recording the interviews and filling out a structured memo directly after the interview ended. Ideally, I wanted to collaborate with the participants to share the transcripts and findings with them[31]; however, it was beyond the scope andtimeline of this project. able 2TCodebook Transition Four S’s Definition in Study Context Types xplains students' situation when the pandemic began (ex: school practices and home E Situation life) onsiders the students' outlook on their education and future at the
trying to determine whether an ethical dilemma exists and what action, if any,should be taken in response, it can help to see the “black and white” situations with clarity andnot overanalyze. In Harmony’s case, being asked to misrepresent who owns the fabrication shopwhere a client’s components would be manufactured was an obvious step too far. In response toher leader’s request, she explained, “I immediately took him aside and I said, ‘You’re going tocome up with a reason why the client is going to see somebody else’s name on the gate becauseI’m not!’” Justine shared a similar case about dishonesty in which she faced pressure to share anunrealistic project schedule, stating, “I’m literally being asked to lie to them. This is not okay
cultural home by somemore than others.Furthermore, engineering culture can be a cultural home, and more for some than others. Disciplinary andeducational cultures are enacted in shared physical and social spaces, but those same spaces areexperienced differentially by some as inclusive and by others as exclusive or marginalizing. Identity andintersectionality play a significant role in that differentiation of engineering culture. This paper considersthe interplays of engineering culture, identity (as culture), and intersectionality as creating or disrupting asense of cultural home.3. Methodology3.1 Data collectionData for this study comes from a larger project, Audio for Inlcusion [13], that focuses on exploringstudents’ experience of
looking at how mastery learning shifts instructors’ beliefs about teaching practices and assessments.Sharona Krinsky, California State University, Los Angeles Sharona Krinsky is an instructor and course coordinator in the Mathematics department at California State University, Los Angeles and the co-PI of the NSF funded project ”Commitment to Learning Instilled by a Mastery-Based Undergraduate Program (CLIMB-UP). She works with faculty on redesigning courses to utilize the principles of mastery-based grading in order to enhance student success and enable increased equity, inclusion, and access to careers in STEM fields for students from historically underrepresented groups. Sharona is a founding organizer of ”The
significant barrier to belonging, and yetschool climate nor current or historical patterns of exclusion are incorporated into college andcareer choice models as depicted in the academic literature.Purpose of the StudyThe purpose of this rapid review is to conduct an investigation of the academic literature onexisting initiatives and models for attracting Black high school students to undergraduateengineering programs, which may also be referred to as “broadening participation” inengineering. This work is part of a larger project to understand the lived experiences of Blackhigh school students during the engineering admissions process and how those experiences alignwith the programs, practices and systems that are enacted within higher education today
leastI've seen or talked to in any way. And I think that's kind of always a constant thing,getting an effect of more people looking at me or a kid who's never met a Black persongets put in a group with me in an engineering project and doesn't know, like he thinks I'ma different species or something. I have never felt any malicious intent towards me at thisinstitution purely because I am Black, but I have had experiences where I’ve had to dealwith ignorance from my white peers. And I know that it happened just because they havenever met a Black person before. So there's always this feeling that just knowing that theway I've maybe talked to someone in my family, I can't talk to a peer about like acomplex engineering process. I can't necessarily just
disclose any of thesetraits to the school nor did she seek accommodations as she perceived accommodations would not behelpful for her and were reserved for students with greater needs than hers. As a result of herparticipation in this research project, Esperanza later sought a diagnosis for what she suspected wasneurodivergence in the form of autism. Esperanza identifies as a first-generation student despite herparents having attended college for the performing arts. Her parents were children of immigrants fromEurope and the Caribbean and as minority and first-generation students, they received an abundance ofguidance and assistance through their college experiences and did not come away fully understandingthe higher education systems and
. Enmei thought about reporting her, but she had heard that Chinese students were often blamed for dragging down scores of group projects with domestic students, so she decided not to do it. Adapted from [38] b. Relationship of case to the literature • She has many questions about how to be ready for this new experience.Our literature review (Section 2) highlights that international students do not have enoughfamiliarity with the US educational system, but they are described as willing to learn andhardworking (see Section 2 for more details). • She wanted to make US friends, yet she had a bad experience. So now, she is focused on
