Conference Session

Faculty Track - Technical Session IV

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

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Scott Franklin, Rochester Institute of Technology; Eleanor C. Sayre, Kansas State University; Mary Bridget Kustusch, DePaul University

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projectcentering on a separate high school teacher professional development project. Participants wouldspend the morning observing the teachers, taking field notes and organizing video recording.Afternoons were spent analyzing the data, forming and discussing research questions anddeveloping the broader project. Inspired by I-RISE, our experience initially formed around aprogram, Integrating Metacognitive Practice and Research to Ensure Student Success(IMPRESS), that supports the persistence of first generation (FG) and d/Deaf or hard-of-hearing(DHH) STEM majors through explicit metacognitive activities. Students in IMPRESS spend themorning engaged in authentic scientific investigations, developing models, designing andconducting experiments, and

Conference Session

Track: Faculty - Technical Session 4

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2019 CoNECD - The Collaborative Network for Engineering and Computing Diversity

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Yousef Jalali, Virginia Tech; Christine Tysor, Virginia Tech; Vinod K. Lohani, Virginia Tech; Christian Matheis, Guilford College

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also serves as the Director of education and global initiatives at an interdisciplinary research institute called the Institute for Critical Technology and Applied Science (ICTAS) at Virginia Tech. He is the founding director of an interdisciplinary lab called Learning Enhanced Watershed Assessment System (LEWAS) at VT. He received a Ph.D. in civil engineering from VT. His research interests are in the areas of computer-supported research and learning systems, hydrology, engineering education, and international collaboration. He has served as a PI or co-PI on 16 projects, funded by the National Science Foundation, with a $6.4 million research funding participation from external sources. He has been directing/co

Conference Session

Faculty Track - Technical Session III

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

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Shawna Vican, University of Delaware

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and mentee. Respondents suggested that this kind of a mentoringrelationship was less likely to come from a formally assigned mentor and rather emerged frominformal mentoring relationships, or those initiated between two faculty without input oroversight from departmental chairs. As a woman of color Associate Professor explained, she andseveral other women of color had created an informal research cluster that emerged somewhatorganically in response to feelings of isolation within their respective departments. Facultymembers in this group varied in rank and even the type of research they conducted, but groupmembers found success in sharing goals, brainstorming about current problems, and providingfeedback on works in progress. For this faculty

Conference Session

Faculty Track - Technical Session V

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

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Christine S. Grant, North Carolina State University; Barbara E. Smith, North Carolina State University; Julie Simmons Ivy, North Carolina State University; Jessica T. DeCuir-Gunby, North Carolina State University; Coleen Carrigan, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo; Saejin Kwak Tanguay, University of Washington

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formal networks of ourdiverse LATTICE team building on the success of previous faculty development initiatives. Thepaper will also discuss how ongoing informal networks continue to incorporate mentoring andcoaching to empower women engineering faculty.Underrepresented Minority (URM) women engineering faculty are leading change in theacademy through outstanding research and leadership endeavors. There are currently at leastthree African American women engineering deans, a number of associate and assistant deans andmore full professors than ever in the engineering academy. This does not, however, mean thatour work is done in terms of the intentional actions required to obtain both diversity andinclusion in the engineering academy. Thirty-five

Conference Session

Track: Faculty - Technical Session 5

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2019 CoNECD - The Collaborative Network for Engineering and Computing Diversity

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Leanne DeVreugd, Oakland University; Laila Guessous, Oakland University; Julie Walters, Oakland University; Bradley John Roth; Sanela Martic

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Paper ID #24925Transitioning from WISE to WISER – Life after an NSF ADVANCE GrantMiss Leanne DeVreugd, Oakland University Leanne DeVreugd is the Program Coordinator for the Women in Science, Engineering, and Research Pro- gram (WISER) and other faculty development initiatives of the Research Office at Oakland University. She received both her undergraduate and graduate degrees from Oakland University, completing her Mas- ter’s of Public Administration in 2011 and post-Master’s certificate in Human Resources Management in 2017.Prof. Laila Guessous, Oakland University Laila Guessous, Ph.D. is a professor in the

Conference Session

Faculty Track - Technical Session V

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

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Teresa J. Cutright, University of Akron; Rebecca Kuntz Willits, University of Akron; Linda T. Coats, Mississippi State University; Lakiesha N. Williams, Mississippi State University; Debora F. Rodrigues, University of Houston

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. Lakiesha Williams is an Associate Professor in the department of Agricultural and Biological Engi- neering at Mississippi State University. Dr. Williams’ research encompasses studying the biomechanics of soft tissues and the structure-function of energy mitigating materials to be used in the design of protective gear for soldiers and athletes. She actively works on recruitment and retention initiatives for underrepre- sented minority faculty at MSU. She recently organized and hosted the inaugural visiting scholars class to recruit URM faculty to MSU. Dr. Williams has received many awards for her scholarship and outreach achievements, including the 2017 National Role Model award from Minority Access, Inc.Prof. Debora F

Conference Session

Faculty Track - Technical Session IV

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

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Autumn Marie Reed, University of Maryland, Baltimore County; Nilanjan Banerjee, University of Maryland, Baltimore County; Elsa D. Garcin, University of Maryland, Baltimore County; Wayne G. Lutters, University of Maryland, Baltimore County; Susan McDonough, University of Maryland, Baltimore County; Christopher Murphy, University of Maryland, Baltimore County; Kevin Erling Omland, University of Maryland, Baltimore County

