from design of systems based on industrial ecology and byproduct synergies, life cycle and sus- tainability assessments of biopolymers and biofuels, and design and analysis of sustainable solutions for healthcare. In addition to building and maintaining a successful sustainable products research group, Dr. Landis has spent her career promoting and supporting women and underrepresented minorities in STEM. Like many of her predecessors, her early work was voluntary and informal. She began encouraging women in STEM through volunteer and outreach programs as a graduate student, and took on informal leadership roles as an Assistant and Associate Professor. Some of her early efforts included negotiation workshops
interests include student persistence and pathways in engineering, gender equity, diversity, and academic policy. Dr. Orr is a recipient of the NSF CAREER Award for her research entitled, ”Empowering Students to be Adaptive Decision-Makers.” American c Society for Engineering Education, 2021 The Centrality of Black Identity for Black Students in Engineering: A Reflection on Methods and TheoryKeywords: Race/ethnicity, Black identity, undergraduate programsIntroductionThe recent emphasis on increasing the number of engineering graduates has been coupled withgreater concern about the lack of diversity in engineering fields. However, despite
Paper ID #28213Understanding the Impact of a Diversity and Inclusion OrientedCurriculum in Short-Term Study Abroad Programs for UndergraduateEngineering StudentsDr. Tojan Rahhal, University of Missouri Dr. Tojan Rahhal is an Adjunct Professor in the Biomedical, Biological, and Chemical Engineering Department and the Assistant Dean for Inclusive Excellence and Strategic Initiatives at the University of Missouri-Columbia in the College of Engineering. Rahhal graduated from North Carolina State University with a BS in Biomedical Engineering. She went on to pursue a PhD in Pharmaceutical Sciences at the University of North
research and semi-structured interviews to develop the survey inventory to investigate the unique environment,educational practices, and goals of engineering graduate study [8]. We analyzed students'perceptions of unfair treatment to capture the psychological, emotional, and social responses theyreport.BackgroundGender, racial and ethnic diversity in engineering, particularly in graduate education, does notreflect the general population diversity in the U.S. [1], [2], [9], [10]. In many ways, engineeringrepresents a microcosm of the institutional and structural barriers to persistence traditionallyunderserved graduate students face in higher education across all majors, resulting in adverseeducational outcomes [11]. Gender and race-based bias
Professor in the Engineering Education Department at Virginia Poly- technic Institute and State University. London is a mixed methods researcher with interests in research impact, cyberlearning, and instructional change in STEM Education. Prior to being a faculty member, London worked at the National Science Foundation, GE Healthcare, and Anheuser-Busch. She earned B.S. and M.S. degrees in Industrial Engineering, and a Ph.D. in Engineering Education from Purdue University. American c Society for Engineering Education, 2021 Black Faces, White Spaces: Understanding the Role of Counterspaces in the Black Engineering Graduate Student Experience So
Paper ID #32217Designing a new holistic engineering programDr. Julia D Thompson, University of San Francisco Julia Thompson is an Assistant Professor at University of San Francisco. She has a passion for integrating the soul’s work into the engineering design process and technology. She is driven to help students, and people in general, look at technology as a pathway toward healing of earth and unjust social structure. Julia did her undergrad in chemical engineering at UC Berkeley and her PhD in engineering education at Purdue. Her research interests focus on how engineering design practices impact the relationships that
Paper ID #32198Exploring the Gendered Impacts of COVID-19 on FacultySarah Trainer, Seattle University Sarah Trainer is a medical anthropologist. Her work examines everyday negotiations around identity, wellness, and challenges to these within the context of large organizations. She is currently the Research & Program Coordinator for a National Science Foundation–funded ADVANCE Program at Seattle Uni- versity.Dr. Agnieszka Miguel, Seattle University Agnieszka Miguel received her Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering in 2001 from the University of Washing- ton, and MSEE and BSEE from Florida Atlantic University in 1996 and
spend most of their timein their departments as they take classes, attend seminars, conduct research, and interactinformally with department faculty, staff, and other graduate students, the climate theyexperience and the support they receive can have a major impact on their success. In addition,changes in a department can last well beyond the end of a grant. When interventions addressstudents directly, once they graduate there may be no lasting changes that result from theprogram. On the other hand, when faculty attitudes and mentoring practices change, the changescan last and continue to help students succeed long after the grant expires (robust design).In this paper, we describe the baseline surveys and the results from their administration
