and co-moderated a Birds of a Feather session at SIGSCE 2022 virtually entitled: Mentoring a Women in Computing Club: The Good, The Bad and The Ugly. Dr. Villani presented a paper at ASEE 2022 in Minneapolis, MN entitled: Designed A (Re)Orientation Program for Women Computing Students at a Commuter College and Measuring its Effectiveness. Fall 2023 a paper entitled: An Early Measure of Women-Focused Initiatives in Gender-Imbalanced Computing programs were presented at CCSC Eastern Conference. Dr. Villani has been a Grace Hopper Scholarship reviewer, Dr. Villani was awarded the Chancellor’s Award for Teaching Excellence in 2013. Prior to joining FSC, Dr. Villani had a fifteen-year Computer Consulting Career in the
the data" (p.56). However, engineers are often more familiar with quantitative methods and summarizingtheir findings using numbers [2], which substantially limits the use of qualitative methods.According to Jackson, Drummond, & Camara [3], the goal of qualitative research involves"understanding human beings' richly textured experiences and reflections about thoseexperiences" (p. 22). As engineers have become familiar with qualitative methodologies [1-2],researchers have begun to explore different types of approaches to illuminate the humanexperience. It is clear that different engineers, engineering students, and engineering facultyexperience their education and careers differently, which modern studies have only begun todescribe [4-6
junior/early career faculty members.Quotes emhazise the areas of 1) a way to connect to senior faculty members in theirfields/colleges, 2) Searching and keeping mentors from outside their institutions, and 3)Searching for opportunities to learn obtain information for requirements of Tenure andPromotion. Andres, a Hispanic faculty member, mentions how important mentorship is fordeveloping as a scholar. “I think mentorship is very important. Being able to connect with a network of mentors, they have walked that path and can help them navigate some of the difficulties of the process is extremely important to me that will be absolutely number one.”Andres mentions how giving mentorship and the ability to help mentors is crucial
willing to listen to student’s feedback, and beingresponsive to incorporate the feedback in teaching. Scholars found students can show positivedevelopment when they develop a positive relationship with their instructors [8], and the faculty-studentrelationship is a key relationship related to emotions in teaching and learning in higher education [6].Second, by teaching with empathy, engineering faculty can create an inclusive and supportive learningenvironment, rather than a competitive and stressful one, to encourage students to see engineering as theirfuture career. For so long, engineering has been filtering students through the pipeline by offeringchallenging courses and high stakes grading policies without reflecting on students’ actual
AIChE.Madeline JoAnna Szoo, Northeastern University Madeline Szoo is a 3rd year undergraduate Chemical Engineering and Biochemistry major at Northeastern University. She has been involved in the Connections Chemistry Review program as a supplemental instructor for two years, she is the current President of the Northeastern University Chapter of Sigma Xi, the Scientific Research Honor Society, and she is involved in undergraduate research in drug-delivery systems for the treatment of various cancers, stem cell differentiation protocols, and disease modeling with microphysiological systems.Dr. Paul A. DiMilla, Northeastern University During his academic career as a faculty member in engineering and the sciences at institutions
Programs Officer at the National Society of Black Engineers. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2023 Examining the impact of a summer engineering program on academic self- efficacyIntroductionThe economic future of the U.S. will depend on engineers, as they are critical in providingsolutions to the world’s environmental, medical, and technological challenges. However,fulfilling these roles will be challenging due to the lack of early access, STEM inspired educationfor underrepresented students, and the growing lack of interest in STEM careers [1], [2]. Thus, itbecomes immensely important to introduce students to these fields during their elementary andsecondary education, to
the home are only beginning to emerge(e.g., [11], [12]). Very few studies have investigated parent perceptions of children’s emotionalresponses (e.g., feelings of failure, frustration), and reactions to these expressions, in homeenvironments. Far less have investigated frustration or failure and parent responses within out-of-school STEM programs and learning opportunities that may shape their perception or interestin pursuing STEM learning or careers. Because the majority of parent-child time is spent inenvironments like the home, and many parents may act as supports or barriers to teaching andlearning during out-of-school time (OST), parent engagement in learning and reactions toinevitable emotional responses in their children may impact
