Assistant Professor and Program Coordinator for Visual Communication and Computer Information at Hazard Community and Technical College. Watts began her career at Appalshop, a non-profit media arts center located in the coalfields of Eastern Kentucky, serving as a director, educator, filmmaker, and youth media trainer. For the last ten years, her work has focused on placed-based visual learning and distance learning methodologies to facilitate rural classroom equality. Watts is passionate about distance learning, accessibility, and Appalachia. She believes there is a classroom for everyone. Natasha has a Bachelor’s Degree in Broadcasting and Electronic Media, with a minor in Appalachian Studies from Eastern Kentucky
learning assignments, ad the use of technology in the classroom. Boni hopes to pursue a career in academia with a focus on teaching and engineering education.Bettina K ArkhurstStuart Montgomery, Georgia Institute of TechnologyDerek Ashton Nichols, Georgia Institute of TechnologyJennifer Molnar, Georgia Institute of Technology ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2024 Promotion of Graduate Student Well-being via Successful Navigationthrough Conflict Resolution PathwaysDr. Boni Yraguen, Bettina Arkhurst, Derek Nichols, Jennifer Molnar, Dr. Macrae Montgomery 1 Addressing advising and departmental issues can
. 8Assessment 2021/2022 Assessment Data (out of 267/252 responses):➔ 47%/73% Did not identify having an engineer in their immediate family➔ 75%/77% Responded that the activity made them interested in learning more about engineering➔ 60%/52% Responded little or no experience with engineering activities outside of classroom➔ 88%/90% Responded some confidence in their ability to complete another engineering-related activity on their own9 | eng.umd.edu 9 Assessment ➔ Main challenges to achieving career goals: math, need to improve time management and study skills, overcome fear of failure and mistakes, procrastination, & lack of confidence ➔ Kit feedback
foster an environment where diverse and creative people are successful in the pursuit of engineering and computing degrees. Jean’s efforts have been recognized with numerous awards including the National Science Foundation Faculty Early Career Development award, the American Society for Engineering Education John A. Curtis Lecturer award, and the Bagley College of Engineering Service award. Jean earned her B.S. and M.S. in computer engineering from Mississippi State University, and her Ph.D. in engineering education from Virginia Tech.Ms. Lorena Andrea Benavides Riano, Mississippi State University Lorena Benavides-Riano, originally from Colombia, is a first-year Engineering Ph.D. student at Missis- sippi State
; Ozkan, 2021). Problems areoften presented free of broader contexts in which the concepts might apply, and they ask studentsto employ complex math and physics concepts to scenarios that might bear little, if any,resemblance to the real world or their lived experiences. Such issues can present challenges forstudents as they struggle to understand the relevance or application of the concepts they arelearning both within their lives and the engineering profession more broadly. Without makingmeaningful connections between their lived experiences and the content they are learning,engineering students can lose motivation and expectations for success in their academic andprofessional careers (Kosovich, Hulleman, Phelps, & Lee, 2019).One way that
-in-college students become acclimated with the university setting and community priorto the start of their academic career. Students take non-credit courses in subjects that arehistorically challenging and required for first-year students, such as calculus, chemistry, andengineering fundamentals. Throughout the program, students also participate in informationalseminars presented by various offices on campus to understand the range of opportunities andresources available to them. In light of participation occurring prior to the official start of thesemester, the purpose of this paper is to explore the role of this program in shaping theexpectations that participating students have of the undergraduate engineering program. Toaddress this
alongside faculty mentors. Claudine has also co-facilitated multiple Conversations about Race and Ethnicity (C.A.R.E.) Circles and C.A.R.E. Speaks through the Office of Multicultural Affairs (OMA) to undergraduate students across the SU colleges and departments including RAs in an effort to impact demonstrative change in diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility on campus. Claudine is a licensed Social Worker (LMSW). She graduated from Hunter College of the City University of New York (CUNY) with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Psychology and a minor in Communications, and later went on to pursue a Master’s degree in Social Work from Fordham University. Claudine began her social work career in the field of child
