Society for Engineering Education, “Engineering and engineering technology by the numbers,” Washington, DC, 2019.[9] Society of Women Engineers, “SWE Research Flyer,” 2018.[10] N. A. Fouad, M. B. Kozlowski, R. Singh, N. G. Linneman, S. S. Schams, and K. N. Weber, “Exploring the odds: Gender differences in departing the engineering profession,” J. Career Assess., vol. 28, no. 3, pp. 446–461, Aug. 2020.[11] C. Corbett and C. Hill, “Solving the equation: The variables for women’s success in engineering and computing,” Washington, DC, Mar. 2015.[12] President’s
Doctoral Women of Color in STEMAbstract Science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) doctoral programs areuniquely challenging for Women of Color due to the prevalence of gendered and racializedencounters. The cumulative toll of these marginalizing experiences can negatively impactgraduate Women of Color’s mental health and STEM persistence. The current studyexamines the benefits that graduate women derived from utilizing counseling services tomitigate the psychological toll of these negative encounters. Semi-structured interviews wereconducted with eight racially diverse women who either completed or discontinued theirSTEM doctoral programs prior to completion. Participants' narratives revealed
course loads to include more math andscience classes following the program and 73% reported greater confidence in their math/scienceabilities. Again, the influence of mentors was highlighted--more than 95% of respondentsindicated that the mentors and speakers were “positive role models that were important to theprogram, and 85% reported that they influenced them to consider an engineering career.”McCormick et al.13 surveyed attendees of the POWER (Preparing Outstanding Women forEngineering Roles) program, a week-long residential camp put on by the Purdue School ofEngineering & Technology (PSET) at Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis(IUPUI). This program aimed to introduce high school girls to engineering and recruit these
Majors Jose Villalobos, Uday Nair, Lisa MasAbstractThis study seeks to understand whether race and gender identities influence commitment toSTEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Math) majors. The research was conducted at theUniversity of Central Florida. The participants in this study are undergraduate students in theCareer Advancement Mentoring Program for Young Entrepreneurs and Scholars (CAMP-YES)Program. All students were invited to participate in an online survey study. Out of the 124students, 32 participated in the study yielding a response rate of 25.8%, and 27 with completeresponses. The survey was comprised of three constructs adapted from previously validatedsurveys measuring a) social identity on the
sponsored research program in Virtual Machining. After 3 years at UBC, he moved to the Department of Engineering Technology at Western Washington University to focus on teaching. His teaching and scholarship interests lie in the areas of design, CAD/CAM and CNC machining. Since his arrival at WWU he has acted as coordinator of the CAD/CAM option in the Manufacturing Engineering Technology program and is currently director of the new Manufacturing Engineering Program.Jerimiah Gabriel Welch, Western Washington University Jerimiah took his first CAD class at University of Washington in 2003. After that, he promptly joined the workforce. After working as an industrial designer at various firms, notably General Electric, he
Paper ID #13438Creating a student organization to engage female students betterDr. Malini Natarajarathinam, Texas A&M University Dr. Malini Natarajarathinam is an Associate professor with Department of Engineering Technology and Industrial Distribution. She teaches classes on strategic relationships for industrial distribution, distribu- tion information systems and new directions in Industrial Distribution. She is also the founding faculty and advisor for the Society of Women in Industrial Distribution (SWID). She works on many service learning projects with her students where they work with many local community
should be addressed nationally.IntroductionSTEM (i.e., science, engineering, technology, and math) fields are critical to the advancement ofthe United States in the global economy. Therefore, it is important that institutes of highereducation support students succeeding in STEM education by completions of STEM degrees.Advancing STEM education plays a fundamental role in improving student learning in STEMfields and, in turn, can enhance the production of STEM graduates. By investigating STEMeducation at colleges and universities, we can expose areas of needed improvement and enableprograms to become more effective and efficient. If the field of engineering wishes to broadenparticipation, it is imperative that such efforts include institutions
