Conference Session

Advancing Equity in STEM Academia: Insights and Strategies

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

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

Tagged Topics

Diversity

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Minorities in Engineering Division(MIND)

. Further, summer camps offer students exceptional opportunities to engage inlearning experiences, explore advanced technologies, establish meaningful connections with like-minded peers, and better understand future career choices. Therefore, given the benefits ofintervention via summer camps and the lack of research in the identified geographical region, thisresearch aimed to determine the impacts of summer camps developed on a previously publishedframework to determine if the intervention enhanced the participant's STEM and soft skills,knowledge, future career, and educational choices of female students from R-ISD. Theparticipating students were subjected to a pre-test to determine the baseline at the beginning of thesummer camp. A post-test was

Conference Session

Minorities in Engineering Division(MIND) Technical Session 14

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Deana Delp, Arizona State University; Maria Dixon, Arizona State University; Crislana Rafael, Arizona State University; Jacob Underwood, Arizona State University

Tagged Topics

Diversity

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Minorities in Engineering Division(MIND)

students are generally excited to talk about "what" they're doing in engineering. This helps open up the conversation for us to talk about soft skills. Leading with soft skills can cause them to disengage.” o “In order to engage effectively, it is imperative to plan and prepare a "skeleton" of a lesson plan which enables me to ask the right open ended questions in the correct sequence with follow up questions to supplement. Having an open ended conversation tends to engage the mentees more. Also, I tend to be as objective as possible so the mentees know I am not being judgmental, rather I am providing sound advice that they can choose to use if they believe it will be functional to them. If not, we

Conference Session

Mentorship, Retention, Minority Participation, and Examining the Experiences of Women

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Claude Brathwaite, City University of New York, City College

Tagged Topics

Diversity

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Minorities in Engineering Division(MIND)

barriers to graduate education specific to underrepresented minorities have beenidentified [14-20]. To address some of these challenges, the BTD program as envisioned wouldprovide continuity for the Level 1 students participating in the NYC LSAMP. The design of theBTD programs attempts to actively remove some of these barriers for high performing students(GPA of 3.0 or higher). The cohort model is used to create a learning community with facultymentorship, a stipend and educational allowance to remove the financial barriers, GREpreparation to address preparation for doctoral programs requiring the GRE scores, developmentof communication/soft skills, as well as the opportunity for international research experiences.NYC LSAMP Level 1 undergraduate

Conference Session

Voices of Diversity: Perspectives and Experiences in STEM Education

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Claire MacDonald, The University of Texas at El Paso; Palvi Aggarwal, The University of Texas at El Paso; Xiwei Wang, Northeastern Illinois University; Yun Wan; Shebuti Rayana, The State University of New York at Old Westbury; Rudy Caraballo; Sherrene Bogle, Cal Poly Humboldt

Tagged Divisions

Minorities in Engineering Division(MIND)

students have more opportunities at a 4-yearinstitution for numerous reasons: More resources, employers having events on campus to hirestudents, networking with other students and mentors, etc. Professors are essential to a student’ssuccess, not only in the classroom but in mentorship. Mentorship allows students to grow in theirtechnical and soft skills, which are essential to students thriving after graduation. The frequentwords found within the word clouds were then given as parameters to all three topic modelingmethods to reveal more discrete and subtle issues that plague transfer students. Qn Topics titles Topic words LDA CorEx BERT Q1 Attending cost cost, cheap, expense, year, tuition