retain female and URM students to engineering disciplines,their numbers are still very low. In 2016, only 20.8% of recipients of Bachelor’s degrees in engineeringidentified as female, and 18.2% identified as an under-represented minority [1].Table 1 presents demographic information from the 2000 U.S. Census for individuals between the agesof 20 and 24 (age groups just above or below this age range show similar results). 48.9% of individualsbetween 20 and 24 identify as female [2]. 26.8% identify as an under-represented minority (URM) [3],which we define to include Hispanic or Latino, American Indian or Alaska Native, Black or AfricanAmerican, Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander.Table 1. U.S. Census demographics age 20-24. Female- Identifying
)topics while the students in the class literally cast light—building LGBTQA-themed electronic light displays. An engineeringprofessor will teach the students how to create and program the displays, and the director of the Stonewall Center will lead thestudents in discussions about LGBTQA issues in the news and in their own lives. Some of the topics to be covered include theintersections of racial and LGBTQA identities, the campus climate for LGBTQA students, and the legal and political rights ofLGBTQA people today”. The intent is to offer students from all campus majors an interesting, accessible combination of topicsand an inclusive learning environment.1. IntroductionSTEM fields, and engineering in particular, struggle to achieve diversity [1
for college-wide diversity that includes having representatives from the Office ofAdmission involved, the two-week Summer Bridge experience, and GoldShirt curriculum.Components of the Summer Bridge program include fall course placement, orientation tocollege life, learning technical skills, creating shared core values, interdependent learning andcreating close friendships. The academic performance of the first cohort of EngineeringGoldShirt students was very good with a median grade point average of 3.44 at the end of theirfirst year. Student feedback was also gathered and presented as related to three goals: (1)increasing engineering student interest and knowledge of an engineering career; (2) building asense of community among GoldShirt
, gender identity and expression,nationality, race, religion, sexual orientation, veteran status, and more.The present times have put much of our progress in the area of STEM diversity at grave risk.Over the last decade, a movement has grown up that puts a new face on old and familiar whitesupremacist ideas. Using social media tools and focusing in part on campus communities, the alt-right has gained mainstream exposure through its support of Donald Trump’s presidentialcandidacy and administration. The Trump White House has incorporated policy ideas, rhetoric,and individual leaders from numerous hate groups. 1 There has been some debate about whetherthe term alt-right masks the group’s clear ties to hate such that some have advocated not usingthe
access to apipeline of local graduating women in STEM while improving their workplace culture fordiverse employees.IntroductionThe percentage of women undergraduate students continues to increase and reach parity withmale students in higher education; however, women remain underrepresented amongst STEMfaculty, particularly in tenured and senior ranks, and administrative positions. In academia,women in STEM account for less than 20 percent of qualified applicants [1], 31 percent of full-time faculty, and 27 percent of deans and department heads [2]. Women also comprise adisproportionately low number of full professorships in STEM, with women accounting for 42%of instructors and assistant professorships, 34% of associate professorships, and only
the results of the study in context, the authors conducted a literature review of related workon the study of women and URM students in STEM programs. The primary focus was on thechallenges and the causes for success and failure. Allen-Ramdial & Campbell [1] state thatisolation is one of the biggest challenges faced by URM students in STEM fields. One way tosolve this challenge and promote diversity in education is to achieve a critical mass. Unfortunately,this may not be quickly remedied in most environments, thus other intermediary options must beembraced. Isolation may diminish self-efficacy and re-affirm the negative stereotype of the lackof suitability of URM students for STEM study. The presence of peers has been shown to have
and math (STEM) fields have increased inoverall importance from a variety of perspectives during the past few decades. In terms ofindividual employment opportunities and overall quality of life, STEM occupations have higherthan average job growth projections and higher than average wage rates [1] . STEM occupationsare also closely linked to high prestige and economic prosperity from a national standpoint [2] .In terms of practical application, STEM fields are responsible for identification of solutions tomyriad challenges in multiple business sectors, government, entertainment, and everyday life.It is widely acknowledged that the United States must increase its production of individualsskilled in various STEM fields in order to maintain and
