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Virtual Mentoring Program, Listening to Those That Matter, Moving Beyond Research, and Career Outcomes Tracking

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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R. Jamaal Downey, University of Florida; Idalis Villanueva Alarcón, University of Florida; Jose A. Munoz; Lisa Berdie

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Statistics [16] determined that in United States highereducation, there are over 1.5 million faculty. Of that number, 46% are part-time or contingentfaculty [17]. People of color and underrepresented ethnic groups make up only 10.4% of allfaculty appointments. Seventy-three percent of these 10.4% are contingent positions [18].Overall, 69.5% of teaching positions in higher education in the U.S. are contingent roles [14].More specific to STEM and engineering, 8.9% of full-time teaching faculty in United Statesengineering programs at 4-year colleges are contingent faculty [19]. Given these statistics, thefindings from both parts of the project have implications that far surpass Latiné/x/a/o contingentfaculty and can serve as a framework to address

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External Factors, Shifting Identity Trajectories, Persistence Analysis of Cultural Models, and Exploring the Experiences of Black University Students

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Sylvia L. Mendez, University of Colorado, Colorado Springs; Kathryn Watson, University of Colorado, Colorado Springs

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Paper ID #37213Why STEM? The External Factors Influencing International STEMPostdoctoral Scholars’ Career DecisionDr. Sylvia L. Mendez, University of Colorado, Colorado Springs Dr. Sylvia Mendez is a Professor of Leadership, Research, and Foundations at the University of Col- orado Colorado Springs. She earned a PhD in Educational Leadership and Policy Studies from the University of Kansas, a MS in Student Affairs in Higher Education from Colorado State University, and a BA in Economics from Washington State University. She is engaged in several National Science Foundation-sponsored collaborative research projects focused on

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External Factors, Shifting Identity Trajectories, Persistence Analysis of Cultural Models, and Exploring the Experiences of Black University Students

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Sarah Hug, Colorado Evaluation & Research Consulting

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) Annual student surveysrelated to project goals, improvement suggestions, and access to career development, c)Participant observation in S-STEM course activities twice annually, from 2019 to spring 2022, d)Participant observation at the Great Minds in STEM conference, an annual event held in personas applicable (2019) and virtually in 2020 and 2021, e) Participant observation in competitionssuch as hackathons and National Security Agency competitions, including participantobservation in Discord channels related to student participation, f) Eight site visits to the four-year institutions engaged in the grant, including course observation, informal participation inclub meetings and work meetings, formal and informal interviews with staff and

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Voices of Diversity: Perspectives and Experiences in STEM Education

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Sarah Hug, Colorado Evaluation and Research Consulting; Suzanne Eyerman, Fairhaven Research and Evaluation

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their peers. One student talked about learning more about coding in C++,saying, “We all have an issue when it comes to coding, it's the same issue. It's not like it'ssomething different.” This interviewee said they fit in well and then described being on par withpeers in their coding work. Another student said they fit in their department and then went on toexplain their work with Cozmo, a small robot. This student said they were programming therobot to “do certain tasks” and that working on this project, as part of a professor’s researchwork, was what made them feel that they belonged. Perceptions of BelongingForty-two responses were coded in the affirmative, with the “Yes, I belong” code. Theserespondents did not appear to question

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Diverse Pathways: Exploring Inclusive Practices and Outreach in Engineering Education

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Lexy Chiwete Arinze, Purdue University at West Lafayette; Jacqueline E McDermott, Purdue University at West Lafayette; Janet M Beagle

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graduatestudents build community, such as Bridge programs [11],[12],[13], Alliances for GraduateEducation and the Professoriate (AGEP), the Louis Stokes Bridges to the Doctorate (BD) [6], theAlliances for the Inclusion Across the Nation of Communities of Learners of UnderrepresentedDiscoverers in Engineering and Science (INCLUDES) [14], CGS PhD Completion Project [15],Gates Millennium Scholars Program [16], and others. These programs help set students up forsuccess in their careers, complete their graduate degrees, and contribute to the advancement ofknowledge and innovation.Additionally, connecting students to opportunities earlier in the educational pipeline plays a keyrole in the diversification of graduate student populations as well as their

