University and commuter students represent a large portion of college enrollmentnationally [1]. Commuter students have differing constraints than residential students includingnonacademic commitments to work and family along with other time constraints for travel[2,3,4]. Commuter students thus face unique challenges that residential students do not face suchas developing social connections [5] which is connected to learning and persistence [6].Commuting negatively effects academic performance [7] and being able to integrate socially [8].The overarching research question for this S-STEM funded project is: How can a four-yearinstitution help increase the integration and success of engineering commuter students? We adoptan embedded case study approach
describes tools and practices for creating, living, andsustaining partnerships between community colleges and B.S.-granting colleges of engineeringand computer science by drawing from our experiences in a multi-institutional partnershipfunded via an NSF S-STEM ENGAGE (Engineering Neighbors: Gaining Access, GrowingEngineers) program designed to support pre-transfer, low-income, academically talentedengineering and computer science students where participating institutions include twoCalifornia Community Colleges – Allan Hancock College and Cuesta College – that are highly-ranked Hispanic-Serving Institutions and a predominantly white College of Engineering atCalifornia Polytechnic State University (Cal Poly) in the California State University system
Paper ID #37614Summer Bridge Programming for Incoming First-YearStudents at Three Public Urban Research UniversitiesMiriam Howland Cummings (Graduate Research Assistant) Miriam is a PhD candidate in Education Research and Evaluation Methods at the University of Colorado Denver (CU Denver) and a graduate research assistant on an NSF S-STEM grant in CU Denver's College of Engineering, Design, and Computing.Maryam Darbeheshti (Faculty) Dr. Maryam Darbeheshti is an Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Colorado Denver. Her research interests are in multiphase fluid flow, and Engineering
Paper ID #37223Work in Progress: Developing an Engineering Community ina FablabJan Edwards Jan L. Edwards is an Associate Professor of Engineering at the College of Lake County in Illinois. She received her Bachelor’s and Master’s degree in Materials Science and Engineering at Michigan Technological University. Ms. Edwards teaches general engineering courses, manages outreach initiatives and the CLC Baxter Innovation Lab at the community college. She is also serving as the Principal Investigator on the college’s NSF S-STEM grant, Building an Academic Community of Engineering Scholars.ANA PIZANO Ana K. Pizano
controlgroup of non-participants were surveyed using an amended S-STEM survey developed by theFriday Institute for Engineering Education at North Carolina State University. The generalstudent body’s perceptions decreased over time towards STEM between 6th and 8th grade forboth boys and girls; girls had lower STEM attitudes when compared to their male peers. Girlswho participated in the program over the course of at least two semesters saw an increase in theirSTEM attitudes while those who did not participate saw a decrease over the multiple semestersof surveys. Exposure to STEM through general enrichment opportunities did not show ameasurable correlation with interest and participation in STEM. Rather, the biggest indicator ofSTEM interest was access
Paper ID #38319IMPLEMENTING CURRICULAR AND CO-CURRICULAR BEST PRACTICES TO INCREASE ANDRETAIN FEMALE ENGINEERSKatrina Donovan (Lecturer)Jon J Kellar (Professor)Paula H Jensen (Ph.D. Candidate) Paula Holmes Jensen is a Ph.D. Candidate at Texas Tech University and was the Co-PI of the NSF S-STEM grant Culture and Attitude at South Dakota School of Mines and Technology (SD Mines). She taught at SD Mines for ten years and is now pursuing her Ph.D. in Systems and Engineering Management at Texas Tech University full-time. Her research interests are in Engineering Education and Lean Six Sigma in the service industry. She also
Mississippi State University. As a 2015 recipient of the National Science Foundation’s Graduate Research Fellowship Program, Hall obtained her Ph.D. in Engineering Education from Virginia Tech.Hannah Glisson American c Society for Engineering Education, 2022In this session we will think about the latter stages of a transfer student’s journey. Much research has focused on pre‐transfer and the first semester post‐transfer, but in this session we will think about students’ experiences beyond that initial semester. We will be drawing on a set of interviews with transfer students who participated in an NSF‐funded S‐STEM program.The project is a collaboration between Virginia Tech
