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ENT Division Technical Session: Competitions, Challenges, and Teams
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Sandra Furnbach Clavijo, Stevens Institute of Technology; Matthew Wade, Stevens Institute of Technology; Kishore Pochiraju, Stevens Institute of Technology
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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation
judges. We provide tablets, orjudges can use their phones or other electronic devices to rank and score the pitches. The scoresremain hidden during the competition. With anonymity guaranteed, the judges are unafraid touse the entire range of the scoring card: 1 - 10. The scoring form not only lists the category, butalso a small explanation reminder to enable consistent scoring. A score of 10 reflects the highestachievement. The team can get a maximum score of 50. There are five overall categories toevaluate the delivery and content of a pitch. • Presentation: verbal, non-verbal and ownership of the pitch. A “read straight from the script” situation is valued at the lowest score of 1; on the other end, a true “evangelist
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Integrating Sustainability and Resilience Concepts into Courses
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Leslie R Brunell P.E., Stevens Institute of Technology (School of Engineering and Science)
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Civil Engineering
engineering design to produce solutions that meet specific needs with consideration ofpublic health, safety and welfare as well as global, cultural, social, environmental and economicfactors [2].” Applying these criteria into the Civil Engineering Capstone Design which exposesthe senior engineering students to real-world design challenges reflects experiences students willface as professionals, benefiting those who plan to pursue engineering careers after graduation.Exposing students to both the UN Sustainable Development Goals and the Envision RatingSystem aligns with both the ASCE BOK and ABET criteria requiring engineers to understandthe importance of sustainability within their designs. The Capstone Design projects examinedwithin this study are
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NSF Grantees: Student Learning 2
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Brian J. Skromme, Arizona State University; Caleb Redshaw, Arizona State University; Abhishek Gupta; Shatrughn Gupta, Arizona State University; Petru Andrei, Florida A&M University/Florida State University; Hector Erives, University of Texas at El Paso; Deanna Bailey, Morgan State University; Willie L. Thompson II, Morgan State University; Srividya Kona Bansal, Arizona State University; Wendy M. Barnard, Arizona State University
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of the students at ASU, though some students there were also challenged by them.It may be desirable to introduce more features to customize the level of the exercises to differentstudent populations and to give instructors more flexibility on which levels they can choose toassign. Such adaptations will be explored in future work.The biggest differences between institutions appeared to be on the preference between CircuitTutor and other options, which may reflect the use of different electronic homework systems atdifferent institutions. For example, WileyPLUS is used at ASU and Pearson’s Fig. 5. Results of an end-of-semester survey at three different institutions in Fall 2019 covering the entire Circuit Tutor system (not just the topics
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Introduction to the Field of Biomedical Engineering - June 25th
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Christine E. King, University of California, Irvine; Beth A. Lopour, University of California, Irvine
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Diversity
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Biomedical Engineering
know has a correct answer,and I think this made a big impression on the students.”These issues reflect the underlying challenges and misconceptions of the scientific method forstudents who are new to research. Because students are typically given close-ended problems intheir high school courses, where there is a specific “right” answer, it is difficult for them tounderstand that most real life applications of engineering and science are open-ended and thatmultiple solutions can produce the same result. This has been evident in prior research [15],showing that restricted lab procedures in high schools frequently result in moderate learningprocesses, as students do not spend adequate time in sense-making (i.e. making sense of orgiving meaning to
Conference Session
Women in Engineering Division Technical Session 7
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Kimberly Stillmaker P.E., California State University, Fresno; Lalita G Oka, California State University, Fresno; Jesus Gutierrez Plascencia; Cindy Charlott Schwartz-Doyle, California State University, Fresno; Katherine Lor, California State University, Fresno
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Women in Engineering
students to be mentored towards pursuing graduate degrees. The remainder of thepaper will discuss respondent demographics and present comparisons and analyses based ongender identities of the surveyed students in the California State University, Fresno. Note that inthe year the survey was conducted, California State University, Fresno graduated 33 femaleengineering undergraduate students and employed 5 female tenured/tenure track faculty,reflecting a ratio essentially the same as the national ratio.Respondent demographics and survey response ratesOver the course of the 2018 - 2019 academic year, students of all genders enrolled in sixteendifferent departments from four colleges across California State University, Fresno and graduatesof these