teaching and research. 66 Faculty members in 5 departments 1800 undergraduate students 500 graduate students 75 doctoral studentsDefining Diversity Research shows that there are many ways to define diversity Age, Gender, Ethnicity, Nationality, Education and Work status are the common areas covered when discussing diversity Diversity can be defined as groups of two or more people referring to demographic differences of one sort or another among the group members [1] At CSU, here is how we are assessing diversity.Engineering DDC Overview History Mission and Goals Success Stories ChallengesDDC Mission Statement To promote a culturally and intellectually rich environment for diversity and inclusion,support the education successand
& Practice. She received her PhD in Educational Leadership and Policy Studies from the University of Washington. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2018CONFERENCE TITLE: CONECDPRESENTATION: TEACHING TO INCREASE DIVERSITY AND EQUITY IN STEMPRESENTERS: KELLY MACK, KATE WINTERINTRODUCTIONWhile the US economy is expected to create over 120,000 new jobs requiring at least abachelor’s degree in computer science, only approximately 48,000 computer sciencebaccalaureates are produced each year [1]. This dilemma is further complicated by the systemicmarginalization of the “new majority” of undergraduates [2] who represent rich sources ofuntapped talent and the diverse worldviews that are essential for
inquiry-based K12 science education and design learning using sensor technologies, computationally-enhanced paper-based craft kits, and augmented learning environments.Ariel J Ortiz, Lawrence Hall of ScienceMrs. Kathryn Chong Quigley, Lawrence Hall of Science Kathryn Quigley is the director of the Inventor’s Learning Lab at Lawrence Hall of Science, which is a space for visitors to explore design thinking and cutting edge technology while solving engineering challenges. In her work with the Inventor’s Lab she also oversees the Hall’s teen engineering program TechHive. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2018TechHive:ASTEMLearningLabforTeensArdiceHartry 1 ,MaiaWerner-Avidon 2
higher than the malestudents irrespective of the gender of the instructors. The survey questions for qualitative researchon the perception of success for female students are also included.1Assistant Professor, California State University, Fresno2Assistant Professor, California State University, Fresno 1 1. IntroductionLocated in the San Joaquin Valley of central California, Fresno State is home to about 25,000students. Being a state university, affordability is an important criterion for most students. Themajority of the students in engineering come from local high schools and maintain close ties withthe surrounding community. Recent reports
CommunityBackgroundThe need for STEM graduates in the United States is growing at an alarming rate. A 2012President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST) report predicted that therewill be a 1 million college student deficit in science, technology, engineering, and mathematicsover the next 10 years (Olson & Riordan, 2012). For years now, there has been a call for moreunderrepresented groups in STEM fields. According to the National Center for EducationStatistics (NCES), only 18.4% of the students earning engineering degrees in the year 2014 werefemales (Digest of Education Statistics, 2015). Given this underrepresentation of women, it isimportant to determine why so few earn engineering degrees. Studies have shown that onepossible
satisfaction.1 The workshop for international students was so well attended each year that OISS started offering it regularlythroughout the academic year. It is therefore no longer on WIE’s annual calendar.Networking activities provide students the opportunity to meet and learn from role models.These events tend to center on hearing people’s stories. Our signature networking activity is anannual career panel, which brings engineers from across the country to campus to talk to studentsabout their jobs and career paths. Panelists provide brief introductions, but most of the session isreserved for audience questions. The discussions are always lively and appreciated by thestudents.Another example of a networking event is our “Meet Your Faculty” lunches