. © American Society for Engineering Education, 2022 Powered by www.slayte.com Future Career Pathway Perceptions of Lower-Income Computing Students Through the Lens of Capital Exchange1. BackgroundWhile significant broadening participation efforts in computing higher education have focusedon gender and race [1]-[3], the experiences of lower-income students in undergraduatecomputing education are as yet underexplored. One major effort focused on lower-incomestudents is the National Science Foundation (NSF) Scholarships in Science, Technology,Engineering, and Mathematics (S-STEM) program, a funding program designed to supportlower-income students to persist and succeed in STEM fields. The
: Learners, contexts, and cultures. She is a fellow of the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychologists (SIOP) and a fellow of the Association for Psychological Science (APS).Brittany Bradford Research Analyst, OpenStax, Rice University © American Society for Engineering Education, 2022 Powered by www.slayte.com The development of collegiate STEM self-efficacy: A longitudinal study of first-year studentsAbstractThis NSF S-STEM Grantee poster examines the longitudinal impact the Rice Emerging ScholarsProgram (RESP), Rice University’s comprehensive science, technology, engineering, and math(STEM) summer bridge program, has on student
). full schedule of organized programs from holiday parties to billiard tournaments to BINGO. Acknowledgements Ken Vybiral, Volunteer Resource Coordinator at PASSH Nick Divine, Design and Fabrication Engineer at Gannon University NSF S-STEM Grant Figure 3: a) Garden bed side view b) Drainage pipe
Paper ID #36722Fast-Forward Program: PSVT:R Test Results and AnalysisLauren Fogg Lauren Fogg is a 2nd-year Ph.D. student in Engineering Education at Louisiana Tech University. She has a Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering. Her research interests are diversity, gender equity, retention, project-based learning, and cognitive models of problem-solving. She is also serving as the Project Coordinator for an NSF-funded S-STEM program.Allissa Taylor Gros Allissa Gros (she/her) is a second year Computational Analysis and Modeling PhD student at Louisiana Tech University in Ruston, LA. She has a bachelors
Engineering (PACE). She also manages program evaluations that provide actionable strategies to improve diversity, equity, and inclusion in STEM fields. This includes evaluation of NSF ADVANCE, S-STEM, INCLUDES, and IUSE projects, and climate studies of students, faculty, and staff. Her social science research covers many topics and has used critical race theories such as Community Cultural Wealth to describe the experiences of systemically marginalized students in engineering. © American Society for Engineering Education, 2022 Powered by www.slayte.com WIP: ASEE Year of Impact on Racial Equity: Impetus & VisionAbstractThis is the first of four WIP
to connect with researchers who have previously exploredsimilar issues or may experience them in their current work. Student Pathways in Engineeringand Computing for Transfer Students (SPECTRA) is an NSF S-STEM program that providesfinancial assistance to students transferring from the South Carolina Technical College Systeminto Engineering or Computing majors at Clemson University [1]. SPECTRA also assistsstudents by connecting them with peers at the technical colleges who move together through thetransfer process to Clemson and are supported by the SPECTRA program until graduation. Inaddition to exploring the experiences of current SPECTRA participants, we investigate how theproject can be scaled to include more students and sustained
Students and Developing Professional Support NetworksIntroduction The Purdue University Rising Scholars program was initially funded in 2016 by NSF S-STEM#1644143 Rising Scholars: Web of Support Used as an Indicator of Success in Engineering. Theterm ‘Rising Scholars’ has come to represent the strata of the population that are of low socio-economic status (SES) striving to complete a collegiate education (Kent State University, 2021;Stanford University, 2020). The current collegiate entrance metrics favored by many well-regarded state institutions for their STEM programs have certain gateway values, and in general,do not select equitably across many notable factors, including gender; race; ethnicity; first-time,full-time status; and low-SES
Paper ID #37111Finding a Place to Belong: Understanding the Role of Place inDeveloping Learner Identity Among Students Returning toIn-person LearningDiana G. De La Rosa-pohl (Instructional Associate Professor) Diana de la Rosa-Pohl is an Instructional Associate Professor in the Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering at the University of Houston. She is also currently the Director of the Endeavour S-STEM Program. Her areas of interest are motivation and engagement and how they relate to the success of low-SES STEM students in higher ed. © American Society for Engineering Education
Foundation (NSF S-STEM, PI) and the National Institute of Health. Dr. Rodríguez has been the recipient of the prestigious Fulbright Scholar award in the 2016-2017 Academic Year. He has also been awarded the CUNY Chancellor’s Research Fellowship twice, in the 2015-2016 and 2017-2018 academic years. Dr. Rodríguez is also captivated by STEM pedagogical research and mentoring of undergraduate students. His mentees have earned multiple awards at undergraduate STEM conferences, and several have continued to earn graduate degrees in the field of science and engineering.Antonios Varelas Antonios Varelas PhD is a Professor of Psychology in the Behavioral and Social Sciences Department at Hostos Community College, CUNY. Dr. Varelas
