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NSF Grantees Poster Session
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2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access
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Zahraa Krayem Stuart, Stony Brook University; Monica Bugallo, Stony Brook University; Kathleen Dinota, Stony Brook University; Hechuan Wang, Stony Brook University; Amanda Esposito, Stony Brook University
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NSF Grantees Poster Session
challenge and at the same time unique opportunity to re-think thedelivery of instruction. Remote learning was fraught with challenges and difficulties and best practices had yetto be established. Most teachers lacked the training in remote instruction [1] and teachers of STEM had anadded challenge to transition their labs and hands-on activity remotely [2]. Furthermore, the adoption of theNGSS [3] had propelled engineering education to the forefront of the national discussion with questions arisingas to its sustainability during the pandemic and the hardship of transitioning to online learning.Over the past years, there has been a huge effort of outreach programs and informal science training toincorporate the NGSS standards into the curriculum
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Pre-College Engineering Education Division Technical Session 3
Collection
2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access
Authors
Shazib Z. Vijlee, University of Portland; Jamie Merritt, University of Portland
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Diversity
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Pre-College Engineering Education
university's maker space. The course, spanning an entire 16 week semester, enabled thestudents to experience engineering, university offerings, and some aspects of college life.This report will begin by describing the program and partnership. Next, it will present data fromsurveys used to assess the program's impact on student interest and skills in engineering. Finally,it will discuss the program's impact on the students and the institutions.BackgroundThis program can be seen from many lenses. It can be first seen as a STEM outreach program. Asdescribed by Nadelson & Callahan, outreach programs can take many forms [1]. Programs can be1-2-hour demonstrations highlighting an engineering phenomenon, or it can last several weekswith the students
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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation Division Technical Session 7
Collection
2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access
Authors
Rodney Boehm, Texas A&M University College of Engineering; Michael Beyerlein, Texas A&M University; Kiersten Potter, Student Engineers' Council; Jiacheng Lu; Lori L. Moore, Texas A&M University
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Diversity
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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation
outside of the classroom. Reacting tothis emergency, within three weeks, the President of SEC and Professors of the Practice from theengineering entrepreneurship program developed a summer instruction program which focusedon professional skill development through a virtual implementation. All faculty involved hadimplemented internship programs in their companies and were convinced that a program couldbe offered, not to completely replace an internship at a company, but to build the professionalskills students would need in their jobs. Ultimately, the virtual internship program involved over350 students, almost 60 mentors, and seven faculty. It was divided into two 6-week phases – 1)professional skill training and 2) teamwork project
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Governance, Diplomacy, and International Comparisons in Engineering Education
Collection
2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access
Authors
Atsushi Akera, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; Sarah Appelhans, University at Albany-SUNY; Alan Cheville, Bucknell University; Thomas De Pree, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; Soheil Fatehiboroujeni, Cornell University; Jennifer Karlin, Minnesota State University, Mankato; Donna M. Riley, Purdue University at West Lafayette
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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society
Albany), Rafael Burgos-Mirabal (U Mass Amherst), Alan Cheville (Bucknell), Thomas DuPree (Univ. New Mexico), Soheil Fatehiboroujeni (Cornell), Jennifer Karlin (Minnesota State, Mankato), Donna Riley (Purdue)This paper is about ABET’s1 maverick evaluators and what it says about the limits ofaccreditation as a mode of governance in, which is to say it’s capacity to shape and control U.S.engineering education. The term maverick is not meant to be pejorative. As defined in theMerriam Webster dictionary, a maverick is “an independent individual who does not go alongwith a group or party”[1]. In the context of this study, it refers to an evaluator in ABET’sengineering accreditation process whose
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Engineering Design Graphics Division Technical Session 4: A Potpourri of Ideas
Collection
2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access
Authors
Adulfo Amador, Rice University; Matthew Wettergreen, Rice University
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Engineering Design Graphics
