behavioral sciences, 3.9% in engineering, 1.9% in physical sciences,and 1.4% in mathematics, statistics, and computer sciences (NSF, 2015). Additionally, there hasalso been low progression of women holding jobs in STEM fields after graduation. The U.S.Department of Commerce, Economics and Statistics Administration (2011) reported womenholding 24% of STEM jobs, compared to 48% of all jobs being held by women. While thereA WiSE approach: Examining how service-learning impacts first-year women in STEM 4continues to be a large focus on diversifying STEM fields, much work remains to increase thepersistence and retention of diverse groups of people, including women. This is why it isimperative to examine the leadership and
pedagogical practices that garner interest and retain women and minorities in computer-related engineer- ing fields.Prof. Zahra Hazari, Florida International University Zahra Hazari is an Associate Professor in the Department of Teaching and Learning and the STEM Trans- formation Institute as well as an affiliate faculty member in the physics department. Dr. Hazari’s research focuses on reforming physics learning environments in an effort to improve critical educational outcomes for underrepresented groups in physics, especially women.Prof. Mark Allen Weiss, Florida International University Mark Allen Weiss is an Eminent Scholar Chaired Professor, Associate Dean for Undergraduate Education in the College of Engineering and
toUndergraduate Computing and Engineering. The workbook, along with Tips for CreatingInclusive Academic Website, and many additional Promising Practices, Programs-In-A-Box, andother resources, can be found at NCWIT.org/resources.Systemic Change Model Components 2, 3, and 4: Retaining with Pedagogy, Curriculum, andStudent SupportPedagogy, Curriculum, and Student Supportcomprise the three components of ES-UP’s Case Study: Retaining with Pedagogy (P)rimary changes were to introduce pairSystemic Change Model that address the programming to enable collaborative learning,challenges of retaining students. Women not
five-yearproject provided professional development (PD) for CTE teachers across the state of NewHampshire, many of whom were not computer science or engineering teachers, and in fact, werein fields such as hospitality and photography. The PD introduced both computational thinkingand programming basics through project-based learning and the use of App Inventor visualprogramming platform. PD activities stressed teaching practices that engage and challengestudents, in particular girls, underrepresented minorities in urban areas, and students inunderserved rural regions in the State. The PD also focused on pedagogies that value theimportance of broadening participation in computing. Data collection of the PD evaluation studyincluded student pre
motivated real-world novel multi-faceted approach which borrows from the princi-and everyday examples, 2) elementary graphical program- ples of multiple representations. The curriculum also aims toming, and 3) a custom video game designed to test and highlight the benefits of learning CS concepts to the studentsexercise concepts in a fun environment. Pretest/posttest so that they can see how computing can impact their lives.analysis show promising trends, including positive changes So in part to achieve this goal, the curriculum proposed alsoin attitudes and learning of computational thinking and incorporates a “STEM talk” element, which exposes studentscoding concepts
committed to increasing the number ofHispanics in all computing areas [4, 5, 6, 7].CAHSI focused much of its energy on retention and graduation efforts, and over the years itbecame known for certain proven practices, called signature practices, which consistentlydemonstrated to be beneficial for Hispanic students. Three of these signature practices are theAffinity Research Group (ARG) model, Peer-Led Team Learning (PLTL), and Fellow-Net.The ARG model [8, 9, 10] is a set of practices built on a cooperative team framework imbuedwith cooperative-learning principles, which have been shown to increase student achievementand self-esteem [11, 12, 13]. ARG supports the creation and maintenance of dynamic andinclusive groups in which students learn and
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disabilities and people from lowsocioeconomic backgrounds among others have navigated as members of underrepresentedgroups. Although the number of women and minorities in the engineering and computer scienceprofessions has increased over the last 40 years [1], parity issues with regard to race, gender andability status still exist. Millions of dollars have been invested to make engineering more diverseand inclusive as the problem is complex. However, one aspect stems from a lack ofunderstanding of the experiences of people from underrepresented groups in engineering [2].Despite all of the investments, a significant amount of work remains to actualizing true culturesof inclusion in engineering.Acknowledgement that people from underrepresented groups
