Paper ID #23365Women in Science and Engineering: A Framework for an Honors Under-graduate CurriculumDr. Angela M Kelly, Stony Brook University Angela M. Kelly is an Associate Professor of Physics and the Associate Director of the Science Education Program at Stony Brook University, New York. She attended La Salle University, Philadelphia, Pennsyl- vania, where she received her B.A. degree in chemistry, and completed her M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in science education (2000 and 2006, respectively) and her Ed.M. degree in curriculum and teaching (2007) at Teachers College, Columbia University, New York. She is the recipient of
Paper ID #29896Dance-A-Bit: Integrating Dance with Teaching Algorithmic ThinkingMs. Litany H Lineberry, Mississippi State University Lineberry is currently a Ph.D. student in Engineering with a concentration in Engineering Education at MSU with a research focus in cybersecurity education. She received her MS in CS with a concentration in Information Assurance from North Carolina A&T University. Her BS in CS was received from Voorhees College. Previously, Lineberry was Area Coordinator and an Instructor in CS at Voorhees.Dr. Sarah B. Lee, Mississippi State University Sarah Lee joined the faculty at Mississippi State
Paper ID #33351Engineering Curriculum Rooted in Active Learning: Does It PromoteEngagement and Persistence for Women?Leanne Kallemeyn, Loyola University Chicago Leanne Kallemeyn, Ph.D., is an Associate Professor in Research Methodologies at Loyola University Chicago. She teaches graduate-level courses in program evaluation, qualitative research methods, and mixed methods. She has been the PI on seven major evaluation projects that ranged from one to five years in length. Her scholarship focuses on practitioners’ data use and evaluation capacity building within non-profits through coaching. She received a Bachelors in
Paper ID #32762What Strategies do Diverse Women in Engineering Use to Cope withSituational Hidden Curriculum?Dr. Victoria Beth Sellers, University of Florida Dr. Victoria Sellers is a postdoctoral research associate in the Department of Engineering Education at the University of Florida. Her current research is focused on determining how engineering students respond to hidden curriculum. Victoria has previously served as an editorial assistant to the Journal of Women and Minorities in Science and Engineering, as well as the communications intern for the Journal of Engineering Education. Victoria received a PhD in
Paper ID #17160Gaining Insights into the Effects of Culturally Responsive Curriculum onHistorically Underrepresented Students’ Desire for Computer ScienceMs. Omoju Miller, UC Berkeley Omoju Miller is the lead researcher on the ”Hiphopathy” project at UC Berkeley. She has an undergrad- uate degree in Computer Science (2001) and a Master’s degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering (2004) from the University of Memphis. She has over a decade of experience in the technology indus- try. She is currently a doctoral candidate at UC Berkeley in Computer Science Education. Omoju also served in a volunteer capacity as an advisor to
Paper ID #22003The Power of Peer Mentoring of Undergraduate Women in Engineering: Fos-tering Persistence through Academic and Social IntegrationDr. Jennifer A Gatz, Stony Brook University Public STEM education teacher of AP Biology and AP Research for Patchogue-Medford School Dis- trict. Ph.D. in Science Education from Stonybrook University, 2017. Post-doctoral associate at Stony Brook University’s Institute for STEM education evaluating persistence, motivation, social and academic integration of women in science and engineering at the undergraduate level.Dr. Angela M Kelly, Stony Brook University Angela M. Kelly is an
campus has been successful at attracting and retainingwomen in engineering, we examined our program and enrollment trends, conducted interviews,and surveyed faculty, students and alumni. Based on this data, key aspects of the curriculum thatseem to effectively attract and retain women include the flexibility of the curriculum, a focus ondesign and innovation, a collaborative and friendly atmosphere, the presence of female peermentors, an emphasis on the liberal arts, and a focus on real-world projects.Data from surveys, interviews and courses are shared so that faculty and administrators at othercampuses may learn about different strategies that could be adapted at their own campuses toincrease gender diversity.BackgroundDespite continued
Paper ID #33372The Benefits of an Engineering Field Trip for Women StudentsDr. Kerry Meyers, University of Notre Dame Dr. Kerry Meyers holds a Ph.D. in Engineering Education (B.S. & M.S. Mechanical Engineering) and is specifically focused on programs that influence student’s experience, affect retention rates, and the factors that determine the overall long term success of students entering an engineering program. She is the Assistant Dean for Student Development in the College of Engineering at the University of Notre Dame. She is committed to the betterment of the undergraduate curriculum and is still actively
