students. The Engineering+program at Oregon State University exemplifies this approach by combining traditional lectureswith small-group studios and socially relevant projects. Previous research indicates that students'engagement correlates directly with academic progress. This is especially relevant in theEngineering+ setting, where students are in the process of choosing their majors and planningtheir futures. Students take three courses on varying topics to explore their interests and practicefundamental engineering skills during their first year. Therefore, enhancing student engagementin these courses not only aids in a deeper understanding of the offered materials but alsofacilitates social interactions that can inform better decision-making
understanding the characteristics of thosestudents who persist within their studies through graduation.The next stage of this project is to expand the use of the survey instrument to other PSIs within the BCTransfer System, including both those hosting engineering schools and those from which studentstransfer to engineering schools after their first year of studies. It is expected that the instrument willcontinue to evolve, and support work to develop resources for engineering programs that enhanceequity, allyship, and representation. Additionally, these tailored resources provide opportunities forlike-minded students to establish support systems, fostering a sense of belonging that produces aunified, resilient, and persistent student body.1.0
Paper ID #43868Tracing Black Transfer Students’ Success in Engineering: A ComparativeInsight into Transfer-Student Trends at Two State Minority-Serving InstitutionsMr. Daniel Ifeoluwa Adeniranye, Florida International University Daniel Adeniranye embarked on his academic journey with a bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering and dual master’s degrees in petroleum engineering and project development. He further enhanced his skills with a master’s in project (Engineering) Management. Daniel is currently a Research Assistant at the School of Universal Computing, Construction, and Engineering Education at Florida
(NIE) at Nanyang Technological University (NTU) in Singapore. He is an affiliated faculty member of the NTU Centre for Research and Development in Learning (CRADLE) and the NTU Institute for Science and Technology for Humanity (NISTH). Additionally, he is the Director of the World MOON Project, the Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Education, and the upcoming Program Chair-Elect of the PCEE Division at ASEE. His current research interests include STEM+C education, specifically artificial intelligence literacy, computational thinking, and engineering.Dominick Fantacone ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2023 Exploring K-12 STEM Teachers’ Views of Nature of Engineering
and minority protégés participating in the LouisStokes Alliance for Minority Participation (LSAMP) program in Science, Technology,Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) across four different universities within a statewideuniversity system, in the United States of America, to learn the following regarding mentoringrelationships for minority STEM students: (1) how students respond to ideas and projects, (2)how students conquer challenges and respond to setbacks, (3) how students set and pursue theiracademic goals, (4) how students describe their undergraduate research mentoring relationshipwith peers and professors, (5) how students maintain their focus in a professional developmentprogram such as LSAMP, (6) how students characterize and describe
real worldmuch more flexible than their artificial course deadlines, but by holding these rigid deadlinesthey were preventing students from learning to manage their time and projects [4]. Anotherauthor realized that being compassionate about deadlines builds community with the studentsand that some of the best work was turned in after the deadline [7]. Fairness was a concern, asstudents who turned in things late had more time to work on them and consider the problem.However, they conceded that few if any students complained about flexible deadlines beingunfair.Deadlines and DiversityIn a 2016 article, Boucher framed rigid deadlines as contributing to student stress and imposingunfair consequences on the most vulnerable students [8]. For
public, are recognizing the critical need for the ethical production andmanagement of AI. As a result, society is placing immense trust in engineering undergraduateand graduate programs to train future developers of AI in their ethical and public welfareresponsibilities.In this paper, we investigate whether engineering master’s students believe they receive thetraining they need from their educational curricula to negotiate this complex ethical landscape.The goal of the broader project is to understand how engineering students become public welfare“watchdogs”; i.e., how they learn to recognize and respond to their public welfareresponsibilities. As part of this project, we conducted in-depth interviews with 62 electrical andcomputer engineering