2017 ASEE Mid Atlantic SectionSpring Conference: Morgan State University, Baltimore, Maryland Apr 7 Paper ID #20814Individualized Learning through Computer Based TutorsDr. Vasudeva Rao Aravind, Clarion University Dr. Vasudeva Rao Aravind is an associate professor of physics at Clarion University. Dr. Aravind has a Ph.D from The Pennsylvania State University in Materials Science and Engineering and Master’s and Bachelor’s degrees in Physics from Sri Sathya Sai Institute of Higher Learning, India. Dr. Aravind is a highly accomplished scholar and researcher in the fields of materials science, condensed matter physics
Paper ID #16491Collaborative Learning Eliminates the Negative Impact of Gender Stereo-types on Women’s Self-ConceptDr. Jane Gage Stout, Computing Research Association Dr. Jane Stout is a social psychologist with expertise in quantitative methods, and social science and education theory. She directs the Center for Evaluating the Research Pipeline (CERP), which is the Computing Research Association’s research and evaluation center. Her research currently focuses on understanding the perspectives of underrepresented individuals in computing career tracks.Dr. Neslihan Burcin Tamer, Computing Research Association Dr. Burc¸in Tamer
proposal in the academic year 2010 – 2011. He has been a Co-Organizer of American c Society for Engineering Education, 2021 Paper ID #35162the REU+ program at North Carolina State University. From 2005 to 2008, he served in the external ad-visory committee for the Statistical and Applied Mathematical Sciences Institute (SAMSI). He publishedarticles in mathematics and presented papers at conferences. His research interests include mathematicalfoundations, modeling, algorithms, and applications in Machine Learning and Data Science and mod-eling, design, analysis, and computational study of
Paper ID #28137FACT: Femineer R Active Learning with Computational ThinkingDr. Kristina Rigden, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona Dr. Rigden is the Director of Outreach Programs and the Women in Engineering Program for the College of Engineering at Cal Poly Pomona. In her position, she secures funding and provides several different outreach programming events to engage K-12 female students to pursue STEM majors and/or careers. Dr. Rigden’s research focus is the STEM pipeline from K-12 to college and career for underrepresented mi- norities. Her teaching and scholarship are grounded in the
Distinguished Member status (2019); the CRA A. Nico Habermann award (2018); and the Richard A. Tapia Achievement Award (2017). He is originally from San Juan, Puerto Rico.Dr. Debarati Basu, Embry Riddle Aeronautical University Dr. Debarati Basu is an Assistant Professor in the Engineering Fundamentals Department in the College of Engineering at the Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University at the Daytona Beach campus. She earned her Ph.D. in Engineering Education from Virginia Tech (VT). She received her bachelor’s and masters in Computer Science and Engineering. Her research is at the intersection of Engineering Education (EE) and Computing Education Research (CER) to advance personalized learning, specifically within the
numbers, they will learn how floating-pointnumbers are stored in memory. Overall, the curriculum will be driven by the goal to increasestudents’ time spent coding, with topics such as computer storage and memory organizationadded in using a just-in-time teaching approach.We will continue to collect fine-grained data and analyze the newly collected data in order toupdate our early prediction classifiers. We recognize that it is not sufficient to simply be able topredict at-risk students early on. At the same time, we need to develop intervention strategies.Along with the overall course redesign we will furthermore develop individual studentintervention strategies, guided by our data analysis.By continuously re-analyzing and re-evaluating newly
Paper ID #24960What Would You Do or Say? Interrupting Bias in Academic SettingsDr. Gretchen Achenbach, University of Virginia Gretchen Achenbach is a research scientist in the Department of Engineering and Society at the Uni- versity of Virginia, and at the National Center for Women and Information Technology (NCWIT). She earned her Ph.D. in Psychology from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Her interests focus on science communication and gender issues in computing and technology. c American Society for Engineering Education, 20191The National Center for Women and Information Technology (NCWIT) is
