Information Technology two of themost ubiquitous STEM fields in the 21 st century. No matter the discipline area, it is clear fromlooking at workplace trends that students’ studies and professional development would benefitfrom exposure to, and comfort with, computing skills such as programming, and increasedfacility in computational thinking. Introducing a broader range of students to coding andcomputational thinking practices has been used as a strategy for broadening participation incomputing (BPC) [1, 2]. There have been numerous calls to bring computational thinking intothe general K-12 curriculum to both improve computational literacy in the next generation andenhance general education (e.g., [3, 4]). A recommended approach to teachers
Poulovassilis, A. (2010). Learning as immersive experiences: Using the four-dimensional framework for designing and evaluating immersive learning experiences in a virtual world. British Journal of Educational Technology, 41(1), pp.69-85.[16] Merchant, Z., Goetz, E., Cifuentes, L., Keeney-Kennicutt, W. and Davis, T. (2014). Effectiveness of virtual reality-based instruction on students' learning outcomes in K-12 and higher education: A meta-analysis. Computers & Education, 70, pp.29-40.[17] Erikson, E. and Erikson, J. (1998). The life cycle completed. New York: W.W. Norton.[18] Vive.com. (2018). VIVE™ | VIVE Virtual Reality System. [online] Available at: https://www.vive.com/us/product/vive-virtual-reality
Paper ID #25024Women of Color in Computing: A Researcher-Practitioner CollaborativeFrieda McAlear, Kapor Center Frieda McAlear is a Senior Research Associate at the Kapor Center and one of the principal investi- gators of the Women of Color in Computing Researcher-Practitioner Collaborative. She has a decade of experience managing projects, developing evaluation and research methodology and building nonprofit technology capacity with socially progressive organizations in the Bay Area, Europe and Southern Africa. In 2013, she worked as an evaluator for an HIV/AIDS clinic serving villages in Lesotho and as a Program
apply the knowledge and skills required for researchand cooperative work, emphasizing the conscious and explicit development of skills. Designatedby the U.S. Department of Education (DoEd) as a promising and practical strategy to increasepost-secondary success, PLTL is a model of instruction for introductory STEM courses thatintroduces a peer-led workshop as an integral part of the course. In PLTL, a student who waspreviously successful in the course is recruited to lead students in weekly workshops to problemsolve and discuss course content. PLTL is known for its ability to help minority students succeed[14, 15, 16]. As a Signature Practice, PLTL is used in introductory CS courses [17, 18, 19].CAHSI’s Fellow-Net [7] is a powerful strategy to
several practice with several examples. For the third presentation, asFig. 2. Multiple representations Module 2: Left, lecture slide examples;Center: SNAP program; and right, video game pseudocodeusual, the students played the video game levels dedicated toloops. V. IMPACT Fig. 3. Sample of student outcome Measuring student learning is critical to any educational ef-fort [14]. Therefore, the main objective of our assessment wasto determine the extent to which our instructional intervention z test shows that students’ posttest scores were statisticallyimpacted student learning. We used three forms of evaluation significantly higher
, dismantle systematic injustices, and transform the way inclusion is culti- vated in engineering through the implementation of novel technologies and methodologies in engineering education. Intrigued by the intersections of engineering education, mental health and social justice, Dr. Coley’s primary research interest focuses on virtual reality as a tool for developing empathetic and in- clusive mindsets among engineering faculty. She is also interested in hidden populations in engineering education and innovation for more inclusive pedagogies. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2019Can Eye Tracking Detect Implicit Bias among People Navigating Engineering Environments?AbstractThere is
State University.Miss Amanda James Reed c American Society for Engineering Education, 2019Intersectional perspectives: Interpersonal contributors to moments of doubt for graduate women of color in STEM Kerrie G. Wilkins-Yel, Bianca L. Bernstein, Jennifer M. Bekki, Nelson O. Zounlome and Amanda Reed1. Introduction The status of women of color in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM)fields was first addressed by Malcom and colleagues in the 1978 publication - The Double Bind:The Problem of Being a Minority Women in Science. Here, these researchers coined the term“double bind” to refer to the unique challenges faced by
Paper ID #24819A Bridge to the PhD for URM StudentsDr. Ashleigh Renee Wright, North Carolina State UniversityDr. Rebecca Brent, Education Designs, Inc Rebecca Brent is President of Education Designs, Inc., a consulting firm located in Chapel Hill, N.C. She is a certified program evaluator and a faculty development consultant. Brent received her B.A. from Mill- saps College in Jackson, Miss., her M.Ed. from Mississippi State University, and her Ed.D. from Auburn University. She was an Associate Professor of education at East Carolina University before starting her consulting firm in 1996.Prof. Elizabeth C Dickey, North