explores how the integration of school safety strategies with disciplinary practices, often under zero-tolerance policies, blurs the lines between them, suggesting that both are byproducts of the school-to-prison pipeline.Dr. Roberta Rincon, Society of Women Engineers Roberta Rincon, Ph.D., is the Director of Research and Impact for the Society of Women Engineers. She is responsible for overseeing the research activities for the organization, including collaborative research projects with external researchers and dissemination of SWE research through academic conferences, the SWE Research website, and the annual SWE State of Women in Engineering magazine issue. She is the Principal Investigator for the NSF INCLUDES
research10. Making oral presentations. project. 11. Defending an argument when asked 3. Problem-solving in general. questions. 4. Formulating a research question that 12. Explaining my project to people outside my could be answered with data. field. 5. Identifying limitations of research 13. Preparing a scientific poster. methods and designs. 14. Keeping a detailed lab notebook. 6. Understanding the theory and 15. Conducting observations in the lab or field. concepts guiding my research project. 16. Using statistics to analyze data. 7. Understanding the connections among 17. Calibrating instruments needed for scientific disciplines
categories of schoolwork also indicates thewidespread usage of these tools.Respondents indicated they were aware of many different uses of GenAI in their computingcourses (Figure 5). However, knowledge of understanding/summarizing home or project promptsreceived the most responses. This result suggests that project or assignment prompts might bepoorly written or overly verbose to the point that students struggle to even understand them.Additionally, considering this usage of GenAI tools does not register as one that might breakacademic integrity rules, students could be the most aware of it because they either understandthemselves or have been told by an instructor that this is an accepted way to use Gen AI forschool.We then asked users if they used
Paper ID #45134WIP: investigate recruitment strategies used by engineering bridge and successprograms to recruit underserved studentsDr. Xinyu Zhang, Purdue University Dr. Xinyu Zhang is an Assistant Professor of Practice in Environmental and Ecological Engineering (EEE) at Purdue University’s College of Engineering. She received her Ph.D. in Environmental Engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, is a North Carolina-licensed Professional Engineer, and currently leads an NSF project on recruitment strategies for engineering bridge and success programs. Her research interests include engineering
funding. The fundedorganizations mentioned include the Project of Students Grant Agency, FIM, University ofHradec Kralove, Czech Republic [27], JST CREST Grant [61], the Erasmus+ Program of theEuropean Union through the Project EduTech under Grant [48], [62], Barrier-free communicationsystem for hearing-impaired people based on Chinese lip translation [43],and FAPERGS ARD[54]. This highlights a potential barrier to conducting robust accessibility research, as increasedfinancial support is necessary to enable more comprehensive studies, including long-termevaluations and real-world applications. Greater funding opportunities are crucial to advancingthe field of accessibility research and ensuring that solutions are effectively implemented
students identifyand correct errors early, reducing frustration and deepening their understanding of programmingconcepts.Leinonen and Vihavainen [27] demonstrated the positive effects of AI-driven automatedfeedback systems on students’ self-efficacy in large-scale programming courses. The work by[28] highlighted the role of formative feedback in online coding platforms, particularly inmaintaining engagement and retention during remote learning caused by the COVID-19pandemic.A study by [29] emphasized that code critiquers tailored to novice programmers can significantlyboost programming self-efficacy, which is critical to student success in engineering education.This aligns with findings from the RICA project, which focused on immediate
and high school teachers • Development of a multi-tiered advanced manufacturing program • Implementation of a program designed to promote increased awareness among underrepresented community college students regarding applying to medical and graduate school • Collaboration with federal labs and universities to prepare HCC students for summer research projects as part of a Homeland Security award • Development of specialized topic seminars in high-performance computing and programming • Numerous student and faculty research experiences at regional universities and federal agencies, and • Development and
exchange, teaching at the Munich University of Applied Sciences, and during Fall 2017 he taught at the Karlsruhe University of Applied Sciences. His engineering education interests include collaborating on the Dynamics Concept Inventory, developing model-eliciting activities in mechanical engineering courses, inquiry-based learning in mechanics, and design projects to help promote adapted physical activities. Other professional interests include aviation physiology and biomechanics.Dr. James M. Widmann, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo Jim Widmann is a professor of mechanical engineering at California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo. He received his Ph.D. in 1994 from Stanford