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Assessing Ethics Learning
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David S. Greenburg, The Citadel; Robert J. Rabb P.E., The Citadel
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Diversity
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Engineering Ethics
growing body of research that supports the belief that academic courses about appliedethics and the social implications of technology are not effective in increasing ethical knowledgebut rather knowledge and awareness is discovered and acquired during the years of educationand training [14], [2]. A key purpose of the NSPE code of ethics is to engage the members towork and behave according to the principles of the association and to protect the organization’sinterests [14].With experience practitioners acquire both knowledge about ethical issues and better strategiesfor working through ethical problems [12]. The survey results might reflect a lack of trainingand experiential learning in the practice of engineering as well as a need for greater
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Minorities in Engineering Division Technical Session 5
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Keith A. Schimmel P.E., North Carolina A&T State University; C. Dean Campbell, North Carolina A&T State University; Marcia Gumpertz, North Carolina State University; Yvette Maria Huet, University of North Carolina, Charlotte; Ajit D. Kelkar, North Carolina A&T State University; John P. Kizito, North Carolina A&T State University
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regard, case study researchers collect the maximum amount of informationavailable to them with the intent of theorizing or hypothesizing about the phenomenon. Merriam(1998) maintained that case studies are interpretive in that they draw upon descriptive data theinvestigator uses to develop conceptual categories that in turn illustrate, support, or challengeexisting theoretical assumptions held prior to the data collection [19]. The primary data-gathering strategies employed were participant observation of project activities over a two-yearperiod. Participant observation optimizes the research team’s access to data, often through directparticipation and observation of AGEP project events, analysis of related institutionaldocuments, and reflection
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Educational Research and Methods Division (ERM) Best Paper Finalists
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Justin Charles Major, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Matthew Scheidt, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Allison Godwin, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Edward J. Berger, Purdue University, West Lafayette; John Chen, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo
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Educational Research and Methods
recommendationsexpressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views ofthe National Science Foundation.References[1] T. G. Duncan and W. J. McKeachie, “The making of the Motivated Strategies for Learning Questionnaire,” Educ. Psychol., vol. 40, no. 2, pp. 117–128, 2005, doi: 10.1207/s15326985ep4002_6.[2] R. H. Liebert and L. W. Morris, “Cognitive and emotional components of test anxiety: A distinction and some initial data,” Psychol. Rep., vol. 20, pp. 975–978, 1967.[3] R. L. Matz et al., “Patterns of gendered performance differences in large introductory courses at five research universities,” AERA Open, 2017, doi: 10.1177/2332858417743754.[4] B. King, “Changing college majors: Does it
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Community Engagement Division Technical Session 5
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Glen Hordemann, Texas A&M University; Malini Natarajarathinam, Texas A&M University; Sharon Lynn Chu, University of Florida; Mathew Kuttolamadom, Texas A&M University; Francis Quek, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Osazuwa John Okundaye Jr, Texas A&M University
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Community Engagement Division
present.These results reflect the reduced communication channels between the instructor and the student.When the student is given a hands-on task, the reduced communication channels impacted theability of the instructor to convey information. One of the key metrics that demonstrates this wasthat students provided significantly lower scores for ”Communicate Effectively with Instructor”when the instructor was telepresent instead of co-located.Interestingly, students also gave lower scores to the telepresent instructor for questions about theirinterest in doing future work. In response to questions about their interest in doing future workdesigning such projects and in working with hot glue guns, students gave the telepresentinstructor significantly lower
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Graduate Education Expectations, Preparation, and Pathways
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Kanembe Shanachilubwa, Pennsylvania State University; Catherine G.P. Berdanier, Pennsylvania State University
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Educational Research and Methods
