idea that women and students of color favor socially relevantengineering content and contexts [32], [33]. However, such an approach has been met withresistance due to the overreliance on technical subject matter in the engineering curriculum [32],[34], [35]. Many engineering faculty, but certainly not all, resist curricular changes to due to“competing tendencies” rooted within the technical/social dualism [36, p. 238].MethodologyThis paper uses a quantitative approach to analyze engineering climate survey responses amonggender and sexual minority students. The survey was conducted in spring 2018 at a Mid-Atlanticuniversity as one component of a National Science Foundation grant that was awarded to theCivil and Environmental Engineering
Paper ID #38699Indigenizing the Artificial Intelligence (AI) Programmed EngineeringEducation Curriculum, Challenges and Future PotentialsDr. Bahar Memarian, University at Buffalo, The State University of New York Dr. Bahar Memarian is an interdisciplinary researcher and educator with more than 10 years of research and teaching experience at the intersection of applied and social sciences. She has designed and executed research projects as both a team leader and a member. She has also developed and delivered learning modules and courses in the areas of STEM, design, and engineering education at the secondary and
Paper ID #43184Asset-Based Approaches to Transformative Learning: Community and Culturein an Undergraduate Engineering Research Program at a Hispanic ServingInstitutionDr. Hilda Cecilia Contreras Aguirre, New Mexico State University Hilda Cecilia Contreras Aguirre, EdD is a STEM education researcher at New Mexico State University. She focuses her research on qualitative/mixed methods studies addressing minority and underrepresented student college performance and persistence through high-impact practices, particularly in STEM disciplines. Her main lines of inquiry examine best practices in mentoring and promotion of
diversecommunity of educators and science learners [8].Present StudyThe present work-in-progress research utilizes the WISE platform to advance an original social-justice oriented science curriculum which will be scalable to a diverse set of middle schoolscience teachers and learners. The final product will improve students’ argumentation skills,conceptual understanding, and scientific literacy by engaging learners in the following activities: ● Exploring the varied structures/functions of organs, organ systems, and scientific arguments; ● Learning about emergent solutions in biomedical engineering to prolong the storage of human organs; ● Constructing evidence-based arguments in the form of policy proposals designed to mitigate racial
. Most importantly,even though we recognize that the final picture is important [8], the process of connecting thepieces is also valuable; the process of going through the curriculum is just as important as theoutcome of the curriculum for the learner, and this process is where the learning takes place[22].Even with localization, we continue to critically question our role as EE researchers in theU.S. and reflect on our complicity in reinforcing structures of marginalization in EE. Afundamental understanding within engineering is that a single problem can be approached inmany ways. From their first lessons, engineering students are taught that no idea is toooutlandish, impractical, or advanced—only that every idea should be
overview and a sample of initial findings categorizing equity-centered content.Project overview The goal of the NSF Broadening Participation in Engineering (BPE) grant that includesthis effort is the development of a Teaching Engineering Equity (TEE) Center at the Universityof Michigan. The Center will support existing and new efforts aligned with the College ofEngineering’s Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) strategic mission and share initiatives withleaders similarly committed to equity-centered engineering education. Currently, the TEE Centerhas three main objectives: (1) designing and validating an evidence-based framework forcreating an equity-centered engineering curriculum; (2) generating and evaluating a collection ofDEI
]. Available: https://peer.asee.org/38051 [3] V. Sellers, R. J. Downey, and I. Villanueva Alarcon, “Resistance to advocacy around hidden curriculum in engineering education,” in 2023 Collaborative Network for Computing and Engineering Diversity (CoNECD), New Orleans, 2023. Accessed: Feb. 07, 2023. [Online]. Available: https://monolith.asee.org/public/conferences/325/registration/sessions?utf8= %E2%9C%93&osl_session_filter%5Bsearch%5D=sellers&commit=Search&o sl_session_filter%5Bsession_title%5D=&osl_session_filter%5Bauthor_name %5D=&osl_session_filter%5Bpaper_title_abstract%5D=&osl_session_filter% 5Bsession_owner_id%5D=&osl_session_filter
opportunity to teach the class something entirely new toour Chemical Engineering curriculum that was not derivation, theory, or calculation. I honestlydo not understand to this day why students did not jump at the opportunity to do this. Either way,I made sure to draft my email to get in the cogen team and get to work on this topic. Initially, Iwas thinking of the Great Barrier Reef getting bleached and closer to dying. That was my motivefor joining, however, it continued to grow and evolve as we bounced ideas off of each other’sheads. As time went on, getting the autonomy to create a lesson plan from start to finish helpedto grow my interest in the topic. We supplemented our lecture with breakout rooms based on four topics that each of
experiences Present Work 2020 Campus and Instructor- Curriculum change, Classroom driven and student surveys, and Climate student-driven projects.Research ContextThis paper reports on three successive studies aimed to improve students’ sense of belonging inengineering programs. The first study examined the existing student culture in terms ofdiversity and inclusion; the results from this study were used to design several interventions.The first-year intervention was a new workshop about diversity in engineering in theIntroduction to Engineering course, taken by all first-year engineering and computer sciencestudents. The next