, without the use of a 24hour maker space facility. Bloom’s Taxonomy has been a guiding principle for the design of learning outcomes forthis and other courses in the engineering design minor since the inception. Bloom’s Taxonomy isa framework that maps the depth of learning to specific tasks or activities. Levels “describe thecognitive processes by which thinkers encounter and work with knowledge.”1 Activities such as“create” have the most depth of learning/knowledge because they require knowledge acquiredthrough lower levels: remember, understand, apply, evaluate. In ENGI 210 most assignmentstarget the Create level because they are creating new forms of objects using manufacturingtools. When COVID sent all of the students home, we
Conference Session
NSF Grantees Poster Session
Collection
2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access
Authors
Robin A. M. Hensel, West Virginia University; Joseph Dygert, West Virginia University; Melissa Lynn Morris, University of Nevada - Las Vegas
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Diversity, NSF Grantees Poster Session
Students1.0 IntroductionThe Academy of Engineering Success (AcES) program, founded in 2012 and operating withNSF S-STEM funding since 2016, implements literature-based strategies to support and retainunderprepared (non-calculus-ready) and underrepresented first-time, full-time undergraduatestudents in engineering with the goals of increasing the number of graduating engineers anddiversifying the engineering workforce [1], [2]. A total of 71 students, including 21 studentssupported by renewable S-STEM scholarships, participated in the AcES program between 2016and 2019 in the Fundamentals of Engineering Program of the Benjamin M. Statler College ofEngineering and Mineral Resources at West Virginia University, a large R1 institution in themid-Atlantic
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Graduate Studies Division Technical Session 2
Collection
2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access
Authors
Kate Caroline Batson, University of Georgia
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Diversity
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Graduate Studies
concern, arguingthat graduate student1 ability to “communicate well both in written and oral forms is essential fora successful career” (p. 1) and the ability to write “will profoundly shape both initial and longterm post-PhD career opportunities” (Maher et al., 2013, p. 707). Moreover, in the United States,research suggests that engineers spend more than 30% of their time writing (Covington et al.,2007; Kreth, 2000). In a survey of U.K. engineers, more than 50% of the respondents spent morethan 40% of their time writing (Sales, 2006).This important shift of emphasis towards improving the written proficiency of engineeringstudents has led to an increasing amount of research that has investigated how to supportstudents in successfully engaging in
Conference Session
Pre-College Engineering Education Division Resource Exchange
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2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access
Authors
Tejaswini S. Dalvi, University of Massachusetts, Boston; Kristen B. Wendell, Tufts University; Chelsea Joy Andrews, Tufts University; Nicole Alexandra Batrouny, Tufts University
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Diversity
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Pre-College Engineering Education
playground equipment. In this unit, theengineering task of designing a safe and wheelchair accessible playground equipment creates aneed for students to study the underlying science concepts of force, motion and magnetism toinform their designs. The unit’s focus question is: How can we design accessible playgroundequipment to ensure that ALL kids can play together? Day 1. Unit Launch: Identify community connected engineering design challenge. What is engineering? What does it mean to be “accessible” and “inclusive”? Students view a video showing the difficulties that playground equipment and surfaces present to a child using a wheelchair. Following discussions, guide students to identify the need for inclusive playgrounds for ALL kids. Days 2 and 3
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TS3: Working with Students
Collection
2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access
Authors
Denise Amanda Wetzel, Florida A&M University - Florida State University; Kelly Grove, Florida A&M University - Florida State University; Jake Adam Flaks, Florida State University
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Engineering Libraries
globalization. Standards are the reason that a plug fits into the wall, a firehose fits all fire hydrants, and why all USB’s work in different computers and more. A standardis a collectively agreed upon set of rules, regulations, requirements, measurements, or technicalspecifications that are published by an organization [1]. They are published by national standardbodies that provide the means for writing and disseminating new standards. Table 1 shows a listof frequently accessed standards organizations and their commonly used acronyms. Due to a lackof peer-reviewed articles on the subject on accessing standards, the authors felt that conducting asurvey of Association of Research Libraries (ARL) would prove useful to analyze standardsacquisitions and
Conference Session
Impact of COVID-19 on Design Education 2
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2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access
Authors
Mohamed E. El-Sayed, Eastern Michigan University; Jacqueline A. El-Sayed, American Society for Engineering Education
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Design in Engineering Education
program acquiredknowledge and skills, and the opportunity to build their own confidence. To achieve these intentsand educational objectives, capstone courses are usually offered at the senior level by mostengineering programs. For their role, intent, and position in the program capstone courses usuallyshare most, if not all, program educational objectives and student outcomes. As a result, capstonecourses are key in assessing student outcomes and tracking the achievement of the long-termprogram educational objectives. Consequently, these courses are central to the program quality,continuous improvement, and accreditation [1-5].There are several approaches for developing and delivering a capstone course [1], mostengineering capstone courses
