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Promoting Social Sustainability, Cultural Assets, and Assessing Equity and Diversity Index

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Erika Judith Rivera, Florida International University ; Mohamed Elzomor, P.E., Florida International University; Piyush Pradhananga, Florida International University

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, gain a minimum of four years ofworking experience, and pass two intensive competency exams to earn a P.E. license from theirrespective state's licensure board. One of the main goals of enforcing a P.E. license is to ensureengineering graduates follow ethical responsibility to protect public health, safety, and welfare.Currently, every state regulates the practice of engineering to ensure public safety by grantingonly Professional Engineers (PEs) the authority to sign and seal engineering plans and offer theirservices to the public [10].Historical data to regulate engineering practices in the United States dates back to the early1900s when the state of Wyoming established licensing requirements in 1907 [10]. The country'swestward expansion

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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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Monica Farmer Cox, The Ohio State University; Kristen Moore, University at Buffalo, The State University of New York

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] describes white feminism as “an active form of harm, not simply a by-product of self-absorption”; this harmful approach “liberates privileged women while keeping other structures ofinjustice intact” (p. 4). These are the harms we aim to prevent.Someone reading this may think the use of the word harm is an extreme choice in engineering education.After all, we, as engineers, are members of a privileged discipline highly esteemed in society. Ethics is atthe core of what we do because our actions protect and keep people safe. We engage in extensive trainingto prevent deaths in the air, sea, and land. Our disciplinary brand revolves around reliability, precision,and consistency. We are rational. Engineering departments, colleges, and professional

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Towards a Participatory Action, Retention of Black Students, and Exploring Black Engineering Student Success

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Elliot P. Douglas, University of Florida; Erica D. McCray, University of Florida; Gretchen Dietz, University of Florida; Randy Dorian Brown, University of Florida; Paul Richardson

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Paper ID #38234Engineering Firms as Racialized Organizations: The Experiences of BlackMale EngineersDr. Elliot P. Douglas, University of Florida Elliot P. Douglas is Professor of Environmental Engineering Sciences and Engineering Education, and Distinguished Teaching Scholar at the University of Florida. His research interests are in the areas of problem-solving, cultures of inclusion in engineering, and social justice in engineering ethics education.Erica D. McCray, University of Florida Dr. Erica D. McCray is an Associate Professor of Special Education at the University of Florida. Prior to joining the faculty

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Promoting Social Sustainability, Cultural Assets, and Assessing Equity and Diversity Index

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Leigh S. McCue, George Mason University; Girum Urgessa, P.E., George Mason University; Tehama Lopez Bunyasi, George Mason University; Patrick Willette Healey, George Mason University; Patricia Wonch Hill, University of Nebraska, Lincoln; Jaime Lester, George Mason University ; Milagros Rivera, George Mason University

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by other characteristics of the employees,their research, or the spaces; with the possible exception of race, which they were not able tomeasure [9].Finally, there is an ethical motivation to investigate, as disparities between such packages (whichare often valued at hundreds of thousands of dollars or more) along lines of marginalization aftercontrolling for other factors would constitute a material injustice in need of correction. Sege,Nykiel-Bub, and Selk found that among early-career biomedical researchers, men received higher-value start-up packages than women across the board. The difference was statistically significantamong PhDs, basic science researchers (as opposed to clinical), and employees of institutions inthe top quartile of

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Towards a Participatory Action, Retention of Black Students, and Exploring Black Engineering Student Success

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Idalis Villanueva Alarcon, University of Florida; Denise Rutledge Simmons P.E., University of Florida; Jasmine McNealy, University of Florida

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more sense-making 1approach that considers adaptive, critically self-assessing, and open acknowledgement ofstudents’ visions of purpose and success. The latter requires the formation of ethical relationshipsbetween graduate students and their faculty (Gelles, Villanueva, & Di Stefano, 2019) so thatinstitutional and programmatic factors that deter Ph.D. progression are mitigated, particularlythose factors that contribute to racial inequities in STEM. The authors situated the need for equal footing between Black engineering Ph.D. studentsand their mentors in where there is an intentional creation of safe and third spaces (VillanuevaAlarcón

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Promoting Social Sustainability, Cultural Assets, and Assessing Equity and Diversity Index