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Advancing Equity in STEM Academia: Insights and Strategies

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Milagros Rivera, George Mason University; Supriya Baily, George Mason University; Patrick Willette Healey, George Mason University; Trish Wonch Hill, University of Nebraska, Lincoln; Tehama Lopez Bunyasi, George Mason University; Leigh S McCue, George Mason University; Girum Urgessa, George Mason University

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turnover,much of the older data was not considered relevant to the current research project. Analysis of the2018 data in the context of this holistic study is ongoing.1.1.3 Gallup Faculty and Staff ExperienceThe Faculty and Staff Experience Survey was developed by Gallup, Inc. in collaboration withMason. It was administered to all employees in 2022 and had a response rate of about 43% (665people) among the faculty population of interest. The survey was intended to measure employeeengagement and well-being, employee experiences and opinions regarding diversity, equity, andinclusion (DEI) at Mason, and flexible/remote work. Each of these variables was assessed viamultiple Likert-scale questions. The set of questions assessing employee engagement is

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Advancing Diversity in Engineering Education: Insights and Perspectives from Underrepresented Communities

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Makayla Headley, Clemson University; Trina L. Fletcher, Florida International University; Lisa Benson, Clemson University

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can follow Dr. Fletcher on Twitter @trinalfletcher and LinkedIn.Dr. Lisa Benson, Clemson University Lisa Benson is a Professor of Engineering and Science Education at Clemson University, and the past editor of the Journal of Engineering Education. Her research focuses on the interactions between student motivation and their learning experiences. Her projects include studies of student perceptions, beliefs and attitudes towards becoming engineers and scientists, and their development of problem-solving skills, self-regulated learning practices, and epistemic beliefs. Other projects in the Benson group involve students’ navigational capital, and researchers’ schema development through the peer review process. Dr

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Voices of Diversity: Perspectives and Experiences in STEM Education

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Nagash Clarke; Joi-Lynn Mondisa, University of Michigan

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demands (assignment, projects, internships, etc.), and the social pressures of engaging withpeers, and faculty. The microcosm of the college campus can be challenging for students, where some areleaving the familiarity of home and family to join spaces where they can be isolated. Prior researchsuggests that being socially connected can help to alleviate stress (Achat et al., 1998). Research alsoshows that minoritized student populations experience more barriers to persistence in STEM highereducation compared to white students and certain Asian populations due to the added stress of racismfaced by these populations (Harper, 2010; Pawley, 2019). Racial stress can manifest due to phenomenalike isolation, stereotype threat and microaggressions at

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Cohort-Based Postdoctoral Scholars Program, Transforming the National Engineering Education, Defining Accountability, and Evaluating the Low-Stakes Assessment Performance

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Xiuhao Ding, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; Kang Sun; Zhiyuan Xiao, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; Sujit Varadhan, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; Jiaxi Li, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; Noah Gersich; Ananya Agarwal; Meghana Gopannagari; Alan Tao, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; Chrysafis Vogiatzis, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; David Dalpiaz, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; Jennifer R Amos, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; Lawrence Angrave, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; Hongye Liu, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

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statistics, but also due to their design.Specifically, the two courses have a similar assessment setup: they have frequent low-stakesassessments such as regular homework and/or weekly quizzes, with midterm exams and a finalexam that have higher weight in grade calculation. The instructors of the courses have employed aseries of UDL practices in their course design. These include the availability of multiple modes ofcontent delivery (in the form of lecture slides, textbook, videos with transcripts, as well as digitalnotes from this project). Table 2 shows the details of the UDL design of the two courses. ISE course CS course Accessibility LMS based course site, LMS based

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COVID-19, Next Generation of STEM Professionals, and Racialized Organizations

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Racheida S Lewis, University of Georgia; Trina L. Fletcher, Florida International University; Animesh Paul, University of Georgia