University Dr. Nadia Kellam is Associate Professor in the Polytechnic Engineering Program at Arizona State Uni- versity. Prior to this position, she was an Associate Professor at the University of Georgia, where she was co-director of the interdisciplinary engineering education research Collaborative Lounge for Un- derstanding Society and Technology through Educational Research (CLUSTER). In her research, she is interested in understanding how engineering students develop their professional identity, the role of emo- tion in student learning, and synergistic learning. A recent research project uncovers the narratives of exemplary engineering faculty who have successfully transitioned to student-centered teaching
Kinesiology and has been Director of the ADVANCE Faculty Affairs and Diversity Office for over 10 years. Her research is in the areas of Endocrinology, Reproductive Biology and Sexually Dimorphic Disease as well as on Mid-Career Mentoring. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2019 Paper ID #24814Dr. Keith A. Schimmel P.E., North Carolina A&T State University Keith Schimmel is an Associate Professor of chemical engineering, Director of the Applied Science & Technology PhD Program, and Education Director for the NSF CREST Bioenergy Center at North Car- olina A&T State University
. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2019Design and Implementation of anEngineering for Social Justice CurriculumDianne Hendricks, PhDUniversity of WashingtonHuman Centered Design and Engineeringdgh5@uw.eduCo-authors: Celina Gunnarsson and Camille BirchCourse Description> Explores social justice in a science and engineering context> Focused on race, gender, sexuality, and disability> We emphasize what students can do to advocate for and represent diverse peoples> How to promote social justice through science and engineering practice. Gunnarsson, Birch, and Hendricks. 2019 CoNECD Annual Conference.Why Use a Social Justice Theme?> Engineering can – and should - be a vehicle for social justice>
Paper ID #24948Identifying a ”Starting Point” for Diversity and Inclusion InitiativesDr. Mahauganee Dawn Bonds, Georgia Institute of TechnologyDr. Veronica van Montfrans, Georgia TechProf. Joseph M LeDoux, Georgia Institute of Technology Joe Le Doux is the Associate Chair for Undergraduate Learning and Experience in the Department of Biomedical Engineering at Georgia Tech and Emory University. Dr. Le Doux’s research interests in engineering education focus on problem-solving, diagrammatic reasoning, and on the socio-cognitive aspects of the flipped and blended learning environments.Dr. Wendy C Newstetter, Georgia Institute of
Evaluators, an American Evaluation Association affiliate organization and is a member of the American Educational Research Association and Ameri- can Evaluation Association, in addition to ASEE. Dr. Brawner is also an Extension Services Consultant for the National Center for Women in Information Technology (NCWIT) and, in that role, advises com- puter science and engineering departments on diversifying their undergraduate student population. She remains an active researcher, including studying academic policies, gender and ethnicity issues, transfers, and matriculation models with MIDFIELD as well as student veterans in engineering. Her evaluation work includes evaluating teamwork models, statewide pre-college math
isomorphism?,” Sociology of Education, vol. 70, no. 4,pp. 308-323, 1997.[17] J. S. Fairweather, “Faculty reward structures: Toward institutional and professionalhomogenization,” Research in Higher Education, vol. 34, no. 5, pp. 603-623, 1993.[18] MIT, “MIT Faculty Open Access Policy,” 2009. [Online]. Available:https://libraries.mit.edu/scholarly/mit-open-access/open-access-policy/. [Accessed March 8th,2019].[19] M. Wisnioski, Engineers for Change: Competing Visions of Technology in 1960s America.Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2012.[20] J. Grady-Benson and B. Sarathy, “Fossil fuel divestment in US highereducation: student-led organising for climate justice,” Local Environment, vol. 21 no. 6, pp.661-681, 2016.[21] C. Beeler, “Students Push
. Camacho is Professor of Sociology at the University of San Diego. She began her career at UC San Diego in 1999 as a postdoctoral fellow at the Center for US Mexican Studies, and later as a UC Faculty Fellow in Ethnic Studies. In 2015-16, she returned to UC San Diego as a fellow of the American Council on Education. As a bilingual/bicultural Latina, Camacho has 30 years of experience in higher ed- ucation advocating for underrepresented groups and first generation college students. For over a decade, her work on institutional transformation has received funding from the National Science Foundation to examine and address inequities in higher education, specifically as they relate to Science, Technology, Engineering and