international consulting projects. While at MIT, his dissertation research and collaborative research with institute colleagues focused on domain-specific self-efficacy in engineering entrepreneurship, and on the impact of project-based pedagogies on persistence in engineering among undergraduate students. He served as Director of Institutional Research at Goshen College for five years before coming to EMU in 2016. © American Society for Engineering Education, 2022 Powered by www.slayte.com STEM Scholars Engaging in Local ProblemsAbstract Eastern Mennonite University received a 5-year S-STEM award for their STEM ScholarsEngaging in Local
of Arkansas. She previously served as project manager at the Arkansas Water Resources Center, but returned to teaching full time in 2013. She teaches Introduction to Engineering I and II and and is the coordinator for the First-Year Honors Innovation Experience.Carol S Gattis (Associate Dean Emeritus) Dr. Carol Gattis is the Associate Dean Emeritus of the Honors College and Adjunct Associate Professor in Industrial Engineering. She has 30+ years of successful educational program design, development, and research relative to engineering and honors student recruitment, retention, diversity, international education, and course development. She has served as PI/co PI on four NSF S-STEM grants.Jennie Popp Jennie Popp
applying a holistic-content narrative analysis [70] to each interview,focus group, or journal. Next, we employ open coding which gleans from elemental methods:descriptive, in vivo, and process coding and affective methods: emotion, values, and evaluationto identify emerging patterns in the data [73]. Then, we apply axial coding to identify subthemes[74] and thereafter, group themes and sub-themes across all interviews and focus groups,formulate meaning through the clustering of themes [69], which will ultimately lead to theemergence of key findings.Research FindingsPreliminary Findings with EngWINS ParticipantsQuantitative Findings:Descriptive statistics from the S-STEM Pre (n=15) and Post (n=11) Surveys were calculated, asdisplayed in Table 3 and
technical leader. The program grew steadily, attracted 10 corporate sponsors,and was awarded two major NSF S-STEM grants. The NSF research sought to understand ifearly leadership training resulted in higher graduation and retentions rates and faster time tograduation for academically talented, financially disadvantaged STEM majors. The preliminaryresults indicate a highly positive association.The goal of the LDP has remained the same since inception, help STEM students become futureleaders in industry by providing leadership training and mentoring with a cohort experience ofco-curricular education and community service opportunities. Teaching and modeling authenticproblem-solving to future leaders is an essential strategy and key component of the
collaborating on start-up projects and grant writing with the Colleges of Science, Nursing, Arts & Letters, Engineering and Computer Science and Medicine. 1992-Present: Professor, Science/Literacy Education, College of Education, Florida Atlantic University. Currently PI: USDOE Hispanic Serving Institution with College of Engineering; Co-PI: NSF S STEM; Completed Grant Activity– PI on NSF DR K-12: Early Science Learning and Literacy Development (2013-2018); Co-PI: NSF GK12 and NSF RIGEE; Advisory Member on NSF STEM-C, NSF ChemBOND, and NSF Statewide Systemic Initiative. Previous grants: PI USDOE/IES Vocabulary Development (2004-08), NSF/REC/IERI Science and Literacy (2002-09), USDOE/IES Reading Comprehension (2004-09
Undergraduate Education (EHR/DUE) and Division of Engineering Education and Centers (ENG/EEC), where she worked in multiple STEM education and research programs, including the IUSE, TUES, STEP, WIDER, S-STEM, Noyce, REU, and ERC. She also served as Associate Chair and was on the faculty in the Civil and Environmental Engineering department at the Florida A&M University-Florida State University College of Engineering.Shelly B. Blunt (Associate Provost for Academic Affairs) © American Society for Engineering Education, 2022 Powered by www.slayte.com Capacity-Building to Transform STEM Education Through Faculty Communities in Learning Analytics and
inclusion in STEM fields. This includes evaluation of NSF ADVANCE, S-STEM, INCLUDES, and IUSE projects, and climate studies of students, faculty, and staff. Her social science research covers many topics and has used critical race theories such as Community Cultural Wealth to describe the experiences of systemically marginalized students in engineering.Sriram Mohan (Professor of Computer Science & Software Engineering) Sriram Mohan is a Professor of Computer Science and Software Engineering at Rose-Hulman institute of Technology.Selen GülerSelen Güler is a PhD student in Sociology at the University of Washington and a research assistant in the University ofWashington’s Center for Evaluation & Research for STEM Equity (UW
