Conference Session

Track 6: Technical Session 5: Exploring Gender Representation Issues In Computing by Writing Interactive Fiction

Collection

2024 Collaborative Network for Engineering & Computing Diversity (CoNECD)

Authors

John K. Estell, Ohio Northern University; Stephany Coffman-Wolph, Ohio Northern University

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CoNECD Paper Sessions, Diversity

Engineering and Computer Science at Ohio Northern University, where he currently teaches first-year programming and user interface design courses, and serves on the college’s Capstone Design Committee. Much of his research involves design education pedagogy, including for- mative assessment of client-student interactions, modeling sources of engineering design constraints, and applying the entrepreneurial mindset to first-year programming projects through student engagement in educational software development. Estell earned his BS in Computer Science and Engineering degree from The University of Toledo and both his MS and PhD degrees in computer science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.Dr. Stephany

Conference Session

Track 5: Technical Session 1: Peru in State College

Collection

2024 Collaborative Network for Engineering & Computing Diversity (CoNECD)

Authors

Lauren A Griggs Griggs, Pennsylvania State University ; Julio Urbina, Pennsylvania State University

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CoNECD Paper Sessions, Diversity

an engineer.iii. Please describe how the nominee exhibits any of the following characteristics: strong leadership, an entrepreneurial mindset, and/or humanitarian engagement, including any known plans to continue to build upon these characteristics in the future.Nominations are reviewed and scored based on thestudent’s embodiment/demonstration of effort, integrity,ingenuity, servant leadership, contribution to fostering aninclusive community, entrepreneurial mindset, leadershipexperience, and humanitarian engagement. Once again,we select seven in state students and three out of statestudents.Criteria for retaining scholarship includes 1) 3.0 GPA, 2)Satisfactory Academic Progress, 3) pursuing College of

Conference Session

Technical Session: Transforming Engineering Education Is Possible! A Descriptive Case Study of Reimagining Engineering Education and Delivering a Wake Forest Engineering Student Experience Promoting Inclusion, Agency, Holistic Learning, and Success

Collection

2024 Collaborative Network for Engineering & Computing Diversity (CoNECD)

Authors

Olga Pierrakos, Wake Forest University

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CoNECD Paper Sessions, Diversity

actual list of attributes was pages long. It was notso much the content on that list but the mindset it put us in. We knew our list of attributes wasdifferent from what we had experienced in our own educational journeys and different from thetypical model of engineering education offered. We were willing to imagine a differentengineering graduate and believed that society demanded a different kind of engineer. Thiswould mean though that how we educate them will need to look different and that was the goalahead of us. We would look back to this list of WFU Engineer attributes to remind us of ourvision and as our team grew, and I would share the document with our new colleagues (even inmidst of our accreditation work). This iterative approach was