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Dennis R. Parnell Jr., University of Florida; Jabari Wilson, University of Florida; Karen Theodora Hicklin; Jeremy A. Magruder Waisome, University of Florida

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. Introductory SessionThe first session was an informational meeting where students learned about the project’s goals,completed training in camera use, filled out consent forms, and could ask questions. The sessionbegan with an icebreaker that asked everyone in attendance to state their names, hometown, major,and a current event that had their attention. Breakdowns of desirable norms for group meetings, asummary of what photovoice is, and participation expectations were discussed. Critical guidelineswere also given for ethical considerations of photographing others, including requiring consentforms for featured individuals.E. Individual InterviewsTeams of two facilitators conducted the individual participant interviews. The interview protocolwas loosely

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Towards a Participatory Action, Retention of Black Students, and Exploring Black Engineering Student Success

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Kelly-Ann Dixon Hamil, The University of the West Indies, Mona ; Tasha Zephirin, Purdue University, West Lafayette ; Darryl Dickerson, Florida International University

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, teachers, and undergraduates in this role. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2023Quantitative Methodological Approaches to Understand the Impact ofInterventions: Exploring Black Engineering Student SuccessAbstractAs engineering educators and practitioners, we must broaden the participation of students fromracially minoritized populations to meet engineering education's social and ethical responsibilitiesto address problems and design solutions relevant to our diverse communities. However, theengineering profession in the United States has historically and continues to exclude certain racialand ethnic populations, including Black, Latinx, and Native people. As a result, engineeringremains a predominantly

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Self-Advocacy, Sense of Belonging, Measuring Authentic Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, and Construction Management Education Programs

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Winifred Opoku, The Ohio State University; Jameka Wiggins, The Ohio State University; Monica Farmer Cox, The Ohio State University; Kaitlyn Harper

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include creating and sustaining a cultureof diversity, equity, and a culture of inclusion through tools of self-assessment of networkactivities, the development of values and ethics, and the opportunity to share findings to serve asguidance for other research networks.The network leadership also introduced a self-reported demographic information survey for theresearch network. The anonymous survey on self-reported demographic information providesvaluable data to assess the current representation and participation of individuals from diversebackgrounds. The collected data will help identify potential disparities in access andopportunities and guide the development of targeted strategies to increase diversity and equity inthe network.Table 1

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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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like get further ahead in life. And, like, is that even 34 ethical for me to, like, bend the rules in that sense, I guess. And, like, do I even want to? 35 I didn’t, by the way. I did put down Asian because I feel like it would be like deception 36 and like some like malicious almost to put down something that I don’t feel like I am. 37 But I do see like how I guess, he could, you could like twist it to look like that.As Amber recounts this event, it appears that her teacher wanted to share a strategy that he thought wouldhelp Amber get college admission. Nonetheless, the suggestion to leverage her “cultural whiteness”, asnoted by her high school teacher (line 26), in contrast to her own more complicated racial identity

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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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does a scientist look like?,” Future Science, vol. 14, no. 7, pp. 401–403, Mar. 2022, doi: 10.4155/BIO-2022-0033.[7] E. O. McGee, D. Naphan-Kingery, M. L. Miles, and O. Joseph, “How Black Engineering and Computing Faculty Exercise an Equity Ethic to Racially Fortify and Enrich Black Students,” J Higher Educ, vol. 93, no. 5, pp. 702–734, 2022, doi: 10.1080/00221546.2022.2031704.[8] K. C. Thiem and N. Dasgupta, “From Precollege to Career: Barriers Facing Historically Marginalized Students and Evidence-Based Solutions,” Soc Issues Policy Rev, vol. 16, no. 1, pp. 212–251, Jan. 2022, doi: 10.1111/SIPR.12085.[9] M. Jura and I. Gerhardt, “Examining the Effectiveness of an Online Summer Bridge Course

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

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Carl Anthony Moore Jr., Florida A&M University - Florida State University; Chiang Shih, Florida A&M University - Florida State University