to discuss how their commitment to their interests also led them to mentor and serveothers using their knowledge. This pattern commonly employed by the participantsremarkably reflects the three tenants of Stewardship Theory as if it were a template used toconstruct each personal statement. The guidelines provided for the GRFP orient applicants todemonstrate their aptitude for conserving, generating, and transforming knowledge.Stewardship Theory constitutes the implicit framework applicants are led to use in their bid todemonstrate their viability as graduate students.ConservationEach participant demonstrated how they grew to become stewards of their discipline throughtheir learning and studies. They distinguished themselves from their peers
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Best In DEED
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Eric Cuellar, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo; Benjamin David Lutz, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo; Dominick Trageser; Ricardo Cruz-Lozano, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo
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Design in Engineering Education
Information Foundation. Anyopinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those ofthe authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the Engineering Information Foundation. Work CitedAeby, P., Fong, R., Isaac, S., Vukmirovic, M., & Tormey, R. (2019). The impact of gender on engineering students’ group work experiences. The International Journal of Engineering Education, 35(3), 756–765.Apesteguia, J., Azmat, G., & Iriberri, N. (2012). The impact of gender composition on team performance and decision making: Evidence from the field. Management Science, 58(1), 78–93.Atman, C. J., Adams, R. S., Cardella, M. E., Turns, J., Mosborg, S., & Saleem
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First-Year Programs: Metacognition, Self-Efficacy, and Motivation #2
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Melissa Lynn Morris, University of Nevada, Las Vegas; Joseph Dygert, West Virginia University; Robin A.M. Hensel, West Virginia University
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First-Year Programs
early trends seen in this data hold true for alarger, more diverse population.This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant No.1644119. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this materialare those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National ScienceFoundation.6.0 References[1] R.W. Lent, S.D. Brown, and G. Hackett, “Toward a Unifying Social Cognitive Theory ofCareer and Academic Interest, Choice, and Performance,” Journal of Vocational Behavior, Vol.45, pp. 79/122, August, 1994.[2] A. Duckworth, C. Peterson,M. Matthews, and D. Kelly, “Grit: Perseverance and Passion forLong-Term Goals,” Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, vol. 92
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Student Division Technical Session 2
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Stephen Secules, Florida International University
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Student
presume to speak for all, buteach act of adding perspective would help the collective understand the process of graduate schooltogether.Methodologically and analytically, I approach my research and life as an ethnographer, a critical scholar,an educator, and an engineer (Secules & Groen-McCall, 2019). Although there was not a formal in situseries of autoethnographic reflections for these findings, I consider my own lived experience to be asource of embodied knowledge. As such, I do not draw on statistics, literature, or studies about graduatestudents to present these findings, these sources do not provide a sense of agency, voice, or the knowledgethat personal experience brings by graduate students. Rather, I synthesize my own and others
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Graduate Education Expectations, Preparation, and Pathways
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Maya Denton, University of Texas at Austin; Nathan Hyungsok Choe, Ohio State University; Maura J. Borrego, University of Texas at Austin; David B. Knight, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
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Educational Research and Methods
to other STEMdepartments to understand the generalizability of results beyond the discipline and institutionstudied, using this analysis approach as a guide. It is also important to begin to consider howequity considerations factor into graduate funding allocations, meaning what students arereceiving what types of sequential funding and how that impacts persistence and completion forwomen and Students of Color.AcknowledgementsThis research was funded by the National Science Foundation through grants #1535462 and#1535226. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions in this article are the authors’ and do notnecessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation. We would like to thank ourcollaborators for their contributions to this
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2-Year College Division: Transferring and Smoothing Transitions
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Surendra K. Gupta, Rochester Institute of Technology (COE); Franz Allen Foltz, Rochester Institute of Technology; James E Moon, Rochester Institute of Technology (COE); Roy W Melton, Rochester Institute of Technology (COE); Michael E. Kuhl, Rochester Institute of Technology (COE); Maureen S. Valentine, Rochester Institute of Technology (CET); James H. Lee, Rochester Institute of Technology (CET); Rob Garrick, Rochester Institute of Technology (CET); Ren Liu
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Two-Year College
