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Institute of Technology (COE) Professor Margaret Bailey, Ph.D., P.E. is a Professor of Mechanical Engineering within the Kate Gleason College of Engineering, Rochester Institute of Technology. Dr. Bailey teaches courses and conducts re- search related to Thermodynamics, engineering and public policy, engineering education, and gender in engineering and science. She is the co-author on an engineering textbook, Fundamentals of Engineering Thermodynamics, which is used worldwide in over 250 institutions. Dr. Bailey is the Principal Investi- gator (PI) for the RIT NSF ADVANCE Institutional Transformation grant. The goal of this large-scale ($3.4M), multi-year university-level organizational transformation effort is to
across campus where stem cells are being used for research into areas of tissue engineering. Dr. Newman is the founder of the New Frontiers in Biomedical Research Seminar Series and continues to lead the organization of the series each year.Dr. Mary E Caldorera-Moore, Louisiana Tech University Dr. Mary Caldorera-Moore is an assistant professor of Biomedical Engineering and Nanosystems En- gineering, director of Women Influencing Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (WiSTEM) out- reach organization, and the co-organizer of the New Frontiers in Biomedical Research Seminar Series at Louisiana Tech University. She was also selected to be a 2014 NAE Frontiers of Engineering Education (FOEE) Early-Career Engineering
scientist for the Center for Research on Education in Science, Mathematics, Engineering and Technology (CRESMET), and an evaluator for several NSF projects. His first research strand concentrates on the relationship be- tween educational policy and STEM education. His second research strand focuses on studying STEM classroom interactions and subsequent effects on student understanding. He is a co-developer of the Re- formed Teaching Observation Protocol (RTOP) and his work has been cited more than 1500 times and his publications have been published in multiple peer-reviewed journals such as Science Education and the Journal of Research in Science Teaching.Prof. Stephen J Krause, Arizona State University Stephen
of Notre Dame. Her B.S. is in Marine Systems Engineering from the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy. Her primary teaching responsibilities are in the solid mechanics and materials areas, including biomaterials. She was awarded the 2012 ASEE NCS Outstanding Teacher Award, 2013 Gannon University Distinguished Faculty Award and 2013-2014 Gannon University Faculty Award for Excellence in Service-Learning. Vernaza does research in the area of alternative fuels (biodiesel), engineering education (active learning techniques), and high-strain deformation of materials. She is currently the PI of an NSF S-STEM and ADVANCE-PAID grants. Dr. Vernaza has been a member of the ASEE NCS Board since 2013 holding vice-chair (2015-16) and
with active learning pedagogies on student learning, and effective strategies for increasing gender diversity in STEM disciplines.Prof. Margaret B. Bailey P.E., Rochester Institute of Technology (COE) Professor Margaret Bailey, Ph.D., P.E. is a Professor of Mechanical Engineering within the Kate Gleason College of Engineering, Rochester Institute of Technology. Dr. Bailey teaches courses and conducts re- search related to Thermodynamics, engineering and public policy, engineering education, and gender in engineering and science. She is the co-author on an engineering textbook, Fundamentals of Engineering Thermodynamics, which is used worldwide in over 250 institutions. Dr. Bailey is the Principal Investi- gator (PI
Paper ID #14811Dialogues Toward Gender Equity: Engaging Engineering Faculty to Promotean Inclusive Department ClimateJ. Kasi Jackson, West Virginia University Dr. J. Kasi Jackson is an Associate Professor of Women’s and Gender Studies at West Virginia University. Her research covers supporting women faculty in STEM, STEM education, gendered impacts on animal behavior research, and the representation of science in popular culture. She completed her PhD in biology, with a focus on animal behavior, and graduate certificate in women’s studies at the University of Kentucky. She is a Co-Investigator on a National Science
disciplines.Dr. Denise Wilson, University of Washington Denise Wilson is a professor of electrical engineering at the University of Washington, Seattle. Her research interests in engineering education focus on the role of self-efficacy, belonging, and other non- cognitive aspects of the student experience on engagement, success, and persistence and on effective methods for teaching global issues such as those pertaining to sustainability. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2016 Exploring Barriers in the Engineering Workplace: Hostile, Unsupportive, and otherwise Chilly ConditionsAbstractPrevious studies of the engineering workplace often emphasize understanding why and
