Conference Session

Retaining Women Engineering Students

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Elizabeth Creamer, Virginia Tech; Peggy Meszaros, Virginia Tech; Catherine Amelink, Virginia Tech

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Women in Engineering

predicting interest in remaining in an engineering major.Individual and environmental factors played a significant role for both men and womenin predicting the dependent variable, but individual variables, particularly motivation,explained more of the variance. Elements of the collegiate experience had a strongerimpact on women’s than men’s intentions, with perceptions of care/respect having thestrongest positive effects and competition, grades, and time required for coursework themost negative effects. INTRODUCTIONDiversifying the profile of engineers in the workforce occurs at many critical junctures inthe educational process, including through encouragement to enroll in advanced coursesin math and science

Conference Session

Research Methods II: Meeting the Challenges of Engineering Education Research

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Nathan E Canney, Seattle University; Angela R. Bielefeldt, University of Colorado - Boulder; Greg Rulifson P.E., University of Colorado - Boulder

Tagged Divisions

Educational Research and Methods

four of the 24respondents had significant correlation (p<0.05) and two had suggestive correlation (p<0.10)between their scored interviews and EPRA scores across all dimensions. Eighteen respondentsrejected the hypothesis of difference (p>0.05). Across the eight dimensions, three had strongcorrelation (p<0.05) and three rejected the hypothesis of differences (p>0.05). Only onedimension showed both correlation and a rejection of difference. The process of using interviewdata as evidence of validity for a survey instrument is appealing. Surveys tend to compresscomplex issues into bin-able categories, perhaps oversimplifying the nuances of attitudes andbeliefs. This exploration steps through one way in which validity evidence may be

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Cameron Coates, Armstrong Atlantic State University; Wayne Johnson, Armstrong Atlantic State University; Chris McCarthy, Armstrong Atlantic State University

and may sometimes include a financial incentive. Thispaper describes and assesses a one-week summer program designed to push the academic andtime management limits of students who are already interested in science and engineering. Theprimary objective is early exposure to research, design and communication with the expectationthat all participants in the program will become undergraduates who are motivated to pursueresearch projects. Other objectives included the successful introduction of advanced concepts to12th grade students through software; pushing the intellectual pace of these students, who aregenerally unaccustomed to academic pressure, and the development of the participants’leadership and teamwork skills. This program distinguishes

Conference Session

Pre-College: Teacher Impact on Student Mastery

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Amy Wilson-Lopez, Utah State University, Teacher Education and Leadership; Jared W. Garlick, Utah State University

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Pre-College Engineering Education Division

Paper ID #19561Teacher Discourse Moves that Support Dialogic Interactions in Engineeringin Linguistically Diverse ClassroomsDr. Amy Wilson-Lopez, Utah State University, Teacher Education and Leadership Amy Wilson-Lopez is an associate professor at Utah State University who studies culturally responsive engineering and literacy-infused engineering with linguistically diverse students.Jared W. Garlick, Utah State University Jared Garlick is a Graduate Student in the Secondary Education Master’s of Education (MEd) program through the Emma Eccles Jones College of Education and Human Services. Research interests include

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Aldo Ferri, Georgia Institute of Technology; James Craig, Georgia Institute of Technology

exaggerated manner) what can happenif a beam with a thin-wall open cross section is not loaded through its shear center, and theresulting torsion induces significant twisting in addition to bending. This behavior can be sosignificant that for sections (a) and (b) in the figure, the shear center lies completely outside thehorizontal planform of the beam so in order to apply loads at the shear center, a bracket must beaffixed at the load point. Consequently, the ability of students to actually see the behavior withtheir own eyes and to touch and feel the way the beams react to tip loads is very instructive.The theory of shear center is a bit esoteric for many civil and mechanical engineers, but itbecomes more germane in the study of thin-walled

Conference Session

Introducing Programming in the First Year

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Steven Gordon, The Ohio State University