18 8 Figure 16: To what extent do you expect Social Issues to be challenging at our university?Overall, their expectations reflected their earlier experiences with maybe a slightly higheramount of angst being at a bigger, and perceived to be more rigorous school.Conclusions: Overall, our findings were fairly consistent with existing studies. The studentswere for the most part concerned with financial aspects of their education. Most chose going to a2-year school first in order to lower their overall educational costs. They also reported a higherlevel of concern over financial resource issues than most of the other issues addressed by thesurvey.Our findings also supported the idea that proximity to home was important to low
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NSF Grantees: S-STEM 1
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Sura Alqudah, Western Washington University ; Elizabeth Litzler, University of Washington; Joseph Arthur Brobst, Old Dominion University; Jill Davishahl, Western Washington University; Andrew G. Klein, Western Washington University
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Diversity, NSF Grantees Poster Session
projects course on student retention,” in Proceedings ASEE Conference and Exhibition, 2003.[19] C. B. Zoltowski and W. C. Oakes, “Learning by doing: Reflections of the epics program.” International Journal for Service Learning in Engineering, vol. 9, 2014.[20] National Academy of Engineering, Educating the engineer of 2020: Adapting engineering education to the new century. National Academies Press, 2005.[21] J. A. Mejia, D. Drake, and A. Wilson-Lopez, “Changes in latino/a adolescents engineering self- efficacy and perceptions of engineering after addressing authentic engineering design challenges,” in Proceedings of American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference, 2015, pp. 1–14.[22] C. B. Zoltowski, W. C. Oakes, and
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Perspectives and Evaluation of Engineering Design Education
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Sara Willner-Giwerc, Tufts University; Kristen B. Wendell, Tufts University; Chris Buergin Rogers, Tufts University; Ethan E. Danahy, Tufts University; Isabella Stuopis, Tufts University
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Educational Research and Methods
less constrained problem doesn’t always yield a higher solutiondiversity, and how in some cases, the structure of the course itself can be used to motivatestudents’ independent thinking in a design-based project. In future work we hope to analyzeways that the different pedagogical models influenced learning outcomes beyond solutiondiversity such as group dynamics.AcknowledgmentsThis material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation grant numberA451001 SF9018. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed inthis material are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the NationalScience Foundation. We would also like to thank the students, teaching assistants, professors,and
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Patricia R Backer, San Jose State University; Cindy Kato, San Jose State University
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Diversity
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Minorities in Engineering
from the undergraduate demographics inengineering. There were 18 Asian students, 4 Hispanic students, 8 White students and 5 Otherswho responded. Interestingly, there was a high number of first-generation engineering studentswho responded. 34% engineering students (12 students) indicated that they were first-generationstudents.A small number of the engineering students scheduled to graduate in four years changed theirmajor (4 students). This is not surprising considering that students often extend their time tograduation when they switch majors. Of the four students switching their majors, only twoswitched out of the College of Engineering.The first questions asked the students to reflect on their freshmen experiences in blockedscheduling. 51
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Pre-college Engineering Education Division Technical Session 1
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Sarah Lilly, University of Virginia; Anne Marguerite McAlister, University of Virginia; Sarah J. Fick, University of Virginia; Jennifer L. Chiu, University of Virginia; Kevin W. McElhaney, Digital Promise
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Pre-College Engineering Education
included teachers explaining how to usestudents’ computational models to test their designs or guiding students to reflect on their priorknowledge to consider how certain materials may or may not be accessible to students withphysical disabilities.Table 4. Epistemic, practical, or not practice-based teacher talk by class. Epistemic Practical Not Practice-Based Lesson Orange Blue Orange Blue Orange Blue All Lessons 7% 17%+ 66% 67% 27%+ 16% Design 6% 15%+ 66% 75%+ 28%+ 10% Test 0% 11%+ 82% 79% 18%+ 11% Communicate 12
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Technical Courses and Liberal Education
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Kenneth W. Van Treuren, Baylor University; William M. Jordan, Baylor University; Cynthia C. Fry, Baylor University
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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society
iGens or not. The observations of the authors thus farsuggest that many STEM university students reflect the iGen trends and are no different.Helping iGen Prepare for the Workplace and LifeAs students enter the university, there is an implied requirement to help students mature fromwhere they are to where they need to be upon graduation. Van Treuren and Jordan addressed therole of the university in the formation of student maturity [18]. The university is a communitywhere personal development occurs. A function of the university is embodied in the phrase “inloco parentis.” Legally, it means “in place of a parent” and refers to the obligation of a person ororganization to take on some of the functions and responsibilities of a parent. At any