for thejob market [11]. For this reason, education during these years is very important [1, 2]. However, as in otherlevels of their educational careers, due to a lack of motivation students sometimes fail to achieveadequate learning/program outcomes [1].In a study by Smilkstein [5], a group of college students was asked to list the stages of thelearning process. The students developed a six-step process, with the number one step beingmotivation. Motivation was considered to be the necessary foundation on which the other stepsfollow and build [1, 10]. Student motivation translates to the students' willingness to participatein the learning process. But it also concerns the reasons or goals that underlie their involvementor non-involvement in
mathematics, statistics, computer science, and engineering courses, secured over $5.5M to support STEM education research, led program development efforts, and served in several administrative roles. She has been recognized for her teaching, advising, service, and research and as an Exemplary Faculty Member for Excellence in Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion.Isabel Perez, West Virginia University Isabel Perez is an undergraduate student attending West Virginia University in the Benjamin M. Statler College of Engineering and Mineral Resources. She is majoring in Biomedical Engineering and minoring in Biology and Medical Humanities and Health Studies to pursue a career with a focus on research and development to improve human
% had multiple bad experiences with faculty. ● While 16% participated in engineering research, many indicated that it was helpful for their future career and in the decision to change their major. ● Many students commented that they were not receiving the help they needed. ● Several students commented wanting a better balance between theory and practicality.The college of engineering has a list of academic policies and practices designed to usherstudents smoothly through the academic life cycle. Even with the focus on student enrollment, itseems the very academic and enrollment practices and policies designed to be fair were actuallyimpacting specific student populations inequitably. For example, student support
expected to pay for their educations is still far too high formany. We note that in our ongoing research of the whole participant population (N = 984), maleparticipants experienced the inflexibility of engineering, specifically affordability, as a commonissue. Thus, the pursuit of engineering includes both financial opportunities and costs. Participants (384, 65, and 449) describe other experiences with HC in engineering, suchas shouldering non-traditional student and parent roles and observing individuals with socialconnections who receive preferential access to internship and career opportunities. The onlyracist or gendered incidents the participants experienced were claims that the survey itself wasracist against White people, although
experience conducting evaluation and design-based research studies in complex settings including and community- based settings. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2023Material Agency with Summer STEM Youth Designing with Micro:bitsIntroduction and Research PurposeIn this poster, we report results related to an NSF EEC CAREER project that characterizesframing agency, defined as making decisions and learning in the process of framing designproblems. Our past studies of framing agency have relied on discourse analysis to characterizeagency in talk [1-3]. However, this analytical approach, with its focus on talk, misses muchabout the materials in the design process, and given that design is commonly cast as
Turner, Virginia Tech ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2023 Responsive Support Structures for Marginalized Students in Engineering: Insights from Years 1-3IntroductionThe purpose of this NSF CAREER project is to advance understanding of the navigationalstrategies used by undergraduate engineering students from marginalized groups. Our goal is toidentify insights that can be used to develop responsive support structures, prevent further harm,and address actors who perpetuate unjust systems. Our project will benefit the engineeringeducation ecosystem by illuminating ways to transform engineering education to include morelearning environments that value and uplift all of its
NSF-CAREER, Qimonda Professorship, Billingsley Professorship, IBE Presidential Citation for Distinguished Service and University of Arkansas Honors College Distinguished Leadership Award. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2023 Work in Progress: Investigating the impact of international education oncultural understanding, health disparities and collaboration through project- based learningIntroductionInternationalization and promotion of global understanding are important areas of focus foreducators with interdisciplinary approaches emphasizing international health issues, causes, andtechnology-based solutions of global health issues. To effectively solve global
students as they try out computing courses in theirhigh school pathways. Our aim is to increase the interest and career awareness of CS for highschool girls so they may have an equitable footing to choose CS as a potential major or career.IntroductionAfter previously piloting three innovative computer science modules developed specifically forhigh school audiences, we drew from our prior findings to develop and implement the fourthmodule, Software Engineering (SE) [1] [2]. For our module design framework, we usedproject-based learning and expansive framing in order to situate software engineering in ameaningful context for the desired audience [3] [4] [5] .Module DescriptionThe SE module challenges students to address a local or community problem