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International Division Technical Session 2
Collection
2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access
Authors
Sanjay Tewari, Missouri University of Science and Technology; Peng Zhang, Missouri State University; Yuan Zhuang, Missouri State University
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Diversity
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International
international learning experiences for both domestic andinternational students.IntroductionThe COVID-19 pandemic has put a significant restriction on international travel, which directlyimpacts on students' mobility in international higher education. According to Association ofInternational Educator (NAFSA)'s Financial Impact Survey [1], the estimated loss ofinternational higher education revenue for U.S higher education due to COVID-19 is about $4billion, in which nearly $1 billion is the loss from study abroad programs and another at least $3billion is the loss due to the significant decline of international students enrollment for fall 2020.The impact of the pandemic is just not limited to the revenue loss. Almost all stakeholders of theeducation
Conference Session
The Best of First-year Programs Division
Collection
2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access
Authors
Frank J. Marsik, University of Michigan; Claudia G. Cameratti-Baeza, University of Michigan; Elizabeth Mann Levesque, University of Michigan; Stacie Edington, University of Michigan
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First-Year Programs
different learning activities, they function as a motivational asset, central to thedevelopment of a sense of belonging and persistence in engineering programs [1]. Thetransformation of ENGR 110 is informed both by the needs of first-year engineering students andpedagogical practices designed to foster autonomy.The redesigned course addresses three themes: “What is Engineering?”, “Exploring Michiganand Michigan Engineering”, and “Self-Understanding”. Within these themes, students gainexposure to engineering disciplines, engineering contributions to society, the interdisciplinarynature of engineering, engineering as both a technical and social discipline, experiential learningopportunities, personal strengths, ethics, values, social identity
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Pre-College Engineering Education Division Poster Session
Collection
2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access
Authors
Amari T. Simpson, University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign; Lara Hebert, University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign; Luisa-maria Rosu, University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign; Meagan C. Pollock, Engineer Inclusion; Lynford Goddard, University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign
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Diversity
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Pre-College Engineering Education
, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) experienceongoing racial and ethnic diversity issues that are well documented in the literature [1].Compared to their peers in STEM degrees and careers, Black, Latino, first-generation, women,and low-income students have been historically underrepresented in STEM in the United States(U.S.) [1]. These disparities impact the well-being of society, especially those who have beenmarginalized, and these inequities will continue to lead to long term consequences for the U.S.job market unless educators and policymakers address issues of STEM diversity and accessusing a multi-faceted approach. A wide array of interventions have been implemented to address systemic barriers.Ranging from informal STEM experiences (e.g
Conference Session
Engaging the Online Classroom
Collection
2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access
Authors
Nicolas Ali Libre, Missouri University of Science and Technology
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Mechanics
introductory engineering courses at Missouri S&T wereoffered as face-to-face courses, either in a traditional or flipped format, which relied extensivelyupon student-student and instructor-student interactions. During the recent pandemic, manyinstructors had to rapidly transform their face-to-face classes due to campus closures.Thistransition from in-person to online teaching modality raised challenges for both instructors andstudents. A survey conducted at Missouri S&T revealed that the main complaint expressed bystudents, after switching to the online settings, was the lack of interactions either betweeninstructors and students or between students themselves. These findings align with other reportedstudies [1] on the impact of the recent
Conference Session
Engineering Technology Curriculum and Programs
Collection
2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access
Authors
Zach Schreiber, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Robert J. Herrick, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Anne M. Lucietto, Purdue University, West Lafayette
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Diversity
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Engineering Technology