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for mentoring and to providefaculty training in optimizing mentoring relationships for mentors with their mentees at all levelsof their research careers. The Academy is based on the research mentoring curriculum, ”EnteringMentoring”, an evidence-based curriculum from the Center for the Improvement of MentoredExperiences in Research (CIMER) at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Course topicsinclude aligning expectations, assessing understanding, promoting professional development,cultivating ethical behaviors, promoting mentee research self-efficacy, enhancing work-lifeintegration, and articulating a mentoring philosophy and action plan. 37Plans for Evaluation and ExpansionWe are currently designing a peer-to-peer mentoring certification

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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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Claude Brathwaite, City University of New York, City College

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College Community CollegeFigure 2: NYC LSAMP Scholars at the Senior College 36% 17% 9% 10% 2% 4% 4% 5% 5% 6% 1%NYC LSAMP MentorsNYC LSAMP Scholars work closely on research projects with their faculty mentors who arespecialists in their field of research. Nearly 54% of the scholars selected their mentors because ofthe impression left of the work done by the faculty mentors. Whereas, 17% selected their mentorbecause of the work ethics demonstrated by the mentor during research, 16% had taken somecourse in which the professor taught and decided to work

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Diversity Trainings, Inclusive Learning, and Distance Learning

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Joaquin Rodriguez, University of Pittsburgh; April Dukes, University of Pittsburgh; John Andrew Keith, University of Pittsburgh; David V.P. Sanchez, University of Pittsburgh

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selection and design, equipment costs, operating costs, and profitabilityanalysis. It also includes considerations on public health, safety, and welfare, as well as global,cultural, social, environmental, and economic factors, making informed judgements andrecognizing ethical and professional responsibilities in engineering situations, as required byABET Student Outcomes 2 and 4 [14]. Students make final presentations of their projects to apanel of judges from industry and academia. Data on students’ characteristics for the diversityindex were collected from the instructors of the two parallel sections for the spring 2022 courseon 82 students and 14 projects, and for the summer 2022 course with 16 students and 3 projects.Judges used the rubric

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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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docollectively that acts as preventative maintenance rather than the current position of disastercontrol? What system-wide changes could be identified and implemented that allows contingentfaculty to step into positions with security and a sense of belonging rather than must claw forthese basic needs? Asset-based mentality The conference with contingent faculty also produced a list of what they felt were assetsthey brought to the institutions they serve, but that are either seen as deficits or not seen at all.The two areas that the contingent participants identified as strengths included interpersonal andsocioemotional skills and identity-centered student connection. Latiné/x/a/o faculty spoke totheir work ethic and adaptability which

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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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differences in STEM career aspiration and social-cognitive factors in collectivist and individualist cultures. Administrative Issues Journal: Connecting Education, Practice, and Research, 10(1), 30–45. https://doi.org/10.5929/2020.10.1.3McGee, E., & Bentley, L. (2017). The equity ethic: Black and Latinx college students reengineering their STEM careers toward justice. American Journal of Education, 124(1), 1–36. https://doi.org/10.1086/693954Mendez, S. L., Starkey, K. E., Cooksey, S. E., & Conley, V. M. (2022). Environmental influences on the STEM identity and career intentions of Latinx STEM postdoctoral scholars. Journal of Hispanic Higher Education, 21(4), 367–385. https://doi.org

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Promoting Social Sustainability, Cultural Assets, and Assessing Equity and Diversity Index

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Collette Patricia Higgins; Emily Joanna Kamp; Kenneth Stewart; Azadeh Bolhari, P.E., University of Colorado, Boulder; Daniel Ivan Castaneda, James Madison University

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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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-based ethical barriers for American Indian/Alaska Native students and professionals in engineering,” in 2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access Proceedings, Virtual Conference: ASEE Conferences, Jul. 2021, p. 36888. doi: 10.18260/1-2--36888.[11] M. A. Beasley and M. J. Fischer, “Why they leave: The impact of stereotype threat on the attrition of women and minorities from science, math and engineering majors,” Soc. Psychol. Educ., vol. 15, no. 4, pp. 427–448, Dec. 2012, doi: 10.1007/s11218-012-9185-3.[12] G. Lichtenstein, H. L. Chen, K. A. Smith, and T. A. Maldonado, “Retention and persistence of women and minorities along the engineering pathway in the United States,” in Cambridge Handbook of Engineering