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of the mentoring sessions. Two of the mentors interviewed were Deans ofEngineering and two were faculty members. During an individual 30-minute interview, each wasasked the following questions: 1. I understand that you have served as a mentor for at least one of the KIND speed Mentoring workshops. What was the topic for the mentoring session(s) that you led? 2. Approximately how many individuals participated in your session(s)? 3. May I ask you to briefly describe your impressions/experiences of the session(s)? 4. What did you think went particularly well with the session(s)? 5. Were there any aspects of the session(s) that proved particularly challenging or that you wish you had approached differently? 6. Have you
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will be available to answer questions and offer guidance to attendees. • Goal: The goal of this session is to provide female minority students in the bachelor STEM degree programs with the opportunity to connect with junior and senior female minority students in the same program and gain valuable insights and confidence from their experiences. Peer-led activities have been shown to create a sense of community and increase retention of minority students [18]. Building a supportive network can enhance the academic success of these students.The findings from these initiatives will be reported at a future ASEE conference.Work Cited[1] C. Botella, S. Rueda, E. López-Iñesta, and P. Marzal. "Gender diversity in STEM
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, while a factorial analysis yielded an adjustment of factors to 4 dimensions with acumulative explanation percentage of 65 % (with a KMO equal to 0.812 and a Barlett's test ofsphericity equal to 0.000). The Exploratory Factor Analysis performed in this study wasPrincipal Component Analysis with Varimax rotation. Table 2 shows the items of eachdimension and the correspondent Cronbach´s Alpha.Table 2. Items by survey dimensions on sense of belonging, self-efficacy and perceived support from the institution. Dimensions Items Sense of belonging- 1. I feel comfortable asking a teacher for help when I don't understand the subject interactions
, so this indicates early success towardinstitutional change.Perhaps most importantly, our team developed a shared set of values that allows us to structure our worktogether. We enjoy working together and plan to build on our first year to continue to dismantle systemicbias in higher education using undergraduate research to support student identity formation and graduatepathways.AcknowledgementsSpecial thanks to the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation for funding our project team Grant #G-2021-17114, andthe National Science Foundation for the S-STEM Research Hub accelerator grant #A184152. We alsowish to thank the members of our advisory board for thoughtful ideas and discussions during the course ofthis project. Dr. Julie Vernon, Dr. Adetoun Yeaman
, computerand software engineering students engaged in an S-STEM program at a predominantly white publicinstitution in the Midwest. S-STEM is a federally funded program aimed at diversifying STEM fields byincreasing the enrollment and persistence of low-income students. Using phenomenology allowed formeaning making and exploration of both religious and engineering experiences (Moustakas, 1994).The present study focused on the experiences of Theresa, a traditionally aged, Asian American (SoutheastAsian) computer engineering student who participated in three in-depth, semi-structured interviews abouther engineering identity experiences. From all of the participants of the larger study, we chose to go ingreater depth with Theresa because her engineering
students would perform during their undergraduate education. Finally, we suggest that anactivity like this should be evaluated as a research question(s) to find out if the intervention canreplace (maybe only partially replace) students’ perception of the “Mythical Engineer”.Understanding how education will help us write ourselves into our futuresOur second piece of how story and narrative are fundamental to diversifying engineering is morerelated to what is the fundamental transformation that begins in undergraduate education, andmore broadly, in higher education. Here, we look at the body of work by Baxter Magolda and herideas on intellectual development. As she has a broad base of research articles and books, we startby recommending some of her
counterparts, as marginalized faculty “socialized for success” may createpatterns of inequality [17]. Blair et al.’s study showed that STEM faculty members were notequipped to help disrupt current patterns of gender inequalities in STEM majors [17]. In relationto the Summer 2022 REU, we used interviews with women-identifying students to examinewhether faculty and graduate student mentor interactions contributed to or took away from asense of belonging in the Summer REU. Not only do negative student/faculty relationships playa role in determining the success of women STEM majors, but also women STEM major’spositive or negative interactions with their men-identifying peers. Another barrier to success that women majoring in STEM fields experience
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department at the case University in November 2022, six teachers agreed to beinterviewed. Previous studies had used the interpretative phenomenological analysis (IPA)method to collect data from a small sample size (e.g., six interviewees in Wartenweiler’sstudy and Five interviewees in Wood et al.’s study [29][30][31]). The researcher decided todeploy the IPA method to work with the six female CS and engineering teachers. Duringinterviews, the questions were asked based on these guiding research questions: Whatperceived role and responsibilities do female faculty of computer science and engineeringhold? In what ways faculty’s gender identity influence their perceived roles andresponsibilities? How do they carry out their roles and responsibilities in
’ career aspirations and expectationsIntroductionIn the last decade the representation of women at the undergraduate engineering level has slowlybut steadily increased, reaching 24% Canada-wide in 2020 [1]. At the institution providing thesetting for the present study women now make up nearly 40% of the undergraduate cohortsuggesting a promising trend toward gender equity. However, representation of women amonglicensed Professional Engineers (P.Eng.) has not kept pace, with women comprising only 20% ofnewly licensed Canadian P.Eng.’s each year and just 14% of Professional Engineers overall [2-3]. This representation gap in the profession is compounded with the low rates of licensureamong engineering graduates in
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secretary ofthe CE program and assumed the role of observer and assistant to oversee the recordings,logistics and provision of materials, as well as to take notes on participant input. We hosted threeseparate sessions, having each of the groups participating separately. Sessions that involvedGroups S and F were conducted face-to-face, while the Group A session was held via Zoom Ⓡ.For the face-to-face session, we provided coffee, biscuits and other food for the attendees. Inboth formats, participants were formally welcomed and then we introduced the dynamics andobjectives of the sessions. Then we proceed to ask them to read and sign the informed consentdocument as part of the ethical framework of the research, which included consent to have
arestill in progress and continuing to grow, the synergy of the two create a whole that is greater thanthe sum of their parts for campus change.AcknowledgementsThe Empower Grant is funded by NSF ADVANCE Grant EES 2121601. The opinions andconclusions in this paper are those of the authors, only.References 1. https://beta.nsf.gov/funding/opportunities/advance-organizational-change-gender-equity- stem, last visited Feb 28, 2023 2. Bilen-Green, C., & Carpenter, J. P., & Doore, S., & Green, R. A., & Horton, K. J., & Jellison, K. L., & Latimer, S. M., & Levine, M. J., & O'Neal, D. P. (2015, June), Implementation of Advocates and Allies Programs to Support and Promote Gender Equity in Academia Paper
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-rebound process, and 3)indirect policies with equity impacts. Our data does suggest that underrepresented women ofcolor are less likely to be enrolled in undergraduate engineering education over time in anti-affirmative action states (independent of the specific ban timing). A key take-away from thisfinding is that affirmative action bans may be a symptom of preexisting “chilly” conditionswithin a state. In comparison to other historically excluded groups, UWOCE students maytherefore be more concerned with or impacted by the perceived social and political climate of thestates in which they seek to study. We conclude by echoing Ong et al.’s argument [25] that thechanges necessary to foster belonging for all students in engineering education
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