underrepresented undergraduate engineering students and engineering educators. In addition to teaching undergraduate engineering courses and a graduate course on entrepreneurship, she also enjoys teaching qualitative research methods in engineering education in the Engineering Education Systems and Design PhD program at ASU. She is deputy editor of the Journal of Engineering Education.Dr. Audrey Boklage, University of Texas at Austin Audrey Boklage is research assistant in the Cockrell School of Engineering at the University of Texas at Austin. She is particularly interested in improving the culture and environment of undergraduate education experience for all students, particularly those from underrepresented groups. Audrey has
diversification of faculty as a metric, butinstitutional commitment is best shown by inclusion of commitments in a publicly announced strategicplan. Hiring a diverse faculty may require that methods be employed akin to the approach of blindsymphony auditions [12], for example, anonymous resume reviews. Implicit bias [13] shows up in everysituation where the chance exists, so we need to design our procedures to minimize room for error. It issimply not true that diverse candidates who are superior are rare. O’Meara and Culpepper [14]compiled a list of proven practices as a part of an NSF ADVANCE program.To diversify our garden, we will still seek out a variety of seeds. This doesn’t change our K-12 efforts orthe need to increase technological literacy
color in the field of cybersecurity.Dr. Sharon Zelmanowitz P.E., U.S. Coast Guard Academy Dr. Zelmanowitz is Dean of Engineering at the United States Coast Guard Academy and Professor of Civil Engineering. As an institutional change agent, she has catalyzed the formation of a USCGA di- versity initiative inspired by the ASEE Engineering Deans Diversity Initiative and has brought faculty and stakeholders together to employ best practices to meet the the Coast Guard’s urgent need for more engineers prepared for 21st century technical challenges. Her teaching, research, and capstone projects span a wide array of environmental issues including storm sewer and sanitary sewer redesign, shipboard wastewater treatment
would like to work in industry and apply my knowledge to improve our technology Continue graduate studies I would like to use my technical knowledge to help advance society in a way that helps other people or revolutionizes the way they live.The responses from graduate students were similar, although generally more directed toward thefield of RF and microwave engineering. For example: My career aspirations are to get a job working ideally on antenna design, hopefully at a national research lab. Either starting a business or working for a company doing RF I want to become a researcher in the RF/microwave engineering field, and be able to make a difference in the research community.Coming into IMS
Belong Here” recruitment events that continued to be focused on underrepresented populations with the purpose of increasing those percentages and to showcase the types of support services offered for underrepresented students. Since the college supported this initiative with more resources, the events expanded to three total “You Belong Here” recruitment events including an evolved version of the “You Belong Here: Women of Color Weekend”. 3What we did: (include both research papers used as a foundation)Using research, best practices from our program’s experiences and feedback from current students, we created an agenda that was replicated across all
the Vir- ginia Tech Engineering Communications Center (VTECC). Her research focuses on communication in engineering design, interdisciplinary communication and collaboration, design education, and gender in engineering. She was awarded a CAREER grant from the National Science Foundation to study expert teaching in capstone design courses, and is co-PI on numerous NSF grants exploring communication, design, and identity in engineering. Drawing on theories of situated learning and identity development, her work includes studies on the teaching and learning of communication, effective teaching practices in design education, the effects of differing design pedagogies on retention and motivation, the dynamics of
, and critiques for video game designing (Finkel, 2017). The instructor role varied by age and level of skill depending on organizational structure.In research apprenticeships, students worked directly with a graduate student or researcher andreceived additional support from a faculty advisor (Avent et al., 2018). Some programs traincollege students to teach and tutor high school students in STEM subject areas (Finkel, 2017). Afew programs incorporated skilled high school students to provide instruction to their peers(Tucker-Raymond et al., 2016). The role in which instructors served beyond instruction as asource of support and guidance which helped bolster students’ confidence.Theme 3: Formal and Informal Support Systems Support