having participants engage in a number ofexperiences, building their network and connecting to a variety of possible employers and careerpathways.3.3 Micro internshipsAmong the most intensive of WIL experiences offered were the micro-internships which pairedparticipants with industry employers to gain additional insight into and experience with theworkforce. The structure and organization of micro-internships varied across organizations andparticipants. For most, the micro-internship operated mainly as an intensive job shadowing andmentorship experience with participants virtually embedded in the mentor’s activities; for a fewparticipants, the micro-internship also involved working on small projects and presenting anddiscussing results with
emerged when our relationship flowed seamlessly. Dr. Meagan Ita is awhite woman postdoctoral associate from the Midwest. Dr. Ita was an undergraduate at theuniversity where she was hired to work on a project under the supervision of Dr. Monica Cox, aBlack tenured professor from the South. Given workplace issues and the racial trauma precedingand following the murder of George Floyd in 2020, Dr. Cox wasn’t involved in the immediatehiring of Dr. Ita for the project. Our supervisee/supervisory relationship could have beendisastrous given our backgrounds, remote working, and the rocky racial history of the unit wherewe work, but it wasn’t.We completed our assigned work tasks for an entrepreneurial engineering project with ease butsoon recognized that
programs. This line of research also seeks to understand the nuances and complexities of participation and persistence in these fields and develop new models for explaining such phenomena. Her secondary research strand focuses on the participation and achievement of Black students and professionals in higher education. She is the PI or co-PI on several grant-funded research projects including the national Black Doctoral Women Study (BDWS), the Women in Engineering Study (WIES), and Bulls-Engineering Youth Experience for Promoting Relationships, Identity Development, & Empowerment (Bulls-EYE PRIDE).Dr. Johnny C. Woods Jr., Virginia Tech Johnny C. Woods, Jr. is a Postdoctoral Associate in the School of Education at
Engineering Education(SUCCEED). JEDI employs FIU undergraduate engineering and computing students to designand carry out their own projects focused on equity-centered research, activism, and K-12outreach within the College of Engineering and Computing (CEC) and the local South Floridacommunity. The first two authors of this paper, Garcia and Elaouinate, joined the program in Fall2021 as part of the first cohort of JEDI ambassadors. Secules serves at the faculty mentor for theprogram, and Bond-Trittipo is the primary mentor for the student research groups.FIU is a large HSI in Miami, Florida. As of Spring 2022, the undergraduate enrollment for CECwas nearly 6,500 [16]. This student body is comprised of 66% Hispanic students, 11% Black orAfrican
Paper ID #40242Data Science (Dataying) for Early ChildhoodDr. Safia A. Malallah, Kansas State University Safia Malallah is a postdoc in the computer science department at Kansas State University working with Vision and Data science projects. She has ten years of experience as a computer analyst and graphic de- signer. Besides, she’s passionate about developing curriculums for teaching coding, data science, AI, and engineering to young children by modeling playground environments. She tries to expand her experience by facilitating and volunteering for many STEM workshops.Lior Shamir, Kansas State University Associate
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 co-authored 2 book chapters, 34 journal publications, and more than 80 conference papers. She is recognized for her research and teaching, including Dean’s Awards for
of IntersectionalityKristen R. Moore, University at BuffaloWalter Hargrove, University at BuffaloNathan R. Johnson, University of South FloridaFernando Sánchez, University of St. ThomasAbstractUsing a citation network analysis, this project analyzes the 209 instances of the term“intersectionality” in the ASEE PEER repository to locate the central authors and texts thatinform the field’s use of the term. In this citational analysis, we suggest that the limited citationof Black women should be interrogated and redressed as a form of inequity. Framing this projectwithin the politics of citation and the current campaign to #CiteBlackWomen, we work toexplore how the term “intersectional” has been embraced, whose theories have been adopted,ignored
funded clusters of projects inengineering education research and practice that seek to define this emerging pattern. In addition,a series of academic articles, authored by influential policy thinkers, including universitypresidents and officials at the MoE, help elaborate the background, objectives, and implicationsof the 3E policy [16-19]. The official 3E policy documents are quite succinct in stating the goalsand strategies of engineering education reforms. To provide more context about the policydiscourse, we also examine four academic articles that aim to interpret the policy, authored byscholars who participated in the conversations that led to the formulation of the official 3E policydocuments.The following three sections present a close
