Sitting Bull College; Teri Ann Allery; Karl Haefner, Cankdeska Cikana Community College

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program.Mrs. Lori Nelson, Nueta Hidatsa Sahnish College Lori Nelson began her professional experience as an Industrial Engineer working the capacity of business process manager for a major U.S. aerospace manufacturing firm. This role provided functional consulting for supply chain with key ownership responsibility ensuring appropriate data design of master data, IT architecture and solution design for all ERP solutions across the organization. She holds a Masters of Arts in Teaching Mathematics from Minot State University, a Bachelor of Science degree in Industrial Engineering and Management from North Dakota State University, and post-masters certificate in Experiential Education through Equine Assisted Learning from

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Minorities in Engineering Division Technical Session 3

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2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Josh Mattes, Sitting Bull College; Robert V. Pieri, North Dakota State University; Austin James Allard, Turtle Mountain Community College; Michael Maloy Parker, Cankdeska Cikana Community College; Ann Vallie; Teri Ann Allery; Lori Nelson, Nueta Hidatsa Sahnish College; Karl Haefner, Cankdeska Cikana Community College

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role provided functional consulting for supply chain with key ownership responsibility ensuring appropriate data design of master data, IT architecture and solution design for all ERP solutions across the organization. She holds a Masters of Arts in Teaching Mathematics from Minot State University, a Bachelor of Science degree in Industrial Engineering and Management from North Dakota State University, and post-masters certificate in Experiential Education through Equine Assisted Learning from Prescott College. Currently she serves as the Land Grant Director and also as PI of the Pre-Engineering Education Col- laboration (PEEC) Grant at Nueta Hidatsa Sahnish College in New Town, ND. In addition, she teaches

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Minorities in Engineering Division Technical Session 4

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2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Eric Michael Schearer, Cleveland State University; M. Ann Reinthal, Cleveland State University; Debbie K. Jackson, Cleveland State University

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] cites undergraduate research opportunitiesas a way to engage students from traditionally marginalized populations in STEM. Theseopportunities for students from traditionally underrepresented populations positively impact theirinterest in STEM, exposure to research, career aspirations, STEM identity and self-efficacy.Research experiences and other experiential learning formats are effective means for encouragingpersistence of underrepresented groups in STEM fields.Supporting students with disabilities in research and experiential learning activities is especiallychallenging. These experiences are generally unstructured and multi-faceted. Standardaccommodations made for students in a traditional classroom or teaching laboratory [8] –modifications

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Minorities in Engineering Division Technical Session 3

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2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Catalina Cortázar, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile; Isabel Hilliger, Pontificia Universidad Catholica de Chile

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The New School for Design, New York. At DiLab Catalina teaches and coordi- nates the Engineering Challenges course which aims to initiate freshmen students in to engineering design practices by encouraging students to develop a project following a user-centered design process. She also teaches Visual Thinking, the exploratory course of the Major in Engineering, Design, and Innovation. This course addresses the theories and ideas that sustain the visual thinking process as well as method- ologies and practical implementation of visual representation through infographics, computer graphics, and physical computing. The course focus on representing the narrative of the findings using visual tools. Catalina has

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Minorities in Engineering Division Technical Session 2

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2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Reginald Perry, Florida A&M University/Florida State University; Charmane V. Caldwell, Florida A&M University/Florida State University

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developed and managed several reten- tion programs at the college: Engineering Concepts Institute (ECI) Summer Bridge; Engineering Liv- ing Learning Community (LLC), Educating Engineering Students Innovatively (EESI) and Peer-Assisted Study Sessions (PASS). Dr. Caldwell also serves as the activity director for the Title III program Engi- neering Learning Community. Those collective programs have nearly doubled the first-year retention of underrepresented minorities at the college. Additionally, Dr. Caldwell serves as a teaching professor for the First-Year Engineering Lab (FYEL), which is part of the pre-engineering program. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2019 Experience: An

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Minorities in Engineering Division Technical Session 5

