Paper ID #36473FRAMING CULTURAL BRIDGES FOR RELATIONAL MENTORSHIPDr. SYLVANUS N. WOSU, University of Pittsburgh Sylvanus Wosu is the Associate Dean for Diversity Affairs and Associate Professor of mechanical engi- neering and materials science at the University of Pittsburgh. Wosu’s research interests are in the areas of impact physics and engineering of new composit American c Society for Engineering Education, 2023 The Roles of Relational Mentorship in Building and Supporting Cultural Bridges
research projects designed to increase women’s participation in post-secondary com- puting programs. This includes working with faculty and staff from a variety of collegiate computing ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2023 Paper ID #36431 programs to facilitate their local implementation of evidence-based recruitment and retention strategies and translating these successes into resources accessible to post-secondary computing programs on a na- tionwide scale. She also engages in project management and strategic planning for the Extension Services Program. Prior to joining NCWIT, Jamie
, diversity, and educational equity—mainly related to students from historically marginalized or underrepresented groups in engineering. Lee received his Ph.D. in engineering education from Virginia Tech, his M.S. in industrial & systems engineering from Virginia Tech, and his B.S. in industrial engineering from Clemson University. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2023 “The only difference is now it counts:” Exploring the Role of a Summer Bridge Program in Shaping Student Expectations of EngineeringAbstractThe College of Engineering at Virginia Tech hosts a five-week program for incoming studentseach summer, also known as a summer bridge program (SBP). As part of the program,first-time
. Nguyen is a Senior Lecturer at the University of Maryland, College Park. He is a founding member of the Environmental and Socially Responsible Engineering (ESRE) group who work to integrate and track conscientious engineering aspects throughout the undergraduate educational experience across the college. His efforts include formally integrating sustainability design requirements into the mechanical engineering capstone projects, introducing non-profit partnerships related to designs for persons with disabilities, and founding the Social/Environmental Design Impact Award. He manages several outreach and diversity efforts including the large-scale Get Out And Learn (GOAL) engineering kit program that reaches thousands
Paper ID #36462Connecting Efforts to Support Minorities in Engineering EducationDr. Elizabeth Cady, National Academy of Engineering Dr. Elizabeth T. Cady is a Senior Program Officer and Director of the Practices for Engineering Education and Research (PEER) program of the National Academy of Engineering (NAE). PEER conducts studies, workshops, and other activities focused on equitable and inclusive engineering education writ large and related research at the precollege and higher education levels. She earned M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Cognitive and Human Factors Psychology from Kansas State University and a B.A. in
Paper ID #36420Weaving Students into Engineering, not Weeding Them OutDr. Jenna P. Carpenter, Campbell University Dr. Carpenter is Founding Dean of Engineering at Campbell University. She is 2022-2023 President of ASEE and past President of WEPAN. She is a former NSF ADVANCE PI and was a co-recipient of the 2022 National Academy of Engineering’s Bernard M. Gordon Award for Innovation in Engineering and Technology Education for her role in launching the Grand Challenges Scholars Program. She is an ASEE PEV for General Engineering, Dr. Carpenter regularly speaks at the national level on issues related to the success of
tothese roles after working in industry [26], [25].In addition, EIF at HSIs play critical and multifaceted roles in supporting engineering studentsand implementing educational change. HSIs are defined as two- or four-year nonprofitinstitutions that enroll 25% or more full-time students who identify as having Latin Americanheritage or origins [27]. While few HSIs were specifically established to educate students withLatin American heritage or origins, HSIs are uniquely equipped to enrich the outcomes ofsystematically and historically marginalized students through recruitment and retentioninitiatives and students-centered pedagogy and programs [33], [28]. Faculty are at the center ofthese and similar initiatives, with many engaging in new