learn science and engineering theory, self-confidence in ability, andsignificance of teacher interactions. Within each theme there was evidence that the participants’secondary educational experiences both aided and created obstacles in their pursuits. Thefinding from this study speak to the dynamic nature of how educational and environmentalexperiences can strengthen or weaken a woman’s resolve to continue in the field of engineering.Implications for future research, practice, and policy are discussed.Keywords: engineering, women, STEM education, social cognitive career theoryIntroduction The Bureau of Labor predicts that Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics(STEM) related employment is projected to have a growth of more than
. Enrique Alvarez Vazquez, North Dakota State University Enrique is an experienced Systems Engineer with a demonstrated history of working in the electrical and electronic manufacturing field. Highly skilled in Embedded Devices, Software Engineering, and Electronics. He is a strong information technology professional with two MSc’s and working on a Doctor of Philosophy - PhD focused in Electrical Engineering from North Dakota State University.Ms. Lauren Singelmann, North Dakota State University Lauren Singelmann is a PhD Student in Electrical and Computer Engineering at North Dakota State University. Her research interests are innovation-based-learning, educational data mining, and K-12 Out- reach. She works for the NDSU
a student-generated strategy for combattingdeclining female student enrollment and a poor retention rate. The study relied upon a survey ofmembers of a student organization, Women in Technology, for data. Open-ended questions wereincluded. Brand and Kasarda [11] studied female students enrolled in a high school roboticsprogram and at an all-women’s college, to determine the influence of social interactions onfemale engineering students. Encouraging female students to experiment with engineering in acollaborative environment was a goal for both programs. The qualitative study was conductedwithin a socio-cultural framework, assuming that individuals learn from communicating with oneanother and that interaction results in collective
Paper ID #34188Undergraduate Women in Science and Engineering Mentoring Program toEnhance Gender Diversity Demonstrates Success During the COVID Pan-demicLauren Drankoff, University of DaytonDr. Sandra L. Furterer, University of Dayton Dr. Sandy Furterer is an Associate Professor and Department Chair at the University of Dayton, in the Department of Engineering Management, Systems and Technology. She has applied Lean Six Sigma, Systems Engineering, and Engineering Management tools in healthcare, banking, retail, higher education and other service industries, and achieved the level of Vice President in several banking
of Colorado, 2012.[11] C. M. Guarino and V. M. H. Borden, “Faculty Service Loads and Gender: Are Women Taking Care of the Academic Family?,” Res. High. Educ., vol. 58, no. 6, pp. 672–694, Sep. 2017, doi: 10.1007/s11162-017-9454-2.[12] J. Misra, J. H. Lundquist, E. Holmes, and S. Agiomavritis, “The Ivory Ceiling of Service Work,” Academe, vol. 97, no. 1, pp. 22–26, 2011.[13] K. Weisshaar, “Publish and Perish? An Assessment of Gender Gaps in Promotion to Tenure in Academia,” Soc. Forces, vol. 96, no. 2, pp. 529–560, Dec. 2017, doi: 10.1093/sf/sox052.[14] R. A. Krukowski, R. Jagsi, and M. I. Cardel, “Academic Productivity Differences by Gender and Child Age in Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics, and Medicine
University, an MS in Electrical Engineering from Rochester Institute of Technology and a BS in Chemical Engineering/Engineering & Public Policy from Carnegie Mellon University. Her industry experience includes Kodak, Lubrizol, Avery Dennison, and Sherwin-Williams. She is an active volunteer, currently serving as a board member at Magnificat High School where she chairs the Education Committee. She is past board member of the Center for Arts Inspired Learning and past chair of the United Way of Lake County. Kathleen is a founding member of the Women’s Leadership Council now known as Women United. She is a chair of the education committee. She and her husband have three children and live in Lake County, Ohio.Dr. Lyndsey
Paper ID #33769A UDL-Based Large-Scale Study on the Needs of Students with Disabilitiesin Engineering CoursesDr. Jennifer R. Amos, University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign Dr Amos joined the Bioengineering Department at the University of Illinois in 2009 and is currently a Teaching Associate Professor in Bioengineering and an Adjunct Associate Professor in Educational Psychology. She received her B.S. in Chemical Engineering at Texas Tech and Ph.D. in Chemical En- gineering from University of South Carolina. She completed a Fulbright Program at Ecole Centrale de Lille in France to benchmark and help create a new
, Ireland. Page 26.1776.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2015 Writing and Implementing Successful S-STEM ProposalsAbstractFor over 10 years, the National Science Foundation (NSF) has been funding S-STEM proposals.The S-STEM program “makes grants to institutions of higher education to support scholarshipsfor academically talented students demonstrating financial need, enabling them to enter theSTEM workforce or STEM graduate school following completion of an associate, baccalaureate,or graduate-level degree in science, technology, engineering or mathematics disciplines1.”Currently