diversity.Dr. Jacquelyn F. Sullivan, University of Colorado Boulder Jacquelyn Sullivan is founding co-director of the Engineering Plus degree program in the University of Colorado Boulder’s College of Engineering and Applied Science. She spearheaded design and launch of the Engineering GoldShirt Program to provide a unique access pathway to engineering for high potential, next tier students not admitted through the standard admissions process; this program is now being adapted at several engineering colleges. Sullivan led the founding of the Precollege division of ASEE in 2004; was awarded NAE’s 2008 Gordon Prize for Innovation in Engineering and Technology Education, and was conferred as an ASEE Fellow in 2011. She has
Paper ID #24767Improving Inclusivity and Diversity in College STEM Programs through Metacog-nitive Classroom PracticesDr. Elizabeth Hane, Rochester Institute of Technology Dr. Elizabeth Hane is a forest ecologist, and an associate professor in the Gosnell School of Life Science at the Rochester Institute of Technology. She also serves as the Faculty Associate to the Provost for General Education, and advises RIT’s provost on issues surrounding general education curriculum and delivery. Her research focus has recently shifted from ecology to developing methods that support the retention of underrepresented students in
inclusion and diversity. She has been honored by the American Society of Engineer- ing Education with several teaching awards such as the 2004 National Outstanding Teaching Medal and the 2005 Quinn Award for experiential learning, and she was 2014-15 Fulbright Scholar in Engineering Education at Dublin Institute of Technology (Ireland)tephanie Farrell is Professor and Founding Chair of Experiential Engineering Education at Rowan University (USA) and was 2014-15 Fulbright Scholar in Engineering Education at Dublin Institute of Technology (Ireland).Dr. Donna M Riley, Purdue University-Main Campus, West Lafayette (College of Engineering) Donna Riley is Kamyar Haghighi Head of the School of Engineering Education and Professor of
studies.The idea for this paper came from the first author, as one of the students in the course. The otherauthors are currently also enrolled as students or serving as instructors in the graduate-levelengineering education course, which is cross-listed with the women’s, gender, and sexualitystudies program at a large research university in the Midwest. Each of the involved authorsoccupies different disciplinary locations in the educational equity research space, includingengineering education, technology, chemistry education, and multicultural education.Additionally, each author occupies different social identities, including students who are of color
, The Biomedical Engineering Society and the National Alliance of Black School Educators amongst other activities. She is Deaconess at New Friendship Baptist Church. Whitney was recognized in the 2013 Edition of Who’s Who in Black Cincinnati.Dr. Darryl Dickerson, Purdue University-Main Campus, West Lafayette (College of Engineering) Darryl A. Dickerson, PhD serves as Associate Director of the Minority Engineering Program at Purdue University and Chief Executive Officer of Advanced Regenerative Technologies. He received his PhD in 2009 from the Weldon School of Biomedical Engineering where his research focused on the development of naturally-derived biomaterials specifically for the regeneration of interfaces between hard
Research Triangle Park Evaluators, an Ameri- can Evaluation Association affiliate organization and is a member of the American Educational Research Association and American Evaluation Association, in addition to ASEE. Dr. Brawner is also an Exten- sion Services Consultant for the National Center for Women in Information Technology (NCWIT) and, in that role, advises computer science and engineering departments on diversifying their undergraduate student population. She remains an active researcher, including studying academic policies, gender and ethnicity issues, transfers, and matriculation models with MIDFIELD as well as student veterans in engi- neering. Her evaluation work includes evaluating teamwork models
. Sharon A. Caraballo, George Mason University Sharon Caraballo is Associate Dean for Undergraduate Programs in George Mason University’s Volge- nau School of Engineering. The school’s approximately 6,100 undergraduate students have a choice of 11 majors in the areas of engineering, computer science, information technology, and statistics. Her lead- ership in the development of the school’s undergraduate programs draws from her extensive study and experience in forward-thinking higher education programs. She served as Clare Boothe Luce Professor of Computer Science at Georgetown University before joining the faculty of George Mason University c American Society for Engineering Education, 2019
, particularly in higher education; learning in the workplace; curricular and pedagogical development; and the preparation of professionals for social justice goals. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2019 Practitioner Learning Community: Design of instructional content, pedagogy and assessment metrics for productive, inclusive and socially just teaming practice AbstractThis paper describes the development of and outcomes from a Practitioner Learning Community(PLC) model used to design instructional content, pedagogy, and assessment metrics forinclusive, socially just teaming practices. Comprised of postdoctoral