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. one school may bemore comparable to one company than assessing all PWIs or all HBCUs). Through disseminationefforts (webinars, seminars, publications) we are working to combat the first limitation, so whilewe were unable to know if we were speaking with anyone who participated in the survey, we havespoken to those who were eligible to participate in the study if they received the call forparticipation during the data collection period. The second limitation is beyond our control giventhat we can provide recommendations based on our findings but acting on those recommendationswould be up to the administration of individual institutions. It is also important to note that whenconsidering using SenseMaker for a research project the ability to

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Mentoring, Case Study of Racial and Ethnic Diversity, Identity Dilemmas, Cultural Homelessness and Intersectionality, and Transfer Students

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Olukemi Akintewe, University of South Florida

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goals, andparticipate in reflection exercises and program activities. Monthly workshops covered professionaland academic goal-setting topics, vision boarding, scholarship, study abroad, internship, andresearch information sessions.Mentees Feedback: Mentees share their experiences about feeling safe and confident as theyjourney through the rigor of academic life.Mentoring Structure, Relationship, and Mentors Feedback: The mentors serve two roles,mentoring and tutoring their mentees. The vision boarding session was well attended; studentsbonded with their mentors and freely shared their academic and personal goals. Mentors helpstudents with course registration, advising, proofreading essays, building a project, finding jobs,researching labs, or

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Diversity Trainings, Inclusive Learning, and Distance Learning

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Amani Qasrawi, The University of Texas at San Antonio; Sandeep Langar, The University of Texas at San Antonio; Tulio Sulbaran, The University of Texas at San Antonio

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2015 Atoms 2 2006-2010 General Engineering Topics 8 1998-2005The summer camp surveyed participants to obtain feedback regarding the camp's success as anoutreach activity designed to increase student interest in STEM topics. The results of the measured"Effects" of the intervention in the form of the Summer Camps were significantly positive (Figure4). Figure 4. Measurement of summer camp effects.For the analyzed articles, summer camp duration ranged from one to three weeks, allowingstudents to work on meaningful hands-on projects while covering a wide range of STEM topics.At the same time, a significant percentage (70

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Fostering Diversity and Innovation in Engineering Education

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Trina L. Fletcher, Florida International University; Madiha Qasim, North Carolina State University; Destiny M Washington, Florida International University; Lesia Crumpton-Young, Texas Southern University

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executive leadership positions, including boardpositions/appointments. By understanding the impact of this crisis at HBCUs, findings will begeneralized to support and educate non-HBCU institutions facing leadership turnover challenges.While this project focused solely on HBCU leadership, it serves as a pilot study, and our teamlooks forward to using these results to explore the more significant issue of leadership turnoverand the implications of broadening participation and research capacity across other minority-serving institutions and higher education overall.ReferencesBass, B. M. (1985). Leadership and performance beyond expectations.Bass, B. M., & Avolio, B. J. (Eds.). (1994). Improving organizational effectiveness through

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Navigating Diversity and Equity in STEM Education

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Julie M. Smith, CSEdResearch.org

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felt that “the new DEI laws makeobtaining equitable educational opportunities for ‘all’ more difficult,” thus resulting in a loss ofpower for some students. Another participant articulated this shift in more detail, observing thatthe laws “are unfair to students who were not born into privilege. Their effect will be to wideneconomic and educational differences in our society.”6. Mental Models One survey respondent described one of the impacts that recent laws had hadon their work as including the need to “be mindful” of new admissions criteria. Similarly, anotherparticipant described the need to consider more carefully how potential projects are framed. Thus,participants felt that there would need to be some change to mental models – and a

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Empowering Diversity in Engineering Education: Strategies and Impacts

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Gabriella Coloyan Fleming; Christine Julien, University of Texas at Austin; Kiersten Elyse Fernandez, University of Texas at Austin

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persist inengineering develop “solidarity” with other students studying engineering; for engineeringpersisters, identification becomes a “compass” that guides them through engineering, even moreso than either disciplinary knowledge or navigation [33]. An engineering student’s grit, ascaptured by both their consistency of interest and persistence of effort in engineering can bedirectly influenced by the strength of their engineering identity and the depth of their feeling ofbelonging [34].Engineering-specific on-campus residential programs (e.g., living learning communities) buildout-of-class experiences to strengthen engineering identity and persistence in engineering [14].Co-curricular experiences, like service learning projects [16