the Policies and Programs That Support Them” explored the challenges that female engineering faculty faced in their careers, as well as the institutional policies and programs (i.e. family-friendly policies, diversity/equity programs, mentoring initiatives, etc.) that helped them to be successful in obtaining tenure. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2016 Leaning into Engineering: Tenured Women Faculty and the Policies and Programs That Support ThemAbstractWhile researchers have documented the barriers that women in engineering programs face (i.e. genderbias, work/family conflict, “dual career” issues, limited access to information networks), few
Professor in the Department of Integrated Engineering program at Minnesota State University, Mankato, home of the Iron Range and Twin Cities Engineering programs. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2017 Managing Transformation to Crack Open Engineering EducationRapid changes in the worldwide engineering ecosystem are creating a compelling rationale torethink engineering education. Tomorrow’s graduate will need to collaboratively contributeexpertise across multiple perspectives in an environment of rapid innovation and technologicalbreakthroughs [1]. Meeting these challenges requires a transformational change rather thanincremental improvements in how we recruit and educate engineering students
Paper ID #16115Systematic Review of the Funds of Knowledge Framework in STEM Educa-tionDina Verdin, Purdue University, West Lafayette Dina Verd´ın is an Engineering Education graduate student at Purdue University. She completed her under- graduate degree in Industrial and Systems Engineering at San Jos´e State University. Her research interest focuses on the first-generation college student population, which includes changing the perspective of this population from a deficit base approach to an asset base approach.Dr. Allison Godwin, Purdue University, West Lafayette Allison Godwin, Ph.D. is an Assistant Professor of
, and socially just. She runs the Feminist Research in Engineering Education (FREE, formerly RIFE, group), whose diverse projects and alumni are described at feministengineering.org. She received a CAREER award in 2010 and a PECASE award in 2012 for her project researching the stories of undergraduate engineering women and men of color and white women. She has received ASEE-ERM’s best paper award for her CAREER research, and the Denice Denton Emerging Leader award from the Anita Borg Institute, both in 2013. She was co-PI of Purdue’s ADVANCE program from 2008-2014, focusing on the underrepresentation of women in STEM faculty positions. She helped found, fund, and grow the PEER Collaborative, a peer mentoring group of
Paper ID #14870Cross-sectional Survey Study of Undergraduate Engineering IdentityAlexis Prybutok, The University of Texas, Austin Alexis Prybutok earned a B.S. in both chemical engineering and biochemistry from The University of Texas at Austin in May of 2015. She has been working with Dr. Maura Borrego’s group to conduct research in engineering education primarily on the subject of engineering identity.Anita D. Patrick, University of Texas, Austin Anita Patrick is a STEM Education doctoral student and Graduate Research Assistant in the Department of Mechanical Engineering and College of Liberal Arts at UT Austin’s
Paper ID #14814The Development of a Measure of Engineering IdentityDr. Allison Godwin, Purdue University, West Lafayette Allison Godwin, Ph.D. is an Assistant Professor of Engineering Education at Purdue University. Her research focuses what factors influence diverse students to choose engineering and stay in engineering through their careers and how different experiences within the practice and culture of engineering foster or hinder belongingness and identity development. Dr. Godwin graduated from Clemson University with a B.S. in Chemical Engineering and Ph.D. in Engineering and Science Education. She is the recipient of
Chair of ASEE’s Diversity Committee and past PIC I Chair; she has previously served on WIED, ChED, and NEE leadership teams and has contributed to over 40 ASEE conference proceedings articles.Dr. Stephanie Farrell, Rowan University Dr. Stephanie Farrell is Professor and Founding Chair of Experiential Engineering Education at Rowan University (USA), Immediate Past Chair of the ASEE Diversity Committee, and will serve ASEE as President in 2017-2018. From 1998-2016, Stephanie was a faculty member in Chemical Engineering at Rowan. Dr. Farrell has contributed to engineering education through her work in experiential learning, focusing on areas of pharmaceutical, biomedical and food engineering. She has been honored by the