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First-Year Programs

activelyengaged in real-world research projects, despite numerous challenges and troubleshooting needsof such projects, provides students with opportunities to take "ownership" of the project, and as aresult, provides a substantial boost to their interests in the subject overall.In 2008, these ideas came together in the preparation of a course for undergraduate, freshmanengineering credit to be taught to high school juniors and seniors as an intensive, thirteen dayworkshop. The project was linked to both a STEM education grant program through the OhioBoard of Regents and a National Science Foundation grant to help build an undergraduate minorprogram in computational science. 12 The high school implementation was supported by a grantfrom the Ohio Board of

Conference Session

New Engineering Educators (NEE) Technical Session 3 - Professional and Faculty Development

Collection

2025 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Steven B. Warth, Austin Peay State University; Bobette Bouton; Emmabeth Parrish Vaughn, Austin Peay State University; Lily Skau, Austin Peay State University

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

New Engineering Educators Division (NEE)

formation, like research and career preparation. EE8, also claimed “theundergraduates that do research with me… a lot of them didn't have research experience before,but they'd worked in restaurants, they'd worked actual jobs and they had a lot of resilience… Ithink… there's so many skills… and experiences that adds so much value beyond just the GPA.”By developing a cognitive understanding of student struggles and strengths, engineeringeducators can then develop affective and behavioral strategies to better assist the students. EE9summarized this by saying “Do we actually think maybe if we could understand what thesepeople are going through, what's their changes, how we could do that, they could startidentifying as an engineer.”2. Peer-to-Peer

Collection

2024 South East Section Meeting

Authors

Luke LeFebvre, University of Kentucky; Jerzy W JaRomczyk; Mike Allen, University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee; Leah Elina LeFebvre; George Tan, Texas Tech University; Mai Dao, Wichita State University; Andrew Tapia, University of Kentucky

. T. Harrison, “Auditioning for money: What do technology investors look for at the initialscreening stage?” Journal of Private Equity 6, 2003, 29-42.[5] LeFebvre, L., L. E. LeFebvre, M. Allen, “Exploring eye contact in virtual environments: The Compositor MirrorTool, areas of interest, and public speaking competency,” Communication Studies, 2021, 1053-1072.[6] Levasseur, D., K. W. Dean, J. Pfaff, “Speech pedagogy beyond the basics: A study of instructional methods in theadvanced public speaking course,” Communication Education, 2004, 234-252.[7] Porter, J. E., “Recovering delivery for digital rhetoric,” Computers and Composition, 2009, 207-224.[8] Ridolfo, J., “Rhetorical delivery as strategy: Rebuilding the fifth canon form practitioner

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Multidisciplinary Course Innovation II

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Andrew Willis, University of North Carolina at Charlotte; James Conrad, University of North Carolina at Charlotte

Tagged Divisions

Multidisciplinary Engineering

models to pattern recognition, computer vision, and image processing. The first section introduces physical mathematical models which, in the second section of the course, are re-visited to allow for model-based design.In part (1), a new tact is taken for teaching the historical development of mathematics and physicsthat shapes the scientific view of the world today. Lectures seek to emphasize the rationale behindscientific thought through the variety of personalities that have defined it best characterized by thephrase : All science was new at some point. Specific classical topics include celestial mechanicsand thermodynamics which are introduced using excerpts from original works of the scientiststhat defined and revolutionized our

Conference Session

Capstone and Senior Design Projects Session

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Byron G. Garry, South Dakota State University

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Technology

pre-coursestudent biography including GPA, previous education, course and work experience, peerevaluations of team project work, and a pre-course self-assessment essay of how past course andwork experience have prepared the student for the capstone project.In addition, there were objective assessments of capstone project success done by the courseinstructor and project technical advisors. The measurements of Capstone project success weredone as a part of demonstrating achievement of ABET-ETAC Student Outcomes, and theyincluded assessment of initial hardware and/or software prototype at two months into the project,a Design Review of projects approximately half-way through the two-semester project, and thecourse instructor and project technical

Conference Session

Session 7 - Track 1: Expanding Conversations about Accessibility to Include Faculty

Collection

2023 Collaborative Network for Computing and Engineering Diversity (CoNECD)

Authors

Cali Anicha PhD, North Dakota State University; Cecilia Aragon, University of Washington; Canan Bilen-Green, North Dakota State University; Brianna Blaser, University of Washington; Larry Napoleon Jr., North Dakota State University