Paper ID #36458From website to work environment: Exploring minority undergraduateengineering students’ conceptualizations of engineering careersMs. Acaydia CampbellVenicia Castro VillatoroAngel Alexis Lopez, Florida International UniversityDr. Janice L. Hall, Florida International University Janice L. Hall is a postdoctoral associate in the School of Universal Computing, Construction, and En- gineering Education (SUCCEED) at Florida International University (FIU). Her research focuses on en- gineering careers and workforce development as it relates to broadening the participation of historically underrepresented groups in
+), which cultivates gender equity across all of the activities of STEM profes- sional societies; the ADVANCE and INCLUDES I-Corps Inclusion Collective, which aims to create more equitable and inclusive I-Corps programs; the New Jersey Equity in Commercialization Collective, which works with technology transfer offices and investors across the state of New Jersey to build a more diverse, equitable, and inclusive commercialization ecosystem; and the Commemorating 20 Years of ADVANCE: Design Thinking Sessions for a Digital Exhibit and Archive project. She is also PI for the WEPAN Accel- erator, an entrepreneurship accelerator program for women in engineering funded by the Small Business Administration. Prior to joining
Paper ID #36452Understanding the Importance of Diversity Climate and WorkplaceInclusion for Engineering FacultyDr. Henry Tran, University of South Carolina Henry Tran is an Associate Professor at the University of South Carolina’s Department of Educational Leadership and Policies who studies issues related to education human resources (HR). He has published extensively on the topic, and holds two national HR certifications. He is also the co-lead editor of the book How did we get here?: The decay of the teaching profession, co-lead editor of the book Leader- ship in turbulent times: Cultivating diversity and inclusion in
Kayyali is the Associate Director of Academic Support Services in the Office of the Dean at Florida International University’s (FIU) College of Engineering and Computing (CEC). In her current role, she oversees all aspects of Graduate Education and Admissions for the schools and departments under CEC. Her duties vary from admissions, recruitment, marketing, data analysis, graduate funding, etc. She also provides administrative support to the Associate Dean for Academic Affairs. Prior to her current position, she was the Program Coordinator/Coordinator of Administrative Services at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) and prior to that the Program Assistant at the Department of Civil and
Paper ID #36455Exploring Experiences of Black Engineering Students Transitioning intoPredominately White Institutions for Graduate StudiesMr. Michael Lorenzo Greene, Arizona State University, Polytechnic campus Michael Greene is a PhD student in the Engineering Educations Systems and Design program at Arizona Sate University, Polytechnic Campus.Dr. Brooke Charae Coley, Arizona State University, Polytechnic Campus Brooke Coley, PhD is an Assistant Professor in Engineering at the Polytechnic School of the Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering at Arizona State University. Dr. Coley is Principal Investigator of the Shifting
= 3 women; n = 2 men) all meeting our definition of Black immigrantcompleted this study. The members were from Nigeria, Cameroon, and Ethiopia. All memberswere enrolled in an accredited doctoral engineering program representing the ChemicalEngineering, Industrial Engineering, Robotics Engineering, Electrical Engineering and CivilEngineering disciplines. Semi-structured interviews, where members were initially prompted toopenly describe their experiences in engineering leading to up the present moment, lasted 60- 90-minutes in duration. Follow-up questions detailing specific aspects of their stories (i.e.,what identity related challenges did they experience, if at all?) were asked by research team.Interviews were video and audio recorded and
oppression inundergraduate STEM programs due to the cis-hetero patriarchal culture of undergraduate STEMeducation. This dominant and oppressive culture lead LGBTQ+ students to feel pressure tochange their behaviors or appearances to fit into engineering contexts and that these studentsstruggle to find a support system within engineering [2], [4]-[5]. However, the experiences ofLGBTQ+ engineering students at Hispanic-Serving Institutions (HSIs) are yet to be explored.This insight, along with the lack of research focused on LGBTQ+ engineering studentsexperiences at HSIs motivated our critical qualitative interview study, which focuses on thestories of two LGBTQ+ engineering students who attend a large HSI in the Southeastern UnitedStates. Our focal