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Fostering Diversity and Inclusion in STEM Education

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Amani Qasrawi, The University of Texas at San Antonio; Tulio Sulbaran, The University of Texas at San Antonio; Sandeep Langar, The University of Texas at San Antonio

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diversity is essential to the growth of the industry. Therefore, effortsshould be made to address the unique hurdles that female Hispanics encounter in STEM [16] toreduce the gender gap.In past years, research projects have highlighted the benefits of combining traditional teachingmethods with computer technology in education [17]. An example of this technology isAugmented Reality (AR). AR allows the user to see and interact with computer-generatedinformation overlayed in the real world. AR has been recognized as a practical andsupplementary teaching tool that can greatly improve traditional teaching methods [10]. AR canbe used as an interactive tool that combines the real world with the digital world to createflexible learning and enrich

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Fostering Diversity and Innovation in Engineering Education

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Bianca Estella Salazar, University of California, Merced; Melissa Almeida, University of California, Merced; Zenaida Aguirre Munoz Ph.D., University of California, Merced; Maribel Viveros, University of California, Merced

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' critical thinking and problem-solving skills.In project-based activities, participants experimented with materials to examine their light-reflective properties. This material testing informed the design of daylighting systems for modelhouses, allowing students to directly apply the EDP. Through this hands-on approach, studentssynthesized their theoretical learning with tangible engineering tasks, and embodied the role ofengineers in solving contemporary challenges.Tools and InstrumentsQuantitative InstrumentsFor the quantitative analysis, we administered structured pre- and post-intervention surveys toevaluate changes in students' self-efficacy, STEM identity, and engineering knowledge. Thesesurveys, which featured a series of items on a 5-point

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Advancing Equity in Engineering Education

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Anya Work, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

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advisor, peer mentor, participate in the Careers inScience at Iona (CSI) Program, conduct summer research with a research advisor, and enroll intailored courses for DESIRE cohorts [41]. 22 DESIRE Scholars and 20 students from a controlgroup were surveyed on their campus engagement. DESIRE Scholars were significantly morelikely to be engaged in work study, student organizations, research projects, and professionalconferences when compared to students with similar academic and financial backgrounds thatwere not in DESIRE. One study [35] explored components of the University of Arkansas’ Pathto Graduation, an S-STEM program that serves up to 36 students and is meant to increase thenumber of STEM students from low-income, rural backgrounds, during

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Minorities in Engineering Division(MIND) Poster Session

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Shaylin Williams, Mississippi State University

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for engineering classes, so that's why’Whitney (2022 SBP participant), when asked if her prior (K-12) engineering experiences impactedher SBP experience: ‘I think it did. But I came in here and knew what I was doing. But the thing is, other people didn't. They had little experience with engineering. That's fine. It was just more so they felt that I was a bit controlling, which I try not to come across that way, but it was more so I just knew what I was doing because I had done it twice before. Structured like this, like we're given a project or task and we're going to make it, print it and do slides and present it to a panel of judges. I did that with my [space company] internship, with my engineering

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Diverse Pathways in Engineering Education: Exploring Experiences and Opportunities

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Julian Rodrigo Sosa-Molano, Florida International University; Alexandra Coso Strong, Florida International University

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One hundred Thurston et practices of working with seventeen projects Not specified Mixed methods al. (2017) students with disabilities in and 97 Principal STEM education Investigators (PIs).ConclusionsThe current landscape of the literature explored in this mapping review reveals that theexperiences of students with physical and sensory disabilities have been investigated byleveraging theories from the disability research space, along with those commonly used

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Empowering Marginalized Voices in STEM: Perspectives and Initiatives

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Ulises Juan Trujillo Garcia, Arizona State University

