&M University Dr. Malini Natarajarathinam is an Associate professor with Department of Engineering Technology and Industrial Distribution. She teaches classes on strategic relationships for industrial distribution, distribu- tion information systems and new directions in Industrial Distribution. She is also the founding faculty and advisor for the Society of Women in Industrial Distribution (SWID). She works on many service learning projects with her students where they work with many local community agencies. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2016Women in Industrial Distribution: emerging opportunities and challenges for female college
cultures. This experience more often helps to handle the specific issues in theteam project.”Cultural intelligence factors - Behavior, Metacognition, Cognition, and MotivationThe most prevalent difficulty that arose was international faculty members’ personaladjustments. They often struggled and felt powerless when working on a culturally diverse team.This was even more evident for international women faculty. After participating in a cross-cultural training, faculty members reported that the main necessary changes in behavior observedwere self-confidence and assertiveness. Therefore, the participants’ responses were examinedfurther to gain more detail about how cross-cultural training plays a valuable role in changing afaculty member’s behavior
Paper ID #17160Gaining Insights into the Effects of Culturally Responsive Curriculum onHistorically Underrepresented Students’ Desire for Computer ScienceMs. Omoju Miller, UC Berkeley Omoju Miller is the lead researcher on the ”Hiphopathy” project at UC Berkeley. She has an undergrad- uate degree in Computer Science (2001) and a Master’s degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering (2004) from the University of Memphis. She has over a decade of experience in the technology indus- try. She is currently a doctoral candidate at UC Berkeley in Computer Science Education. Omoju also served in a volunteer capacity as an advisor to
contributed to the development of the new ProLine Fusion Flight Control System and served as the project lead for two aircraft. She earned a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering with a mathematics minor from Rose-Hulman Insti- tute of Technology in 2005. Her research interests include control systems, mechatronics, instructional laboratories, and experiential learning. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2016 Paper ID #15210Dr. Mary C. Verstraete, The University of Akron Mary Verstraete is an Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering and the Associate Chair for the Undergraduate
Paper ID #22816A Failed Attempt to Develop a Measure of Engineering Students’ SubjectiveTask-value for Diversity and Inclusion in EngineeringMs. Ashley R. Taylor, Virginia Tech Ashley Taylor is a doctoral candidate in engineering education at Virginia Polytechnic and State Univer- sity, where she also serves as a program assistant for the Center for Enhancement of Engineering Diversity and an advisor for international senior design projects in the Department of Mechanical Engineering. Ash- ley received her MS in Mechanical Engineering, MPH in Public Health Education, and BS in Mechanical Engineering from Virginia Tech. Her
education policy, and academic motivation.Miss Raeven Carmelita WatersMs. Ashley R Taylor, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University Ashley Taylor is a doctoral student in engineering education at Virginia Polytechnic and State University, where she also serves as a program assistant for the Center for Enhancement of Engineering Diversity and an advisor for international senior design projects in the Department of Mechanical Engineering. Ashley received her MS in Mechanical Engineering, MPH in Public Health Education, and BS in Mechanical Engineering from Virginia Tech. Her research interests include broadening participation in engineering, the integration of engineering education and international development, and
scientist for the Center for Research on Education in Science, Mathematics, Engineering and Technology (CRESMET), and an evaluator for several NSF projects. His first research strand concentrates on the relationship be- tween educational policy and STEM education. His second research strand focuses on studying STEM classroom interactions and subsequent effects on student understanding. He is a co-developer of the Re- formed Teaching Observation Protocol (RTOP) and his work has been cited more than 1500 times and his publications have been published in multiple peer-reviewed journals such as Science Education and the Journal of Research in Science Teaching.Prof. Stephen J Krause, Arizona State University Stephen
division bylaws;• developed and circulated newsletters on Diversity Committee efforts;• worked with the ASEE Board of Directors to get Figure 1. Example of Footsteps from approval for and to institutionalize the ASEE Best 2017 Annual Conference Diversity Paper;• piloted the footsteps project, where large stickers were placed on the floor throughout the convention center in Indianapolis in high traffic spaces (see Figure 3);• created the call for papers and an assessment tool for the ASEE Best Diversity Paper; and• worked with ASEE information technology staff to identify potential papers within the paper review
there is still room for improvingparticipation at all levels of the professoriate.LSAMP13 has four alliance tracks that assist universities and colleges in their efforts to increasethe numbers of students matriculating into and successfully completing high quality degreeprograms in STEM. Specifically, Bridge to Doctorate (BD) projects are for post-baccalaureatefellowships that provides support to students in the first two years of STEM graduate studies. In2015, at the 37th Annual Fall Research Conference of the Association for Public Policy Analysisand Management (APPAM), Margaret Sullivan of Mathematica Policy Research presentedfindings from the evaluation of the LSAMP impact on URM students with support from the BDprogram. Sullivan stated URM