for the Center for the Enhancement of Engi- neering Diversity and has four years of industry and government experience as a human factors engineer. Dr. Artis holds a B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. in Industrial and Systems Engineering from Virginia Tech. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2018 Too Black to be Woman and too much Woman to be a Man. Black women attempting to reconcile their multiple identities in Academic and Professional Engineering Spaces.Black women are often underrepresented in engineering despite reports that a higherpercentage of Black women (9.7%) are enrolled in college than any other group, exceeding Asianwomen (8.7%), White women (7.1%) and White men (6.1%) [1].The proposed
support grit development in first-generationcollege students.Introduction First-generation college students face numerous unique challenges within higher educationthat offer particular opportunities for research and interventions to improve their enrollment andretention. This population has potential to add to the field of engineering as they bring with themunique lived experiences. First-generation college students have been described as invisibleinnovators [1]. Smith and Lucena [1] argue if first-generation college students’ funds of knowledgeare equally valued knowledge as that of the dominant engineering culture, these students’ can belegitimate creators of knowledge and contribute to innovative solutions in the engineeringenterprise
Initiative Letter to support efforts to increase theparticipation of women and underrepresented minorities (URMs) in engineering education. Inthat letter, the signatories pledged to provide “educational experiences that are inclusive andprevent marginalization of any groups of people because of visible or invisible differences” [1,Para. 3, emphasis mine]. Beyond race/ethnicity and externally perceived gender, visible andinvisible differences encompass dissimilarities of physical and mental abilities, religious andpolitical beliefs, as well as sexual and gender identity. However, those topics have beenfrequently overlooked in the context of engineering. The lack of data regarding engineers whoidentify across these spectrums has limited the full
student actors and faculty/staff on the script. The upfrontcost of the training was expensive but would make the long-term cost of incorporating theatresketches into the curriculum much more sustainable after the grant funding has expired.The goal of this study was to determine whether the students and faculty/staff who were trainedby the theatre troupe were effective in influencing engineering students understanding of whydiversity is important to engineering and how effective engineering teams work. Answers tothree specific questions were sought to answer the larger question: 1) How do students enrolled in classes receiving the intervention describe their experiences when compared to peers in comparison courses? 2) How do
engineering courses are still transitioning from supportive high school environments in whichthey were personally known by their teachers and peers into the sink-or-swim world of highereducation. To address this, our approach has been to reverse-engineer classroom interventions thathave led to a dramatic increase in student retention in our own chemical engineering program.Nationally, retention in engineering through graduation is approximately 30-55% [1], [2]; the averageUniversity of Arizona College of Engineering retention rate through graduation over the past 5 years is46%. Through the deployment of a variety of classroom-based interventions throughout oursophomore-year courses over the past 2.5 years, we have increased the retention through
making. 1 The SCCT model posits thatperson-centered variables of domain-specific self-efficacy coupled with interests and realisticoutcome expectations about the field propel individuals to pursue particular careers. Careerchoice is further influenced by a combination of supportive and inhibiting contextual factors.Supportive factors associated with pursuing computing include: early exposure, access to highquality learning experiences, supportive parents, and peer groups.2, 3 Inhibiting factors includelimited access, subtle and not-so-subtle racism and sexism, geographic location, and lower socio-economic status.3, 4 Importantly, SCCT incorporates gender and race/ethnicity explicitly in its model, whichrenders it appropriate for work with
studentachievement.BackgroundThe California State University is the largest four-year public university system in the U.S. and graduatesabout half of the bachelor’s degrees in California. The Los Angeles Campus (Cal State LA) service areaextends to a large part of LA county, including some areas of South LA, Pasadena, much of the San GabrielValley and the neighborhoods around East Los Angeles. The service area has the census tracts with (i) thelargest percentage of population under 18 living under poverty, ranging from 40-100% (Figure 1); (ii) thelowest level of education attainment for population 18 years and older (<9% with college degrees,compared to 18% and 20% in California and the US respectively) (Figure 2); and (iii) the highestconcentration of Hispanics (>