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CoNECD Paper Sessions, Diversity

: http://www.nsf.gov/statistics/wmpd/[4] K. C. Aquino, E. Kim, C. Bilen-Green, C. M. Ray, and C. Anicha, “Working it backwards: student success through faculty professional development,” in Disability as Diversity in Higher Education: Policies and Practices to Enhance Student Success, 1st ed., New York, NY, USA: Routledge, 2017, pp. 122–137.[5] S. Bassler, “‘But you don’t look sick’: Dismodernism, disability studies and music therapy on invisible illness and the unstable body,” Voices: A World Forum for Music Therapy, vol. 14, no. 3, Oct. 2014, doi: 10.15845/voices.v14i3.802.[6] S. Lindsay and K. Fuentes, “It is time to address ableism in academia: a systematic review of the experiences and impact of

Conference Session

Civil Engineering Division - Innovative Changes to the Typical Civil Engineering Coursework.

Collection

2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Andrea Welker, Villanova University; Virginia Smith, Villanova University; Kristin Sample-Lord, Villanova University; Shweta Shrestha, Villanova University

ASCE.Virginia Smith (Assistant Professor)Shweta ShresthaKristin M. Sample-lord (Assistant Professor) © American Society for Engineering Education, 2022 Powered by www.slayte.com Including Principles of Sustainability in Design by Implementing the Engineering for One Planet FrameworkAbstractThe Engineering for One Planet (EOP) initiative is spearheaded by The Lemelson Foundationand VentureWell. The EOP framework was developed through a collaborative process thatengaged hundreds of stakeholders from industry, government, and academia. The frameworkaligns with ABET Criterion 3 Student Outcomes and the United Nations SustainableDevelopment Goals (SDGs). The goal

Conference Session

DSAI Technical Session 7: Natural Language Processing and LLM Applications

Collection

2025 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mikayla Friday, University of Connecticut; Michael Thomas Vaccaro Jr, University of Connecticut; Arash Esmaili Zaghi P.E., University of Connecticut

Tagged Divisions

Data Science and Artificial Intelligence (DSAI) Constituent Committee

, N. Tandon, Y. Gu and K. Gray, "Can AI language models replace human participants?," Trends in Cognitive Science, vol. 27, no. 7, pp. 597-600, 2023, doi: 10.1016/j.tics.2023.04.008.[12] A. Filippas, J. H. Horton and B. S. Manning, "Large language models as simulated economic agents: What can we learn from Homo Silicus?," in EC '24: Proceedings of the 25th ACM Conference on Economics and Computation, 2024, doi: 10.1145/3670865.3673513.[13] M. Vaccaro, M. Friday and A. Zaghi, "Transforming K-12 STEM Education with Personalized Learning through Large Language Models (Fundamental)," in 2025 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, 2025.[14] M. Vaccaro, M. Friday, Z. G. Akdemir-Beveridge and A

Conference Session

Innovation in Construction Engineering Education II

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Gouranga Banik, Southern Polytechnic State University

Tagged Divisions

Construction

? When sorting on “design relevant” backgrounds, is itclear how to structure a curriculum to achieve the items?Questions such as these lead to the best use of existing data and will help us to improve thesurvey to provide more and better curriculum design relevant data. Similar help can come whenthe database is expanded to include more respondents and those beyond the commercialconstruction sectors. For example, the small sample size of respondents with constructionengineering experience limits the statistical significance of those data used in isolation to deriverequirements for construction engineering curriculaSummary and ConclusionsThe ABET Engineering Criteria 2000 affords stakeholders the opportunity to help universitiesdefine goals and

Collection

2022 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

James Lipuma, NJIT; Cristo Leon, NJIT

. 1. A Framework for Marketing Management [5] 2. A New Vision for Center-Based Engineering Research [6] 3. A taxonomy for learning, teaching, and assessing: a revision of Bloom's taxonomy of educational objectives [7] 4. Building Capacity for Teaching Engineering in K-12 Education [8] 5. Education for Life and Work: Developing Transferable Knowledge and Skills in the 21st Century [9] 6. Enhancing teaching through constructive alignment [10] 7. The SAGE Encyclopedia of Educational Research, Measurement, and Evaluation [11] Basic definitions Curriculum-Based Assessment (CBA) “Because of its foundation in relevant educational practice, CBA can be a highly useful tool in student