performed at a distance bystudents during the COVID-19 pandemic. While many laboratory classes transitioned tosimulation software for experimentation, this course utilized physical equipment and componentsto conduct experiments and provide valuable experience, skills, and knowledge in the field ofelectronics off-campus.Keywords: Active Learning, Laboratory Experiments, Hands-On, e-learningIntroductionThe pandemic outbreak created great challenges for all aspects of life including education.Normal face-to-face, hands-on learning was rapidly shifted to online conferencing, lectures, andassignments with very little time to prepare or adjust [1]. The shift to online learning causedgreat trouble for teachers as many did not have online platforms
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Women in Engineering Division Technical Session 5
Collection
2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access
Authors
Erica Haugtvedt, South Dakota School of Mines & Technology; Duane Lewis Abata, South Dakota School of Mines and Technology
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Diversity
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Women in Engineering
, students need role models who have set an extraordinary precedent.Furthermore, despite recruitment efforts, women remain a minority in engineering fields in theU.S [1]. Psychologist Penelope Lockwood’s studies suggest that because “women face negativestereotypes regarding their competence in the workplace, they may derive particular benefit fromthe example of an outstanding woman who illustrates the possibility of overcoming genderbarriers to achieve success” [2]. In this paper, we suggest that using Ada Lovelace as anhistorical role model in engineering curriculum can help female engineering and science studentsrevise dominant origin narratives surrounding science and engineering disciplines. Bringinghistory to engineering also allows students to
Conference Session
Improving the BME Classroom on the Ground and Virtually
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2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access
Authors
Abhishek Bhattacharjee, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign; Mona Jawad, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign; Eileen M. Johnson, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign; Anna M. Busza, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign; Riley John Lehmann; Benjamin M. David, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign; Pablo Perez-Pinera, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign; Karin Jensen, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign
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Biomedical Engineering
Cornell University and a Ph.D. in biomedical engineering from the University of Virginia. American c Society for Engineering Education, 2021 Work in Progress: Adapting a Cell and Tissue Engineering Laboratory Course to an Online Delivery FormatIntroductionThe delivery of instruction during the COVID-19 pandemic has required adaptation of lab coursesto online formats across higher education. While hands-on laboratory courses are commonofferings in biomedical engineering undergraduate programs that improve learning outcomes [1],adapting them for online and remote instructional formats presents a significant challenge.Specifically, practical skills, such as using
Conference Session
Career Advancement Through Engineering Leadership Development
Collection
2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access
Authors
Mark Jason Luchini; David J. Cribbs, Jackson; Dirk Joel-Luchini Colbry, Michigan State University; Katy Luchini-Colbry, Michigan State University
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Engineering Leadership Development
department of a US-based locationof an international company that provides financial services. The original curriculum wasdesigned for live, in-person training, but was adapted for virtual delivery after the companyadopted a 100% remote workforce in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. The training wasconducted in four phases: (1) train-the-trainer to create internal evangelists; (2) trainmanagement to build buy-in and provide sponsorship; (3) phased rollout of training to individualmembers of the engineering department, contemporaneous with (4) specific and intentionalopportunities to apply the skills in normal business activities including Joint Architecture Design(JAD) sessions.Effectiveness was measured through surveys at the engineering
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Military and Veterans Division Technical Session 2
Collection
2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access
Authors
Raymond Vetter, United States Military Academy
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Military and Veterans
lectures in order to maximize engagementduring scheduled course meeting times. Faculty members must adjust and produce content that isengaging to students to promote preparation and discussion in live, virtual sessions.Introduction Online learning is an area of higher education that offers great promise in the near term.As society becomes more connected through technology, the opportunity for educators to use theinternet, associated devices, and applications is apparent. The US Department of Educationdefines online learning as “a range of activities from the effective use of digital resources andlearning technologies in the classroom, through to a personal learning experience enabledthrough individual access at home or elsewhere” [1, p. 151
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Architectural Engineering Division Technical Session 3
Collection
2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access
Authors
Eugene Kwak, State University of New York, College of Technology at Farmingdale
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Architectural Engineering