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Eminent Scholar MentoringProgram, and Diversity Hiring Recruitment Plans are now a requirement for the authorization ofall faculty searches.The URM Executive Committee has also established its own initiatives. In 2011, this committeepiloted the UMBC Postdoctoral Fellowship for Faculty Diversity based on the program at theUniversity of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. This 2-year fellowship, open to any field representedat UMBC, prepares promising scholars committed to diversity in academia for the professoriate.Fellows receive a $48,000 stipend, funding for research and travel, mentorship to develop theirindependent research and teaching agendas, and they participate in professional developmentactivities. Thus far, we have converted 50% of fellows (N

Conference Session

Faculty Track - Technical Session I

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

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Michelle Kay Bothwell, Oregon State University; Padma Akkaraju, Oregon State University; Joseph McGuire, Oregon State University; Thuy T. Tran, Oregon State University; Andrea Zigler, Oregon State University

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Education Initiative (SJEI),launched fall 2016. The Search Advocate program enhances equity, validity, and diversity inuniversity hiring. Search advocates are OSU faculty, staff, and students who are trained as searchand selection process advisors. Their preparation includes a two-part (10-hour) workshop seriesaddressing current research about implicit bias, diversity, the changing legal landscape in hiring,inclusive employment principles, practical strategies for each stage of the search process, andeffective ways to be an advocate on a search committee. The OSU search advocate directorycurrently lists nearly 600 trained search advocates on OSU’s Corvallis and affiliated campuses.The SJEI consists of two 4-hour workshops with curriculum that

Conference Session

Faculty Track - Technical Session II

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

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Nicole N. Aljoe, Northeastern University; Stacy Blake-Beard, Simmons College; Michele C. Deramo, Virginia Tech; Barbara J. Guthrie, Northeastern University; Kathleen Kenney, Northeastern University; Carol B. Muller, Stanford University; Jan Rinehart, Northeastern University; Rania Sanford, Stanford University; Shawna Vican, University of Delaware

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. Her research focuses on 18th- and 19th- century Black Atlantic and Caribbean literature with a specialization on the slave narrative. She teaches in these areas as well as offers courses on the 18th- century British Novel and Contemporary Postcolonial Literature. She has published essays and chapters in the Journal of Early American Literature, African American Review, Anthurium, the Oxford Companion to African American Slave Narratives, and Teach- ing Anglophone Caribbean Literature. She is the author of Creole Testimonies: Slave Narratives from the British West Indies, 1709-1836 (Palgrave 2012) and co-editor of Journeys of the Slave Narrative in the Early Americas (UVA Press, 11/2014) and A Literary History of

Conference Session

Track: Faculty - Technical Session 3

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2019 CoNECD - The Collaborative Network for Engineering and Computing Diversity

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Robyn Sandekian, University of Colorado, Boulder; Karen G. Braun, University of Colorado, Boulder; Sarah Miller, University of Colorado, Boulder

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education. She has worked in inner-city public schools, both as a teacher and as an administrator, and in the admissions office of Amherst College, where she earned a B.A. in Chemistry. She holds a PhD from Yale University in chemical and environmental engineering, where her doctoral research produced a bio-based water purification system for removing arsenic from developing world water supplies. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2019WIP: Proactive Dual Careerand Relocation Assistance A work in progress at the University of Colorado Boulder to increase faculty diversityDefinitionA dual-career couple includes two people who planto maintain a long-term relationship together

Conference Session

Faculty Track - Technical Session I

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

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Sara A. Atwood, Elizabethtown College; Robin McCann, Shippensburg University; Alice Armstrong, Shippensburg University; Bilita S. Mattes, Harrisburg University of Science and Technology

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internal capacity building initiatives and programming for leadership and professional development; and • research and external evaluation to measure impacts of initiatives and support for women in STEM within the organization.Sponsorship OpportunitiesFinally, sponsorship opportunities have been developed to generate revenue and also providebenefits to sponsors. Sponsorship of the network in general or of specific events is offered. Thesebenefits include: • Access to collegiate and post-collegiate STEM women professionals and researchers who could be potential employees or partners; • Reduced recruitment and employee replacement costs; • Retention of a productive, highly motivated group of employees

Conference Session

Track: Faculty - Technical Session I

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2019 CoNECD - The Collaborative Network for Engineering and Computing Diversity

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Meagan R. Kendall, University of Texas, El Paso; Alexandra Coso Strong, Florida International University; Ines Basalo, University of Miami; Gemma Henderson, University of Miami

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Paper ID #24997Exploring Faculty Perceptions of Students Characteristics at Hispanic Serv-ing InstitutionsDr. Meagan R. Kendall, University of Texas, El Paso An Assistant Professor at The University of Texas at El Paso, Dr. Meagan R. Kendall is helping develop a new Engineering Leadership Program to enable students to bridge the gap between traditional engineer- ing education and what they will really experience in industry. With a background in both engineering education and design thinking, her research focuses on how Latinx students develop an identity as an engineer, methods for enhancing student motivation, and

Conference Session

Faculty Track - Technical Session III

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

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Michelle Kay Bothwell, Oregon State University; Kali Furman, Oregon State University; Qwo-Li Driskill, Oregon State University; Rebecca L. Warner, Oregon State University; Susan M. Shaw, Oregon State University; H. Tuba Ozkan-Haller, Oregon State University

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Paper ID #241852018 CoNECD - The Collaborative Network for Engineering and ComputingDiversity Conference: Crystal City, Virginia Apr 29Empowering Faculty and Administrators to Re-Imagine a Socially Just Insti-tution through Use of Critical PedagogiesMichelle Kay Bothwell, Oregon State University Michelle Bothwell is an Associate Professor of Bioengineering at Oregon State University. Her teaching and research bridge ethics, social justice and engineering with the aim of cultivating an inclusive and socially just engineering profession.Kali Furman, Oregon State University Kali Furman is a PhD Student in Women, Gender, and