diversity in engineering.Dr. Alexander John De Rosa, Stevens Institute of Technology (School of Engineering and Science) Alexander De Rosa is a Teaching Assistant Professor at Stevens Institute of Technology. Alex specializes in teaching in the thermal-fluid sciences and has a background in experimental combustion. He gained his PhD in 2015 from The Pennsylvania State University in this area.Ms. Susan Staffin Metz, Stevens Institute of Technology (School of Engineering and Science) Susan Metz is Executive Director of Diversity and Inclusion and Senior Research Associate at Stevens Institute of Technology. Metz is a founder of WEPAN, Women in Engineering ProActive Network. She is a recipient of the Presidential Award for
Illinois at Urbana Champaign.Dr. Bevlee Watford, Virginia Tech c American Society for Engineering Education, 2019 Indicators of Participation: A Critical Review of Publicly-Available STEM Data Sources AbstractSeveral national reports convey the need for better data on the participation of underrepresentedgroups in engineering. The purpose of this paper is to 1) catalogue data sources that collectSTEM-related information at a national level, and 2) critique their usefulness as it relates toinforming efforts aimed at broadening participation of underrepresented racial/ethnic groups inengineering. To this end, we identified and reviewed
profession.Dr. Devlin Montfort, Oregon State University Dr. Montfort is an Assistant Professor in the School of Chemical, Biological and Environmental Engi- neering at Oregon State UniversityKali Furman, Oregon State University Kali Furman is a PhD student in Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Oregon State University. Her research interests are in social justice education and feminist pedagogies. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2019 Measuring the Conceptualization of Oppression and PrivilegeAbstractMany campus programs seek to enhance students’ and faculty’s capacities to engage issues ofinclusivity, equity and social justice. While there are quantitative assessment tools that
serves as Director of the Center for Research in SEAD Education at the Institute for Creativity, Arts, and Technology (ICAT). Her research interests include interdisciplinary collaboration, design education, communication studies, identity theory and reflective practice. Projects supported by the National Science Foundation include exploring disciplines as cultures, liberatory maker spaces, and a RED grant to increase pathways in ECE for the professional formation of engineers.Dr. Donna M Riley, Purdue University-Main Campus, West Lafayette (College of Engineering) Donna Riley is Kamyar Haghighi Head of the School of Engineering Education and Professor of Engi- neering Education at Purdue University
- versity of Miami. Prior to joining the University of Miami in 2014, she worked as an adjunct professor at Columbia University and the Cooper Union in New York City. She received her PhD from Columbia University in 2006. Since 2015 Dr. Basalo has been actively involved in the University of Miami College of Engineering’s ”Redefining Engineering Education” strategic plan on educational innovation.Gemma Henderson, University of Miami Gemma Henderson is a Senior Instructional Designer for the LIFE (Learning, Innovation and Faculty En- gagement) team in Academic Technologies at the University of Miami (UM). Gemma partners with fac- ulty members, academic units, and other university stakeholders to create innovative, effective
., Chen, H., Smith, K., & Maldonado, T. (2014). Retention and persistence of women and minorities along the engineering pathway in the united states. In A. Johri, & 8 B. Olds, Cambridge Handbook of Engineering Education Research (pp. 311 - 334). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.McGrath, D. (2004). Closing the gender gap: Girls, technological fluency, and PBL. Learning & Leading with Technology, 31(6), 28-31.Michaelsen, L. K., & Sweet, M. (2008). The essential elements of team-based learning. New Directions for Teaching and Learning, 111, 7-27. Retrieved from Wiley InterScience.Microsoft. (2018, November
2012, the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology reported thatone million more science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) professionals would needto be introduced into the workforce to keep up with economic demands [1]. The council alsorecommended a variety of tools to recruit students to STEM programs, including the use ofsummer camps, research courses, and pathways from two to four-year institutions [1]. Thoughthe time has expired for this call to action, the importance of having educated STEMprofessionals and engagement of students in STEM is imperative. Engineering camps, a method of recruitment supported by PCAST, have been activesince the middle of the 20th century [2]. These camps often feature hands-on