Jovanovic, Ph.D., Rafael Landaeta, Ph.D. Old Dominion University, Norfolk, VA 23529Abstract— With the growing number of adult and military veterans entering highereducation, it is important to understand and incorporate the basics of andragogy incurriculum, course development, and the learning environment to facilitate learning anddegree completion. Researchers in this S-STEM project funded by the NSF shareobservations of a student-faculty partnership that resulted from the development of aformal learning community. A series of targeted seminars were conducted that appear tohave increased adult and military veteran engineering and technology students’ levels ofconnectedness and self-efficacy. Results of this pilot study are
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as a Teaching Professor in BME and the Director of the Office of Multicultural Affairs at WPI. Dr. Butler fosters a student community at WPI that respects and celebrates diversity in all its dimensions, including but not limited the many intersectional identities of race, ethnicity, religion, gender, sexual orientation, age, socioeconomic status, and physical ability.Mrs. Ryan Meadows, Worcester Polytechnic Institute Ryan Meadows holds a B.S. in Mathematics and Business from Fitchburg State University and an M.A. in Teaching from Sacred Heart University. She is currently the Associate Director of Pre-collegiate Outreach Programs at Worcester Polytechnic Institute. Meadows works with K-12 S STEM outreach programs
models, broadening participation initiatives, and S-STEM and LSAMP programs.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 the Rand Corporation, the American Association of Retired Persons, the U.S. Department of Education, and the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research. Since 2004, she been a member of the NSF-funded MIDFIELD research project on engineering education; she has served as a Co-PI on three research projects, including one on transfer students and another on
Participation (IBP), the S-STEM Interdisciplinary Biochemistry Master Program (NC State University), and the HBCU-UP Im- plementation Project (Fayetteville State University). She is an active member of ASEE.Dr. Tonya Lynette Smith-Jackson, North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University Tonya Smith-Jackson, PhD, CPE: Tonya Smith-Jackson is Senior Vice Provost for Academic Affairs at N.C. A&T State University. Her teaching-learning research focuses on inclusive pedagogies and methods to measure inclusion to support academic success. American c Society for Engineering Education, 2021Introducing Diverse Undergraduates to Computational ResearchThis paper
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, broadening participation initiatives, and S-STEM and