vignette video: “Names and history are almost non-existent inour engineering courses, and numbers and equations are actually what we deal with….” Thus,the participant focuses on using engineering for new innovations and acknowledges that ahistorical lens is not used in the engineering curriculum at the institution he attends. Participant 65 mentions his experiences with HC. He notes that in his senior design class,the “…instructor specified that the senior project leaders could not be White males. . .which wasprobably the biggest show of racism I have seen on campus.” Additionally, the participantdescribes that his “biggest personal obstacle has been being a father during undergraduate andgraduate work,” and “it can sometimes be frustrating
Paper ID #38724Analysis of Learning Assistants’ Beliefs of Status and Their Role asStatus InterventionistsHarpreet Auby, Tufts University Harpreet is a graduate student in Chemical Engineering and STEM Education. He works with Dr. Milo Koretsky and helps study the role of learning assistants in the classroom as well as machine learning applications within educational research and evaluation. He is also involved in projects studying the uptake of the Concept Warehouse. His research interests include chemical engineering education, learning sciences, and social justice.Dr. Milo Koretsky, Tufts University Milo Koretsky is
Paper ID #38909Motivation and Evidence for Screen Reader Accessible Website as anEffective and Inclusive Delivery Method for Course Content in HigherEducationDr. Vijesh J. Bhute, Imperial College London Dr. Vijesh Bhute currently leads 1st and 2nd year modules on Mathematics in the Chemical Engineering Department at Imperial College London. He leverages technology to enhance delivery of abstract con- cepts and also uses math-aware assessment platforms to improve student learning. He collaborates with students on various projects and has also contributed to development of innovative hybrid experiential learning approaches
notrestricted to computing students. While non-computing STEM majors suffer from the same lackof representation, it is important for researchers in computing to understand discipline-specificperceptions and experiences. Finally, the study did not account for other student identitiesoutside of race and gender. This excludes more nuanced analysis of results, based on multipleforms of oppression that students may (not) experience [21]. In addition, the computingcommunity lacks significant data collection efforts related to students with disabilities,highlighting the need to account for this important (and often overlooked) identity [22].This work-in-progress paper is situated within a broader ongoing project that seeks to answertwo research questions
representation. For example, lecture content could be presented in a video or a text file of audio transcription. • Multiple means of expression. For example, students are allowed to demonstrate the course project through written report or oral presentation. • Multiple means of engagement. For example, students can ask questions and share opinions in the classroom or through the online forum.2.3 Active Learning Active Learning is a well-known and widely studied set of educational practices and prin-ciples that suggests students create higher order knowledge and understand more effectivelywhen they engage in learning activities that are beyond passively receiving information[6].Active Learning is supported by
self-efficacy is understood to be driving self-perceptions and eventually performance in those tasks. For instance, self-concept in calculus (i.e., a domain) can be expressed as “I am able to understand and follow along the calculus classes”, and self-efficacy in calculus (i.e., task performance) can be expressed by “I am confident I can score at least a B in the upcoming test”.The above definitions for both constructs are adapted from previous research and validating orverifying them is not within the scope of this project. This study agrees with previous findings[7], [44], [45], [46], that state self-concept is a prime predictor for favorable academic outcomesand well-being as a student. Self-efficacy, although crucial for an individual’s
notes, emails, and medicaldocumentation to create my autoethnography [28], [32]. After building the phenomenology andautoethnography, I triangulated the results. Triangulation is the use of multiple sources ofinformation to build a coherent justification of themes based on convergence [27]. Using amixed-method approach with Harvey’s process allowed me to use two strategies to check thequalitative validity of the results. Qualitative validity refers to the consistency of the researcher’sapproach across data sources, methodologies, and projects [27].Results and discussionOnce I completed the data collection and analysis portion of the broader study, I met with twocontributors. Both contributors were previously authorized by the University of
bachelor’s degree at Rowan University in New Jersey before attending graduate school for her PhD at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst, MA. Her research interests in- clude engineering communication, process safety, and undergraduate student mental health. Recently, she was awarded an NSF RIEF grant to student mental health-related help-seeking in undergraduate engineer- ing students. She is completing this project in collaboration with faculty members from educational and counseling psychology. With this work, they aim to better understand the help-seeking beliefs of under- graduate engineering students and develop interventions to improve mental health-related help-seeking. Other research interests include
