Conference Session

Undergraduate Track - Technical Session VII

Collection

2018 CoNECD - The Collaborative Network for Engineering and Computing Diversity Conference

Authors

Ana M. Dison, University of Texas, Austin

Tagged Topics

Diversity, Undergraduate Education

• Course Content & • Questions DeliverablesHistory• Established in spring, 2003• One cohort/year 2003-2013• Two cohorts/year 2013-2018• 19 cohorts totalDescription• 2nd & 3rd year students• safe, low stress environment• first research experience• introductory experience• graduate student volunteers as mentors• encourage underrepresented students to consider engineering graduate studyDescription• use engineering skills to address real-world problems• develop hypotheses, collect and interpret data• communicate results to an interdisciplinary audience• research opportunities in academia and industry from variety of perspectivesPurpose• retain 2nd & 3rd year female students• hands-on experience• encourage

Conference Session

Undergraduate Track - Session V

Collection

2018 CoNECD - The Collaborative Network for Engineering and Computing Diversity Conference

Authors

Ni Li, California State University, Los Angeles; Gustavo B. Menezes, California State University, Los Angeles; Emily L. Allen, California State University, Los Angeles; Paul S. Nerenberg, California State University, Los Angeles

Tagged Topics

Diversity, Undergraduate Education

about half of the topics of a normal college level mechanics course were covered, including Newton’sLaws, types of forces, vectors, free-body diagrams, and position, velocity and acceleration. The course wasdivided into two half-semester parts. The first half focused on helping students develop basic conceptualunderstanding by connecting theory with real-world applications. The goal was that by the end of the firsthalf semester students would be able to explain real world events using the concepts learned. In thesecond half semester, the course introduced the mathematical framework to help students build theability to connect mathematics to mechanics, and apply a proper theory to solve practical problems.The structure of each class was composed

Conference Session

Undergraduate Track - Technical Session VI

Collection

2018 CoNECD - The Collaborative Network for Engineering and Computing Diversity Conference

Authors

Najmah Thomas, University of South Carolina, Beaufort; Ronald Erdei, University of South Carolina, Beaufort

Tagged Topics

Diversity, Undergraduate Education

impact to performance is related toknowledge that the stereotype stands as a hypothesis [10]. Vulnerability to stereotype threat canimpact any individual, but has been found to have different impacts on students based on genderand race. According to Steele [10], the experiences of African American students are uniquelyinfluenced by stereotype threat as a result of their association with a group whose intellectualabilities have been broadly questioned. Tine and Gotlieb [13] found individuals with three levelsof stigma – gender, race, and income-based stereotype threats – experienced significantly largernegative effects on math and working memory performance.Researchers tested the stereotype threat hypothesis in real-world and lab settings and

Conference Session

Undergraduate Track - Technical Session VI

Collection

2018 CoNECD - The Collaborative Network for Engineering and Computing Diversity Conference

Authors

Bruk T. Berhane, University of Maryland, College Park

Tagged Topics

Undergraduate Education

challenges in K-12 literature. For instance, Dee’s (2005) workON BECOMING A “TRANSFER INSTITUTION” 7intimated that hiring teachers from underrepresented racial backgrounds could help to reduce theachievement gap, but limited his findings to low-income students from the South. For thisreason, the results were not necessarily applicable in other contexts. Scholars should continue totry to determine the set of attributes that make a particular faculty or staff member a good fit tosupport students of color in STEM. While positive interactions with faculty and staff such as these are noted in literature,extant research also reveals the challenges that can define students’ interactions

Conference Session

Undergraduate Track - Technical Session VII

Collection

2018 CoNECD - The Collaborative Network for Engineering and Computing Diversity Conference

Authors

Nancy Mariano, Seattle University; Agnieszka Miguel, Seattle University; Mara Rempe, Seattle University; J. McLean Sloughter, Seattle University

Tagged Topics

Diversity, Undergraduate Education

are over 100 full-time and part-time faculty and more than 1,100undergraduate and graduate students. In addition to rigorous technical educations where theory isbalanced with hands-on, laboratory-based work, our students experience emphasis on leadership,teamwork, and oral and written communication.All engineering and computer science students participate in a year-long senior design project which issponsored by local industry. Teams of students mentored by a faculty member and a liaison engineersolve real-world engineering problems. Students design, build and test their own solution, writeproposals and reports, and present the result to their sponsors. By bridging the gap between academiaand industry, the senior design project prepares