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Research in Faculty Development
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Sylvia L. Mendez, University of Colorado at Colorado Springs; Valerie Martin Conley, University of Colorado at Colorado Springs; Sarah E Cooksey, University of Colorado Colorado Springs ; Kathryn Elizabeth Starkey, University of Colorado Colorado Springs
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Faculty Development Division
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First-year Programs: Focus on Students
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Christopher Rennick, University of Waterloo; Carol Hulls P.Eng., University of Waterloo; Mary A. Robinson, University of Waterloo
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First-Year Programs
. Purposivesampling of students who remained on campus was used for the interviews to ensure theirperspective was captured by the researchers.Results show a significant number of students, regardless of where they spent the break, studiedinefficiently during the break from school, which is reflected in their academic performance; andstudents who remained on campus while most of their peers left, found the time lonely andlargely unproductive.IntroductionAlthough a fall break has become the norm for many universities in Canada, little research hasbeen conducted to determine the impact of fall breaks on students, whether it is an evaluation asto whether the stated goals of the break – which typically focus on stress and mental health [1] –are being met, or
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Mental Health of Graduate Students
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Amanda C. Arnold, Arizona State University; Kerrie G. Wilkins-Yel, University of Massachusetts Boston; Jennifer M. Bekki, Arizona State University; Bianca L. Bernstein, Arizona State University; Madison Natarajan, University of Massachusetts Boston; Ashley K. Randall, Arizona State University ; Roxanna Francies, Arizona State University; Chinwendu Elyse Okwu, University of Pittsburgh
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Graduate Studies
pursuing the same type of degree… I feel like they couldn't understand what it was I had to bring with me emotionally every day. That was a really discouraging time.Witnessing unsupportive interactions experienced by other students also impacted participants’perceptions of support. For example, Erin reported that other female colleagues’ experiencescaused her to lose trust in her program and contributed to an unsupportive climate. She stated, Some of my fellow female students have encountered some issues that I feel reflect poorly on the program and has kind of made me lose a little bit of respect, a little bit of faith in what they're doing. And them not being supported kind of makes me feel like… if I needed to go
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First-year Programs: Student Perceptions and Perspectives
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Joanne Kay Beckwith, University of Michigan; Laura Hirshfield, University of Michigan
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Pre-college Engineering Education Division Technical Session 2
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Younkyeong Nam, Pusan National University; Jina Yoon, Pusan National University; Jeanna Wieselmann, Southern Methodist University
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Pre-College Engineering Education
discussions than thosewomen in groups with more men or an equal number of men and women [23]. In contrast tomonological approaches often taken by men, women’s communication tends to be more interactive[24], with girls asking more probing questions than boys [25].Building on these considerations, the primary objective of this study was to examine how genderaffects students’ decision-making process in an engineering-based SSI context related torenewable energy. Duschl suggested that we need to move beyond structured dialogue toward aframework that reflects how evidence is constructed and supported by reasoning [10]. Tounderstand how a student's context (gender) shapes their reasoning and decision-making, students’argumentative practices were
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Women in Engineering Division Technical Session 8
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Robin O. Andreasen, University of Delaware; Shawna Vican, University of Delaware; Yvette A Jackson, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth
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Women in Engineering
years (as described in theprevious section). It follows that when we discuss the perceptions and experiences of womenfaculty who have departed, it is largely about women of color. And, of course, when discussingthe perceptions and experiences of male faculty who have departed, it is largely about whitemales. The reader should also keep in mind that the experiences of faculty who have departedmay differ from those who remain at UX. It is, therefore, an open question whether and to whatextent the perceptions and experiences of faculty who have exited UX are reflective of thebroader population of faculty at UX.Why Faculty LeaveFaculty who leave their institutions do so for a variety of reasons. Some of these factors relate tothe appeal of the new
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Maker Spaces in Design Education
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Chieloka Mbaezue, Stanford University; Eric Reynolds Brubaker, Stanford University; Sheri Sheppard, Stanford University
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Design in Engineering Education