©American Society for Engineering Education, 2023 Talking tech: how language variety in engineering curriculum instruction can ease delivery and engage studentsAbstractBackground: As accreditation bodies globally become more specific about faculty responsibilityconcerning creating inclusive environments, faculty need to understand and be supported in theirefforts to transform the landscape of educator approaches in engineering education. Soon, facultymust, “…demonstrate knowledge of appropriate institutional policies on diversity, equity, andinclusion, and demonstrate awareness appropriate to providing an equitable and inclusiveenvironment for its students that respects the institution’s mission.” [1, pg. 51]. This is
Paper ID #41951Websites as Gateways to Inclusive Partnerships: Examining Diversity Representationfor Environmental Nonprofits and Engineering Programs in Buffalo, NewYorkDr. Monica Lynn Miles, University at Buffalo, The State University of New York Monica L. Miles, Ph.D. is an early career Assistant Professor of Engineering Education at the University at Buffalo in the School of Engineering and applied sciences. Dr. Miles considers herself a scholar-mother-activist-entrepreneur where all her identities work in harmony as she reshapes her community. She is a critical scholar who seeks transformative solutions to cultivate
Paper ID #41190Board 117: How Could a New Educational Design Broaden Inclusion of HigherEngineering Education in a Stratified System? Investigating the OIPI InitiativeMiss YaXuan Wen, Sino-Danish College, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences Yanru Xu, Ji’an Liu, Yaxuan Wen. (2023). From accessibility to participation: Broadening diversity and inclusion in higher engineering and computing education through an OOICCI model. 2023 IEEE Global Engineering Education Conference (EDUCON), Kuwait, Kuwait, 2023, pp. 1-6, doi: 10.1109/EDUCON54358.2023.10125233. Xu, Y., & Liu, J., & Wen, Y., & Wang, L., & Wei, Y
Paper ID #38107Latinx Undergraduate Students: Finding a Place of Belonging in EngineeringNicole Delgado, New Mexico State University I am a first-year Ph.D. student at New Mexico State University in the department of Curriculum and Instruction. I currently work on a sponsored project that supports Latinx undergraduate sophomore, junior, and senior-level students in developing research, technical, interpersonal, academic, and professional skills that are transferable in their decisions to enter into graduate studies or the professional world.Hilda Cecilia Contreras Aguirre, New Mexico State University Hilda Cecilia
served on the program committee for several international conferences and received best paper and presentation awards. He has received numerous fellowships and distinguished awards, including his selection to the Becoming a Provost Academy sponsored by the American Association of State Colleges and Universities. Under his leadership, two new programs (BS in Computer Engineering and BS in Information Technology) were started as strategic initiatives to increase enrollment and national ranking. Dr. Gloster holds two US patents.Dr. Barbara L. Christe, State University of New York, College of Technology at Farmingdale Barbara Christe is a professor and the Dean of the School of Engineering Technology at Farmingdale State
Paper ID #42125Borderlands First-Generation-in-Engineering Experiences-Learning with andabout Students at the Nexus of Nation, Discipline, and Higher EducationDr. Sarah Hug, Colorado Evaluation and Research Consulting Dr. Sarah Hug is director of the Colorado Evaluation & Research Consulting. Dr. Hug earned her PhD in Educational Psychology at the University of Colorado, Boulder. Her research and evaluation efforts focus on learning science, technology, engineering. She leads a social science and evaluation organization that focuses on inclusive excellence, broadening participation, and democratizing science.Raena Cota, New
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product. Theautonomous vehicle capstone course is a relatively new addition to the curriculum andimplements a Design-Build-Fly method with a flight competition at the end of April.Undergraduate aerospace engineering students must take at least 5 credits of capstone to meettheir degree requirements.Prior to the 2021-2022 academic year, all aerospace engineering capstone courses included alecture-based unit on DEI that was embedded within the broader context of professional behaviorand team dynamics. With the addition of 2-3 CATME-based team peer review surveysthroughout the Fall and Spring semesters to assess team communication, collaboration, andstudent perceptions of team productivity, this approach satisfied the ABET student
Paper ID #36751Using Academic Controversy in a Computer Science UndergraduateLeadership Course: An Effective Approach to Examine Ethical Issues inComputer ScienceMariana A. AlvidrezDr. Elsa Q. Villa, University of Texas, El Paso Elsa Q. Villa, Ph.D., is a research assistant professor at The University of Texas at El Paso (UTEP) in the College of Education, and is Director of the Hopper-Dean Center of Excellence for K-12 Computer Science Education. Dr. Villa received her doctoral degree in curriculum and instruction from New Mexico State University; she received a Master of Science degree in Computer Science and a Master of
with thiscontent.Background A previous paper by the authors [4] described YVIP and its components in detail; here,we summarize these contents and then focus on the evaluation results, with a particular focus onthe new survey items focused on lyric analysis and the racial equity aspects of the curriculum. Your Voice is Power- Overview Building on creating a safe space within classrooms to give students a voice in socialjustice is just one track for the Your Voice is Power competition and curriculum. Georgia Tech,Amazon Future Engineer, and Pharrell Williams’ foundation, YELLOW, collaborated to createan innovative multi-day learning experience and competition for students by integrating thesesocial justice themes through the
