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Faculty Perspectives of Active Learning, Inequity, and Curricular Change
Collection
2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access
Authors
Steven Santana, Harvey Mudd College
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Diversity
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Educational Research and Methods
○ I can communicate design work in writing. ○ I can communicate design work verbally. ○ I can communicate design work graphically. ● Management and Planning ○ I can monitor progress toward team goals. ○ I can divide a project into manageable components or tasks.Table 4: Engineering Identity and Belonging Survey Category Survey Item Definition ● I understand what it means to be an engineer. Interest ● I enjoy learning engineering. ● I am interested in learning more about engineering. ● I find fulfillment in doing engineering. Recognition
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Cooperative and Experiential Education Division Technical Session 3
Collection
2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access
Authors
Patricia Caratozzolo P.E., Tecnológico de Monterrey; Anna Friesel, Technical University of Denmark; Peter Jan Randewijk, Technical University of Denmark; David Navarro-Duran, Tecnológico de Monterrey
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Diversity
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Cooperative and Experiential Education
February 2020 the World Economic Forum published its report on the characteristics ofEducation in the Fourth Industrial Revolution, of which several stand out for their relevantimpact on engineering programs. These are: (i) Global citizenship, building awareness aboutthe wider world and playing an active role in the global community; (ii) Collaborativelearning, requiring peer collaboration and a move to project- and problem-based content thatmore closely mirrors their future work; (iii) Innovation and creativity skills, includingcomplex problem-solving and analytical thinking.In March 2020, the emergence of COVID-19 forced educational institutions to abruptly adoptsocial distancing and quarantine measures, making compliance with the
Conference Session
Women in Engineering Division Technical Session 1
Collection
2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access
Authors
Marcela Alejandra Silva, Universidad Andres Bello, Santiago, Chile; Angeles Dominguez, Tecnologico de Monterrey, Monterrey, Mexico and Universidad Andres Bello, Santiago, Chile
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Diversity
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Women in Engineering
dropout rates can be achieved and thus achieve good academic behavior. However, thecommitment of the Faculty of Engineering at the university, through its mission, is to incorporatethose who aspire to progress [3].ReflectionConsidering students' interests, the Construction Engineering program is developing an electivecourse based on talks by successful women engineers in working life. The program is interestedin coordinating gender and self-esteem workshops focused on career women to learn to faceconflicts in predominantly male workspaces. The program supports students to form a newstudent center, providing facilities to encourage their peers to participate in the elections. It isessential to have a student center so that the students of the
Conference Session
Women in Engineering Division Technical Session 8
Collection
2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access
Authors
Gretchen A. Dietz, University of Florida; Kayla Julianna Kummerlen, The University of Florida; Elliot P. Douglas, University of Florida
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Diversity
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Women in Engineering
it became evident that she felt encouraged, a sense ofbelonging, and supported. Stemming from this, Kayla and Gretchen had a collaborativeconversation that was recorded over Zoom at the end of Kayla’s internship in order to understandhow her experiences were influenced by gender and how they impacted her engineering identity.The conversation also brought up memories as well as other journal entries. The frameworks ofin/authenticity and engineering identity were chosen for this paper because of their relatedness tothe research in the form of assets. When writing her narrative, we aimed to use it as a means of“gaining cultural understanding” [5, p. 125]. This helped to ensure that Kayla was not merelydescribing her life and experiences but
Conference Session
First-Year Programs: Metacognition, Self-Efficacy, and Motivation #2
Collection
2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access
Authors
Megan Gray, Duke University; Ann Saterbak, Duke University; Sophia T. Santillan, Duke University; Michael Rizk, Duke University; Jessica Sperling, Duke University
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Diversity
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First-Year Programs
pursuing their major [10] [12] [13] [14].Hutchison-Green et al interviewed first-year engineering students to determine what factors, inthe students’ first semester, begin to affect self-efficacy [15]. They found that performancecomparison (i.e., a student comparing his/her performance to his/her peers) makes a significantimpact on self-efficacy, and that depending on the student and the situation, self-efficacy couldeither increase or decrease in response to the situation. Team-based project courses can thusmitigate the possibility of decreasing students’ confidence because they do not require studentsto work individually and then compare their performance to that of their peers. Instead, studentswork together toward a common goal. Team-based