Paper ID #18637New Faculty Learning Community as Retention Tool for UnderrepresentedMinoritiesDr. Anne-Marie A Lerner, University of Wisconsin, Platteville Anne-Marie Lerner is an associate professor in mechanical engineering at the University of Wisconsin - Platteville. Her professional interests include inclusive in-class and out-of-class supports, investigat- ing effective teaching pedagogy for remote delivery as well as to nontraditional students, and education assessment. She received her PhD in mechanical engineering from Georgia Institute of Technology in 2008.Dr. Christopher Frayer, University of Wisconsin
Residential Summer Program for Underrepresented High School StudentsIntroductionThe educational achievement gap in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics(STEM) disciplines in America continue to persist among underrepresented groups [7].Underrepresented groups include Hispanics, African American, Native American, andNative Hawaiian students. While underrepresented student enrollment has beenincreasing in secondary schools, the achievement gap in STEM widens as students’progress from kindergarten to high school [5]. Underrepresented minority students facemore barriers from persistence to graduation [3]. The achievement gap is compoundedover time and when underrepresented students reach high school, they are not prepared totake the
focus on identifying, assessing, and developing key skills, knowledge, attitudes, and other intrinsic and extrinsic factors required for engineers to effectively lead others, particularly other engineers and across cultures.Prof. Andrew Michael Erdman, Pennsylvania State University, University Park Andrew M. ”Mike” Erdman received his B.S. in Engineering Science from Penn State and his M.S. from USC. At Rocketdyne (Pratt & Whitney), he helped design the Space Shuttle. As manager of Reactor Safety Analysis, Experimental Engineering, and Fluid Dynamics Technology at KAPL (Bechtel), he con- ducted research for Naval Reactors. He currently serves as the Walter L. Robb director of Engineering Leadership and as a
Paper ID #24641Nurturing Brilliance in Engineering: Creating Research Venues for Under-graduate Underrepresented Minorites in Engineering as an Initiative fromFaculty Members that Foster Academic Inclusion, Development, and Post-graduation Instruction (Work in Progress)Dr. Eleazar Marquez, Rice University Eleazar Marquez is an Assistant Teaching Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Rice University.Dr. Samuel Garcia Jr., Texas State University Dr. Samuel Garc´ıa Jr. currently serves as Educator Professional Development Specialist at the Jet Propul- sion Laboratory in Pasadena, CA and is an Assistant
“engineering” were examined. The five most frequently reported conceptsfor innovation within the transcripts were “innovative”, “technology”, “industry”, “initiative”and “future", and the most frequently reported highest related concepts for engineering were“engineer”, “technical”, “designing”, “mechanical”, “knowledge” and “project”. The top five related concepts were compared to the strength of the ranked association toinnovation and engineering, with no pattern detected. However, comparing most related conceptsbetween self-described innovative and non-innovative positions demonstrated more connectionto qualitative assessment: While both groups shared “technology”, “development”, “industry”and “focus” as four out of the five most closely
Paper ID #21775Developing Communities of Practice to Serve Hispanic Students: SupportingIdentity, Community, and Professional NetworksDr. Sarah Hug, Colorado Evaluation & Research Consulting Dr. Sarah Hug is Director of Colorado Evaluation & Research Consulting. Dr. Hug earned her PhD in Educational Psychology at the University of Colorado, Boulder. Her research and evaluation efforts focus on learning science, technology, engineering, and mathematics, with a special interest in communities of practice, creativity, and experiences of underrepresented groups in these fields across multiple contexts
” for theirparents to help present the case their team solved. We have found that the use of role play helpsincrease their enthusiasm for the activity and reinforces the idea of incorporating the arts into theSTEM curriculum also known by the acronym STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts,and Mathematics). Figure 8.Girls acting out skits and presenting their researchGoal 3: Increase Interest of students in research or other science-related careers. Through the GiSLC and GiSWA, the participants were introduced to female and malerole models in STEM. The camp leaders were female faculty and graduate students at NCA&T.During the
well as psychology in engineering education. She plans to enter the workforce following graduation to pursue engineering planning.Dr. Olga Pierrakos, James Madison University Olga Pierrakos is a Founding Faculty and Associate Professor in the Department of Engineering at James Madison University. She is currently a Program Director at the National Science Foundation in the Divi- sion of Undergraduate Education. Her expertise and interests focus on diversity and inclusion, engineer identity, PBL, innovative learning-centered pedagogies, assessment of student learning, engineering de- sign, capstone design, etc. She also conducts research in cardiovascular fluid mechanics and sustainable energy technologies. She holds