disease on tissue- and joint-level mechanobiology. She has received many awards including the 2019 YC Fung Young Investigator Award and NSF CAREER Award, and was inducted into the AIMBE College of Fellows in 2021. American c Society for Engineering Education, 2022Thank you for joining us today for our presentation on Combining Forces, PuttingEquity to Work. My name is Dr. Fatima Alleyne and I am the Director of CommunityEngagement and Inclusive Practices in the College of Engineering at UC Berkeley.Joining me today from UC Berkeley is Professor Grace O’Connell, the Associate Deanfor Inclusive Excellence and former Vice Chair for Equity in the MechanicalEngineering
Paper ID #40780Examining how Graduate Advisors in STEM Support Mental Health amongBlack and Latinx Graduate WomenDr. Kerrie Wilkins-Yel, University of Massachusetts Boston Kerrie Wilkins-Yel, Ph.D., is the Executive Director of Radical Investment in Strategic Solutions towards Equity (RISSE) Consulting LLC and an Associate Professor of Counseling Psychology at the University of Massachusetts Boston. She is an NSF Early CAREER award recipient whose research broadly focuses on advancing equity, access, and wellness in STEM.Stephanie Marando-Blanck, University of MassachusettsPavneet Kaur Bharaj, California State University
anexample, one of the first assignments in our first engineering class - EGR 111 (Introduction toEngineering Thinking and Practice) - was a personal statement of what each student hoped to dowith an engineering degree and where they envisioned they would be after graduation. This wasnot an easy assignment but one that we would give back to students on graduation day (nearly 4years later). Similar visioning assignments like an Independent Development Plan (IDP) wouldbe part of the curriculum too and would continue to be improved by the founding faculty team(e.g. Melissa Kenny, Kyle Luthy, Kyana Young, Courtney DiVittorio). Ethical Leadershipassignments and Career Readiness assignments in capstone design, etc. Figure 3: Some of the
Paper ID #35634Increasing Academic Success for Underrepresented Minority PhD GraduateSTEM Students Through Self-Advocacy EducationProf. Carmen M Lilley, The University of Illinois at Chicago Dr. Lilley’s research interests in engineering education focus on professional development of engineering students at the undergraduate and graduate level. In particular, she is interested in the nuances of how the intersection of race/ethnicity with gender affects professional development in the area of leadership and the long term career trajectory of an individual. Her other research interests are focused on syntheses of low
pursue engineering (or STEM) degrees. But the chilly climate that is often discussed when researching academic spaces is also affecting women in other workspaces, including the public and private sectors.• Women leave the engineering workforce at much higher rates than their male counterparts. And as shown in this graph, it does not often happen in early career. 5 The Overlooked Problem: Retention Proportion of 25- to 34-year-old Women Employed with a Bachelor's Degree in STEM, by Race/Ethnicity and Occupation, 2019 White
for jobs that don’t yet exist, using technologies that haven’t beeninvented, in order to solve problems that we don’t even know are problems yet.”pg. 4Like most in the professoriate here in the U.S., Krishna also received doctoral education. Inaddition to being a doctoral student and learning and researching on mechanical engineering,Krishna was an international graduate student learning to navigate a different country,language, holidays and customs, and a bevvy on visa related issues.Even as a child, Krishna knew that he would grow up to teach students. In his reflections, henotes: "my career path to education always felt inevitable. I was born on “Teacher’s Day” - acelebration in India dedicated to educators. I was often reminded of this
Center of Tampa. In 2007 she founded Charis Consulting Group, LLC as the President and CEO. Dr. Johnson Austin has held positions as: executive director of Curated PathwaysTM to Innovation in San Jose, CA; senior vice president for operations at the National Action Council for Minorities in Engineering, Inc. (NACME); president and CEO of St. Michael’s High School; executive vice president of the Community Partnership for Lifelong Learning; executive director of the National Consortium for Graduate Degrees for Minori- ties in Engineering and Science; and Minority Engineering Program director at The Pennsylvania State University. She began her career as a cost engineering at Bechtel Power Corporation. In 1998, she
, professional-track faculty who are evaluatedprimarily on their teaching. EIF are often not on a tenure-track but may be on a promotion track,depending on their department and institution. The career trajectory toward EIF positions isvaried, and those varied academic and career experiences of EIF can enrich students' classroomexperiences. Over the last twenty years, there has been an increase in the number of professional-track faculty in higher education. This increase is attributed to the need for subject-matterspecialists who can bring extensive content knowledge and, in some cases, industry experienceto the classroom. With the rise in the number of faculty in these roles and the number of postedpositions for instructional faculty in engineering