insurmountable during their2nd year when classes become more abstract and the impact of their grades on admission to majorlooms large. The researchers for this paper sought to understand if assisting women students indetermining how they could use engineering later in their career by understanding the paths thatother engineers took and what they do now on a regular basis would increase their self-efficacyand persistence toward their degree. According to Albert Bandura, self-efficacy is developedthrough four factors: master experiences, vicarious experiences, social persuasion, and impactmodels.1 The researchers wanted to understand if providing unique vicarious experiences tofamiliarize students with engineering careers after graduation could impact
to perform (Meadows et al, 2015).Women and students of color can be stereotyped as less intelligent, less competent, or asunderperformers (Meadows et al, 2015; Wolfe et al, 2016). It is often assumed that these studentshave not been accepted to a STEM program based on merit, but based on policies that favorhistorically underrepresented students (Meadows et al, 2015). In a published writing piece, astudent at Worcester Polytechnic Institute explains: When the other girl gets accepted to RPI and WPI and Cal Tech and MIT, and the acceptance letters pile up….I watch the boys whisper in her ear: ‘They’re just meeting 1 their
has demonstrated that spatial ability canbe developed through targeted activities4. Her work centered on basic technical drawingcurriculum delivered to students including instruction on developing multi-view drawings,pictorial drawings, and patterns.The Mental Cutting Test (MCT) was initially developed in 1939 as a portion of a collegeentrance exam5. More recently, the MCT has been used as an instrument for spatial abilityresearch. The MCT consists of 25 problems to be answered in 20 minutes. As shown in Figure 1,each problem has a dimetric view of an object with a plane of interest (POI) intersecting theobject. There are five possible solutions showing cross-sections of the object, or a similar object,and the test taker must select the cross
encourages an open and non-hierarchical perspective toward nature. Through thiswork, he became acutely aware of the counter-productive polarities that are reinforced by mediasaturation (a prime example being the politicization of environmental sustainability). By 2016,he envisioned creating an art installation that would highlight a ‘convergence’ rather than adivision of peoples and ideas. Loosely based on the Asian traditions of floating lanterns, hisinitial sketches of this art installation (Figure 1) explored how he might combine disparateindividual lights into a combined new color as they floated down a stream – hence the projectConvergence was born. Figure 1: Initial concept sketch of Convergence. Illustration by Matt BurnettHe quickly
objectives and outcomes of competitions, butthe observations apply nearly universally to all high school cyber security competitions that weattended.Observation 1: Many competitions are arranged where students are organized into teams(typically 3-6 students) and teamwork is highly encouraged. However, we observed that manyteams are really co-working by contributing to a team score rather than exhibiting high-levels ofteamwork. As a result, many competitions observed don’t show tell-tale signs of collaboration,such as having animated discussions or students working on the same problem at the same time.Observation 2: Student competitors learn much in preparation for the competition about the useand design of computer-related technologies as well as
Monitoring using Acoustic Sensors Ryan Yedinak1, Oskar Granados1, Vincent Tran1, Moises Vieyra1, Alec Maxwell2, Amelito Enriquez1, Wenshen Pong2, Cheng Chen2, Kwok Siong Teh2, Xiaorong Zhang2, Hamid Mahmoodi2, Hao Jiang2, Zhaoshuo Jiang2*, 1 Cañada Community College, Redwood City, CA 94061 2 School of Engineering, San Francisco State University, San Francisco, CA 94132 * Corresponding Author: zsjiang@sfsu.eduAbstractIn current practice, sensors, such as accelerometers and strain gages, are attached to or embeddedinto structures to measure its response for structural health monitoring purposes. However,installation and maintenance costs
University. Her research interests include embedded systems, wearable technologies, neural-machine interface, and cyber-physical systems. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2018 Engaging Community College Students in Emerging Human- Machine Interfaces Research through Design and Implementation of a Mobile Application for Gesture RecognitionKattia Chang-Kam1, Karina Abad1, Ricardo Colin1, Charles Tolentino1, Cameron Malloy1,Alexander David2, Amelito G. Enriquez1, Wenshen Pong2, Zhaoshuo Jiang2, Cheng Chen2, Kwok-Siong Teh2, Hamid Mahmoodi2, Hao Jiang2, Xiaorong Zhang2 1 Cañada College, Redwood City, CA 2