backgrounds in education. He received his BA from Central College (Iowa) in 1993 and his PhD in social and personality psychology from the University of Wisconsin–Madison in 2007. Prior to his career in psychology, he spent six years as a teacher, coach, and social worker. Chris is a second generation educator whose grand- parents were tenant farmers in Iowa and Nebraska. He tries to emulate their hard work and persistence in the pursuit of social justice. One of his favorite childhood memories is eating his paternal grandmother’s homemade fruit pies with plenty of ice cream.Delaram A Totonchi, University of VirginiaJoshua Davis, University of VirginiaMichelle Francis, University of VirginiaEmma HuelskoetterYoi Tibbetts
opportunities. References[1] American Society for Engineering Education, “Profiles of engineering and engineering technology, 2021,” 2022.[2] American Society for Engineering Education, “Engineering and engineering technology by the numbers 2019,” 2019.[3] E. Higginbotham and M. L. Dahlberg, The impact of COVID-19 on the careers of women in academic sciences, engineering, and medicine. 2021. doi: 10.17226/26061.[4] A. Patrick, M. Borrego, and C. Riegle-Crumb, “Post-graduation plans of undergraduate BME students: Gender, self-efficacy, value, and identity beliefs,” Ann Biomed Eng, vol. 49, no. 5, 2021, doi: 10.1007/s10439-020-02693-9.[5] A. E. Winkler, S. G. Levin
. Holly Matusovich is the Associate Dean for Graduate and Professional Studies in the College of Engineering at Virginia Tech and a Professor in the Department of Engineering Education where she has also served in key leadership positions. Dr. Matusovich is recognized for her research and leadership related to graduate student mentoring and faculty development. She won the Hokie Supervisor Spotlight Award in 2014, received the College of Engineering Graduate Student Mentor Award in 2018, and was inducted into the Virginia Tech Academy of Faculty Leadership in 2020. Dr. Matusovich has been a PI/Co-PI on 19 funded research projects including the NSF CAREER Award, with her share of funding being nearly $3 million. She has
. All the peoplethat I work with are very supportive and come to me with questions.”2.2.2 Co-Op Experiences of IRE ScholarsA significant necessity to the financial viability of IRE and the financial success of our IRE scholars isdependant on obtaining a co-op after their first semester of preparation. All IRE Scholars have received aco-op starting the month after their first semester. These co-ops were all obtained by the studentsfacilitated through one of the program’s career fairs. The average co-op pay is $22.50 per hour (comparedto the average at IRE for the first co-op of $21.62 per hour), with an average of 40 hours of work perweek. Co-op contracts range from eight months to indefinitely. Average hours worked and months on firstco-op are
affectivedomain. Lastly, we would like to continue to collect and analyze more data sets, e.g. apre-assessment, to inform and strengthen our findings.Overall, the use of EiE resources were successfully adapted into the newly defined CS&Ecurricular scope and sequence. As we continue to scale up our program, we will continue toutilize action research practices to study the impact of our curriculum on students’ contentknowledge, affect, and habits of mind.References[1] Engineering is Elementary, https://www.eie.org/. [Accessed February 2023][2] A. Bandura, C. Barbaranelli, G.V. Caprara, C. Pastorelli, A. Bandura, G.V. Caprara, & C.Pastorelli, “Self-efficacy beliefs as shapers of children’s aspirations and career trajectories,”Child Development, vol
, worked on theSims, Tiger Woods golf, will probably do more amazing things in her career Instructor meetings • Recap previous lesson • Pinpoint where students did not understand concepts • Review next week's topics Adjust lesson plan INSTANTLY based on instructor recommendations - -> dynamic curriculum and instruction style Recap email to students after every classTHE SWEET SOUNDS OF CODING CONECD 2022 Both platforms The virtual classroom MS Teams Allowed audio/video • Hosted by Pittsburgh Public Schools sharing • Instructors were not allowed to host
represented inthese images and what this might convey to those interested in pursuing a career in video gamedesign.Why representation in visual content matters Representation in higher education marketing materials is a contentious subject. Severalscholars have explored how higher education marketing materials such as viewbooks [27], [28]and online sources such as program websites [29], [30], [31], [32] use language and visuals toconvey messages to prospective students about diversity and inclusion on campus. Thesematerials often misrepresent true campus diversity and fail to accurately depict who is a part ofthe programs in reality [29], [30]. Indeed, online marketing materials tend to over-representminority groups in visuals while failing to
