Paper ID #36923Decolonization of Academia: Is the Word Latinx a Form of Colonization?Ms. Karen Dinora Martinez Soto, Virginia Tech Karen Martinez Soto is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Engineering Education at Virginia Tech. She received her B.Sc. in Aerospace Engineering from the University of Oklahoma and is pursuing her M.Sc. in Aerospace Engineering at Virginia Tech. Her research interests are focused on teaching and assessment for conceptual understanding, curriculum development for the middle years, and student cultural competencies.Dr. Homero Murzi, Virginia Tech Dr. Homero Murzi (he/´el/his) is an
Paper ID #38534Work-in-Progress: Towards Advancing Grassroots Transformative AdvocacyStrategies for Work Justice of BIPOC Contingent FacultyDr. Idalis Villanueva Alarc´on, University of Florida Dr. Villanueva Alarc´on is an Associate Professor in the Engineering Education Department at the Uni- versity of Florida. Her research interest is in hidden curriculum, multi-modal methods, mentoring, and professional development.Dr. Homero Murzi, Virginia Tech Dr. Homero Murzi (he/´el/his) is an Associate Professor in the Department of Engineering Education at Virginia Tech. Homero is the leader of the Engineering
National Science Foundation to study expert teaching in capstone design courses, and is co-PI on numerous NSF grants exploring communication, design, and identity in engineering. Drawing on theories of situated learning and identity development, her work includes studies on the teaching and learning of communication, effective teaching practices in design education, the effects of differing design pedagogies on retention and motivation, the dynamics of cross-disciplinary collaboration in both academic and industry design environments, and gender and identity in engineering.Dr. Homero Murzi, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University Homero Murzi is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Engineering
community.AcknowledgementsThe authors would like to highlight the contributions of Drs. Allison Godwin, Bala Maheswaran,and Kyle Trenshaw, who were actively involved in the subcommittee. The authors would also liketo thank Dr. Elizabeth Litzler for her leadership and guidance throughout the ASEE Year of Impacton Racial Equity.References[1] ASEE CDEI, “ASEE Today: Join Us for the Year of Impact on Racial Equity, PRISM, May2021. [Online]. Available: https://www.asee-prism.org/asee-today-7/. [Accessed May 1, 2023].[2] J. London, H. Murzi, and E. Litzler, “WIP: ASEE Year of Impact on Racial Equity: Impetus& Vision,” in Excellence Through Diversity: Proceedings of the ASEE 2022 Annual.Minneapolis, Minnesota, June 26 – 29, 2022.[3] E. Litzler, J. London, H. Murzi, J
pre-teamwork intervention to identify, navigate, and avoid challenges that impacteffective interdisciplinary teamwork.Chowdhury and Murzi [15] conducted a literature review on teamwork in engineering educationand identify eleven attributes of effective teamwork. These attributes included shared goal &value, commitment to team success, motivation, interpersonal skills, open/effectivecommunication, constructive feedback, ideal team composition, leadership, accountability,interdependence, and adherence to team process and performance. Effective team attributes canbe employed to enhance and sustain effective teamwork in engineering, especially at thebeginning of team formation.Tamayo Avila et al. [16] explored methods to improve teamwork in
NativeEducation, 25(2), 175–179.[12] H. M. Matusovich, H. Murzi, D. Gray, B. D. Chambers, and M. B. James. (June 2020). Aautoethnography: Outcomes from faculty engagement in course development in a large first yearengineering program. Presented at the 2020 ASEE Annu. Conf. [Online]. Available:https://peer.asee.org/34109[13] Carroll, T., Gordon, B., Hancock, P. I., Stenger, K., & Turner, S. S. (2022). Cultivating solidarity foraction on social justice in engineering: A collaborative autoethnography. International Journal ofEngineering, Social Justice and Peace, 9(1), 62-91. https://doi.org/10.24908/ijesjp.v9i1.15216.[14] Haverkamp, A., & Butler, A., & Pelzl, N. S., & Bothwell, M. K., & Montfort, D., & Driskill, Q.(2019, April
Forest Gump: Mixed Race Native AmericanStudents Find Community In A College Of Engineering,” in 2009 Annual Conference &Exposition Proceedings, Austin, Texas: ASEE Conferences, Jun. 2009, p. 14.679.1-14.679.17.doi: 10.18260/1-2--4674.[41] [41] J. C. Woods, H. Murzi, and A. L. Schuman, “Effects of Uncertainty Avoidance andCountry Culture on Perceptions of Power Distance in the Learning Process,” presented at the2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access, Jul. 2021. Accessed: Nov. 04, 2022.[Online]. Available:https://peer.asee.org/effects-of-uncertainty-avoidance-and-country-culture-on-perceptions-of-power-distance-in-the-learning-process[42] J. Malazita and K. Resetar, “Infrastructures of abstraction: how computer science