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
Research enthusiasm or or commitment to evaluation, expression of or commitment commitment clearly research, potential for CV, research articulated through articulated through future research personal enthusiasm or demonstration of demonstration of research statement commitment interest experience beyond senior project or capstone (research experiences can
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
Paper ID #28475 Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, introduced Changing the Face of STEM at the Na- tional Academy of Sciences (NAS) in Washington, D.C. URU returned to the NAS for its third engage- ment on June 10, 2019, where Emery unveiled the ”You Can’t Be What You Can’t See” Virtual Reality Project, aimed at closing the identification gap for young marginalized students within the STEM realm. IN 2019, Crystal lead URU in a successful effort to became a programmatic partner of 100Kin10, an organization formed in response to President Obama’s call during his 2011 State of the Union address to train 100,000 new STEM teachers in a decade. Emery believes that perseverance, faith, and trusting in a
increasing criticalmass of women in these fields [7] will help inform which areas require further attention in orderto support the advancement of women academics in science and engineering.Effectiveness of ADVANCE initiativesSupported by existing research on the challenges of women faculty, such as those described inprevious sections, ADVANCE goals include increasing the representation and advancement ofwomen academics in STEM through systemic approaches, promoting gender equity in STEM ininnovative and systemic ways, and contributing to the creation of knowledge around equityacross gender and other identities of STEM academics. To reach its goals, ADVANCE sponsorsinitiatives to conduct projects of institutional transformation as well as those
. 3, pp. 20-21, 2016.8. D. B. Oerther, “Diplomacy lab provides term-length group projects integration policy analysis and liberal arts into the traditional engineering classroom,” in Proceedings ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, Columbus, Ohio, USA, 2017. [Online]. Available: https://doi.org/10.18260/1-2--28183. [Accessed April 12, 2021].9. D. B. Oerther, “Science, Technology, Engineering, Art, and Math (STEAM) Diplomacy: Preliminary Results from an Initial Pilot Course,” in Proceedings ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA, 2018. [Online]. Available: https://doi.org/10.18260/1-2--30952. [Accessed April 12, 2021].10. D. B. Oerther, D.B. (2020), “Using science in diplomacy to develop
characteristics (e.g., [16], [17]). Second, mechanical engineeringdisciplines often deal with consumer products and systems and engage in creative ideation relatedto novel solutions to human-centered problems. Finally, the last author and PI on the project is aprofessor in the mechanical engineering department and thus had access to student listservs fromwhich to recruit students. Selecting students in this way therefore represents a combination of bothconvenience and purposive sampling, as is common in qualitative research [18].According to our screening survey, 17 of the participants used she/her/hers pronouns and 19 usedhe/him/his. Twenty-two participants identified as white, eight as Asian, five as Hispanic, and oneas mixed race. Students were given
’ propensity for innovationand creative problem solving affects such choices and persistence. This paper presents on thethree years year of a multistage research project funded by the National Science Foundation(NSF). The value of the study’s findings depends largely on an exploratory research design,which analyzes the pedagogical practices—practices designed to foster successful transfer fromcommunity college to four-year colleges and universities and how students’ innovative capabilityinfluences such transfer capacity. The goals of this research are: (1) to explore the pedagogicalpractices used to support non-traditional students in community colleges to persist in engineeringand science majors, (2) to understand whether such practices are effective
only one side ofstudents can comprehend. For example, the Challenger disaster, though a good case study forAmerican engineering ethics, may not be an appropriate one in the Chinese context. Second, 1 Current areas of focus include: (1) Risks and ethical issues involved in engineering accidents; (2) Responsibleinnovation research in major engineering projects and corporate social responsibility (3) Methodology ofengineering ethics education, including curriculum construction and engineering vocational training; (4) Cross-cultural comparative study of engineering ethics. 4