the 2015 Best Diversity Paper.Mejia, et al., [3] presented a paper nominated by the K-12 and Pre-College Engineering Divisionexploring Latinx adolescents’ perceptions of engineering and their engineering abilities afterparticipation in community-based design projects. Students were from working class familiesand most had parents with limited education who worked in farming or other manual laboractivities. The adolescents, ages 14-17, worked in teams to identify a problem in theircommunity and to use engineering design to solve the problem. Most of the participants changedboth their perceptions of engineering as well as their self-efficacy as they worked on theseprojects. The design experience influenced participants’ perceptions of
analysis was conducted through critical narrative analysis tounderstand the meaning behind the engineers’ life experiences. The engineers discussed severalissues in their narratives including lack of diversity and support for minorities in the workplace.Through this project we would like to help others gain a better understanding of the experiencesof Black engineers in the technology industry. The results gained from this project will be usedto make diversity issues in the workplace more apparent to senior officials in companies so thatthey can reconsider the way they approach diversity.IntroductionIn recent years there has been increasing scrutiny on diversity within the computer andinformation technology industry. Popular press articles about
Paper ID #19857Infusing Empathy Into Engineering Design: Supporting Under-representedStudent Interest and Sense of BelongingnessMs. Henriette D Burns, Washington State University, Vancouver Henriette is retired engineer and has worked at Johnson & Johnson, Abbott Labs, Baxter Labs, Tenneco, Monsanto, Frucon Construction, SC Johnson Wax and HP as a manufacturing engineer, a design engineer and a project manager. She holds an engineering degree from Northwestern University, an MBA from University of Oregon and a MiT from Washington State University where she is currently a Ph.D. candi- date in Math/Science Education
Paper ID #15207Making Changes: Application of an NSF-ADVANCE PAID Grant at a Pre-dominantly Undergraduate Institution (PUI)Dr. Theresa M. Vitolo, Gannon University Theresa M. Vitolo is an Associate Professor in the Computer and Information Science Department, Gan- non University (Erie, PA). Teaching in systems-related fields since 1986, she joined the Computer and Information Science Department at Gannon University in 1999. In addition to teaching, she has worked as a systems analyst / programmer on a variety of systems development projects. Her academic background includes a B.S.E. in industrial engineering and a Ph.D. in
Paper ID #16129Engineering Students’ Self-Concept Differentiation: Investigation of Identity,Personality, and Authenticity with Implications for Program RetentionMs. Kylie Denise Stoup, James Madison University Kylie Stoup is a senior honors engineering student at James Madison University. Ms. Kylie Stoup grad- uates with a BS in Engineering in May 2016. She is in the second year of her 2-year-long engineering capstone project so far, involving the design and implementation of a greenway system in Harrisonburg. Her career interests include transportation infrastructure and city planning with a focus in social equity, as
study is certainly generalizable to studies of identity in engineering andmathematics and science education. The authors propose social entrepreneurship identity can befacilitated by educators through defining the social category group in which the individual willidentify, exposure to prototypical members and member characteristics, and active engagementin the social category particularly through group projects. Similarly, Mead formulated that“society shapes self shapes social behavior.”13 These social behaviors were later taken up byStryker and redefined as role choice behavior.16; 17 While Stryker explores external structures,Burke explored internal mechanisms aligned with more modern cognitive theories of identitydevelopment, namely the
dissertation research project is funded by a recently awarded NSF grant to study the nuanced gender dynamics in engineering education informed by queer theory and collaborative community ethnography. She may be contacted at haverkaa@oregonstate.edu c American Society for Engineering Education, 2018 The Complexity of Nonbinary Gender Inclusion in Engineering CultureAbstractGender in engineering is a long-standing source of inquiry, research, outreach, and discussion asinequity in demographics and negative experiences persist in the field. Women consist of justapproximately 20% of our engineering undergraduate programs nationally, and roughly 14% ofour national professional workforce. Absent from these
Immediate Past-President of WEPAN, was PI on Tech’s NSF ADVANCE grant, a member of the mathematical and statistical so- cieties Joint Committee on Women, and advises a variety of women and girl-serving STEM projects and organizations. She is a past Vice President of ASEE and current Chair of the ASEE Long Range Planning Committee.Dr. Kim LaScola Needy P.E., University of Arkansas Kim LaScola Needy is Dean of the Graduate School and International Education at the University of Arkansas. Prior to this appointment she was Department Head and 21st Century Professor of Industrial Engineering at the University of Arkansas. She received her B.S. and M.S. degrees in Industrial Engi- neering from the University of Pittsburgh