Conference Session

Faculty Development and Research Programs (NEE)

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Edward F. Gehringer, North Carolina State University, Raleigh; Matthias F. Stallmann, North Carolina State University, Raleigh

Tagged Divisions

New Engineering Educators Division (NEE)

SuccessBuilding a successful research team often involves skills and activities not directly related toacademic achievement. It is important to build a supportive lab culture, one that fosterscollaboration rather than competition. It is good for students to feel invested in each other’swork. Celebrating important events can help, like birthdays, paper acceptances, and the passingof milestone exams. Even lab cleanup or hosting events together (e.g., visiting dignitaries orfuture students) can help build a sense of camaraderie.Some activities beyond academic ones are related to personal growth of the mentors, i.e., how domentors find mentors for themselves. Others are related to student (and faculty) well-being:work-life balance, team building, celebrating

Conference Session

Topics at the intersection of Aero and Naval Eng.

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Leigh McCue, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Christina Pace, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

Tagged Divisions

Ocean and Marine

© American Society for Engineering Education, 2008 Sea-based aviation to bridge the gap between aerospace and naval engineering students U.S. Navy photo by MCSN David A. BrandenburgAbstractThis case study focuses upon encouraging discussion and awareness of aerospace and navalengineering opportunities in a classroom comprised of both majors through a two-part(individual and group) project on sea-based aviation. In this paper, the result of the studentsinteractive thought process is summarized with input as to how to make similar exercises moreeffective in future course offerings. Additionally, student feedback as to the use of thisassignment for emphasizing to them the importance of a multi

Conference Session

Learning from Industry

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Pryce Davis, University of Nottingham; Alexandra Vinson, Northwestern University; Reed Stevens, Northwestern University

Tagged Divisions

Educational Research and Methods

by other people and institutional practices. This is importantfor our work in understanding how mentorship relations between new and more seniorengineers—as well as larger workplace culture—molds engineers’ identities throughout theirearly careers.The final process involved in the becoming an engineer model is navigating through engineeringeducation. This is defined most simply as how students traverse the various pathways androadblocks that make up a particular learning environment, in order to become recognized as anengineer. Of course, we adapt this notion to argue that new engineers are presented withprofessional environments—that can still be thought of as places of learning—in which theymust develop not only skills and knowledge about

Conference Session

Engineering Ethics Division (ETHICS) Technical Session - Virtue & Ethics in the Profession

Collection

2025 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jiamin Zhang, University of California, Riverside; Quoc Tuan Olivier Truong, University of California, Riverside; Neha Gutlapalli, University of California, Riverside; HSIN-LING HSIEH, Northern Michigan University; Dena Plemmons, University of California, Riverside

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Ethics Division (ETHICS)

9,10,11 . Thisinternal element motivates one to exemplary behavior, which often goes beyond what any rulescould require or express 9 .Recently, a few engineering educators proposed to use virtue-based character education as theframework for teaching engineering ethics 8,9,12,13 . Outside of engineering, virtue ethics has beenused for teaching research ethics 14 and in fields like medicine, education, nursing, andbusiness 15,16 .Additional challenges with engineering ethics education include lack of interest by students andlack of context in case studies 8,17 . To address these challenges, we propose to develop storiesfrom traditional culture of different countries into case studies to teach engineering ethics with thevirtue-based approach

Conference Session

Student Feedback and Assessment in Design

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Robin Adams, Purdue University, West Lafayette (College of Engineering); Tiago R. Forin, Rowan University; Cole H. Joslyn, Purdue University, West Lafayette (College of Engineering)

