Undergraduate research experiences are a rich site for studying learning, identity, andbelonging. They are many students’ first exposure to the everyday realities of doing research.The students of this REU cohort - and many other REU programs - do not come from institutionswith abundant research opportunities, so their experiences can powerfully illustrate the value ofundergraduate research for students’ skill development, understanding of research practices, andlearning about graduate school and other engineering career opportunities. We propose here a methodology for simultaneously conducting program evaluation andresearch about undergraduate learning and socialization. To gather more nuanced data aboutstudents’ experiences and their
alsoreinforces the importance of using multiple strategies to support students in believing that theycan (self-efficacy) do engineering and should continue to pursue it as a valuable career choice.IntroductionEngagement plays a significant role in determining the level of success that engineers canachieve, both during school and at work. In the workplace, employee engagement has beenshown to increase productivity [1], retention rate [1], job satisfaction [2], and customer loyalty[3]. On a similar note, academic student engagement has been shown to be positively associatedwith critical thinking [4], academic achievement [5], retention in engineering degree programs[6], and persistence [7]. Retention in engineering is especially important as the demand
communities in their fields, college, and university• Increase of underrepresented postdocs that transition to faculty positions• Establish quality mentoring relationships that advance the careers of scholars• Enhance the research, teaching, and service portfolios of scholars Dr. Monica Cox, LEGACY Program Director, and LEGACY Scholars 02Research-Informed Mentoring 03 Literature ReviewThe postdoctoral to Structural challengesprofessoriate pathway postdocs face are due to ahas become a
have extraordinarily successful careers by any standard.This is just one of many examples of peer support. Community can have a significant impact onacademic outcomes, especially when some of the support from family is no longer present.Slide 5 • Search for relevant literature • Analyze literature for themes Identify • Synthesize the literature review Literature Completed • Evaluate
or CPT. The UK-BCTC ET programs offer multi-34 ple industry-recognized certificates, consisting of a sequence of coursework that support skill at-35 tainment and employment and allow stackable credentials accumulated over time to provide ca-36 reer pathways for students:3738 Pathway 1: Integrated Engineering Technology/Lean Systems Engineering. The Associate of Ap-39 plied Science in Integrated Engineering Technology (AAS-IET) is the feeder program into the40 Bachelor of Science in Lean Systems Engineering Technology (BS-LST) at the UK. The pro-41 gram prepares students for a career in advanced manufacturing by leading them through a mech-42 atronics approach to designing, maintaining, and troubleshooting highly automated and
significantly impact the quality ofscience as Beilock [4] suggests that diverse teams produce better outcomes across industries.While there are many factors for the low numbers of black women in STEM fields, one aspect isthe underrepresentation of Black women scientists in popular media [5]. Gender stereotypes ofSTEM professionals in the media influence students’ stereotyped perceptions of STEM [6]. Thereis little representation for Black scientists in films, TV shows, and other media and of the limitedrepresentations many are negative depictions [7] which could potentially have a negative impacton young Black women’s academic and career choices.The purpose of this study is to analyze the representation of Black women in STEM and Non-STEM roles in
underrepresented in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM), Hispanic adults continueto be underutilized talent pool. Although lower Hispanic enrollments in higher education have been cited as a primarybarrier to STEM careers, more Hispanic high school students are enrolling in higher education. They represent thesecond largest ethno-racial group among undergraduates (25%). Despite the relatively high representation inundergraduate education, they represent only 8% of the total STEM workforce. Women and Hispanic women remainseverely underrepresented in STEM fields. Currently, women comprise 25% of the STEM workforce, and Hispanicwomen comprise less than 2% of the STEM workforce [1]. Addressing the equity gaps in male-dominated fields
understand thatmarginalization affects various identity dimensions, including non-heterosexual orientation,pregnancy, family caregiving, religion, age, cognitive and physical disabilities, and immigrantstatus, within the STEM fields [31-39]. Addressing institutional biases and barriers, developingacademic intervention strategies, and addressing academic achievement gaps among diversegroups in STEM education may ultimately increase underrepresented individuals' persistenceand representation in STEM careers by reducing attrition [2, 34, 40-41].Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Accessibility (DEIA) programs are essential in promotinginclusivity [23, 29-30, 38, 42]. Effective DEIA programs take a tailored approach that considersthe specific needs of