content to entire classrooms using picoprojectors. In 2008, he established Class on a Chip, Inc. to commercialize an array of micro-experimental devices for use in engineering, physics, and MEMS classes. In 2014, he established a new class in the Whitacre College of Engineering, Technology Start-up Lab, which takes students through a process to develop their own technology projects for commercialization. Each summer, he teaches a class entitled Solar Energy, which includes a hands-on solar energy design project. Dr. Dallas has served as the principal investigator for two National Science Foundation sponsored Scholarships in STEM (S-STEM) projects, a Research Experience for Undergraduates Site, a Course Curriculum and
Professor) © American Society for Engineering Education, 2022 Powered by www.slayte.com Recruitment Strategy Development for First Generation, Underrepresented, and Low-Income Masters StudentsAbstractRecruitment and academic success at the Master of Science (MS) degree level is an often-overlooked line of inquiry. The Stellar Engineering Students Graduate Program Scholarship(SEnS GPS), a National Science Foundation S-STEM funded program at Boise State University,is beginning to bridge this gap in our knowledge of masters-level students. Boise State is amedium-sized, metropolitan, rural serving institution in the mountain west with a largepopulation of
improvement. For K-12 STEM outreach programs such as this one, assessments suchas proficiency tests are not effective in gleaning information about effectiveness, because theobjective of such outreach programs is to inculcate a positive attitude and build confidence inparticipants about continuing their education in STEM disciplines, i.e. affective measures [18, 19].To evaluate the impact of affective measures, pre- and post-program surveys of participants wouldbe more appropriate to gauge the improvements that students have made. An example of such a © American Society for Engineering Education, 2022 2022 ASEE Illinois-Indiana Section Conference Proceedings | Paper ID 36140survey would be the Friday Institute’s S-STEM
Paper ID #38050Empathy as Key to Inclusivity in Engineering EducationJan L. Fertig (Associate Professor) Dr. Jan Fertig is an associate professor in the Humanities, Social Science and Communication Department at the Milwaukee School of Engineering. She teaches a variety of courses in psychology and sociology, as well as a course in addictions. She serves as co-leader of the Team Science Module at the Clinical and Translational Science Institute of Southeast Wisconsin (CTSI) and Co-Principal Investigator with Dr. Subha Kumpaty of the NSF S-STEM grant which provides scholarships and activities to 20 diverse
Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India (2001). Dr. Nandy had served as a Co-Principal Investigator of an NSF S-STEM Project, and as the Principal- Investigator of an NSF IUSE project. Dr. Nandy is a member of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), and American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE). © American Society for Engineering Education, 2022 Powered by www.slayte.com A Highly Integrated and Successful Approach to Program Development and Implementation of Accreditation Strategies for an Engineering Technology ProgramAbstractThe accreditation strategies and efforts are often completely disregarded or overlooked
goals, and school, community, and other activities thatdemonstrate leadership potential, and a completed FAFSA. The program was advertised throughseveral venues: media outlets, communication with accepted first-generation students, andpromotion through local high schools. The project team also participated in two “Go To Mines”recruitment events to educate and recruit first-generation students and their families for the 2022cohort and beyond.As a result of these efforts, the SD-FIRST program had 59 applicants during the first applicationcycle. As an NSF S-STEM award, the SD-FIRST program allowed for 15 scholars in the firstcohort and awarded $5,000 per year, renewable for 4 years, per scholar. During this time, theteam was able to work with the
ecosystem model. She is also a Co-PI on an NSF S-STEM grant called ENGAGE which is working to make a more robust transfer pathway for local Community college students. Dr. Thompson is a Co-PI on an NSF ADVANCE grant called KIND with other universities within the CSU. She is a co-advisor to Engineers without Borders, Critical Global Engagement, and oSTEM at Cal Poly.Andrew Thomas ChanJulia CannonJane L. Lehr (Professor) Dr. Jane L. Lehr is the Director of the Office of Student Research and Professor in Ethnic Studies and Women’s, Gender & Queer Studies at California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo. She is also Director of the CSU Louis Stokes Alliance for Minority Student Participation (LSAMP) in STEM