2009, she founded The Gaskins Foundation, a non-profit organization, whose mission is to educate and empower the African American community. Her foundation recently launched the Cincinnati STEM- ulates year round K-12 program, which is a free of charge program that will introduce more students to Math and Science. She was named the 2017 K12 Champion by the National Association of Multicultural Engineering Program Advocates (NAMEPA).Ms. Jutshi Agarwal, University of Cincinnati I am a PhD candidate in Aerospace Engineering with research objectives focussed on Engineering Edu- cation. Currently, I am the Lead Graduate Teaching Assistant for the first year engineering design course with an enrollment of 1300 students
marginalization in the form of social disadvantage which may bein terms of income, services, and/or participation. If engineers are to work effectively with andfor marginalized communities both locally and abroad, they should be sensitized to social justiceissues and have sophisticated ethical reasoning skills. This research explored the perspectivesand practices related to social justice issues among engineering educators who integrate ethicsand societal impact issues (ESI) into their courses. A survey found that among 1268 instructorswho embed ESI in their courses, 27% include social justice and/or poverty topics. The majorityof individuals who taught social justice and/or poverty believed that the ESI education ofundergraduate and graduate students in
(HSI) while Cal Poly is considered for this study a Predominately White Institution (PWI).This current study was initiated by Cal State LA where the faculty researchers have been working to support theirminoritized students for decades. In particular the college has developed outreach, bridge, and supplemental programs tosupport persistence and degree completion (Menezes, 2017, 2019). They have also worked across campus to develop facultyprofessional development activities (Galvan 2020) to support evidence based teaching practices including active learning,flipped classroom, asset-based (Yosso, 2005) and equity minded classroom practices such as mastery grading. One of thesuccessful student based programs, FYrE which is supported with an NSF
retention through activities, pro- grams, and events. Dr. Jones assumes a leadership role in the national engineering diversity and inclusion conversation regarding standards, benchmarks and best practices. She brings experience and proven track record of success in diversity and student development related work. Dr. Jones has held positions at Princeton University, California Institute of Technology, Occidental College, and California State Univer- sity, Long Beach. Dr. Jones’ professional experience is enhanced by her Doctorate in Higher Education Management from the University of Pennsylvania, combined with her research focus on experiences of underrepresented minority students in engineering disciplines.Prof. Helen
individual student and the institution. At the institutional level it is understoodas a mechanism that contributes to reducing attrition rates and enhancing recruitment plans butthere is a scarcity of empirical research related to PhD programs to understand this phenomenon.Contemporarily, Di Pierro [15] conceptualized doctoral mentoring as part of an institution’spragmatic retention plan to counter economic losses, potential loss in Carnegie classification, andvoids in research. Thus, mentoring should not be thought of as a disjointed obscure process, butone that is integrated and benchmarked as part of an institution’s best practices particularly forunderrepresented populations. For individual students mentoring often times is described as akey
United States with morethan 11 thousand members. For more than 30 years, SHPE organized and hosted its premier, three-day leadership conference in the first week of August, known today as the National Institute forLeadership Advancement (NILA). As part of NILA, SHPE chapters send one of their electedrepresentatives, typically the chapter president, to be developed into a leader. After attendingNILA, the representatives, now leaders, would lead their chapter leadership and members towarda successful post-graduation transition into the STEM workforce (students) and career upward-mobility and positive impact within the Hispanic community (professionals). Throughout the first half of the past decade, NILA’s curriculum and overall design
about their experiences designing, facilitating, and refining a pre-collegeengineering summer camp intended for students from diverse racial, ethnic, socioeconomic,ability, and/or gender backgrounds. The reflections provide a structure to interrogate the culturalnarratives about engineering embedded in the program design and transmitted to the students.The goal of this reflective practice is to understand the cultural narratives of engineeringtransmitted by the programming to students that may impact the inclusion of students fromdiverse backgrounds. In the remaining sections of the paper, we present an overview of theprogram design and explore embedded assumptions and manifested practices that define what itmeans to be an engineer.Theoretical
