Office connected the newest arrivals with a faculty advisor tostart a Kuwaiti Student Club. As graduate students from India gained in population, an IndianStudent Club was also formed, advised by a faculty member who is a native of India. As studentclubs host their own cultural events (see figure 10), not only do they feel heard and welcomed oncampus but they also share their culture with domestic and other international students,increasing cultural awareness and pride among students. Figure 10: Student Club ActivitiesCommunity Outreach: Any campus does a better job of successfully welcoming new groups ofstudents with some advance preparation, therefore, the CGE proactively created several tools toprepare both
engineeringidentity30. Often engineering faculty view an individual’s identity as irrelevant to the engineeringworkplace. In such a “color-blind” perspective, individual characteristics should play no role inscientific work. However, significant amounts of research demonstrate that no person is “color-blind”31. Additionally, faculty may not be influenced by the theoretical developments explainingthe importance of students’ identities28. Due to the lack of exploration of social aspects ofengineering, conversations centered around normative and non-normative values are almost non-existent. Limited conversations about students identities and cultural norms allows the dominanttraits of the field's practitioners to perpetuate despite evidence indicating a need for
accessibility, sustainability, and the fair distribution of resources,which are often overlooked in traditional engineering programs [6], [7], [8]. This criticalengagement is important for promoting more inclusive and socially responsible engineeringpractices. Studies have shown that when students are exposed to social justice frameworks, theyare better equipped to develop solutions that address the needs of all members of society,particularly marginalized communities [5], [6]. Thus, integrating social justice into engineeringeducation enhances technical competence of students and also prepares them to be agents ofpositive social change in their professional careers.1.4 Purpose of the StudyThis study seeks to explore how gender influences engineering
an educational psychologist, studying motivation among pre-service teachers and college faculty members. Along with teaching pre-service teachers, she is the project manager for the STEAM project, a First in the World grant project, funded by the US Department of Education. She works for the Center for Instructional of Excellence at Purdue University.Dr. Mark French, Purdue University Mark French started his career as a civilian aerospace engineer for the US Air Force after getting a BS in Aerospace and Ocean Engineering at VA Tech. While working for the Air Force, he did an MS and a PhD at the University of Dayton. His dissertation was on the design of aeroelastically scaled wind tunnel models. After 10 years
, tension, and exchange rules governing changes in perceptions andunderstanding” (p. 2). From this perspective, leadership is an emergent outcome that is producedfrom the reality of interactions of decision-makers with each other and with their environment(Bradbury & Lichtenstein, 2000).” According to this theory a single individual might act as aleader in one situation, and as a follower in another, as they “experience tension in the form ofpressures on and challenges to their personal knowledge base (Carley and Hill, 2001)” (p. 5)7.Learning goalsThere are nine learning goals associated with our crisis simulation experience. As a result ofparticipating in the Crisis Simulation, students will: • Understand that many leadership assumptions
international experiences including study abroad, internships,volunteer work, and faculty-led study tours. Western faculty plays an active role in their student’slives, not only in the classroom but also through advising student groups, supporting individualstudent career aspirations, and mentoring programs. The Engineering & Design Department atWWU is a new department formed in 2014 out of the former Engineering Technology departmentas part of a state-funded effort to transition the engineering technology programs to accreditedengineering programs. The department offers five undergraduate-only programs withdistinguished faculty in each program; the Electrical Engineering (EE) program, theManufacturing Engineering (MfgE) program, and the Plastics
identities and roles of mentors for rising minority doctoral students inengineering. The findings revealed that various individuals, including family members, informalundergraduate mentors, and peers, played significant roles in supporting the decision ofminoritized students to enroll in doctoral programs. These mentors provided different forms ofsupport, ranging from emotional encouragement to practical guidance, thereby influencing thestudents' academic and career trajectories. The study highlighted the importance of recognizingand leveraging the diverse mentorship networks available to minoritized students to promotetheir success in doctoral programs [8].Curriculum BuildingAccording to Should You Go to Graduate School? by Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic
reports on three specific themesthat have emerged from our initial analysis of two interviews with a single research subject. Assuch, our account uses a single case approach, following in the footsteps of groundbreakingscholarship such as Foor et al.’s “ethnography of the particular” which recounts the livedexperiences of one female, multi-minority student pursuing an engineering degree.10 Our dataanalysis is ongoing, and in separate publications we will report results more specificallyconcerned with boundary spanning, including types of boundaries, boundary spanning roles andactivities, and competency demands experienced by early career engineers. Our larger objectivefor this paper is to explore the utility of investigating the realities of
the point of doing it?”Bhee is in her junior year and is an international student from India. Becoming an astronaut hasalways been what she has wanted since a very young age. “That is always my thing. Anyonewho know me, … who is even 20% close to being my friend knows,” Bhee shared. Having afather who is an electrical engineer, according to Bhee, has played an undeniable role in her pathto engineering. He is the person who first introduced her to the idea of space exploration; he is“very into photography” and so is she; he is the only person who supported her idea of coming tothe United States for higher education in engineering, despite financial concerns; and he is theone in the family who provided enough freedom for her to try different
into the group while disregarding other aspects of student life. New members strive to copy this culture of dedication by observing the behaviors of senior members, thus repeating the cycle. Their study further finds that participation becomes difficult for married, parenting, commuting, or financially independent students due to their level of commitment.DiversityI n a study by Walden et al. [20], the cultures of the Student Experiential Learning Engineering Competition Teams (SELECT) from a particular university are being examined. The study has found that these teams have an uneven distribution of representation, with a lower number of female or minority students. This uneven distribution does not accurately
Associate Professor in the Department of Engineering Education at Virginia Tech. Homero is the leader of the Engineering Competencies, Learning, and Inclusive Practices for Success (ECLIPS) Lab where he leads a team focused on doing research on contemporary, cultur- ally relevant, and inclusive pedagogical practices, emotions in engineering, competency development, and understanding the experiences of traditionally marginalized engineering students from an asset-based perspective. Homero’s goal is to develop engineering education practices that value the capital that tra- ditionally marginalized students, bring into the field, and to train graduate students and faculty members with the tool to promote effective and
. Adams, University of Texas at Dallas Dr. Stephanie G. Adams is the Department Head and Professor of Engineering Education at Virginia Tech. She previously served as Associate Dean for Undergraduate Studies in the School of Engineering at Virginia Commonwealth University and was a faculty member and administrator at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln (UNL). Her research interests include: Teamwork, International Collaborations, Fac- ulty Development, Quality Control/Management and Broadening Participation. She is an honor graduate American c Society for Engineering Education, 2021
beach.Ms. Connie Syharat, University of Connecticut Constance M. Syharat is a Ph.D. student and Research Assistant at the University of Connecticut as a part of two neurodiversity-centered NSF-funded projects, Revolutionizing Engineering Departments (NSF:RED) ”Beyond Accommodation: Leveraging Neurodiversity for Engineering Innovation” and In- novations in Graduate Education (NSF:IGE) Encouraging the Participation of Neurodiverse Students in STEM Graduate Programs to Radically Enhance the Creativity of the Professional Workforce”. In her time at the University of Connecticut she has also has served as Program Assistant for an summer pro- gram in engineering for middle school students with ADHD. Previously, she spent
students without early exposure to real-worldapplications of their major, that give positive insight into potential careers, do not always connectwith upper-classmen to use as successful peer role models. This research has shown that accessto peer role models increases academic persistence [1], [2]. It has also been shown that retentionof URM and women is increased through project-based learning or experiential learningpedagogies and techniques[3]-[9].Moreover, URM students often have a limited perspective of their contributions to improvingtechnology due to social issues such as a lack of exposure to engineering and science professionsand having personal role models in their local community who are scientists or engineers.Furthermore, when URM
Academic Program, a living-learning community where students learned about and practice sustainability. Bielefeldt is a licensed P.E. Professor Bielefeldt’s research interests in engineering education include service-learning, sustainable engineering, social responsibility, ethics, and diversity. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2023 Integration of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Topics into a First-Year Introduction to Civil Engineering CourseAbstractThis paper presents an example of how diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) topics have beenintegrated into an Introduction to Civil Engineering course for first-year (FY) students. DEIissues were integrated into the