Paper ID #44449Faculty-Student Interactions as Experienced by Black Engineering and ComputerScience StudentsKyle Shanachilubwa, Harding UniversityDr. James L. Huff, Harding University Dr. James Huff is an Associate Professor of Engineering Education and Honors College Faculty Fellow at Harding University. He conducts transdisciplinary research on identity that lies at the nexus of applied psychology and engineering education. A recipient of the NSF CAREER grant (No. 2045392) and the director of the Beyond Professional Identity (BPI) lab, Dr. Huff has mentored numerous undergraduate students, doctoral students, and
the CHHS, the White and/or Asian group expressed thismajority-favoring bias at nearly half the rate of Black/African American and/or Hispanic group. Figure 3. Student perceptions of gender suitability for engineering related (LCOE) and health and human services related careers (CHHS).Overall, 12.9% of women in LCOE perceived women to be less suited for their field of study,and 10.6% of men in LCOE perceived men to be more suited for their field of study. Similarly,in CHHS, 16.1% of men perceived men to be less suited for their field of students and 13.1% ofwomen perceived women to be more suited for their study. Thus, in both colleges, the minoritygender expressed a slightly higher perception towards favoring the majority
individuals. Workplace climate represents how employees feel about the work environment and the effect it has on them. A positive work culture ensures that employees feel a sense of belonging, develop strong psychological safety, have opportunities to grow in their careers, and are allowed flexibility in their roles[6]. However, in engineering,many women and engineers with marginalized identities leave because of the workplace culture and climate[7]. For example, limited pay and promotion opportunities, which may be due to a lack of mentorship or discrimination by colleagues, are some of the most prominent reasons women leave the workplace[8]. Moreover, a study analyzing the reasonswomen
and Cognitive and Learning Sciences.Dr. Mark Bradley Kinney, West Shore Community College Dr. Mark Kinney is the Vice President of Academics and Student Services at West Shore Community College in Scottville, MI. He has a passion for rural higher education, leading him to conduct his dissertation on the various social roles these institutions play within their community. His career has been spent conducting both qualitative and quantitative research and evaluating the efficacy of a wide variety of organizational initiatives. This ultimately led Dr. Kinney to found All-Star Assessment, LLC, where he applies these research-based principles to the practice of thoroughly evaluating candidates for high-level leadership
greater sense of belonging to discipline, self-efficacy, and career readiness; particularly for under-represented minority (URM) students [3].However, such active-learning experiences are usually offered late in their engineering degree(e.g., senior-capstone projects) rather than early and often throughout the curriculum. Mostredesign efforts to address this issue typically focus on single, or multiple but disjointed gatewaycourses [4]. An example of a critical path in the Electrical and Electronic Engineering (EEE)department at Sacramento State is shown in Figure 1.Figure-1: Example curriculum path in the EEE major, showing long engineering pre-requisite chains called critical-paths. Courses shown in Bold, shaded, are redesigned as a part of the
Washington. Dr. Edwards is currently a University Distinguished Professor, and teaches courses on engineering ethics and applied aquatic chemistry. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2023 Engineering Ethics and the Public: Impact of a Graduate-Level Course on Students' Personal and Career Priorities and Values (2010-20)AbstractA graduate level three-credit elective course entitled “Engineering Ethics and the Public” has beenoffered by the Civil and Environmental Engineering department at Virginia Tech since 2010. Thecourse draws on high profile case studies, both past and unfolding, to examine real-world ethicaldilemmas that confront engineers and scientists in research, policy, and practice. Course
education and career and technical educa- tion. Dr. Clark is recognized as a Distinguished Technology Educator by the International Technology Engineering Education Association and for the American Society of Engineering Education; Engineering Design Graphics Division.Mr. Erik Schettig, North Carolina State University at Raleigh Erik is a lecturer in the Technology, Engineering, and Design Education department and a Ph.D. student in the Learning and Teaching in STEM program at NC State University. He has served as a technology, engineering, and design education teacher in middle and high schools. Erik teaches introductory engi- neering graphics courses at NCSU and his research interests focus on developing engaging