author had a unique opportunity for a comparative analysis with two concurrentgraphics course sections: a section that used traditional face-to-face teaching and a section thatadopted live-stream remote instruction. This work-in-progress paper will compare the twogroups’ performances in the Introduction to Graphics course, which shared identical coursecontent. A spatial reasoning test was used to provide quantitative results for the control and testgroups. Also, the performance indicator outlined by the department and accreditation body [1]was used for the assessment data. This paper defines various remote teaching methods andevaluates their effectiveness, comparing them to active learning strategies. As graphics coursesare common in
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Pre-College Engineering Education Division Poster Session
Collection
2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access
Authors
Sapna Shah, Harvard University; Alex Beaudette, Harvard University; David R. Bergandine, University of Illinois Laboratory High School; Savindi N. Devmal , University of Illinois Laboratory High School; Conor Walsh P.E., Harvard University; Holly M. Golecki, University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign
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Pre-College Engineering Education
robotics and engineering design as wellas the impacts of teacher-delivered soft robotics curricula on students.1. Introduction Participation in traditional educational robotics, tinkering, and making are commonprecursors to enrollment in engineering majors [1]. In recent years, the field of soft robotics hasemerged as a method for robots to interface with humans or other delicate objects by replacinghard components with mechanically programmed polymers and flexible electronics [2]. Bybroadening the applications of robotics to human-centered design in healthcare [3] or marineexploration [4], soft robotics may be a platform to engage a greater diversity of students in K12robotics and later, engineering majors. The accessibility of soft robot
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CoNECD Session : Day 3 Slot 2 Technical Session 3
Collection
2021 CoNECD
Authors
Julia D. Thompson, University of San Francisco; Amalia Kokkinaki, University of San Francisco; Jes Parker, University of California, Berkeley; Hana M. Böttger, University of San Francisco; N. Jeremy Kasdin, University of San Francisco
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CoNECD Paper Submissions, Diversity
, and planned for this to be a 30 students in totalcornerstone of our program. 15 menUSF is one of the most ethnically diverse 14 womenschools in the nation. 1 non-binaryWe have a great deal to offer to the tech, 30% Hispanicdesign and engineering world. 13.3% Black 20% Asian 13.3% two or more races 23.3% White Admission Criteria• Three years of high school math - to highest level offered at the school• Three years of science, two of them with labs• Passion activities• Community engagement activities First two years
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CoNECD Session : Day 2 Slot 7 Technical Session 2
Collection
2021 CoNECD
Authors
Tanya D. Ennis, University of Colorado Boulder
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CoNECD Paper Submissions, Diversity
. Furthermore, a narrative is jointly constructed by the speaker and listener on how theychoose to selectively filter the event [1]. This narrative analysis provides a lens into theexperiences of a Latina engineering student at the University of Colorado Boulder but does notrepresent the interpretations and understandings as generalizable fact. It is an attempt to provideinsight into this student’s experience.This paper provides a narrative analysis of a seven-minute interview excerpt from a Latinawoman (pseudonym Iliana) who currently practices engineering as a career and who studiedmechanical engineering at and graduated from the University of Colorado Boulder’s College ofEngineering and Applied Science (CEAS). This project analyzed the description
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CoNECD Session : Day 3 Slot 3 Technical Session 3
Collection
2021 CoNECD
Authors
Lizabeth L. Thompson, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo; Tonatiuh Rodriguez-Nikl P.E., California State University, Los Angeles
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CoNECD Paper Submissions, Diversity
% first generation, 51% white, the first-time freshman acceptance rate is 22%, and the entering class included15% transfer students. Although the universities are in the same system, the tuition and fees at Cal State LA are $6750/yrwhile at Cal Poly tuition and fees is $9950/yr. The higher fees provide Cal Poly with more resources that can be used inmany ways to support students. An indication of the resource imbalance can be seen in the tenure/tenure-track faculty tostudent ratio in the engineering colleges: Cal State LA is 59:1 and Cal Poly is 45:1. These differences allow us to comparethe responses of employees and students at the two universities with a diversity and equity lens. Cal State LA is classified asa Hispanic Serving Institutions
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CoNECD Session : Day 2 Slot 5 Technical Session 4
Collection
2021 CoNECD
Authors
Laura Bottomley, North Carolina State University
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CoNECD Paper Submissions, Diversity
so that they will fit into the engineering world in one way or another,whether that is learning sufficient math or learning how to deal with bias and harassment.Suppose, rather than a pipeline, we consider the diversification of STEM through the lens of a garden.This paper will discuss a new model that leads to different types of programming that can have asignificant effect on increasing diversity and inclusion.IntroductionIn 2010, Heather Metcalf at UCLA published a critical review of the STEM workforce literature [1]. In herreview she argues that several recurrent themes appear across the literature. These themes include afocus on the supply side focus, linearity, homogenization of people, view of people as passive, andothers. In her