classroom and laboratory curricula including online course platforms, and integrated technologies. She has been involved in both private and government grants as author and project director, and is currently PI of an NSF ATE grant, ”Increasing the Number of Engineering Technicians in Southeastern Pennsylvania.” A major goal of this collaborative effort with Drexel University is to connect for-credit, occupational technician education to workforce development certification programs. She was the faculty advisor to two student teams that made the final round of the NSF AACC Community College Innovation Challenge (CCIC) in 2016 and 2017. She and her students have been involved in STEM related outreach to local community
Paper ID #34925Engineering Graduate Education: An Overwhelming Journey ofFirst-Generation ImmigrantsDr. Hoda Ehsan, Georgia Institute of Technology Hoda is a postdoctoral fellow at Center for Education Integrating Science, Mathematics & Computing at Georgia Institute of Technology. She received her Ph.D. from the School of Engineering Education, Purdue. She received her B.S. in mechanical engineering in Iran, and obtained her M.S. in Childhood Education and New York teaching certification from City College of New York (CUNY-CCNY). She is now a graduate research assistant on STEM+C project. Her research interests
the survey were invited to an interview conducted near the endof the Winter semester or during the summer.Following the interview findings regarding team project experience (2016), we posed newquestions about peer relations in 2017. Findings from the 2017 interviews revealed topics relatedto equity, diversity and inclusion (EDI). New questions were included in 2018 interviews toexplore EDI-related experiences and discourses. This paper focuses on the data from studentswho were interviewed in 2018. In summer 2018, the [first author] met with 4 male and 3 femalestudents, to examine issues linked with inclusion and exclusion. This led to a greaterunderstanding of the issues linked with gender, socioeconomic status, and race, as well as
Education through NAU’s Center for Science Teaching and Learning. Her areas of interest include broadening participation in STEM, math curriculum development, and out-of-school time STEM experiences.Dr. Nena E. Bloom, Northern Arizona University Dr. Nena Bloom is an evaluator and education researcher at the Center for Science Teaching and Learning at Northern Arizona University. The primary area of her work is evaluating STEM education projects that focus on opportunities for, and retention of, K-20 students in STEM areas, majors and fields. She also conducts education research focusing on questions about professional development for educators and how educators support student learning in STEM
Paper ID #28231The Centrality of Black Identity for Black Students in EngineeringDr. Catherine Mobley, Clemson University Catherine Mobley, Ph.D., is a Professor of Sociology at Clemson University. She has over 30 years experience in project and program evaluation and has worked for a variety of consulting firms, non-profit agencies, and government organizations, including the Rand Corporation, the American Association of Retired Persons, the U.S. Department of Education, and the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research. Since 2004, she been a member of the NSF-funded MIDFIELD research project on engineering education
culminate in Engineering Justice: Transforming Engineering Education and Practice (Wiley-IEEE Press, 2017).Dr. Te Kipa Kepa Brian Morgan CPEng, The University of Auckland Dr Kpa Morgan researches decision process complexity. A seminal project on ancestral lands created the impetus to research contentious engineering projects, and resulted in the creation of the Mauri Model Decision Making Framework. Mauri Model evaluations include wastewater projects, aid project effective- ness, water catchment management, hydro development, hydraulic-fracturing, and anthropogenic disaster response. Kpa’s work creating and applying the Mauri Model was recognised by the Institution of Pro- fessional Engineers NZ in 2016 with a Supreme
anyone. It was just hard not to be able to speak Spanish fully and comfortably and stuff.” – Latina Engineer “When I was in Baltimore, it was all white male. And that actually was something I was very uncomfortable with because I was the only female in the room and sometimes the only person of any type of minority status.” – Latina Engineer “I know I’m 1 percent of people that…look like me. I’ve known that through most of college. I’ve always counted. So sometimes when I do feel insecure, it does bring up that you’re also the only person of color or female in there.” – African American Engineer “…When I first walked into the first project meeting, I was the only female in a room