perceived group roles in the context of first-year engineering courses, weexplored female students’ learning experience in a group project setting in this work-in-progress using Benne and Sheats’ functional roles model. Based on our qualitativedata, we found that female students performed a range of roles in the group project. Inthe dimension of task roles, female students usually took the roles of assistants, opiniongiver, coordinators and initiator-managers. In the dimension of social roles, femalesserved as harmonizers, followers or gatekeepers. As to the dimension of individual roles,some female students self-reported the feeling of being an outsider in working with aproject group. Suggestions were proposed to promote engineering curriculum
” group, led by the secondauthor. The group provided a forum for brainstorming ideas and the course provided a platformfor testing these strategies. Four recommendations evolved from this effort: 1.) Education onteam function and bias in team dynamics is helpful. 2.) Teamwork skills and strategies forcollaboration and conflict resolution need to be taught. 3.) Mentoring and engaging withstudents is an important aspect of the process and can be enhanced to better serve women. 4.)Reflection and self-assessment exercises can be integrated to build self-efficacy and confidencein students. Assessment was done using data collected from mid-term evaluations, peerevaluations, self-assessment exercises, input from industry judges, and teaching evaluations
interaction groups ofthinkers who have identified a social problem, analyzed its sources, and devised a solution”(p.22).”30 Coherent groups are the intellectual arm of social movements, yet there is littlescholarship on how they operate to produce new scientific knowledge and cultural change inscientific institutions.30 This paper addresses this gap in knowledge. Further, we also add to thisbody of scholarship by providing an intersectional analysis of collaboration across not justscientific disciplines but also across social identities such as race/ethnicity, gender, andsexuality.Furthermore, scholars from a range of social sciences highlight the important role of emotions inscientific knowledge production.2, 34, 30, 34 Integrating science and
Paper ID #19498What is the Relationship between Mindset and Engineering Identity for FirstYear Male and Female Students? An Exploratory Longitudinal StudyMs. Heather Lysbeth Henderson, West Virginia University With a background in English, philosophy, science, and all levels of education, Heather is currently a doc- toral student in curriculum and instruction and educational psychology. She is interested in psychological barriers affecting retention and success for students. Having been raised by an engineer, this project is close to her heart.Dr. Karen E Rambo-Hernandez, West Virginia University Karen E. Rambo-Hernandez
One of our largest recruitment tools is the Extreme Information Technology (IT) Day which is an annual event sponsored by the university. The Extreme IT Day event has been held since 2010. Since its inception, more than 1,400 high school students have attended Extreme IT Day. The mission of this event is to develop skills and promote career opportunities in mainframe technologies, integrated IT systems, and cloud computing technologies. The event brings together educators, industry partners, and approximately 400 highly motivated high school and college students annually from the southeastern United States for a day of fun and innovation. Industry partners help set goals and expectations for students and serve on our School of
population of the engineering students and retaining them to the end of their educationaljourney, and toward the ultimate goal of professional licensure.Service leaning has been proven to be an invaluable tool to recruit and retain engineering students, a studyconducted by Astin et al (2000) found that in a study of 22,000 students, integrating service learning hadsignificant positive effects on 11 outcome measurements including critical thinking skills, values,leadership and self-efficacy. Eyles & Giles (1999) studied 20 universities and the effect of a service-learning based curriculum on over 1500 students. The results indicated an increased positive impact in the
enable students to discuss their Wearable Technology projectand think about how to program the project so it will be successful.Project-Based Learning The Femineer® Program encourages students to engage with the curriculum in a hands-oncapacity. Hands-on learning helps students process abstract concepts while connecting them to thedesired educational outcomes [6]. Using a hands-on approach can help foster 21st century skillsand enhance student achievement [7]. Hands-on learning is an integral part of the Femineer®Program. The Femineer® curriculum is based upon a 30-hour project that students completethroughout the year. With project-based learning, the instructional approach empowers students towork collaboratively to solve a complex
