Paper ID #35605Promoting First-Semester Persistence of Engineering Majors with DesignExperiences in General Chemistry LaboratoryMr. Corey Payne, University of FloridaDr. Kent J. Crippen, University of Florida Kent Crippen is a Professor of STEM education in the School of Teaching and Learning at the University of Florida and a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. His research in- volves the design, development, and evaluation of STEM cyberlearning environments as well as scientist- teacher forms of professional development. Operating from a design-based research perspective, this work focuses
of fall 2020. Eleven of the applicantsthen decided to accept the offer to enroll in the program and started activities in the Spring 2021semester. In addition, a new student joined the program mid-Spring 2021 based on the advocacyof one of the scholars to help a racially minoritized woman who was in a negative researchlaboratory environment. The director and collaborators mentored her by providing guidance onpolicies for relocating laboratories within her program. At the start of Spring 2021, faculty mentors in different departments, but still in STEMdisciplines, were assigned to eleven of the 12 students that requested external faculty mentors.In addition, monthly seminars were planned for teaching the principles of self-advocacy. A
began working as Co-PI on another NSF-funded study to reduce barriers in the hiring of underrepresented racial minority faculty in data science and data engineering fields.Dr. Tammy Michelle McCoy, Georgia Institute of Technology Tammy M. McCoy is the TA Development and Future Faculty Specialist for the Center for Teaching and Learning (CTL) at the Georgia Institute of Technology. In this capacity, she works closely with graduate students and postdoctoral scholars interested in pursuing careers in college teaching through teaching assistant (TA) training and support, academic career development programs, and training and certification in college teaching. Specifically, she teaches courses and facilitates workshops to
both Masters ofScience and PhD students.Lastly, we separate out programs as being student-focused or teacher-focused. Oneargument for the importance of running student focused programs is to providemore opportunities for the individual students. However, sustainability of conductingoutreach programs is a significant challenge when this work is performed on top ofother duties, that receive more weight for promotion -- for example, ‘scholarlyscientific research’, which I’ll address later, and contributing to the department’score teaching mission (BS, MS/PhD).On the other hand, the teacher-focused program listed here, CalTeach, is a programthat invites K12 teachers to spend their summer working in a laboratory to learnabout new scientific
development. 8Place-based education is defined as the process of using the local community and theenvironmental ethos that resides in it as a starting point to teach concepts like math,language arts, science, and social studies. Providing hands-on, real-world learningexperiences allowing students to develop stronger ties to their community, creating aheightened sense of service and contribution[8] . Building intentional learning environmentswill allow students to learn from where they are. This comfort zone could be vital tobridging diverse students into fields like engineering that White males primarily dominate.For many marginalized students, it is
the capacity of K-12 teachers to teach engineer- ing. She is also staffing the Roundtable on Linking Academic Engineering Research and Defense Basic Science. She also co-edited a resource collection translating research on women in science and engineer- ing into practical tips for faculty members and worked on LinkEngineering, an online toolkit to support PreK-12 engineering education, and the Online Ethics Center, a website that supports ethics education and science and engineering. She earned M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Cognitive and Human Factors Psychology from Kansas State University and a B.A. in psychobiology and political science from Wheaton College in Massachusetts.Dr. Beth M Holloway, Purdue University at
Graduate Teaching Assistant and a Graduate Research Assistant.Dr. Tremayne O’Brian Waller, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University Dr. Tremayne O. Waller (Ph.D., Virginia Tech) is the Director of Graduate Student Programs at Virginia Tech in the Center for the Enhancement of Engineering Diversity (CEED). Dr. Waller is responsible for developing and implementing evidence-based strategic priorities for recruiting and retention of underrep- resented students in College of Engineering graduate programs. He is working with faculty, staff and students to implement a strategic plan for graduate student success. Dr. Waller was the Interim Director for the Office of Academic Diversity Initiatives (OADI) and Director
structures create inequitable environments for minoritized students.Dr. Russ Meier, Milwaukee School of Engineering Dr. Russ Meier teaches computer architecture at Milwaukee School of Engineering. His funded research explores how first year students develop computational thinking. He received the Iowa State University Teaching Excellence Award, the Iowa State University Warren B. Boast Award for Undergraduate Teach- ing Excellence, and the MSOE Oscar Werwath Distinguished Teacher Award. He belongs to IEEE and its HKN, Computer and Education Societies, as well as the American Society for Engineering Education and its Electrical and Computer Engineering, Educational Research and Methods, and First Year Programs divisions
fellow in the Particulate Media Research Laboratory. Her research interests focus on the characterization and behavior of fine-grained soils, their response to changing chemical environments (i.e. changes in pH and ionic concentration), and traditional and non-traditional soil modification techniques (e.g. polymer-modified soils) for improving engineering properties. Dr. Palomino teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in materials character- ization and testing, soil mechanics, geosynthetics, and soil properties.Dr. Veerle Keppens, University of Tennessee at Knoxville American c Society for Engineering Education, 2022
Learning. Previously, Stephanie received her B.S. and M.S. degrees in Neuroscience from the University of Miami, in addition to B.S. and M.S. degrees in Computer Science from FIU.Dr. Cristi L. Bell-Huff, Georgia Institute of Technology Cristi L. Bell-Huff, PhD is a Lecturer and Director of Faculty and Student Training in the Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering at Georgia Tech and Emory University. She is involved in teaching, engineering education innovation, and research. In addition to her PhD in Chemical Engineer- ing, she also has an MA in Educational Studies. She has industrial experience in pharmaceutical product and process development as well as teaching experience at the secondary and post
ObispoDr. Brian P. Self, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo Brian Self obtained his B.S. and M.S. degrees in Engineering Mechanics from Virginia Tech, and his Ph.D. in Bioengineering from the University of Utah. He worked in the Air Force Research Laboratories before teaching at the U.S. Air Force Academy for seven years. Brian has taught in the Mechanical Engineering Department at Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo since 2006. During the 2011-2012 academic year he participated in a professor exchange, teaching at the Munich University of Applied Sciences. His engineering education interests include collaborating on the Dynamics Concept Inventory, developing model-eliciting activities in mechanical
towards goal attainment.Dr. Saundra Johnson Austin, University of South Florida Dr. Saundra Johnson Austin is the lead project coordinator at the University of South Florida for Florida Alliance for Graduate Education and the Professoriate (FL-AGEP) Transformation Alliance: Improving Pathways in the Professoriate for Minority Women in STEM. She is the project coordinator at the Univer- sity of South Florida for Project Racism In School Exclusionary Suspensions (RISES), a mixed methods study that addresses the long-standing phenomenon of out-of-school suspensions for African American middle and high school adolescents. Dr. Johnson Austin also teaches math and pre-algebra to 7th grade girls and boys at Academy Prep
. Dr. Furterer is an author or co-author of several academic journal articles, conference proceedings and 4 reference textbooks on Lean Six Sigma, Design for Six Sigma and Lean Systems, Lean Six Sigma Case Studies in the Healthcare Enterprise. She is a co-editor for the ASQ Certified Quality Improvement Asso- ciate Handbook (2020), and the ASQ Certified Manager of Quality / Organizational Excellence Handbook (2020).Ms. Elizabeth Hart, University of Dayton Beth Hart is a Principal Lecturer for the University of Dayton School of Engineering Dean’s Office. She received her B.S. and M.S. degrees from the University of Dayton, both in Chemical Engineering. She currently teaches engineering design and oversees the Women