engineering design. This fosters social justice by creating individual andcommunity opportunity and redirectors the authority to design and create solutions tomarginalized learners. This study clarifies how engineering education, grounded in ourexperience in two refugees camp, can foster self-reliance in displacement by empoweringdisplaced students. Thus, this paper investigates both engineering education and social justice indisplacement and looks for places where the fields contribute to each other. In doing so, weinvestigate the following research question: How does localized engineering in displacement(LED) empower tertiary learners in displacement to become socially engaged?Research background Education is considered a critical element
as work in teams to apply mathematical concepts to hands-on engineering projects. ● “Math ‘til you drop” sessions (MTUDs) which are mandatory all-day study sessions twice a quarter where students gather to practice problems and study with their peers before midterms or finals. 2 (2) Personal and professional developmentIn addition to math and science coursework, STARS students are required to take courses thatprovide them with research-informed best practices for developing study and learning skills; helpthem navigate university resources; offer career and professional development; and enhancemetacognitive skills such as
mentoring Student support Collaborative learning Community Welcoming spaces Personal connectionsLiterature review: Inclusive learning environments best practices Reference available upon request “Making Culture” Report - ExCITe Center RecommendationsKim, Y., Edouard, K., Alderfer, K. and Smith, B. (2018). Making Culture: A National Studyof Education Makerspaces. [online] Drexel University. Creating an Inclusive Makerspace CultureGoal: increase student sense of belonging in undergraduateengineering students by integrating inclusive and equitableelements into an academic makerspace. Work Engagement
program designed to identify, recruit, mentor and graduate Black, Hispanic and Native American students who are enrolled in the college. Bitsie-Baldwin has held this position at K-State since 2005. Bitsie-Baldwin holds a B.A. in mathematics with a minor in secondary education from Fort Lewis College, Durango, Colorado, and an M.S. in mathematics from Kansas State University. She has also completed course requirements for a Ph.D. in the field of geometric topology. Her professional memberships include the NAMEPA, American Society for Engineering Education, and the American Indian Science and Engineering Society. American c Society for Engineering
research project was to understand the ways in whichnew engineers drew from the learning and knowledge they had developed while studyingengineering in the CEAS at the University of Colorado Boulder. The data for this project is aseven-minute transcription of the student’s response to the following request during an interviewfor a research project on learning ethnographies of new engineers: “Tell me about yourexperience studying engineering as an undergraduate.” Instead of talking about her classes, whatshe learned, or her area of expertise, she talked about the dynamics of her experiences andinteractions with her peers and professors. This discourse shifted from focusing on academiclearning as it applies to the professional engineering practice to
Frances Britt, Eileen Britt is a Clinical Psychologist and member of the Motivational Interviewing (MI) Network of Trainers, an international collective of MI trainers and researchers who promote excellence in the practice and training of MI. Eileen teaches MI at the University of Canterbury on the Postgraduate Diploma in Clinical Psychology programme, as well two postgraduate papers on MI within Health Sciences, and has experience in providing MI training to a range of health practitioners. She has been involved in a recent project training MI to staff from the College of Engineering at the University of Canterbury. American c Society for Engineering
Paper ID #28392Examining Black Diaspora Participation in Engineering using NarrativeInquiryDr. Ekundayo Shittu, The George Washington University Ekundayo (Dayo) Shittu is an assistant professor of Engineering Management and Systems Engineering at George Washington University. Professor Shittu conducts basic and applied research that take a systems approach to address the different dimensions of decision making under multiple and sequential uncer- tainties. His focus is on the economics and management of energy technologies, the design and impacts of climate change response policies, sustainability efforts, corporate
Paper ID #32171Gen Z’s Declining Engagement with WE@RIT, a Women in Engineering Pro-gramMs. Kathrine Ehrlich-Scheffer, RIT Kathy has served as Director of Women in Engineering at RIT (WE@RIT) since 2015, and brings a rich array of life experiences to the position. After graduating with a bachelor’s degree in Public Affairs from a women’s college where she learned first-hand the value of a female-centric support network, Kathy made her way to Silicon Valley. There she studied CMOS Mask Layout Design which eventually led her to a position in IT for a semiconductor IP start-up. Fast forward through coast-to-coast moves to