Paper ID #40681The Missing Misrecognition in Recognition and Engineering IdentityResearchDr. Annie Yong Patrick, Georgia Tech Annie Y. Patrick is a Post-Doctoral Fellow in the Studio for Transforming Engineering Learning and Research (STELAR) Lab in the Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering at Georgia Tech. She received a bachelor’s degree in Psychology from Mississippi College and an associate’s degree in Nursing from Holmes Community College. After a fulfilling nursing career working in a variety of specialties, she became interested in technology while studying Library and Information Science and completed a
degree. Most participants indicated that theirmeetings with their advisors took place at an abstract level, discussing research directions, statusupdates, or degree progress, and that they received advice on how to proceed on those topics. Forexample, Tom described their meetings as including “career advice, internship advice, and justgeneral research things,” highlighting that he primarily received advice on the big-picture goalshe needed to pursue. Discussions of what to do in the PhD often operated on the same level: forinstance, when asked what his advisor expects him to achieve during the degree program, Kurtresponded that his advisor’s expectations are “totally the same requirements as the department’sto obtain the PhD. Pass the qual exam
University of Texas at Austin. Dr. Borrego is Senior Associaate Editor for Journal of Women and Minorities in Science and Engineering. She previously served as Deputy Editor for Journal of Engineering Education, a Program Director at the National Science Foundation, on the board of the American Society for Engineering Education, and as an associate dean and director of in- terdisciplinary graduate programs. Her research awards include U.S. Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE), a National Science Foundation CAREER award, and two outstand- ing publication awards from the American Educational Research Association for her journal articles. All of Dr. Borrego’s degrees are in Materials Science
Scholarshipii. Demonstrated financial neediii. Leadership, scholastic engagement, and community engagementiv. Engagement with Penn Statev. Personal and social responsibilityvi. High achievement in high school courses 4Once selected as a finalist, students are then asked tosubmit a nomination from a mentor, counselor or teacherbased on the following prompts:i. Please describe how the nominee embodies the values of effort, integrity, ingenuity, and/or servant leadership.ii. Please describe how the nominee has contributed to fostering an inclusive and diverse community and plans to continue in these efforts at Penn State and in their future career as
inclusiveand supportive culture for Black male students. Within the organizational culture of universitiesand STEM institutions, there exists an inherent disconnect that can perpetuate the "chilly"climate by not adequately addressing the distinctive needs and experiences of these students(Burt et al., 2021). Furthermore, amid our increasingly hyper-divided socio-political landscape,the experiences of Black doctoral students are not insulated by the university boundaries. McGee(2023) delves into the career decisions of Black STEM doctoral students during the Trumppresidency, revealing how the prevalent organizational culture interacts with external politicalfactors. This interaction exacerbates the "chilly" climate, amplifying stress and
institutional environments and STEM identity development are sponsored by the National Science Foundation (NSF) and the Kapor Center. In recent years, she was selected as an Early Career Awardee and Faculty Fellow with the American Association of Hispanics in Higher Education (AAHHE) and a NASPA Emerging Faculty Leader. She also received the Barbara Townsend Early Career Scholar Award by the Council for the Study of Community Colleges (CSCC) and gave the distinguished ASHE-CAHEP Barbara Townsend Lecture. To learn more about her current projects, visit http://sarahlrodriguez.com/Taylor Y. Johnson, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University Taylor Y. Johnson is a graduate student at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and
M.S. in Applied Behavioral Science from Johns Hopkins and a B.S. in Computer Science from Old Dominion University. Prior to coming to the College of Engineering in 2000, Dr. Scales was the Director of Instructional and Research Computing at North Carolina A&T where she led a university team to successfully launch their first virtual campus. She began her career working as a computer analyst for the National Security Agency. In 2018, Dr. Scales was appointed by Governor Terry McAuliffe to the Southern Regional Education Board for a second term. This board works with 16 member states to improve public education, from prekindergarten through post-secondary education. American