Policy Analysis from NC State University in 1996. She also has an MBA from Indiana University (Bloomington) and a bachelorˆa C™Aimee Sayster, Aimee Sayster is an undergraduate student in the Mechanical Engineering department at Clemson Uni- versity. She is in an undergraduate researcher investigating Black immigrant students’ experiences in engineering. She will graduate with her BS in Mechanical Engineering in August 2023.Dr. Catherine Mobley, Clemson University Catherine Mobley, Ph.D., is a Professor of Sociology at Clemson University. She has over 30 years experience in project and program evaluation and has worked for a variety of consulting firms, non-profit agencies, and government organizations, including tDr
themes emerged relating to counselor awareness of broadening participation. The first wasgender imbalances within engineering courses. Counselors identified a need to broadenparticipation for girls through engineering courses. The following quote from Ann encapsulatesthe conversation the counselors had about the students within their course. But as I'm looking at the class list now, I'm very disappointed that there are no girls. We had 15 take it first semester and 11 second semester to do the engineering too. But they're all boys and you know, I'm not sure what that's about because our STEM program at [school name] definitely has a lot of girls interested in who attend.The discussion of gender imbalance was often framed
literature suggests that FG students are not givenaccess to important social and institutional capital specific to engineering programs that allowthem to navigate their learning and working environments similarly to their non-FG peers. WhileMoll et al. [6] stress the importance that different funds of knowledge should be seen as assets,their different funds of knowledge are seen through a deficit lens rather than assets. Additionally,most FG students might not have obtained the institutional and social capital needed inengineering that could help them better process their emotional experience [7]. Non-first-generation students (non-FG) have a larger pool and/or community who are closer to the field ofengineering which might also include how one
Paper ID #36498A climate case study for understanding inclusion, equity, access, anddiversity for broadening participation and reducing systemic barriersDr. Gregory E Triplett Jr., Virginia Commonwealth University Experience involves strategic planning, resource management, consensus building, program development with a focus on continuous improvement. Research activities include biophotonics, semiconductor device modeling and fabrication, sensor net- works, andMrs. Rachel Levena Wasilewski ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2023 A climate case study for understanding inclusion, equity
2006. Her most recent teaching position was in the First Year Engineering Program at Northeastern for 10 years, where she helped to establish the First Year Engineering Learning & Innovation Center makerspace and their new ”Cornerstone” integrated project-based learning curricula.Mrs. Claire Jean Duggan, Northeastern University Claire Duggan is the Executive Director of The Center for STEM Education at Northeastern University. She has led and/or collaborated on multiple educational initiatives impacting the science and engineering landscape.Dr. Jacqueline A. Isaacs, Northeastern University Dr. Jacqueline Isaacs joined Northeastern in 1995 and has focused her research pursuits on assessment of the regulatory
, which supports students pursuing undergraduate degrees in science, technology, engineering, and math- ematics (STEM). Before coming to SU, Tamara was at the University of Maryland, College Park where she was Assistant Director of the Center for Minorities in Science and Engineering. As Assistant Direc- tor of CMSE, Tamara was responsible for establishing retention programs for underrepresented minority STEM students including directing the NSF LSAMP and Bridge to the Doctorate Graduate Fellowship Programs. In 2012, Tamara and the rest of the members of CMSE were honored by the National Society of Black Engineers and ExxonMobil with the Impact Award for their successful efforts in the retention and graduation of
(Kell, 2022). With a growing number of Hispanic immigrants in Virginia,institutions are recognizing the need to create more organizations and programs that celebrateand support Latin X cultures (VT Cultural and Community Centers, n.d.). Considering ourpositionality as engineering and computing education researchers, we are specifically interestedin how the engineering and computing communities within the institutions (micro level) aredoing their part to engage and serve the communities they were intended to support as defined inFigure 1. In the context of engineering and computing education, we draw out the presence ofservingness at three different types of top universities in Virginia: Hampton University, VirginiaPolytechnic University, and