Paper ID #37897Integrating Technical and Social Issues in Engineering Education: AJustice Oriented MindsetDr. Anne M. McAlister, The State University of New York, Buffalo Anne M. McAlister is a Postdoctoral Associate in the Department of Engineering Education at the Uni- versity at Buffalo. Her research focuses on engineering identity, social justice, and equity with the goal of broadening ideas about who engineers are and what they do in order to empower students to tackle the big issues in today’s world through engineering. Dr. McAlister has a PhD in Education and a MS in Systems Engineering from the University of
inclusion, Asian American Studies, Critical Mixed Race Studies, engineering ethics, and pop culture.Dr. Qin Zhu, Virginia Tech Dr. Zhu is Associate Professor in the Department of Engineering Education and Affiliate Faculty in the Department of Science, Technology & Society and the Center for Human-Computer Interaction at Vir- ginia Tech. Dr. Zhu is also serving as Associate Editor for Science and Engineering Ethics, Associate Editor for Studies in Engineering Education, Editor for International Perspectives at the Online Ethics Center for Engineering and Science, and Executive Committee Member of the International Society for Ethics Across the Curriculum. Dr. Zhu’s research interests include engineering ethics
Paper ID #43995Outsiders: Pathways and Perspectives from Engineering Education PhDsOutside AcademiaDr. Meagan C Pollock, Engineer Inclusion As an engineer turned educator, through her company, Engineer Inclusion, Dr. Meagan Pollock focuses on helping others intentionally engineer inclusion™ in education and the workforce.Dr. Hoda Ehsan, The Hill School Hoda is Chair for Engineering and Computer Science Department and the Director of Quadrivium Design and Engineering at The Hill School. She holds a Ph.D in Engineering Education from Purdue University, M.S. in Childhood Education from City University of New York, and B.S. in
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) Engineering. She previously served as the project manager and lead editor of the NSF-funded TeachEngineering digital library (TeachEngineering.org, a free library of K-12 engineering curriculum), during which she mentored NSF GK-12 Fellows and NSF Research Experiences for Teachers (RET) par- ticipants from across the country on the creation and publication of their original engineering curriculum. Dr. Forbes is a former high school physics and engineering teacher and a former NSF GK-12 Fellow.Dr. Odesma Onika Dalrymple, University of San Diego Dr. Odesma Dalrymple is an Associate Professor and Faculty Lead for the Engineering Exchange for Social Justice, in the Shiley Marcos School of Engineering at University of San Diego
and baccalaureate transferinstitutions reviewed and updated articulation agreements. In the Engineering Summer BridgeProgram’s first two years, forty-five (45) students who would otherwise have been deniedadmission to EP are thriving and are positioned to transfer to four-year engineering programs.In this paper, Wright College will review the college’s equity efforts, the structure andimplementation of the Engineering Pathways, and the creation of new engineering transferprograms. It will explore visible and invisible barriers to students’ success, contrasting students inWright College’s EP program with other Wright College students. The authors argue that thesystemic pursuit of equity, particularly with a focus on self-efficacy, belonging
curriculum can bechallenging because of an already busy curriculum and a lack of pedagogical guidance forinstructors. Not addressing these challenges can thus hinder institutions’ ability to developsocially and environmentally responsible engineers. Due to technological and scientificdevelopments, the engineering curriculum is frequently expected to cover more and moretechnical content, which makes the incorporation of other aspects more challenging [10]. Ahorizontal integration of social and environmental justice is an effective approach to dealing withthis issue, and it simultaneously helps defuse faculty resistance to non-technical content[11,12,13]. It has also been pointed out that social justice in engineering contexts usuallynecessitates the
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, act, and make meaning, and this language is structured by conceptualmetaphors based on our everyday experiences. Metaphors help us understand our world by givinga concrete foundation to abstract ideas. As metaphors offer an avenue to express or recognizeabstract ideas, our paper proposes metaphors as a linguistic approach to understandingepistemologies in engineering education research (EER). Metaphors are ubiquitous; we use them every day and everywhere, intentionally, or not.In research, we do not always clarify the metaphors we use, even when they are sprinkledliberally in our thinking and writing. Like light and shadows, every metaphor reveals andconceals different aspects of the idea it describes. Yet, we do not always consider
institute of Technology. Sriram received a B.E degree in Computer Science and Engineering from the University of Madras and M.S and Ph.D. degrees in Computer Science from Indiana University. During his time at Rose-Hulman, Sriram has served as a consultant in Hadoop and NoSQL systems and has helped a variety of clients in the Media, Insurance, and Telecommunication sectors. In addition to his industrial consulting activities, Sriram maintains an active research profile in data science and education research that has led to over 30 publications or presentations. At Rose-Hulman, Sriram has focused on incorporat- ing reflection, and problem based learning activities in the Software Engineering curriculum. Sriram has