% had multiple bad experiences with faculty. ● While 16% participated in engineering research, many indicated that it was helpful for their future career and in the decision to change their major. ● Many students commented that they were not receiving the help they needed. ● Several students commented wanting a better balance between theory and practicality.The college of engineering has a list of academic policies and practices designed to usherstudents smoothly through the academic life cycle. Even with the focus on student enrollment, itseems the very academic and enrollment practices and policies designed to be fair were actuallyimpacting specific student populations inequitably. For example, student support
expected to pay for their educations is still far too high formany. We note that in our ongoing research of the whole participant population (N = 984), maleparticipants experienced the inflexibility of engineering, specifically affordability, as a commonissue. Thus, the pursuit of engineering includes both financial opportunities and costs. Participants (384, 65, and 449) describe other experiences with HC in engineering, suchas shouldering non-traditional student and parent roles and observing individuals with socialconnections who receive preferential access to internship and career opportunities. The onlyracist or gendered incidents the participants experienced were claims that the survey itself wasracist against White people, although
, worked on theSims, Tiger Woods golf, will probably do more amazing things in her career Instructor meetings • Recap previous lesson • Pinpoint where students did not understand concepts • Review next week's topics Adjust lesson plan INSTANTLY based on instructor recommendations - -> dynamic curriculum and instruction style Recap email to students after every classTHE SWEET SOUNDS OF CODING CONECD 2022 Both platforms The virtual classroom MS Teams Allowed audio/video • Hosted by Pittsburgh Public Schools sharing • Instructors were not allowed to host
represented inthese images and what this might convey to those interested in pursuing a career in video gamedesign.Why representation in visual content matters Representation in higher education marketing materials is a contentious subject. Severalscholars have explored how higher education marketing materials such as viewbooks [27], [28]and online sources such as program websites [29], [30], [31], [32] use language and visuals toconvey messages to prospective students about diversity and inclusion on campus. Thesematerials often misrepresent true campus diversity and fail to accurately depict who is a part ofthe programs in reality [29], [30]. Indeed, online marketing materials tend to over-representminority groups in visuals while failing to
undergraduate students on their path to their profes- sional career. In addition to STEM Routes, Dana has also led the national organizations UMAS y Mecha and oSTEM. When Dana isn’t doing research, you’ll find her creating. Dana is an artist and graphic designer and loves using her skills to support start-up organizations and amplify community voices by creating websites, logos, and advertising content. Dana also enjoys snowboarding, skateboarding, and roller skating around Colorado.Dr. Clayton Lewis, University of Colorado Boulder Clayton Lewis is Emeritus Professor of Computer Science at the University of Colorado Boulder. Lewis served previously as Co-Director for Technology for the Coleman Institute for Cognitive
-career faculty or professional staff in engineering education roles.We are now in year 3 of the 5 year grant. 5Specifically, the Academy’s mission is train, empower, resource and support anational network of educational change agents through 5 objectives, based on a 2-year professional development & research experience that guides participants todesign and implement an engineering-focused high-impact ImplementationProject at their home institution.stEm PEER Fellows as change agents will: Understand the engineering education pathway landscape with emphasis on Diversity, Equity and Inclusion – nationally, regionally and locally at their own institution
, concentration areas, how to findstudy groups, etc. (note: a mentor is NOT a tutor) 2. Personal: finding your fit at Purdue, study abroad, exploring your interests outside ofthe classroom, getting involved in clubs, etc. 3. Professional: how to find internships/jobs, networking, career discovery, gettinginvolved in research, etc.Department - # of participants in Fall 2023ME - 215BME - 168AAE - 146ECE - 145CE/CEM - 102CHE - 94IE - 76EEE - 48ABE - 46MSE/NE/MDE/IDE - 15/16/9/3 8Dayton: There are no requirements to participate in UD’s mentoring program. Studentsare incentivized to participate regularly in several ways: ● Students who participate in monthly
. 3 Vision The Racial Equity Center envisions an equitable and just future for all who dream of a career in engineering and even those who don’t.We will discuss the vision of the center and why this vision is paramount in the spaceof engineering. 4 Mission The Racial Equity Center cultivates and models a radically just engineering future