andeducational activities focused on computational science and high-performance computing. Visitingfaculty and students are recruited from a variety of institutions including minority serving, women’s,liberal arts, community colleges and other educational institutions. Selected qualified faculty applicantsattend a matching workshop in which both, faculty and Laboratory researchers briefly present theirwork, learn about potential research collaborations, engage in one-on-one discussions, and developcollaborative research proposals. Faculty who are matched to Laboratory researchers engage in anintensive summer research experience at the Laboratory with a few of their students or in some casessend students to engage in a summer Laboratory research
Paper ID #24761Overview of Policies and Programs to Retain Black Students in EngineeringDr. Catherine E. Brawner, Research Triangle Educational Consultants Catherine E. Brawner is President of Research Triangle Educational Consultants. She received her Ph.D.in Educational Research and Policy Analysis from NC State University in 1996. She also has an MBA from Indiana University (Bloomington) and a bachelor’s degree from Duke University. She specializes in eval- uation and research in engineering education and computer science education. Dr. Brawner is a founding member and former treasurer of Research Triangle Park
. 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
to learn from accomplished profes- sors. Periodically, she works for UW-Madison as a Visiting Instructor. Her previous research explored biofilms and biological production of fuel chemicals at the Center for Biofilm Engineering.Dr. Susannah C. Davis, Oregon State University Susannah C. Davis is a postdoctoral research associate in the School of Chemical, Biological and Envi- ronmental Engineering at Oregon State University. She received her Ph.D. and M.Ed. from the University of Washington, and her B.A. from Smith College. She is currently working on the NSF-funded REvolu- tionizing engineering and computer science Departments (RED) project at OSU. Her research focuses on organizational learning and change
Safe Zone trainings for engineering faculty and staff who wish to learn more about how to create inclusive environments within engineering for LGBTQ+ individuals. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2019Safe Zone LGBTQ+Ally TrainingTrans AllyshipCollaborative Network for Engineering and Computing Diversity diversity@asee.org(CoNECD) 2019April 14-17, 2019 in Crystal City, Virginia lgbtq.asee.orgIntroductions Name Pronouns Affiliation What brought you here? 2Today’s Facilitators 3Session Overview Inclusive Environments Concepts Safe Zone Training Sex and Gender Becoming an Ally Trans Experiences
personal desire to broaden partici- pation of women and other underrepresented students, including students in rural areas and those who learn differently, in STEM education from pre-K through graduate studies. Her current work focuses on supporting and evaluating the construction of collaborative communities and building evaluation capacity within organizations and large-scale programs. In all efforts Adrienne works to (a) truly understand the purpose and needs for the evaluation or research undertaking, (b) develop feedback cycles that support continuous program improvement, (c) make implementation and impact data available and interpretable for program implementers, and (d) select the most rigorous, yet feasible
Physics and Astronomy and Director of the CASTLE Center for Advancing STEM Teaching, Learning & Evaluation at Rochester Institute of Technology. His educa- tion research includes projects on the development of identity and affiliation in physics majors throughout their undergraduate career, and, separately, how physicists express conceptual meaning in mathemati- cal formalism. He has co-directed the PEER faculty development program for four years, integrating emerging research projects into ongoing programmatic activities that seek to improve the retention of first-generation and deaf/hard-of hearing students in STEM disciplines. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2019Improving
American Society for Engineering Education, 2019 Leaders Like Me Kyle F Trenshaw Nir Aish Elif Eda Miskioǧlu Philip Asare Center for Excellence in College of Management Department of Chemical Department of Electrical and Teaching and Learning Bucknell University Engineering Computer Engineering University of Rochester Lewisburg, PA, USA Bucknell University Bucknell University Rochester, NY, USA na010@bucknell.edu Lewisburg, PA, USA