undergraduate students on their path to their profes- sional career. In addition to STEM Routes, Dana has also led the national organizations UMAS y Mecha and oSTEM. When Dana isn’t doing research, you’ll find her creating. Dana is an artist and graphic designer and loves using her skills to support start-up organizations and amplify community voices by creating websites, logos, and advertising content. Dana also enjoys snowboarding, skateboarding, and roller skating around Colorado.Dr. Clayton Lewis, University of Colorado Boulder Clayton Lewis is Emeritus Professor of Computer Science at the University of Colorado Boulder. Lewis served previously as Co-Director for Technology for the Coleman Institute for Cognitive
of Engineering and Computer Science where she is studying retention of undergraduate engineering students. She has extensive experience using qualitative and mixed-methods research in Engineering Education. Before joining UTD in September 2020, Laura worked at the University of San Diego on their RED grant to study institutional change efforts and redefine the engineering canon as sociotechnical. She has a background in environmental engineering and received her Ph.D. in Engineering Education at Utah State University with a research focus on the ethical and career aspects of mentoring of science and engineering graduate students and hidden curriculum in engineering.Dr. Susan M. Lord, University of San Diego Susan
enroll in and ultimately graduate from programs likeengineering, but also among those awarded a bachelor’s degree there is a notable exodus ofunder-represented groups from careers in these fields [2]. All of this indicates a critical need forcreating inclusive learning and workspaces. Diversity impacts not only the industry’s culture, buthow it can serve its clients and stakeholders through its products or services. There is clearevidence in structural engineering of a business case for diversity as it cultivates creativity andinnovation [3], yet DEI often remains a missing piece in fields of higher education related to thebuilt environment.Current State of CurriculaAt the authors’ institution, the College of Architecture & Environmental
. This multi-year grant encourages minority high school students into STEM careers. This alliance partners Hillsborough Community College (Hillsbor- ough) with State College of Florida (Manatee/Sarasota), and St. Pete College (Pinellas) to combine its efforts at reaching program goals in the entire Tampa Bay region. Mr. Camacho has more than 20 years of experience in education, serving in a variety of roles. Prior to coming to Hillsborough Community College, he was an Assistant Principal for a charter high school that focused on Drop-Out Prevention, an English teacher working with incarcerated males for the Youth Services Division of the School District of Hillsborough County, as well as a music teacher for several
Minority-Serving Institutions (MSIs) overall and support continued educational innovation within engineering at these in- stitutions. Specifically, she focuses on (1) educational and professional development of graduate students and faculty, (2) critical transitions in education and career pathways, and (3) design as central to educa- tional and global change.Dr. Trina L. Fletcher, Florida International University Dr. Fletcher is currently an Assistant Professor at Florida International University. Her research focus equity and inclusion within STEM education, STEM at HBCUs and K-12 STEM education. Prior to FIU, Dr. Fletcher served as the Director of Pre-college Programs for the National Society of Black Engineers
retention[7], [11], [12]. Therefore, researching proactive behaviors is important for exploring how newemployees achieve successful outcomes at the workplace in order to develop trainingstrategies for their onboarding process and improve their future career success.Existing works mainly focus on new employees' proactive behaviors in the general context 1(i.e., the context includes organizations in all disciplines). However, in the context ofengineering organizations, it has not been fully explored. This study examines the actionsnewly hired engineers took during the process of organizational socialization, specifically inthe aerospace and defense (A&D
Paper ID #33021Investigating Professional Shame as Experienced by Engineering StudentsWho are Minoritized in their ProgramsMrs. Mackenzie Claire Sharbine, Harding University I am a Post-Baccalaureate Research Associate working full-time on an NSF grant. I am a member of the Beyond Professional Identity research group based in Harding University located in Searcy, Arkansas. I plan to further my studies in psychology through attending a graduate program for school or child psychology. It is my hope that these processes can lead to a career as both a researcher and practitioner.Dr. James L. Huff, Harding University Dr. James
classes.Reading the comments from the surveys was a discerning moment. I had to admit that myteaching was inadequate and provided little benefit to my students, especially in teaching coursesoutside my area of expertise. I realized that to stay relevant in my career and give value to mystudents; I had to improve. I had to learn how to be a better instructor for the sake of my studentsand career.ChangesThe SET results from my first semester of teaching motivated me to prioritize instructioneducation. I talked to some of my more experienced colleagues in the department to learn fromtheir experiences. Some of my peers had attended conferences and workshops that had helpedthem improve their teaching in the past. I also met with my department chair and