Paper ID #14736”Turning away” from the Struggling Individual Student: An Account of theCultural Construction of Engineering Ability in an Undergraduate Program-ming ClassMr. Stephen Douglas Secules, University of Maryland, College Park Stephen is an Education PhD student at UMD, researching engineering education. He has a prior academic and professional background in engineering, having worked professionally as an acoustical engineer. He has taught introduction to engineering design in the Keystone Department at the UMD A. James Clark Engineering School. Stephen’s research interests include equity, culture, and the
study engineering, earning a B.S. in Civil Engineering from Rutgers University in 2011. While completing her degree at Rutgers, she wrote and arranged the music and lyrics for a stage musical in collaboration with a Los Angeles based playwright. Dr. Wood went on to earn a Master of Science in Engineering in Environmental c American Society for Engineering Education, 2018 Paper ID #22897and Water Resources Engineering and a Ph.D. in Civil Engineering from The University of Texas atAustin. Her love of teaching has grown through fifteen years of private tutoring, three years of teachingsummer drama classes to
Analysis of Gender Research in JEE. Journal of Engineering Education, 105(3), 508–528. https://doi.org/10.1002/jee.20128Pieri, R., Legg, T., Vallie, A., Alfson, L., Mattes, J., Parker, M., & Padmanabhan, G. (2015). Pre-Engineering Education Collaborative at Four: Approaching the Final Phases (p. 26.1241.1-26.1241.8). ASEE Conferences. https://doi.org/10.18260/p.24578Rajan, P., Armstrong, C., O’Connor, E., Buzzanell, P., Dohrman, R., Oakes, W., & Zoltowski, C. (2015). Vulnerable Heroes: Problematizing Metaphors of Male Socialization in Engineering (p. 26.1711.1-26.1711.24). ASEE Conferences. https://doi.org/10.18260/p.25047Ross, L., Judson, E., Krause, S., Middleton, J., Ankeny, C., Chen, Y
engineering solutions in global, economic, environmental, and societal contexts • SO5. an ability to function effectively on a team whose members together provide leadership, create a collaborative and inclusive environment, establish goals, plan tasks, and meet objectives [21]Finally, ABET EAC Criterion 5 – Curriculum includes requirements in four broad categories: (a)mathematics and basic sciences, (b) engineering topics, (c) broad education, and (d) culminatingmajor design [21]. Categories (b) through (d) afford opportunities to teach students to practiceengineering in an inclusive manner. For example, faculty members can incorporate principles ofuniversal design into their courses to ensure students are aware
Engineering at the University of Pittsburgh. She is the Director for the Engineering Education Research Center (EERC) in the Swanson School of Engineering, and serves as a Center Associate for the Learning Research and Development Center. Her principal research is in engineering education assessment, which has been funded by the NSF, Department of Ed, Sloan, EIF, and NCIIA. Dr. Sacre’s current research focuses on three distinct but highly correlated areas – innovative design and entrepreneurship, engineering modeling, and global competency in engineering. She is currently associate editor for the AEE Journal.Dr. Jenna P. Carpenter, Campbell University Dr. Carpenter is founding Dean of Engineering at Campbell University. She is
Paper ID #19343Engineering Faculty Perceptions of Diversity in the ClassroomDr. Kelly J Cross, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign Dr. Cross completed her doctoral program in the Engineering Education department at Virginia Tech in 2015 and worked as a post-doctoral researcher with the Illinois Foundry for Innovation in Engineering Education at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. At UIUC she has collaborated with mul- tiple teams of engineering faculty on implementing and assessing instructional innovation. Dr. Cross is currently a Research Scientist in the Department of Bioengineering working to
higher levels of interracial interaction among students and may indirectly lead studentsto a better understanding of cultural and racial differences.4, 5Although increasing the diversity of engineering has been a long term goal, engineeringprograms experience difficulty in recruiting and retaining females and minority students.Recruiting efforts that focus on engineering as an adventure or highlight specific artifacts (e.g.fast cars) may not appeal to young women.6 Even when students from under-represented groupsdo enroll in engineering, their academic experience can be affected by their race/ethnicity andgender. While many engineering educators look to teamwork and collaborative learning as amediator of high attrition rates for students from
Paper ID #18199Climate Control: Gender and Racial Bias in Engineering?Dr. Su Li, U. C. Hastings, College of the Law Su Li is the Director of Research on Organization Bias at the Center for WorkLife Law. Su is a quantitative sociologist with a background in using quantitative research methods in empirical legal studies research. Her research interests include quantitative methods, the legal profession, law and society, and gender and social inequality. She has published collaboratively in law review journals (such as Stanford Law Review, California Law Review, and Arizona Law Review) and peer review journals (such as Law