Conference Session
CoNECD Session : Day 1 Slot 4 Technical Session 1
Collection
2021 CoNECD
Authors
Niesha C. Douglas, Educate, Activate, Transform; Cathy Howell, University of North Carolina at Charlotte; Lisa R. Merriweather, University of North Carolina at Charlotte; Anna Sanczyk, University of North Carolina at Charlotte
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CoNECD Paper Submissions, Diversity
students in doctoral STEM programs is a recalcitrant issue that hasbeen taken up by scholars and government agencies with great vigor. Sowell, Bell, Kirby, andNaftel [5] found that financial support, mentoring and advising, family non-financial support,and social environmental/peer group support were among the top things that impactedattrition. Okahana, Allum, Felder, and Tull [6] further reported that institutional levelinterventions for URM STEM doctoral students were scant and limited in intervention focuswith most providing additional financial resources as the means to reduce attrition. Beyondthat, institutional-based support existed in the forms of peer support groups and mentoring.Mentoring in particular has been noted as a key intervention
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CoNECD Session : Day 1 Slot 5 Technical Session 2
Collection
2021 CoNECD
Authors
Tojan Rahhal, University of Missouri; Miguel Elias Ayllon, University of Missouri
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CoNECD Paper Submissions, Diversity
Leadership by Jo Ann Ross and Willa Zakin Hallowell  “Leadership for Engineers: The Magic of Mindset” by Ronald Bennett & Elaine Milliam Book Excerpts 9The EDGEs program included ten 1.5 hour sessions. Each week a topic was covered utilizingan array of readings, articles, videos, and activities. The course starts with an overview ofdiversity, inclusion, and equity- understanding the terminology and diving into eachperson’s individual identity as it relates to their peers in the classroom and internationally.Then students took on understanding bias, stereotypes and even imposter syndrome. Next,we dived into privilege, what it is, and
Collection
ASEE 2021 Gulf-Southwest Annual Conference
Authors
Nina Kamath Telang, University of Texas at Austin; Nisha Abraham, University of Texas at Austin; Althea Louise Woodruff, University of Texas at Austin
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Diversity
arrive at many higher education institutions where these structures have been removed and expectations have shifted to self-directed learning outside of the classroom, initial struggle and sometimes failure become highly probable. There is limited evidence of teaching engineering students discipline-specific metacognitive strategies. A recent study conducted using modelling and coaching of discipline-specific metacognitive strategies in an introductory computer science course using peer tutors, showed that encouraging students to implement these learning strategies had a significant impact on their ability to apply knowledge to programming problems and also had long-term effects on students' future course outcomes.25 Two of the authors have also
Conference Session
Faculty Track - Technical Session I
Collection
2018 CoNECD - The Collaborative Network for Engineering and Computing Diversity Conference
Authors
Michelle Kay Bothwell, Oregon State University; Padma Akkaraju, Oregon State University; Joseph McGuire, Oregon State University; Thuy T. Tran, Oregon State University; Andrea Zigler, Oregon State University
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Diversity, Faculty
energy.Implementation of the College of Engineering strategic planFaculty recruitmentThe national need to improve inclusivity and increase diversity in STEM disciplines poses acomplex challenge that is associated with a variety of policy and social issues described andanalyzed by a huge volume of scholarship and archival reports [1-5]. The engineering facultydiversity challenge in particular has proven to be quite durable. Despite this complexity and theslow pace of progress in diversifying faculty ranks overall, there are universities of everyCarnegie classification that have created faculties far more diverse than those of their peers,often starting with faculty diversity levels well below average. Superior recruiting practices arecited as principally
Conference Session
NSF Grantees Poster Session
Collection
2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors
Carolyn A. Nichol, Rice University; Carrie Obenland, Rice University; Alice Chow, Rice University; Christina Anlynette Alston, Rice University; Carolina Avendano, Rice University
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Diversity, NSF Grantees Poster Session
, and Computer Science at the University of California,Berkeley.A substantial amount of research over many years has examined undergraduate student retentionand why students leave STEM majors.12-17 Challenges that prevent minority students’ persistencein STEM education include: lack of role models, inequitable academic preparation, lack of astudent peer group, and inadequate advising.18-21 For minority students or first generation collegestudents in the physical sciences at the nation’s research institutions, the lack of role models andinadequate advising are particularly problematic since few faculty members are of an URM.21Minority students, often the only URM in their department, are generally isolated and not likelyto seek out advice or
Conference Session
Predicting Student Success
Collection
2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors
Shanon Marie Reckinger, Montana State University; Bryce E. Hughes, Montana State University
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Diversity