short of women engineers in the work place. Many femalestudents lose interest in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM) at an early age.How to encourage and retain female students’ interest in STEM is a challenge faced by manyeducators.The paper describes our collaboration (Wentworth Institute of Technology (WIT)) with an all-girl high school to setup a robotics workshop. The high school administration is interested inbringing engineering and technology as a new component to their curriculum. From our side, weconstantly seek outreach opportunities to prompt STEM and attract more girls into the STEMfields. After meeting and discussion with the high school administration, a robotics workshopwas developed. The workshop was a year-long
disability-related topics was important for preparing the nextgeneration of professionals: ● “Engineering is all about innovation and making structural change on a variety of levels, I think it is imperative students entering the field have this background.” ● “I think accessibility should be integrated into the curriculum, to build better technologies and conscientious students.” ● “Adding AT (assistive technology) to the school’s curriculum would be an excellent way of assuring future educators/students are knowledgeable and well trained in the discipline. My knowledge has come mostly from sources outside of any curriculum
NSF INCLUDES Mississippi Alliance for Women in Computing (MSAWC), partnering with stakeholders throughout the southern US to leverage, strengthen, and create awareness of existing programs and create new programs for young women in computing. Sarah holds a BS in Business Administration and Computer Information Systems from the Mississippi University for Women and a master’s degree in computer science from MSU. She earned her PhD in computer science from the University of Memphis.Ms. Litany H Lineberry, Mississippi State UniversityDr. Jessica Ivy, Mississippi State Universitt Dr. Jessica Ivy is an Assistant Professor of Secondary Education at Mississippi State University. Her research focuses on the integration
cohesion, collaboration, and communication, while widespreadpreference for Marginalization can result in weak workplace culture that lacks goals or missionand lead to low employee job satisfaction, engagement, and retention.By contrast, when most employees adopt an Integration attitude, the chances of diversitybecoming an accepted feature of the overall workplace culture are expected to increase, leadingto the multiculturalism of values, beliefs, and ideas that spawn creativity, innovation, equity, andinclusion [19]-[21]. Thus, maximizing the likelihood that engineers bring or are encouraged todevelop an Integration attitude to their jobs seems like the best approach for increasing thediversity in the engineering workforce. We will determine which
Paper ID #25688A Mixed Methods Analysis of Goals and the Impact of Peer Mentoring forParticipants in the WISE Honors ProgramDr. Jennifer A Gatz, Stony Brook University Public STEM education teacher of AP Biology and AP Research for Patchogue-Medford School District. Ph.D. in Science Education from Stonybrook University, 2017. Research affiliate at Stony Brook Univer- sity’s Institute for STEM education evaluating persistence, motivation, social and academic integration of women in science and engineering at the undergraduate level.Dr. Angela M. Kelly, Stony Brook University Angela M. Kelly is an Associate Professor of
of the importance of engineeringdesign’s integration with society, in our critical review we found it was mostly grand statementsbeing made in the introduction and conclusion, without much real substance in the meat of thepaper. This was most prominent in A4’s paper. The second paragraph mentions the importanceof covering “social issues like the environment” (A4, p.83), and in the conclusion they concludethe students “have shown significant progress in […] developing an appreciation of theengineering involved in creating wealth for society” (A4, p.90). Whereas, during the textualanalysis of the remainder of the paper, there were almost no other codes for society.This is again evident in A1, where the second sentence of the paper states
is engineering classroom, with an inclusive curriculum havingclassroom-based interventions, we will focus on organizational diversity promotion factor asan indicator of climate perception.Our proposed model based on the literature review is as follows:Figure1: Proposed Model (showing the relationship of Perceived climate, sense of belongingand engineering identity based on gender)Current StudyThis study sits within a larger study designed to help all engineering students develop aninclusive professional identity. In addition to having excellent technical skills, students withan inclusive professional identity [23] seek out diversity in teams, leverage diversity toimprove team dynamics and outcomes, and consider a wide range of potential
serves as a basefor learning how to build a circuit where errors in creating the circuit can be easily corrected. Page 26.605.5 F E C B A DFigure 1: An LED Circuit with (A) LM555 Timer Integrated Circuit, (B) 1.8MΩ Resistor,(C) 270Ω Resistor, (D) 22KΩ Resistor, (E) LED, (F) 10nF capacitor, with wires connectingthe electrical components on the breadboard.The 555 IC was placed between the bottom and top half of the breadboard, and the capacitor wasplaced towards the top of