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with migrant farm working backgrounds in higher education, especially in engineering spaces. Currently, Ulises is working on a project titled ”Empowering Children of Migratory/Seasonal Farmworkers with Gamification and Culturally-Responsive Engineering Design Instruction.” He is a fellow for the National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship Program, a former fellow for the Station1 Frontiers Fellowship, the Micron Academy for Inclusive Leadership, and HACU ¡Adelante! Leadership Institute. In the summer of 2021, Ulises started a scholarship for migrant students in Eastern Oregon to pursue higher education, raising over $15,000 in scholarship dollars for this population. As a first-generation, low-income

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Advancing Diversity in Engineering Education: Insights and Perspectives from Underrepresented Communities

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Denzel Caldwell, The Ohio State University; Dira Melissa Delpech, The Ohio State University; Nia Johnson, The Ohio State University; Ann D. Christy P.E., The Ohio State University

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popula�on. Australian & New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry, 52(1), 47–58. htps://doi.org/10.1177/0004867417704506Gayed, A., Bryan, B. T., Petrie, K., Deady, M., Milner, A., LaMontagne, A. D., Calvo, R. A., Mackinnon, A., Christensen, H., Mykletun, A., Glozier, N., & Harvey, S. B. (2018). A protocol for the HeadCoach trial: The development and evalua�on of an online mental health training program for workplace managers. BMC Psychiatry, 18(1), 25. htps://doi.org/10.1186/s12888-018-1603-4Lucas, N., & Goodman, F.R. (2015). Well-being, leadership, and posi�ve organiza�onal scholarship: A case study of project-based learning in higher educa�on. Journal of Leadership Education, 14(4), 138- 152.McGee, E.O

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Empowering Diversity in Engineering Education: Strategies and Impacts

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Julie M. Smith, CSEdResearch.org

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answering the questions: Whatdoes previous research indicate about the experiences of student caregivers? and How does thatknowledge apply to recruiting and retaining undergraduate engineering students?A literature review on barriers and aids to CSt’ academic outcomes in the United States, which itsauthors believe to be the first literature review of the experiences of CSt, was published in 2022. Itfound barriers at the individual, interpersonal, institutional, and policy levels that hindered CSt,concluding that the challenges that CSt face are systemic. This project expands upon their workby (1) including studies outside of the United States and over a longer time frame, (2) trackingCSt’s areas of study, (3) exploring CSt’s assets, challenges, and

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Mentoring, Case Study of Racial and Ethnic Diversity, Identity Dilemmas, Cultural Homelessness and Intersectionality, and Transfer Students

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Maimuna Begum Kali, Florida International University; Stephen Secules, Florida International University

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cultural home by somemore than others.Furthermore, engineering culture can be a cultural home, and more for some than others. Disciplinary andeducational cultures are enacted in shared physical and social spaces, but those same spaces areexperienced differentially by some as inclusive and by others as exclusive or marginalizing. Identity andintersectionality play a significant role in that differentiation of engineering culture. This paper considersthe interplays of engineering culture, identity (as culture), and intersectionality as creating or disrupting asense of cultural home.3. Methodology3.1 Data collectionData for this study comes from a larger project, Audio for Inlcusion [13], that focuses on exploringstudents’ experience of

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Virtual Mentoring Program, Listening to Those That Matter, Moving Beyond Research, and Career Outcomes Tracking

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Gerard Dorvè-Lewis, University of Pittsburgh; Danielle Vegas Lewis, SUNY Fredonia; Maricela Bañuelos, University of California, Irvine; Natascha Trellinger Buswell, University of California, Irvine; Linda DeAngelo, University of Pittsburgh

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leastI've seen or talked to in any way. And I think that's kind of always a constant thing,getting an effect of more people looking at me or a kid who's never met a Black persongets put in a group with me in an engineering project and doesn't know, like he thinks I'ma different species or something. I have never felt any malicious intent towards me at thisinstitution purely because I am Black, but I have had experiences where I’ve had to dealwith ignorance from my white peers. And I know that it happened just because they havenever met a Black person before. So there's always this feeling that just knowing that theway I've maybe talked to someone in my family, I can't talk to a peer about like acomplex engineering process. I can't necessarily just