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Educational Research and Methods
versus global). Along each of these dimensions, students are categorized as having amild, moderate, or strong preference in each of these four learning style scales.This study takes place in a mid-size, public university in the western United States. The samplefor this study includes mechanical engineering undergraduate students across four sections of arequired programming course in MATLAB, taught by the same instructor. These students wereprovided the Index of Learning Styles at the beginning of the semester. Students wereadministered a weekly quiz to assess their ability to write code, but construction of thisassessment varies by section to favor different preferences of one of the four Felder-Solomanlearning style dimensions. Performance on
Conference Session
Novel Pedagogical Techniques II: Potpourri
Collection
2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors
Rebecca Jo Pinkelman, Technische Universität Darmstadt; David J. Dixon, South Dakota School of Mines and Technology; Manfred J Hampe, Technische Universität Darmstadt
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Diversity
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Chemical Engineering
tends to focus more on knowledge acquisition9. It has been shown thatproject-oriented courses increase retention rates10-12, intellectual development13, and increase notonly students’ technical and design knowledge, but also their technical writing and researchskills14. In addition, project-oriented courses expose students to the broader context of engineeringdesign, and students learn best when experiencing the entirety of the content area through real-lifeexamples and working with and learning from their peers6, 15-17.Project-oriented learning and capstone design courses allow for the concurrent teaching of designthrough application and teamwork skills, which are needed for future professional success3,4,18,19.This teaches students the
Conference Session
Faculty Development Round Table
Collection
2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors
Sylvia L. Mendez, University of Colorado, Colorado Springs; Valerie Martin Conley, University of Colorado, Colorado Springs; Katie Johanson; Kinnis Gosha, Morehouse College; Naja A. Mack, University of Florida; Comas Lamar Haynes, Georgia Tech Research Institute; Rosario A. Gerhardt, Georgia Institute of Technology
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Diversity
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Faculty Development Constituent Committee
a Turbulent Era.Katie JohansonDr. Kinnis Gosha, Morehouse College Dr. Kinnis Gosha (Go-Shay) is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Di- rector of the Culturally Relevant Computer Lab at Morehouse College. Dr. Gosha’s research interests include conversational agents, social media data analytics, computer science education, broadening par- ticipation in computing and culturally relevant computing. More specifically, Gosha’s passion lies in his research in virtual mentoring where he has several peer-reviewed research publications. Gosha’s Cultur- ally Relevant Computing Lab is comprised of approximately 10 top undergraduate researchers each year from Morehouse College, Spelman College
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Research, Innovation and Careers
Collection
2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors
Dan G. Dimitriu, San Antonio College; Klaus Bartels, San Antonio College; Dee Dixon
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Diversity
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Two-Year College
Centerwith a planetarium and rooftop star deck and observatory. Students volunteer to operate thetelescopes for the public on Friday nights. The professional development workshops includeresume writing, creating a LinkedIn profile, club officers’ retreat, e-portfolios, scholarship essays,transfer tips and research paper sessions. In 2017, 98 students participated in these workshops; in2018, 94 students participated. Because families think the students spend an inordinate amount oftime at the MESA Center, Family Night was implemented to share some of the projects in a fun,engaging and interactive environment. Another highlight for 2018 was the center’s visit byCongressman Joaquin Castro, who wanted to learn more about the undergraduate
Conference Session
Practice III: Multimedia Learning
Collection
2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors
John T. Solomon, Tuskegee University; Eric Hamilton, Pepperdine University; Vimal Kumar Viswanathan, San Jose State University; Chitra R. Nayak, Tuskegee University; Firas Akasheh, Tuskegee University
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Diversity
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Educational Research and Methods
maximum) In-class Lecture, students takes Lecture using KACIE video (5-15 min.) notes, solve problems Each student work on his/her KACIE based on white board sheet developed for EACH of the demos concepts Mandatory submission of sheets Peer discussions allowed Teacher work with individuals on demand Repeated view of video lectures
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Modeling, Inquiry, Engineering Literacy & Argumentation
Collection
2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors
Roxanne A. Moore, Georgia Institute of Technology; Michael Helms, Georgia Institute of Technology; Marion Usselman, Georgia Institute of Technology
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Diversity
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Pre-College Engineering Education