almost to me, deciding to become a faculty member, which would be terrible. But at the same time, I do think I would develop technical skills in a postdoc that I did not develop as a graduate student. I wish I had never even applied… because I think that would be much like, I think just like holistically as a person, that would be a lot better. I think it would be physically healthier, mentally better. Like I think that I would be in a very, I feel like I'd be in a much more positive spot in my life if I had spent the last five years working in industry, doing a career, um, that kind of thing.This last mode of smoothing captures the emotional impact of
Engineering Education at Purdue University. Her research focuses what factors influence diverse students to choose engineering and stay in engineering through their careers and how different experiences within the practice and culture of engineering foster or hinder belongingness and identity development. Dr. Godwin graduated from Clemson University with a B.S. in Chemical Engineering and Ph.D. in Engineering and Science Education. She is the recipient of a 2014 American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) Educational Research and Methods Division Apprentice Faculty Grant. She also was an NSF Graduate Research Fellow for her work on female empowerment in engineering which won the National Association for Research in
education.Mr. David Reeping, Virginia Tech David Reeping is a graduate student pursuing a Ph.D. in Engineering Education at Virginia Tech and is an NSF Graduate Research Fellow. He received his B.S. in Engineering Education with a Mathematics minor from Ohio Northern University. He was a Choose Ohio First scholar inducted during the 2012- 2013 school year as a promising teacher candidate in STEM. David was the recipient of the Remsburg Creativity Award for 2013 and the DeBow Freed Award for outstanding leadership as an undergraduate student (sophomore) in 2014. He is also a member of the mathematics, education, and engineering honor societies: Kappa Mu Epsilon, Kappa Delta Pi, and Tau Beta Pi respectively. He has extensive
instructor of the NDSU Pre-Engineering Education Collaboration (PEEC) during their sum- mer camps. Throughout her Ph.D. work and professional career she has focused on serving underrepre- sented populations through summer camps targeting Native American high school students, working with New American populations locally to engage them with the outdoors, and developing curriculum for sum- mer camps at regional tribal colleges. In the future, she will be working with faculty and local hospitals to develop a distance education curriculum to better meeting the needs of the NDSCS Emergency Medical Services program as they look to better serve students abroad.Ms. Megan Even, ND EPSCoRDaniel John Luecke, North Dakota State
theyprogress through the undergraduate curriculum [1-2]. This has direct implications for thediversity of engineering students and workforces. Research with civil, environmental, andmechanical engineering students also finds that student perceptions of the connection betweensocial responsibility and engineering shape their decisions to stay in their majors, and thatwomen are more likely to leave engineering when they view those connections to be lacking andencounter decontextualized technical courses and unsupportive environments [2-3]. Engineeringeducators frequently invoke research findings that women and racial/ethnic minorities are moresensitive to social justice concerns and more likely to pursue engineering careers with an explicitsense of
NSF Revolutionizing Engineering Departments grant ”Additive Innovation: An Educational Ecosystem of Making and Risk Taking.” He was named one of ASEE PRISM’s ”20 Faculty Under 40” in 2014, and received a Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers from President Obama in 2017.Steven Weiner, Arizona State University, Polytechnic campus Steven Weiner is a PhD student in Human and Social Dimensions of Science and Technology at the School for the Future of Innovation in Society at Arizona State University. His interests include STEM education reform, innovative learning frameworks, and the future of schooling. His previous research focused on how young adults develop identities centered on the Maker
-Meyer is a pre-college science and engineering educator at Illinois State University.Dr. Jin Ho Jo Dr. Jin Ho Jo is an Associate Professor of Technology at Illinois State University, teaching in the Renew- able Energy program. Dr. Jo is the program coordinator and also leads the Sustainable Energy Research Group at ISU. Dr. Jo is an honors graduate of PuMaria Luisa Zamudio ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2023 An After-school STEM Program with a Novel Equitable and Inclusive Structure (Work in Progress, Diversity)Abstract An interdisciplinary team of faculty, staff, and students at Illinois State University ispartnering with the Chicago Public Schools district