-grid and renewable integration, platform system design and optimization, performance guarantees for service and supply-chain systems, and reliability and maintenance optimization. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2016 Systematic Team Formation Leading to Peer Support and Leadership Skills Development1. IntroductionWithin a typical university environment, there are many courses that are taught in multiple sectionsand are multi-disciplinary. Within such settings, this paper aims to examine the role of teamformation on the following: 1) the learning of students, as measured by end-of-term grades,especially the weaker students; and 2) the quality of team leaders
Paper ID #18938Developing Multiple Strategies for an Inclusive Curriculum in Civil Engi-neeringDr. Stephanie Farrell, Rowan University Dr. Stephanie Farrell is Professor and Founding Chair of Experiential Engineering Education at Rowan University (USA) and was 2014-15 Fulbright Scholar in Engineering Education at Dublin Institute of Technology (Ireland). From 1998-2016, Stephanie was a faculty member in Chemical Engineering at Rowan. Dr. Farrell has contributed to engineering education through her work in experiential learning, focusing on areas of pharmaceutical, biomedical and food engineering. She has been honored by the
Paper ID #18785Enhancing participation of deaf engineering students in lab discussionDr. Raja S Kushalnagar, Gallaudet University Raja Kushalnagar is an Associate Professor and the Director of the Information Technology Program at Gallaudet University in Washington, DC. He teaches information technology courses, and mentors deaf, hard of hearing and hearing students in information technology and accessible computing research. His research interests focus on the intersection of disability law, accessible and educational technology, and human-computer interaction. He worked in industry for over five years before
dissertation research project is funded by a recently awarded NSF grant to study the nuanced gender dynamics in engineering education informed by queer theory and collaborative community ethnography. She may be contacted at haverkaa@oregonstate.edu c American Society for Engineering Education, 2018 The Complexity of Nonbinary Gender Inclusion in Engineering CultureAbstractGender in engineering is a long-standing source of inquiry, research, outreach, and discussion asinequity in demographics and negative experiences persist in the field. Women consist of justapproximately 20% of our engineering undergraduate programs nationally, and roughly 14% ofour national professional workforce. Absent from these
Adjunct Associate Professor of Womens’ and Gender Studies at the University of Oklahoma. Her main research focus is diversity in engineering education and introductory software engineering education.Dr. Randa L. Shehab, University of Oklahoma Dr. Randa L. Shehab is Associate Dean of Academic Affairs at the Gallogly College of Engineering at the University of Oklahoma. She also serves as the Director of the Sooner Engineering Education Center dedicated to engineering education related initiatives and research focused on building diversity and enhancing the educational experience for all engineering students. Dr. Shehab teaches courses in engineering orientation, ergonomics, work methods, experimental design, and
Kirshon is a Decision Science major at Carnegie Mellon University with an additional major in Professional Writing and a minor in Public Policy and Management. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2016 Teamwork in Engineering Undergraduate Classes: What problems do students experience?AbstractWhile teamwork is commonly integrated into engineering programs, it often discourages womenand minorities. The purpose of the current research is to better understand what teamworkproblems women and minorities most frequently encounter and the resources they currently havefor solving these problems. The researchers report findings from a two-part study. In Part I, 677engineering
Paper ID #22816A Failed Attempt to Develop a Measure of Engineering Students’ SubjectiveTask-value for Diversity and Inclusion in EngineeringMs. Ashley R. Taylor, Virginia Tech Ashley Taylor is a doctoral candidate in engineering education at Virginia Polytechnic and State Univer- sity, where she also serves as a program assistant for the Center for Enhancement of Engineering Diversity and an advisor for international senior design projects in the Department of Mechanical Engineering. Ash- ley received her MS in Mechanical Engineering, MPH in Public Health Education, and BS in Mechanical Engineering from Virginia Tech. Her