. Starting in 2000, Alan began to focus on supporting higher education partners in projects that address broadening participation in the sciences, graduate student development, curriculum innovation, instructional technology, teacher professional development and other education reforms. For the past five years, Alan has been the lead evaluator for Epicenter, an NSF-funded STEP Center focused on infusing entrepreneurship and innovation into undergraduate engineering education.Mr. Emanuel Costache, SageFox Consulting Group Since joining SageFox in 2009, Emanuel has worked on the evaluation team for a variety of NIH- and NSF-funded projects, including the National Center for Engineering Pathways to Innovation (Epicenter
Paper ID #21907Understanding the Experience of Women in Undergraduate Engineering Pro-grams at Public UniversitiesDr. Jessica Ohanian Perez, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona Jessica Ohanian Perez is an assistant professor in Electromechanical Engineering Technology at Califor- nia State Polytechnic University, Pomona with a focus on STEM pedagogy. Jessica earned her doctorate in education, teaching, learning and culture from Claremont Graduate University. Her research focuses on broadening participation of marginalized group in engineering and investigating alternate paths to the field
of Nebraska, Lincoln Yashin Brijmohan is a registered professional engineer who is currently appointed as Chairman of Engineering Education Standing Technical Committee of the Federation of African Engineering Organizations, Executive committee member of the Commonwealth Engineers Council, Board Member of the UNESCO International Centre for Engineering Education, and Co-Chair of the Africa Asia Pacific Engineering Council. He was the founding Executve Dean of Business, Engineering and Technology at Monash South Africa, former Vice President of the World Federation of Engineering Organizations, and led several committees in the engineering profession. Yashin has both leadership and specialist experience within
grades 5-8, the Elementary Science Olympiad team, and the competitive high school robotics team, FTC. She contributed to international published papers, national proceedings, and is the process of writing several children’s books. This summer she will present a workshop on robotics for elementary school students.Mr. Erdogan Kaya, University of Nevada - Las Vegas Erdogan Kaya is a PhD student in science education at University of Nevada, Las Vegas. He is work- ing as a graduate assistant and teaching science methods courses. Prior to beginning the PhD program, he received his MS degree in computer science and engineering. He coached robotics teams and was awarded several grants that promote Science, Technology
from U-M, and a Ph.D. in Aeronautics and Astronautics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Prior to re-joining U-M, he was an instructor in Aerospace Engineering Sciences at the University of Colorado Boulder. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2024 The Development of a Student Survey on Macroethics in Aerospace Engineering [Work-In-Progress]AbstractThis work-in-progress paper presents the development of a survey designed to understandundergraduate aerospace engineering students’ views on macroethics in the field. Macroethicsdescribes the real world ethical implications of engineering technology and the collective socialresponsibility of the aerospace
instruments appropriate for the differentoutcomes of interest. The outcome of this study will be a broad understanding of how the third-year curriculum in engineering can support EM development and autonomy across students ofdifferent backgrounds and identities. Importantly, this work will elucidate how these practicesinfluence inclusivity within the third-year core curriculum.Making with Purpose: “Making with Purpose” is about understanding and using the skills, craft,and art of making to foster a mindset in students as well as a skillset. “Making” broadly refers tothe practice of using tools and technologies as means of prototyping or creating digital orphysical artifacts. Historically, this has referred to technologies including 3D printing
Master of Engineering in Electrical Engineering from Morgan State University. Mrs. Partlow currently serves as the Program Director of the Verizon Minority Male Maker Program, which focuses on providing minority middle school boys with hands-on learning experiences using advanced technology, app development software, 3-D design techniques, and entrepreneurship skills. Mrs. Partlow also serves as the Lab Manager of the Engineering Visualization Research Laboratory (EVRL) where she helps to advise students on undergraduate electrical engineering research projects ranging from smart lighting technologies to cyber security. She has also served as an online course development specialist responsible for the creation