Computer Science Principles (CSP)classes.Observers used a structured observation form, designed to focus the observer onelements of classroom behavior that were considered important to the model. Theform was used to note classroom size, composition and arrangement, technologyissues, start and end time of instruction, and a Likert-scale assessment of the qualityof teacher instruction across a set of instruction styles: lecture, problem-based, etc.and across a set of observed student behaviors: working in teams, peer-to-peerlearning support, students sharing music content, etc. Qualitative observationalevidence was used to support each score. Additional open-ended questions on theobservation form were used to capture unanticipated behaviors and
Conference Session
Diversity in Community Engagement Implementation I
Collection
2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors
Keilin Jahnke, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; Ann-Perry Witmer P.E., University of Illinois; Matthew Tan, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Grace Frances Witmer, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
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Diversity
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Community Engagement Division
internationaldevelopment professionals, their added perspectives are key to helping the students discernappropriate actions and are vital to the success of the projects.The Course ObjectivesThe course is founded on eight governing principles for successful projects. The lead courseinstructor developed these principles over time as she participated on various internationalservice projects in Latin America and Western Africa. The governing principles are as follows: ● Vision and understanding: The project must have both vision and understanding; one without the other will lead to failure ● Community empowerment: The community must commit in writing to governing the system ● Skin in the game: The recipient community must invest in the system
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Reimagining Engineering Information Literacy: Novel Perspectives on Integration, Assessment, Competencies & Information Use
Collection
2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors
Laura Robinson Hanlan, Worcester Polytechnic Institute; Evelyn M Riley, Worcester Polytechnic Institute
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Diversity
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Engineering Libraries
degrees. We sought to understandnot only how librarians teach students about information seeking and lifelong learning, but howfaculty instructors and advisors approach teaching these critical professional skills. In additionwe sought to understand what information sources students actually use by reviewing the workscited within five award winning project team reports per year of our study, for a total of 60projects and almost 3000 works cited. We learned that student teams, despite year, projectlocation, or discipline of study and faculty advisor use a broad range of sources, both peer-reviewed and not, and that these sources only partially correlate to the sources recommended byfaculty. Most advisors depend on the support of librarians to help
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Computer Science, Computer Engineering, and Digital Systems Education 1
Collection
2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors
Mehran Mozaffari Kermani, Rochester Institute of Technology (COE); Reza Azarderakhsh, Rochester Institute of technology
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Diversity
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Electrical and Computer
skills including presentation of the results ofdeeply-embedded security research orally or in writing, team-work, decision-making, and thelike, and (c) hard technical skills for simulations and implementations of the fault diagnosisschemes for crypto-systems including those based on AES and ECC. Page 26.989.7 ECDH, ECDSA, ECIES One Q= k.P Point
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First-year Programs Division Technical Session 3: Diversity and Multicultural Influences in the First Year
Collection
2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors
Haolin Zhu, Arizona State University; Ryan J Meuth, Arizona State University
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Diversity
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First-Year Programs
Lego MazeRobot had significant impact with respect to the Autonomous Waste Sorter project. Thus, aftercompleting the Grand Challenges Project and the Lego Maze Robot Project, both groups ofstudents considered that their engineering related skills had improved compared to their peers,while students who completed the Autonomous Waste Sorter Project did not think that their skillsimproved compared to their peers. Page 26.259.8 Highest 10% Score Relative to Classmates Above Average Pre-Survey
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Creating a Positive Environment for Learning
Collection
2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors
Ronald W. Welch, The Citadel; Kevin C. Bower P.E., The Citadel; Robert J. Rabb P.E., The Citadel; Ally Kindel Martin, The Citadel
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Diversity
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Civil Engineering
. However,once a student has made contact and then a commitment to attend, there are a number ofactivities and processes employed both before they arrive and during their first year to maintainthe pipeline and retain them in engineering once on campus. The main focus of these efforts areto create a culture of open communications with potential students and increase engagement ofengineering students with faculty, engineering professionals, and peers to scaffold resiliency inpersisting in engineering degrees.The overall goal was to design an effective recruiting and retention program that allowedstudents to be a part of a dynamic and supportive educational environment inside and outside ofthe classroom. While each first-year student has different