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CoNECD Session : Day 2 Slot 7 Technical Session 3
Collection
2021 CoNECD
Authors
M. Javed Khan, Tuskegee University; Chadia A. Aji, Tuskegee University
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CoNECD Paper Submissions, Diversity
more nuanced, lack complete information and usually admit multiplesolutions. Real-life problem solving may not have a structured and established solution processwith known input-output relationships. Thus, the real-world problem space is uncertain andambiguous. Schrader, Riggs and Williams [1] capture the progression of complexity of theproblem space by differentiating between ‘uncertainty’ and ‘ambiguity’ in context of problemsolving as follows:“Uncertainty: Characteristic of a situation in which the problem solver considers the structure ofthe problem (including the set of relevant variables) as given, but is dissatisfied with his or herknowledge of the value of these variables.Ambiguity level 1: Characteristic of a situation in which the
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CoNECD Session : Day 2 Slot 3 Technical Session 4
Collection
2021 CoNECD
Authors
Tricia S. Berry, University of Texas at Austin; Ana M. Dison, University of Texas at Austin; Efren Enrique Dominguez, University of Texas at Austin
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CoNECD Paper Submissions, Diversity
 Belong Here Workshop Series reaching over 7,800 participants. Workshops have reached the following audiences (*data was not collected separately for the workshop mixed audiences): ● Undergraduate Students Only: 6808 ● Graduate Students Only: 193 ● Staff Only: 175 ● Faculty Only: 154 ● Industry Professionals Only: 115 ● Mixed Audience: 403 8Enrique:You Belong Here Workshop Campaign Reach and Impact:Workshop delivery has grown from 30 participants in 1 workshop in 2016 to 539 participants in 9 workshops in 2017 to 2,991 participants in 46 workshops in 2018 and over 4,000 in 2019.The Bias Busters team is currently exploring evaluation
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CoNECD Session : Day 3 Slot 4 Technical Session 3
Collection
2021 CoNECD
Authors
David Soukup P.E., New York University Tandon School of Engineering
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CoNECD Paper Submissions, Diversity
, the percentage of women graduates goes down by .76 percent. Theauthor believes that this analysis points to the need for additional professional developmentaround diversity and inclusion among engineering faculty and to ensure Asian-American faculty,in particular, are engaged. Increased research is being done on inherent bias among engineeringfaculty. This paper suggests a need to include a separate category for Asian-American faculty tobe included in the research.KeywordsDiversity, inclusion, women, inherent biasIntroductionThere has been little progress in attracting women into academic engineering programs. In 2000,20.8% of the bachelor’s degrees were awarded to women and in 2018 the number had risen toonly 21.9% [1].There has been
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CoNECD Session : Day 2 Slot 5 Technical Session 3
Collection
2021 CoNECD
Authors
Andrew Danowitz, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo; Amman Fasil Asfaw, California State Polytechnic University, San Luis Obispo; Bridget Benson, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo; Paul Hummel, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo; K. Clay McKell, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo
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CoNECD Paper Submissions, Diversity
andbelonging in engineering education. We find that 42% of students surveyed either agree orstrongly agree that use of master-slave terminology is problematic, including 100% of Femaleand 100% of African American students, and that the use of the terminology may createconditions to evoke Stereotype Threat.Introduction A key concern for improving the graduation rates of engineering students fromhistorically excluded backgrounds is the high attrition levels that these students face during thecourse of their study. Prior work shows that attrition at the collegiate level is the leading cause oflow STEM graduation rates for historically excluded groups ​[1]​. A specific study conducted atBrown University found the undergraduate retention rate for
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CoNECD Session : Day 2 Slot 8 Technical Session 2
Collection
2021 CoNECD
Authors
Kimberly Young-McLear, U.S. Coast Guard Academy; Sharon Zelmanowitz P.E., U.S. Coast Guard Academy; Royce Warner James Ph.D., United States Coast Guard Academy/Air Force Institute of Technology; Dani Brunswick, U.S. Coast Guard; Thomas W. DeNucci, U.S. Coast Guard Academy
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CoNECD Paper Submissions, Diversity
thecomplex needs of our 21st century Coast Guard in service to the American people.A Systems Engineering Approach:The proposed framework, born from a systems-engineering perspective, is shown in Figure 1.Systems engineering is a field which understands the complexity of the behavior and interactionamong individual system components. As a discipline, systems engineering is used to solve someof society’s most complex challenges. Systems engineering is rooted in understanding bothnatural systems (climate, social systems, etc), as well as, technical and human-made systems(cybersecurity, transportation, aviation, etc). Just as in the human body, organizations haveseveral systems and sub-systems working together to keep the organization healthy. As