different groups. Such training could promote understandingand cooperation between individuals from different national and cultural groups, contributing tothe success of international engineering projects and technological work.Since this study was exploratory in nature, it suffers from numerous shortcomings that will beaddressed in future work. The sample used in this study was relatively homogenous and notentirely representative. Going forward, future research will use different, more diverse studentsamples.References[1] C. E. Harris, M. Pritchard, M. Rabins, R. James, and E. Englehardt, Engineering Ethics: Concepts and Cases, 6th ed. Cengage Learning, 2018.[2] M. Martin and R. Schinzinger, Introduction to Engineering Ethics, 2nd ed. New
engineering (CE), are projected to rise more than 10 percentbetween 2019 to 2029 [3]. Additionally, as vacancies increase, so too does the need for studentswith graduate degrees (master’s and doctoral level) in the field [4]. However, in the United States(U.S.) participation in graduate schools is more commonly from international students. Accordingto the survey by the Computing Research Association in 2019, almost 70% of the master’s degreesin computer sciences and 80% in engineering were awarded to international students [5].Meanwhile, 62% of the Ph.D.’s in computer sciences were awarded to international students,followed by 67% in engineering [5]. Yet, participation of domestic students pursuing graduatedegrees in computing is less than 30% in the
Harvard University. One of his major research interests has been the impact of gender on science careers. This research has resulted in two books (both authored with the assistance of Gerald Holton): Who Succeeds in Science? The Gender Dimension and Gender Differences in Science Careers: The Project Access Study. American c Society for Engineering Education, 2021 Understanding How Social Agents and Communicative Messages Influence Female Students’ Engineering Career Interest from High School to First Semester of CollegeAbstractMany researchers have investigated how to increase female and minority students’ engineeringcareer
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thisproject and guidance at the early stages of the project. Additionally, the authors thank theDirector of the Cal Poly Pomona Center for the Advancement of Faculty Excellence, Dr.Victoria Bhavsar, for several useful suggestions. Finally, the authors would like to acknowledgethe student researchers Natalia Perez, Tyler McGee, Elizabeth Fajardo, Briana Rodriguez fortheir contributions to running focus groups, conducting data analysis, and writing reports, as wellas student researchers Oscar Paredes, Shikha Gupta, Krusha Patel, Kayla Pavlinac, and DavidDimas for their assistance.7. References[1] P. M. Nissenson, N. Tsuchiya, M. Jawaharlal, and A. Shih, “Creation of an Online Video Tutorial Library at aState University,” in Proceedings of the 2019
focused on high-level feedback in order to receive a high percentage of studentresponses. In addition, the orientation sessions have only been offered a handful of times whichis another contributing factor to limited data. The intent at this stage in the project was to use thesurvey results to gather some high level feedback from student participants to help determinestudent impressions of the event and, more specifically, what aspects of the orientation resonatedwith the students the most.It would be worthwhile to conduct a more expansive long-term study to follow-up with thesestudents to investigate the overall impact of the orientation session on their first-year experience.In addition, it would be informative to survey students who did not
Paper ID #32809Critical Analyses of Representation and Success Rates of MarginalizedUndergraduate Students in Aerospace EngineeringDr. Corin L. Bowen, University of Michigan Corin (Corey) Bowen is a postdoctoral researcher in the College of Engineering, Computer Science and Technology at California State University - Los Angeles, where she is working on the NSF-funded Eco- STEM project. Her engineering education research focuses on structural oppression in engineering sys- tems, organizing for equitable change, and developing an agenda of Engineering for the Common Good. She conferred her Ph.D. in aerospace engineering from
Network (O*NET) for the U.S. Department of Labor, on the assessment of adult non-cognitive skills, interests, and well-being for the Organisation for Economic American c Society for Engineering Education, 2021 Paper ID #33466Cooperation and Development (OECD), and on assessments of workforce readiness for Educational Test-ing Service (ETS). She has concluded eight grant-funded research projects to date in the role of PI orCo-PI totaling $1.2 million. American c Society for Engineering Education, 2021Development of the Fit of Personal
the most popular major ofchoice among these students—engineering. It also looks at these influences through the lens ofpositive emotional engagement or how students feel as they engage in their studies with theintention of identifying strategies that can help international students thrive in their engineeringstudies in the U.S.MethodsQuantitative research methods were used to analyze ordinal, Likert-scale data from surveysdistributed to undergraduate engineering students. This study is part of a larger, single-institutionresearch project that evaluated the connections between various forms of support (from faculty,TAs, and peers) and multiple forms of course-level engagement (attention, participation, effort,positive and negative emotional