Tagged Divisions

Design in Engineering Education

; empowering faculty through educational collaborative action research. He holds a B.S.I.E. in Industrial Engineering and a M.Ed. specializing in mathematics education. Cole has worked as an engineer in the manufacturing industry, a pastor in full-time ministry, and a high school math teacher. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2017 Approaches for coaching students in design reviewsAbstract: Design reviews offer a unique window into understanding how design teachers help their studentsdevelop as designers. They are a prevalent practice for helping students develop design thinking expertise,although their structure and content may vary across disciplines. Understanding the teaching

Conference Session

First-Year Programs Division Poster Session

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Deana R. Delp Ph.D., Arizona State University

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

First-Year Programs

collegestudent must take more responsibility and self-advocate for their educational success [5,8].Part of self-advocacy is reaching out to a disability resource center (DRC) at the college oruniversity. First-semester students may not be aware of these resources, or may simply choosenot to seek them out. Therefore, many times students eligible for support may not receive ituntil later in the semester. Also, the student may need to talk with the individual faculty aboutmodifications they may need beyond the resources offered through a DRC [5,8]. A studentwith ASD may have sensory issues or other needs that are not addressed by theseaccommodations, such as organizing assignments, time management, and peer mentoring [3].However, due to difficulty with

Conference Session

Engineering Ethics Division (ETHICS) Technical Session - GenAI in ethics education

Collection

2025 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Tianjiao Zhao, East Carolina University; Angela Whitehurst, East Carolina University; George C. Wang P.E., East Carolina University; Xi Lin, East Carolina University; Xi Wang, Drexel University; Ron Chance, East Carolina University; Chelsea Rebecca Buckhalter, East Carolina University; shahrooz Ghorbani, East Carolina University

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Engineering Ethics Division (ETHICS)

, summarizing long-form essays, and providing creative writing prompts.Its utility extends to educational and academic contexts, where scholars widely recognize thecontent generation capabilities of AI tools like ChatGPT and their role in enhancing writingefficiency and quality. For instance, a study published in the International Journal ofEducational Technology in Higher Education reported that ChatGPT significantly improvedstudents' academic writing skills, leading to greater efficiency and improved quality in theirwriting processes [3].Beyond content generation, AI tools like ChatGPT can assist in literature search, datamanagement, reviewing and correcting grammatical errors, speeding up writing, developingoutlines, adding details, and improving

Collection

2015 Northeast Section Meeting

Authors

Vazgen Shekoyan; Sunil Dehipawala

2015 ASEE Northeast Section Conference Student Collaborative Group Work on Advanced Course Materials in an Introductory Physics Course for Engineering Technology Majors Vazgen Shekoyan and Sunil Dehipawala Physics Department, Queensborough Community College, CUNYAbstractWe studied the effect of exposure to physics topics beyond the expected course level on studentsin an algebra-based General Physics course. General Physics is a required course of EngineeringTechnology and Computer Technology programs at Queensborough Community College (QCC).During the study, same instructor taught two sections of the same

Collection

2024 CIEC

Authors

Mahdi Yazdanpour; Leslie Ferrao; Biplov Ale

)-based braincomputer interface (BCI) through the user's intentions or mental commands. Our BCI interactsdirectly with neurosignals captured from the brain using a wireless EEG brainwear. The systemis trained to recognize the user's unique brain patterns associated with different commands. Ourinterface recognizes changes in brainwaves when the user imagines performing a specificmovement. We process and classify these neurosignals and convert them to meaningfulcommands to control the robotic arm. Our desktop robot is adapted based on the open-sourceZortrax robotic arm, incorporating Marlin firmware and Pronterface to monitor and control therobot operations by processing the G-code commands. This project aims to enhance human-machine interaction by

Collection

1999 Annual Conference

Authors

Paul Giolma; Farzan Aminian; Djaffer Ibaroudene

controls. Mostelectives are taken in the third and fourth years, with many electives taught once every other year. Elective coursesthat are pertinent to this project are modern control systems, a second electronics course, digital logic and micro-processors.The description of the project and the robot that follows is largely derived from the student group’s final report [4]—it reflects their progress through the design process and the final decisions they made in implementing their robot.Project description and constraintsThe objective of this project is to design and build a microprocessor controlled land vehicle which will autono-mously find its way from an initial starting position to a final destination coordinate while avoiding a set of ran