record-high numbers of CS majors, and manyprograms need to limit admission to the CS major or courses [4]. University and CS departmentpolicies have an important role in the decision of who has access to CS and, consequently, whocan obtain the degree. Even though Camp at al. [4] report growth in the representation of womenand students from underrepresented racial and ethnic groups, the demographic of CS students ishighly skewed toward males versus females and has skewed racial/ethnic distributions [4, 5]. CShas particularly imbalanced gender and racial/ethnic distribution within student populations [6],resulting in imbalanced representation in the workforce. For example, Fry et al. [7] found thatHispanic and African American workers are quite
having sites connected to each other.” Additionally, the backboneconceptualization is strengthened due to the NF role being built into his local site structure. AtGreg’s site, local site leadership expects the NF to attend leadership meetings and conveyinformation between the NF team and the site. However, this can also play out in the oppositeway, where the backbone conceptualization is weakened by the local site contexts.Arpita is a graduate student located at a site that is currently going through a period of transitionafter a faculty lead left their position and a new faculty lead has stepped into the role. Thisexcerpt comes after an exchange between CT and Arpita in which she strategized about how thenew faculty member lead could be brought
experiences to help their graduates excel in their future workenvironment” [1]. Despite this need, only few students are able to or willing to have a studyabroad experience. The 2013 Open Doors report from the Institute for International Educationshows that nationally only 3.9% of engineering students studied abroad during theirundergraduate career [2]. In addition, despite the growing awareness of the benefits of studyabroad by students, the challenges preventing students from studying abroad are numerous andcomplex [2]. According to the IIE Generation Study Abroad White Paper Series, the primarychallenges for many U.S. students can be grouped into to three overarching categories: cost,curriculum and culture [2] .This paper contributes to the body
FIGURE 1 DESIGN PROCESS DEVELOPED BY E4C [7]First Year Engineering Experience (FYEE) Conference August 6-8, 2017, Daytona Beach, FL W1A-2 Session W1A An example timeline of the course is shown in Figure 2. curriculum, other changes may also be made to ensure thatNote that this course will be taught in fall 2017 as lab sections students graduate with the skills and tools necessary for athat meet on Tuesdays and Thursdays in 100 minute periods career in engineering. Long-term indicators and futurefor fourteen
content knowledge. International journal of technology and designpotential for use with students is evident. Future work with undergraduate and graduate science education, 22(3), 345-360.and or engineering majors as well as with high school students is also an area of need. Additionalrevisions may be necessary for work with different populations of learners. Some differences [9] Kaya, E., Newley, A., Deniz, H., Yesilyurt, E., & Newley, P. (2017). Introducing Engineering Design to a Science Teaching Methods Course Through Educational Robotics and Exploring Changes in Views ofbetween different groups of respondents
-time. Through this position, she was encouraged to earn her Master of Arts in Science Teaching, also at Northern Arizona University. During this time, Christina discovered a love for research, prompting her to pursue a Ph.D. She is a recipient of both a Graduate School Recruitment Fellowship and a Texas New Scholar’s Fellowship. She is a member of the National Science Teachers As- sociation, and currently serves as the STEM Education representative to the Graduate Student Assembly at UT.Hannah Smith Brooks, University of Texas at Austin Hannah Brooks is a doctoral student at the University of Texas at Austin. Her research focuses on promot- ing equitable access through collaboration and instructional design. She is
doingmore mentoring than the graduate students perceive. Even in estimating the frequency ofguidance given in conducting research, for example, faculty believe they frequently giveguidance while students feel that guidance is more occasional.In addition, the survey data show how little preparation is given to students for the teaching andmentoring function of an academic career. This finding is supported by research showing thatgraduate students feel unprepared for the teaching required for an academic career [8]. If the goalof an increase in the number of URM faculty members is to be reached, more care should go intothinking about how we’re preparing URM students to take that path. 2. What is the quality of the department environment for URM
not pursuing STEM fields [4]. They concluded that 42% of suchdemographic groups do not pursue STEM fields given their lack of access to quality education thatprepare them for such careers, while 41% because they were not encouraged to pursue STEM froman early age.II. PROPOSED WORKGiven the concerning and alarming statistics, it is imperative for supporting the cognitive andsocial development of underrepresented students. At the microlevel, which is the classroom,faculty members can and do play an important role the educational progression of students. Thismeans that faculty members can and should take a proactive role in supporting, promoting, andadvocating for educational equity that help advance the educational success of