Conference Session

Session 9 - Track 1: Weaving Students into Engineering, not Weeding Them Out

Collection

2023 Collaborative Network for Computing and Engineering Diversity (CoNECD)

Authors

Jenna P. Carpenter, Campbell University

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CoNECD Paper Sessions, Diversity

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

Conference Session

Session 2 - Track 1: Connecting Efforts to Support Minorities in Engineering Education

Collection

2023 Collaborative Network for Computing and Engineering Diversity (CoNECD)

Authors

Elizabeth Cady, National Academy of Engineering; Shernita Lee; Nina Parshall, The Ohio State University; Alissa Sperling, Drexel University; Jacqueline E McDermott, Purdue University

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CoNECD Paper Sessions, Diversity

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

Conference Session

Session 6 - Track 1: Intersectionality: Professional identity formation and the success of women of color in higher education STEM disciplines

Collection

2023 Collaborative Network for Computing and Engineering Diversity (CoNECD)

Authors

Saundra Johnson Austin, University of South Florida; Michelle Bradham-Cousar, Florida International University; Kemesha Gabbidon, University of South Florida

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CoNECD Paper Sessions, Diversity

earned a BS in Civil Engineering from The Pennsylvania State University, an MBA from the University of Notre Dame, and EdD in Organizational Change and Leadership from the University of Southern California. At the University of South Florida (USF) she leads the project coordination for the National Science Foundation Florida Alliance for Graduate Education and the Professoriate (FL-AGEP), a $2.4M award to Florida A&M University (with a subaward to USF and Virginia Tech), Bethune-Cookman University, Florida International, and Florida Memorial University. Also, Dr. Johnson Austin is the project coordi- nator and Co-Principal Investigator for Project Racism In School Exclusionary Suspensions (RISES), a $30k grant

Conference Session

Session 2 - Track 4: Sparking shifts in STEM: Facilitating equitable change through workshops on emerging and understudied research questions

Collection

2023 Collaborative Network for Computing and Engineering Diversity (CoNECD)

Authors

Joan M Herbers, ARC Network; Heather E. Metcalf PhD, WEPAN, Inc.; Virginia L Rhodes M.S., The Women in Engineering ProActive Network (WEPAN)

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CoNECD Paper Sessions, Diversity

+), 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