reform needed thatconnects creativity to engineering in an atmosphere that welcomes diversity. Introduction Engineering is a creative and diverse profession integral to the sustainability of a rapidlyevolving economy, and a field where the diversity and perspectives of women engineers isessential [1], [2], [3]. This study examined the creative self-efficacy (CSE) of undergraduatewomen engineering majors, their beliefs about creativity, how they describe themselves ascreative, and their lived experiences that influenced them to choose engineering as a career path.ABET [4] highlighted the significant connection of creativity in engineering curriculum to theengineering profession. The creative
specialization courses designed to meet students'graduation profile. Also, the curriculum includes four integrative courses, whose aim is toincorporate knowledge acquired by students from previous courses and integrate it into activitiesfor current projects and/or for use by companies out in the field. The last integrating course iscalled Degree Portfolio and culminates with the completion of the study program. This course isbased on multidisciplinary projects carried out by teachers of different specialties, finishing in anindividual examination before a commission composed of the course lecturers and externalevaluators who are invited exclusively for this process.Around 70% of college courses are specialized and are concentrated in the last 3 years of
ofengineering both as a field of study and a field of work. North Carolina State University has had inplace a Women in Engineering Program (WIE) for 15 years and a Women in Science (WISE) Livingand Learning Community for seven years. This WISE community has played an integral role in thestrategy to increase the percentage of women in the College of Engineering through both recruitmentand retention. In addition to WISE, certain other select recruitment strategies have also been put inplace, such as a bridge program for incoming female students, a revision of recruiting materials, andothers. This paper will describe some of the assessment data collected to determine the effectivenessof these strategies with regards to both recruitment and retention of
about“people” an act of giving significance to the story in the context of participating in the program.Across the interviews, every girl described her interest in making and all but one described activeinvolvement in different modes of making. Some of the girls described making at homefollowing specific YouTube channels or as a mutual interest with a family member. For others,making was an integral part of their school as they participated in maker classes or followed atrack in school. Eight girls described a specific STEM discipline as one of their career options.Half of the girls who came to the program described learning about the program from asupportive teacher who encouraged them in pursuing their interest in making.At the same time
with the IMSE department’s curriculum committee andfaculty will ensue.AcknowledgementsThe authors would like to acknowledge Iowa State University’s Miller Faculty Fellowshipprogram, the John Deere Foundation, and the Iowa Space Grant Consortium for providing thefunding necessary to implement and assess the impact of this pedagogy in an industrialengineering curriculum.References[1] Yoder, B.L., “Engineering by the Numbers,” www.asee.org/colleges, accessed 03FEB19.[2] Lichtenstein, H.L. Chen, K.A. Smith, and T.A. Maldonado, “Chapter 16 – Retention andPersistence of Women and Minorities Along the Engineering Pathway in the United States,”2013, Cambridge Handbook of Engineering education Research, pp.311-334.[3] US Bureau of Labor and Statistics
(summarized, by priority, in Table 1, below) include innovation;engineering education best practices; preparing students using a hands-on, project-based approach; integrating the traditional lecture format and laboratoryexperiences into a seamless “class-lab” format; strong professional developmentand service learning components; and an emphasis on a broad base of core skills,complemented with depth in focused concentrations: mechanical engineering(manufacturing focus) and chemical engineering (pharmaceutical focus). The initialconcentrations reflect regional and state engineering employment opportunities,the university’s historic strength in the health sciences, a forward-looking view ofengineering in the 21st century, and a desire to attract a
. You are to make recommendations for the upcoming academic year. You must make recommendations based on the limited information below. Assume research interests of all people are similar.Adam – is an Assistant Professor in his 2nd year. His dissertation, focused on computer-integrated processes and manufacturing methods, received an award from the Society of Manufacturing Engineers (SME). He enjoys teaching his undergraduate engineering courses where he tries to limit lecturing and get students involved. Adam continues to develop his research agenda and his time has been fairly well protected and not taxed with many extra duties.Bob – is an Assistant Professor who submitted his tenure package two months ago and is waiting