Program Chair for the ASEE Faculty Development Division, and the Vice Chair for the Research in Engineering Education Network (REEN). He holds degrees in Industrial Engineering (BS, MS) from the National Experimental University of T´achira, Master of Business Administration (MBA) from Temple University, and Engineering Education (PhD) from Virginia Tech.Dr. Jennifer Lyn Benning, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University Dr. Jennifer Benning is an Instructor in the Engineering Education Department at Virginia Tech.Donna Westfall-Rudd ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2023 P R E S E NT A T I ON B Y Q U A L L A J O K E T CH U MWALKING BETWEENTWO WORLDSCreating a Framework for
awarded to explore the suspensions of African American middle and high school students in Hillsborough and Pinellas County Florida. Dr. Johnson Austin held positions as: math faculty at Academy Prep Center of Tampa; executive direc- tor of Curated PathwaysTM to Innovation; senior vice president for operations at the National Action Council for Minorities in Engineering, Inc.; president and CEO of St. Michael’s High School; executive vice president of the Community Partnership for Lifelong Learning; executive director of the National Consortium for Graduate Degrees for Minorities in Engineering and Science; and Minority Engineering Program director at The Pennsylvania State University. She began her career as a cost
Engineering, The State University of New York (SUNY) at Buffalo and from 2008 to 2012, I was an assistant professor in the Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering, North Dakota State University (NDSU). Previously, from 2004 to 2008, I worked for Magma Design Automation, San Jose CA, where I received the outstanding technical contribution award in 2007. During the Summer of 2001, I worked on analog circuit synthesis and layout at NeoLinear Inc., Pittsburgh PA. During 1996-1997, I was an Erasmus graduate student at the University of Patras, Greece. I serve on the technical program committee of several conferences including NOCS, SOCC, and ReConFig. I am a senior member of IEEE and a member of ACM and Eta Kappa Nu. I
Paper ID #36418Expanding Conversations about Accessibility to Include FacultyCali Anicha PhD, North Dakota State UniversityDr. Cecilia Aragon, University of WashingtonDr. Canan Bilen-Green, North Dakota State University Canan Bilen-Green is Vice Provost for Faculty Affairs and Equity at North Dakota State University. She is also Dale Hogoboom Professor of Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering and PI of the ADVANCE Program at North Dakota State University. She holds Ph.D. and M.S. degrees in Statistics from the University of Wyoming and a M.S. degree in Industrial Engineering from Bilkent University.Dr. Brianna Blaser
racism and employs Africana Philosophy, Critical Race Theory, and qualitative and historical methodol- ogy to investigate topics found at the nexus of race and adult education.Dr. Cathy Howell, University of North Carolina at Charlotte Dr. Cathy D. Howell is a Clinical Assistant Professor and Graduate Program Director at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. She received a Bachelor of Science degree in Community Health and Master’s degree in Health Education at East Carolina University. Dr. Howell completed her doctoral degree in Educational Leadership at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. Dr. Howell is a qualitative researcher with a multidisciplinary perspective focused on doctoral degree completion
labs.Dr. Canan Bilen-Green, North Dakota State University Canan Bilen-Green is Vice Provost for Faculty Advancement at North Dakota State University. She is also Dale Hogoboom Professor of Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering and PI of the ADVANCE Program at North Dakota State University. She holds Ph.D. anDr. Adrienne Robyn Minerick, Michigan Technological University Adrienne R. Minerick is Immediate Past President of ASEE, Director of ADVANCE at Michigan Tech and Professor of Chemical Engineering. She has served as Associate Dean for Research and Innovation in the College of Engineering, Assistant to the Provost for Faculty Development, Dean of the School of Technology, founded the College of Computing and most
- tion, and Director and Graduate Chair of the Engineering Education Research Program at University of Michigan (U-M). Dr. Finelli is a fellow in the AmericanLaura Carroll, University of Michigan Laura Carroll is a Ph.D. candidate in Engineering Education Research at the University of Michigan. Laura’s research interests are focused on academic success of neurodiverse STEM students, faculty de- velopment, and instructional change. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2023● My name is Nolgie Oquendo-Colón, and I’m a first- year Ph.D. student in Engineering Education Research at the University of Michigan alongside my peer Laura Carroll and our advisor Dr. Cynthia Finelli; we have