Society for Engineering Education, 2023 Dissecting 3D Printing for Engineering Design Process Education of High School Preservice Teachers Abstract 3D printing (3DP) has been becoming more and more popular throughout the education systemfrom Kindergarten to University. High school is a critical period for students to decide theirimminent university major selection which in turn will impact their future career choices. Highschool students are usually intrigued by hands-on tool such as 3DP which is also an importantcontributor to other courses such as robotics. The recent years have seen more investment andavailability of 3DP in high schools, especially Career and
, anexperiment was performed where people viewed three Navy job descriptions in their respectiveSTEM fields and were asked their level of interest. This paper will show that women who do nothave a background in the jargon are less likely to apply on jargon-filled, STEM job descriptionsthan men. Conversely, when women have a background with the jargon, this paper will showthat these women have a higher interest in the jargon-filled job advertisements than men do.KeywordsDiversity, Jargon, STEM, Job Advertisements, Gender.IntroductionResearch has shown that science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) careers aremale dominated [1]. Among first-year college students, women are much less likely than men tosay that they intend to major in STEM
identity (Sheppard et al., 2022). Our work usessurvey data from before and during the Covid-19 pandemic to compare changes in students’engineering identity and examine how students’ reported Covid-19 stressors were associatedwith engineering identity during the pandemic. Our work focuses on the first and second-yearexperience of engineering students, as these two years are critical to academic success andretention in the engineering field. During these transitional years, students begin to bridgeconnections to peers and faculty, develop motivational beliefs, and make career choices(President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology, 2012; Oseguera et. al., 2019;Robinson et al., 2019; Jones, et al., 2010). The educational disruption
were presented to the participants in the post-test to assess theirperceptions of EDC 2022’s effectiveness. A Chi square analysis was conducted on the number ofparticipants that either “Strongly Agreed” or “Agreed” compared to “Neutral”, “Disagree” or“Strongly Disagree”. The statistical significance was set at α=.05. The results of these questionsand the P-values are shown in Table 4. The majority of participants felt EDC increased theirdesire to pursue a STEM career and their knowledge of 3D printing at a statistically significantlevel. This result, in addition to the pre-post test results support the project’s goal of increasingthe technical knowledge of the students. The results were mixed regarding the number ofparticipants that would
CS education at all levels by a focused ap- proach to increase the computing pipeline by getting students interested in STEM disciplines and future technology careers. One of these initiatives is the iAAMCS (Institute for African American Mentoring in Computing Sciences) & STARS Alliance (starsalliance.org) with programs in K-12 outreach, community service, student leadership, and computing diversity research.Mr. Dongji Feng, Auburn University Dongji Feng a passionate NLP Ph.D. candidate working with Dr.Santu in BDI Lab . His interesting areas are Information Retrieval(IR), Natural Language Processing (NLP) and related evaluation metrics. ©American Society for Engineering Education
careers. Alex received his Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from The Pennsylvania State University in 2015 where he studied combustion instabilities in gas turbine engines and also served as a Graduate Teaching Fellow.Dr. Ashley Lytle Ashley Lytle is an Assistant Professor of Psychology at Stevens Institute of Technology in Hoboken, New Jersey, USA. Lytle earned her PhD at Stony Brook University, New York, USA. Her research explores how prejudice, discrimination, and stereotyping imDr. Maxine Fontaine, Stevens Institute of Technology Maxine Fontaine is a Teaching Associate Professor in Mechanical Engineering at Stevens Institute of Technology. She received her Ph.D. in 2010 from Aalborg University in Aalborg, Denmark
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program, specifically, werecommend checking out the 2022 paper by Reyes and colleagues.1Early successes from the PINC program have contributed to the development of seven additionallarge-scale, NSF- and foundation-funded projects that focus on increasing equity and diversity incomputing through the use of peer mentoring, career-building and professional development, andevidence-based teaching practices, including real-world applications of course material. Weoutline these grants and their goals below and explain their conceptual ties to components of thePINC program.Expansion and Sustainability EffortsGOLD: The Graduate Opportunities to Learn Data Science (GOLD) program (2019-2022) wasfunded by NSF Innovations in Graduate Education to support the