Collection

14th Annual First-Year Engineering Experience (FYEE) Conference

Authors

Joseph B Herzog, University of Indianapolis; Joan Matutes, University of Indianapolis; Shelby Hacker; Stephen J Spicklemire, University of Indianapolis; Kenneth Reid, University of Indianapolis

attend events that have no direct impact on their grade whether they attend or not. We hopethis novel social focus brings additional gain to our students and program, beyond a purelyacademic focus. Figure 1. Mentor Evaluation Graph: Likelihood of mentees to continue with the peer mentor program vs. Anumerical Score (average attendance * number of events planned.) Figure 2. Event Analysis: Average attendance for each event type for all groups and high ranked groups (those with more events and higher attendance than average)References[1] American Society for Engineering Education. (2016). Engineering by the Numbers: ASEERetention and Time-to-Graduation Benchmarks for Undergraduate Engineering Schools,Departments and Programs. Washington, DC

Conference Session

Student Division Technical Session 3

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Karina Sylvia Sobieraj, Ohio State University; Rachel Louis Kajfez, Ohio State University

Tagged Divisions

Student

during the researchexperience to determine its effect on a student.Literature ReviewThe connection that a student has with his or her research mentor is often different than theconnection between a student and their classroom professor or teaching assistant. Mentorshipworks in a way that combines the knowledge and capabilities of two or more individuals.Through mentorship, students may learn concepts and skills beyond those taught in traditionalclassroom environments [2]. Therefore, the foundation of our research study was chosen to bebased on this concept.Undergraduate research experiences tend to be selective and limited [3]. That said, there aremany beneficial outcomes. Undergraduate researchers acquire many skills, techniques

Conference Session

Engineering Ethics Issues Part One

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Craig Titus, Purdue University; Carla B. Zoltowski, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Margaret Huyck, Illinois Institute of Technology; William C. Oakes, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Jill L. May, Illinois Institute of Technology

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Ethics

present in multi-disciplinary teams and to track the change inthis climate over a period of time. Our focus on assessment is intended to help us establish abaseline understanding of our student’s skills in ethical reasoning and the effects these have onteam climate. Our assessment also will inform the creation of teaching materials and theeducational interventions needed to help students develop and apply skills in ethical reasoning.In the following we will describe the development process of three assessment instruments andseveral of the important lessons we learned through our research and development. The firstinstrument is a measure of ethical sensitivity and moral decision making skills. It is centered onreal-world examples of ethical

Conference Session

ADVANCE Grants and Institutional Transformation

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kristen Constant, Iowa State University

Tagged Divisions

Women in Engineering

associate professors, and the fourthbarrier is difficulty in the management ofwork/life issues and lack of faculty flexibility. The second goal is to identify and eliminatedepartment-specific barriers to the advancement of women faculty in STEM disciplines. Theprogram seeks to do this through a process called collaborative transformation (CT) that involvesdetailed study of a particular ‘focal department’ climate through guided discussions withfaculty.11The third goal is to increase the representation of women and underrepresentedminorities at senior faculty and leadership ranks. Finally, the fourth goal is to institutionalizepositive change across the university so the work of ISU ADVANCE can be sustained beyondthe life of the grant. Note that

Conference Session

Improving Student Entrepreneurial Skills

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Daniel Ferguson, Ohio Northern University; Michele Govekar, Ohio Northern University; Amanda Stype, Ohio Northern University

Tagged Divisions

Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

point scale, thereare two commonly used ways to measure interrater agreement.The first of these is the rWG index developed by James, Demaree and Wolf (1984). Although this method is themore common, it has several drawbacks including scale dependency, the assumption that a uniform distributionmodels perfect disagreement, the need for a distribution to model disagreement, and dependence on the numberof judges (Kozlowski and Hattrup 1992, Brown and Hauenstein 2005). The aWG index developed by Brown andHauenstein corrects for these problems and measures consensus among judges. It calibrates itself according tothe scale and the number of judges. The equation for aWG is: aWG = 1 - 2*Sx2/{[(H+L)*X-X2-(H*L)]*[K/(K-1