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Engineering Ethics Division Technical Session - Ethics Across Contexts
Collection
2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors
Gokhan Egilmez, University of New Haven; Phillip A. Viscomi, University of New Haven ; Maria-Isabel Carnasciali, University of New Haven
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Diversity
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Engineering Ethics
Engineering, and Civil Engineering from Ohio University, and B.S. in Industrial Engineering from Istanbul Technical University, Turkey. His re- search interests cover a variety of topics that include engineering education, applied optimization and simulation modeling, social, economic and environmental life cycle assessment, data analytics, energy and sustainability, input-output analysis, transportation sustainability and safety. Gokhan has over 50 peer-reviewed publications in prestigious academic journals, books, and conference proceedings related to sustainable development, life cycle assessment, manufacturing system design and control, supply chain management, transportation safety assessment, and predictive modeling
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Social Dialogue on Diversity and Inclusion
Collection
2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors
Susan M. Lord, University of San Diego; Beena Sukumaran, Rowan University; Ella Lee Ingram, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; Anthony A. Maciejewski, Colorado State University; James D. Sweeney, Oregon State University; Thomas Martin, Virginia Tech; Joseph M. LeDoux, Georgia Institute of Technology; Jeremi S. London, Arizona State University, Polytechnic campus; Noah Salzman, Boise State University
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Diversity
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Educational Research and Methods
faculty at Rowan University since 1998 and is currently Professor and President’s Fellow. She was Chair of Civil and Environmental Engineering until very recently. Under her leadership, the Civil and Environmental Engineering Program had seen considerable growth in student and faculty numbers. Her area of expertise is in micro-geomechanics and has published over 100 peer reviewed conference and journal papers including several papers on engineering education and the unique undergraduate curriculum at Rowan University, especially the Engineering Clinics. She has been involved in various outreach activities to recruit more women and minorities into engineering and is Program Chair Elect of the Women in Engineering
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Women in Engineering Division Technical Session 8
Collection
2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access
Authors
Robyn Sandekian, University of Colorado, Boulder; JoAnn Silverstein P.E., University of Colorado Boulder; Beverly Louie, University of Colorado, Boulder
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Diversity
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Women in Engineering
small numbers, already face heavier service loads than their majority, men peers. So,in this study we asked, “What differences have these programs made in the hiring outcomeswithin our college?”This case study describes some of the recent interventions implemented at the University ofColorado Boulder (CU Boulder) College of Engineering and Applied Science (CEAS), apredominantly White, very high research activity doctoral institution [1]. We present thedemographic history of the college’s tenured/tenure-track faculty compared to national averagesin the United States, a discussion of changes incorporated into the tenured/tenure-track facultysearch processes over the past five years, the hiring results over the past decade, and insights
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2-Year College Division: Workforce Pathways and ATE
Collection
2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access
Authors
Cynthia Kay Pickering, Science Foundation Arizona Center for STEM at Arizona State University; Elaine L. Craft, Florence-Darlington Technical College; Caroline Vaningen-Dunn, Arizona State University; Anna Tanguma- Gallegos, Arizona State University; Emery DeWitt, Florence-Darlington Technical College
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Diversity
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Two-Year College
STEM initiative and translate her passion for STEM into opportunities that will attract, inspire and retain more girls in STEM to make it the new norm. She has also architected SFAz’s enhanced Community College STEM Pathways Guide that has received the national STEMx seal of approval for STEM tools. She integrated the STEM Pathways Guide with the KickStarter processes for improving competitive proposal writing of Community College Hispanic Serving Institutions. Throughout her career, Ms. Pickering has written robotics software, diagnostic expert systems for space station, manufacturing equipment models, and architected complex IT systems for global collaboration that included engagement analytics. She holds a US
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Women in Engineering Division Technical Session 2
Collection
2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access
Authors
Anne M Lucietto, Purdue Polytechnic Institute; Diane L Peters P.E., Kettering University; Liza Ann Russell, Purdue University ; Meher Rusi Taleyarkhan, Purdue University; Shelly Tan