a third of the participants were from underrepresented racial or ethnicgroups. UD ADVANCE covered program registration, hotel, and meals costs for all participants.The program consisted of two sessions. The first was a two-day overnight residency off campus whereparticipants built community, networked, and learned new skills, such as leadership vision, motivatingothers, and having difficult conversations. Participants then completed individual assignments beforereconvening a month later for the second session, where they learned more skills and heard from a panelof women leaders from UD.Assessment data of the program were overwhelmingly positive. For example, despite the large timecommitment required of participants, 100% agreed that the
, intersectionality, theory, classroom intervention, reflectionIntroduction“Diversity” has become an important watchword in engineering education practice and research,a requisite for funding, research programs, and essential for publications. However, embeddedconcepts of race, class, and gender, have been undertheorized within engineering educationresearch and pedagogy, though such a theorization could greatly affect the work being done inthe field. This paper describes a course intended to help participants explore existing explicittheories of race, class, and gender, introduce participants to alternative social theories on theseconcepts in educational contexts, and help them learn to apply such theories to engineeringeducation research and engineering
sanitation, as well as sustainability solutions, through interdisciplinary approaches. Since joining the Olin College faculty she has also dived into the field of engineering education with an emphasis on integration of arts, humanities, and STEM. Her love of learning was first fostered by an unusual elementary school education that was deeply inter- disciplinary with a substantial arts curriculum. After graduating from Harvard University with a B.A. in Dramatic Literature, she worked professionally in theater and wrote and recorded two musical albums. She then returned to school to study engineering, earning a B.S. in Civil Engineering from Rutgers Uni- versity in 2011. While completing her degree at Rutgers, she wrote
Paper ID #40253How Maker Culture Improves Students’ Learning Experiences in Comput-ingProgramsDr. Yonghui Wang, Prairie View A&M University Dr. Yonghui Wang received his B.S. in Optoelectronics from Xidian University in 1993, his M.S. in electrical engineering from Beijing Polytechnic University in 1999, and his Ph.D. in computer engineering from Mississippi State University in 2003. He is currently with the Department of Computer Science at Prairie View A&M University, Prairie View, TX.Dr. Suxia Cui, Prairie View A&M University Suxia Cui is an associate professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer
Paper ID #33782Learning Experiences of Social Science Students in an InterdisciplinaryComputing MinorDr. Valerie A. Carr, San Jose State University Valerie Carr earned a PhD in Neuroscience from UCLA followed by a postdoctoral fellowship at Stan- ford University. She is now an Associate Professor in the Department of Psychology at San Jose State University where she conducts research regarding learning and memory across the lifespan. She teaches courses on human learning and neuroscience, and helped create SJSU’s new minor in Applied Comput- ing for Behavioral and Social Sciences (ACBSS). Valerie currently teaches the
was when I started because I've learned so many new things about it.These statements, made by Jamie, may help to reinforce responses to several questions on thepost-survey; for example, Jamie’s post-survey data indicated that she “Strongly Agreed” withQuestions 41 (I believe that girls/boys can be good at computational thinking) and she “Agreed”with Question 45 (I believe I can be successful in computational thinking). Despite thechallenges she faced during the process of automating her clubhouse, Jamie’s interview suggeststhat this had not significantly impacted her perception of her ability to “be good at” or “succeed”in computational thinking.Idea 3: Jamie was able to explain computational thinking principles. When asked what wassomething
Paper ID #30871First-graders’ Computational Thinking in Informal Learning Settings(Work in Progress)Ms. Hoda Ehsan, Purdue University at West Lafayette Hoda is a Ph.D. student in the School of Engineering Education, Purdue. She received her B.S. in me- chanical engineering in Iran, and obtained her M.S. in Childhood Education and New York teaching certification from City College of New York (CUNY-CCNY). She is now a graduate research assistant on STEM+C project. Her research interests include designing informal setting for engineering learning, and promoting engineering thinking in differently abled students in informal