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2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Eduardo Santillan-Jimenez, University of Kentucky; Sarah Hodges, University of Kentucky; Alejandro Gerardo Villasante-Tezanos, University of Kentucky; Robert Theakston MS

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contribution described the challenges for mentoring in academicengineering departments, among which faculty role strain takes precedence (Bowen & Sosa,1989; Boyer, 1990; Fairweather, 1996; Geisler & Rubenstein, 1989). Saliently, this very concernrenders research centers into favorable environments for mentoring (Bozeman & Boardman,2003), as their non-faculty research staff – who typically have lower teaching and administrativeworkloads than faculty – can be leveraged to increase the amount and frequency of student-mentor non-classroom contact, which has been reported to enhance student retention (Pascarella,Terenzini, & Feldman, 1991). The latter, along with the fact that literature is lacking in terms ofthe potential benefits of

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Minorities in Engineering Division Technical Session 3

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2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Jeremy A. Magruder Waisome, University of Florida; Kyla McMullen, University of Florida; Tiffanie R. Smith, University of Florida; Simone A. Smarr, University of Florida; Juan E. Gilbert, University of Florida

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. Mentoringexperiences enable HCCS participants to develop social skills such as communication skills andthe ability to teach in informal settings which has implications for the development of advisingskills and leadership skills. As a result of participating in laboratory meetings, HCCS studentsare encouraged to practice and refine their writing skills and presentation skills.DiscussionThe HCCS program supported twenty underrepresented doctoral students in computing. Whilethis number is seemingly small, the lack of diversity in computing as presented in the annualTaulbee Survey, the National Science Board’s Science and Engineering Indicators, and ASEEdata articulate the necessity for this work. Data from the Taulbee Survey 2016-2017 indicate thatthe number of

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Minorities in Engineering Division Technical Session 2

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2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Eleazar Marquez, Rice University; Samuel Garcia Jr., Texas State University

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Paper ID #24641Nurturing Brilliance in Engineering: Creating Research Venues for Under-graduate Underrepresented Minorites in Engineering as an Initiative fromFaculty Members that Foster Academic Inclusion, Development, and Post-graduation Instruction (Work in Progress)Dr. Eleazar Marquez, Rice University Eleazar Marquez is an Assistant Teaching Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Rice University.Dr. Samuel Garcia Jr., Texas State University Dr. Samuel Garc´ıa Jr. currently serves as Educator Professional Development Specialist at the Jet Propul- sion Laboratory in Pasadena, CA and is an Assistant

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Minorities in Engineering Division Technical Session 4

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2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Felicia James Onuma, University of Maryland, College Park; Bruk T. Berhane, University of Maryland, College Park

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in the Department of Fire Protection Engineering where she oversees outreach and retention initiatives. She also holds an engineering education research assistantship that advances and engages her expertise in engineering education.Dr. Bruk T. Berhane, University of Maryland, College Park Dr. Bruk T. Berhane received his bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering from the University of Mary- land in 2003. He then completed a master’s degree in engineering management at George Washington University in 2007. In 2016, he earned a Ph.D. in the Minority and Urban Education Unit of the Col- lege of Education at the University of Maryland. Bruk worked at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, where he

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Minorities in Engineering Division Technical Session 1

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2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Harvey Abramowitz EngScD, Purdue University Northwest, Hammond; Roy L. Hamilton, Purdue University Northwest

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Chancellor for Educational Opportunity Programs and Director of the Purdue University Northwest Ronald E. McNair Post-Baccalaureate Achievement Pro- gram, a federal program designed to prepare first generation/low-income students and students from un- derrepresented disciplines for graduate study. In addition, he also provides administrative leadership to other Purdue Northwest Programs that provide educational access and success for underrepresented stu- dent populations for student beginning in sixth grade through graduate study. He recently developed and implemented programing that addresses the needs of pre-college students interested in the STEM disciples using the arts and sports. He also teaches courses such as