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Diversity
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Women in Engineering
analysis for a local wastewater plant facility.Ms. Shelly Tan Shelly Tan is an undergraduate researcher working with Dr. Lucietto. She is currently pursuing a Bach- elors of Science in Health and Disease at Purdue University, and began working with Dr. Lucietto in the summer of 2019 as part of the Summer Stay Scholars program. In addition to her biology course- work, Shelly is pursuing minors in Studio Arts and Chemistry. Outside the classroom, she enjoys writing creative fiction, making art both physical and digital, and moderating for her favorite online communities. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2020 Professional Women Identify Their Professional
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Holistic Assessment and Teaching in Service-learning Environments
Collection
2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors
Nicole M. Smith, Colorado School of Mines; Benjamin A Teschner, Colorado School of Mines; Robin Bullock, Colorado School of Mines
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Diversity
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Community Engagement Division
who are enrolled in theHE minor. It is also open to any other student at Mines and counts as an upper-level elective. Inthis course, students work on community development projects and design engineering solutionsto real problems affecting real people. The course focuses on HCD protocols, project scoping,research techniques, brainstorming tools and approaches, technical writing and presenting, andtechnical topics as needed for the design challenge. It is a combination of lecture hours and a lab.At the conclusion of the course, it is expected that students will achieve the following learningoutcomes:1. Apply appropriate technical knowledge to solve a design challenge as demonstrated by peer review and partner review.2. Demonstrate empathy
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Connecting BME education to the "real world"
Collection
2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors
Joe Tranquillo, Bucknell University
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Diversity
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Biomedical Engineering
.”“Remaining open to new ideas, especially if they [were] coming from someone else”,“improvement in [our] ability to draw sketches and convey design ideas” and “a focus ongood brainstorming techniques” were also themes. Some students found that the “lack ofresources helped stimulate better ideas, by closing off the obvious paths” and helpedthem “overcome design hurdles” by encouraging them to “ask for help from experts”.The lack of resources also help them “trust more what [they] already knew and to “view[their] own knowledge and skills as the greatest design resource”. Many students weresurprised by “how much [they] could learn outside of a classroom”, and that they found iteasier to “learn something new, like a skill, […] from a peer [rather] than
Conference Session
Models and Practices of Community Engagement for Engineering Faculty
Collection
2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors
Tamara Ball, UCSC Baskin School of Engineering; Michael S. Isaacson, University of California, Santa Cruz
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Diversity
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Community Engagement Division
than might be expected to attend thesame kind of event if it were hosted at the training center. As of Fall 2014, ASCENDsuccessfully hosted the first community public screening event “Seeding Innovation”showcasing four films at the Exploration Center. The event attracted over 100 viewers whoparticipated in post-viewing discussions, explored demonstration materials provided by projectteams and partners, and gave additional feedback by writing their responses to four prompts onpaper “leaves” that were fixed to the ‘branches” of a three-dimensional cardboard tree locatedjust outside the theater. This event was significant for attending VTC apprentices because theirwon work was being featured and because the Exploration Center represents a
Conference Session
Broadening Participation in Engineering
Collection
2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors
Kevin O'Connor, University of Colorado Boulder; Frederick A. Peck, Freudenthal Institute, School of Education, University of Colorado; Julie Cafarella, University of Colorado, Boulder; Jacquelyn F. Sullivan PhD, University of Colorado, Boulder; Tanya D Ennis, University of Colorado, Boulder; Beth A Myers, University of Colorado Boulder; Daria A Kotys-Schwartz, University of Colorado Boulder; Beverly Louie, University of Colorado, Boulder
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Diversity
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Educational Research and Methods
naturalized trajectory of success in mathematics courses. This iswhere we find Peter. Calculus 1, a single-semester class on the flowchart, took him foursemesters. Peter has been at State U. for three years according to calendar time(accumulating student debt during this time), but according to “flowchart time” he is stillin his first year. Denied progress along the engineering flowchart, Peter finds himselftaking classes in the College of Arts and Sciences. Taking these classes does more thanadd to the amount of time and money Peter has given State University; it also distanceshim from peers in the College of Engineering while simultaneously pushing him outsidethe boundaries of the trajectory that the flowchart normalizes and legitimizes.Even inside