) and projected (2016+)female enrollment in the orthopaedic residency class. “Baseline” represents model withparameter values reflecting our current program evaluation results. “Worst-Case” reflects worst-case assumptions for parameter values in terms of recruitment and retention in the orthopaedicspipeline. Considering the duration of our programming efforts (Figure 3), if we were to cease allprogramming immediately (2015), our past programming efforts would yield a peak diversity of27% female in 10 years (2025) before declining back to the 14% baseline within 12 years (2027).Similarly, if we were to continue programming only for 5 more years (until 2020), we wouldexpect an identical peak of 27% female within 10 years. This peak would
barriers: putting knowledge & skills/techniques to work – what works bestfor you? Part 3 –Supporting colleagues/the next generation of engineers (engineeringstewardship opportunities). In addition to peer coaching sessions (5 total) and journal entries (8totals), the final grade was also based on class participation and a final project (chosen by thestudent based on their interests related to a course topic). Class was structured so as to be mostlydiscussion-based with students reading articles and completing assignments before class to aid indiscussion led by the instructor or a content-expert guest facilitator. The course was taught withthe Four Frames12 as an overarching lens to view topics such as imposter syndrome, stereotypethreat
sharedthat he did not implement this user-centric design thinking in his design project: That wasn’t in my design project. I was aware we were designing for a person, but I didn’t think it needed to be that finely ingrained into the design process. I guess, yeah, that’s one way that … what was it, difference, how people thought differently about engineering. I’ve taken that obviously like you can’t afford not to take that and adopt it to your own type of engineering because that amount of information is way too valuable.This quote is another example of how Nathan described how there are various ways of thinkingin engineering that are complementary to one another. While he acknowledged differences, in
students to engage inSTEM careers.References1. Hartman, H., & Hartman, M. (2006). Leaving engineering: Lessons from Rowan University's college ofengineering. Journal of Engineering Education,95(1), 49-61.2. Bottomley, L. (2015). Assessing the Success of Programs for Women in Engineering. Proceedings of AmericanSociety for Engineering Education. Seattle.3. Felder, R. M., Felder, G. N., Mauney, M., Hamrin, C. E., & Dietz, E. J. (1995). A longitudinal study ofengineering student performance and retention. III. Gender differences in student performance and attitudes. Journalof Engineering Education, 84(2), 151-163.4. Goodman, I. F. (2002). Final Report of the Women's Experiences in College Engineering (WECE) Project. OnlineSubmission
women of other groups toagree with two statements “In meetings, other people get credit for ideas I originally offered.”And “After moving from an engineering role to a project management/business role, peopleassume I do not have technical skills.” The differences are statistically significant.Table 1B reported the percentage agreement of men in different racial groups on the Prove-It-Again questions. As mentioned above, the majority of the sample is female (please see appendixC for gender and race breakdown of the sample.) Only 45 engineers took the survey self-identified as men of color. Due to the very small number of male engineers in the sample, wedid not further breakdown non-white male engineers into more detailed racial groups. Men
Paper ID #21856Investigating Student Perceptions of an Engineering Department’s Climate:The Role of Peer RelationsDr. Susannah C. Davis, Oregon State University Susannah C. Davis is a postdoctoral research associate in the School of Chemical, Biological and Envi- ronmental Engineering at Oregon State University. She received her Ph.D. and M.Ed. from the University of Washington, and her B.A. from Smith College. She is currently working on the NSF-funded REvolu- tionizing engineering and computer science Departments (RED) project at OSU. Her research focuses on organizational learning and change, particularly in higher
Ennis, University of Colorado Boulder TANYA D. ENNIS is the current Engineering GoldShirt Program Director at the University of Colorado Boulder’s College of Engineering and Applied Science. She received her M.S. in Computer Engineering from the University of Southern California in Los Angeles and her B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Southern University in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Her career in the telecommunications industry included positions in software and systems engineering and technical project management. Tanya most recently taught mathematics at the Denver School of Science and Technology, the highest performing high school in Denver Public Schools. Tanya is currently a PhD candidate in the School of
, and socially just. She runs the Feminist Research in Engineering Education (FREE, formerly RIFE, group), whose diverse projects and alumni are described at feministengineering.org. She received a CAREER award in 2010 and a PECASE award in 2012 for her project researching the stories of undergraduate engineering women and men of color and white women. She has received ASEE-ERM’s best paper award for her CAREER research, and the Denice Denton Emerging Leader award from the Anita Borg Institute, both in 2013. She was co-PI of Purdue’s ADVANCE program from 2008-2014, focusing on the underrepresentation of women in STEM faculty positions. She helped found, fund, and grow the PEER Collaborative, a peer mentoring group of