opportunities for learning the topics of disastersocial impacts and DEI in their education. As they practice structural engineering in their career,this lack of understanding may serve as an obstacle for them to play the required role as a riskmanager. This highlights a significant gap between the role needed by society and theeducational preparation for structural engineers.Despite the importance of incorporating community resilience and DEI concepts into thecurriculum, it is not a trivial task due to the concepts’ complexity. These concepts are definedbased on other complex subjects, such as multi-criteria decision-making, systems analysis, riskanalysis, and socio-economic disaster impact analysis. It is one of the reasons why theseconcepts are often
Engineering Dept. Heads Assoc. (ECEDHA)Dr. Barry J. Sullivan, Electrical & Computer Engineering Department Heads Assn Barry J. Sullivan is Director of Program Development for the Inclusive Engineering Consortium. His 40- year career includes significant experience as a researcher, educator, and executive in industry, academia, and the non-profit sector. He has developedDr. John C. Kelly, North Carolina A&T State University (CoE) Dr. John C. Kelly, Jr. is chair and associate professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engi- neering at North Carolina A&T State University. He received his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Delaware. Dr. Kelly’s research interests include hardware
academic settinghelped to solidify their engineering identity and impact their future career decisions. It is alsoevident that the relationships students developed and the accessibility of resources served asprotective factors against several of the challenges they experienced. Students who were able toform study groups, seek out tutoring, and/or receive mentorship from engineering professionals feltsupported and grounded in their engineering identity.Implications The preliminary results suggest the importance of relationships, social capital, andagency on the development of students’ engineering identity. The results also indicate howstudents navigate academic and personal challenges based on the amount of social capitalwealth they possess
well as measuring student inclination and/or intent to pursue advancedSTEM study. In this capacity, research questions were asked to elucidate how the construction ofthe team affects its performance, how VIP affect learning experiences differently as compared totraditional one-on-one student mentoring as well as students’ inclinations to pursue advancedSTEM study and careers. On gathering information via surveys and interviews, conclusions weredrawn that highlighted the benefits of constructing and deploying such teams in contrast totraditional one-on-one research mentoring of a student. In general, students showed significantgrowth under the categories of understanding engineering design, problem solving, andcommunication, besides positive
, explored the mechanics and chemistry of bubbles made from atomically thin materials. From 2016 to 2019, Dr. Sanchez served in many leadership roles through Out for Undergrad and the UT Austin chapter of oSTEM - both of which promote the professional development of LGBTQ+ STEM students. He currently serves on the O4U Life Sciences Conference Advisory Board.Dr. Rocio C. Chavela Guerra, American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) Dr. Roc´ıo Chavela Guerra serves as an instructor in the Experiential Engineering Education Department at Rowan University. In her prior role, she served as Director of Education and Career Development at the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE), and as headquarters liaison to
Paper ID #37671Work in Progress: Broadening Participation in Engineering with the STEMExcellence in Engineering Equity (SEEE) ProjectTaryn Melkus Bayles, University of Pittsburgh Taryn Melkus Bayles is a Professor, Teaching Track, in the Chemical & Petroleum Engineering Depart- ment at the University of Pittsburgh, and serves as the Vice Chair of Undergraduate Education. She has spent part of her career working in industry with Exxon, Westinghouse, Phillips Petroleum and Pittsburgh Energy Technology Center (now NETL). Her industrial experience has included process engineering, computer modeling and control, process
- me about the opportunity To gain practical experience for a 94% future career It sounded interesting 50% Gaining practical experience for a future career and enhancing their resume were rankedfirst and second respectively. Students perceived this opportunity as unique in providing hands-onactivities that could help smooth the transition into the workforce. Linked to this perception wasthe need to make themselves more competitive in their resumes by participating in ROLE. By the end of the first cohort, students took the post-experience survey, which focused ontheir whole experience with ROLE in terms of their involvement