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Peer Mentorship, Cross-Race Mentoring Relationships, Race, Gender, Student Success, and Career Outcomes

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Federico Cifuentes-Urtubey, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; Paola A. Baldaguez Medina, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; Julie E. Lorenzo, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; Natasha Mamaril, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

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. and Ph.D. degrees in Educational Psychology from the University of Kentucky. She also has nine years of industry experience. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2023 Peer Mentorship in a Virtual University Setting: A Hispanic Perspective on How Mentorship Broadens Participation in Advanced DegreesAbstract Mentorship is crucial in providing a platform for academic and leadership developmentand success among underrepresented groups in STEM. Studies on mentoring students fromunderrepresented groups in STEM demonstrate the characteristics of strong peer relationships,superior communication skills, and favorable academic and career development

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Cohort-Based Postdoctoral Scholars Program, Transforming the National Engineering Education, Defining Accountability, and Evaluating the Low-Stakes Assessment Performance

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Jennifer Ocif Love, Northeastern University; Claire Duggan, Northeastern University; Jeffrey Xavier, SageFox Consulting Group; Ami N. Slater; Kenneth Rath

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new research emerges [7 - 11].Deliverable #5: Professional Learning Finally, stEm PEER Academy’s fifth deliverable is a toolbox of resources that guides Fellows’ professional development such as developing Broader Impact identities, Broadening Participation efforts, proposal development, and writing research papers. For example, stEm PEER Academy prepared an NSF-aligned proposal guideline for Fellows to use for requesting implementation funding from Engineering PLUS to launch their own Implementation Projects. The purpose of this NSF-aligned proposal exercise was to provide Fellows with a more accessible and less intimidating proposal format for developing their Implementation Project, especially if they were navigating

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Towards a Participatory Action, Retention of Black Students, and Exploring Black Engineering Student Success

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Hermine Vedogbeton, Worcester Polytechnic Institute; Crystal Brown; Gbetonmasse B Somasse, Worcester Polytechnic Institute; Robert Krueger, Worcester Polytechnic Institute

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, and don't listen to my ideas or concerns” (Female student). “One time in a lab I was working with two white boys and when it came time to write up the lab report one of them would always give me the writing option that had no brain power, and they did everything else” (Female student).Students also reported bias in teamwork assignments within their group where they would beasked to complete less significant tasks or ignored. Consequently, students reported experiencinganxiety when working with non-Black peers on group projects because they feel stereotyped as“lazy”. To avoid this stereotype, many Black students would work harder than expected evenwhen they do not feel well because they are not afforded the same level

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Minorities in Engineering Division(MIND) Technical Session 14

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Deana Delp, Arizona State University; Maria Dixon, Arizona State University; Crislana Rafael, Arizona State University; Jacob Underwood, Arizona State University

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engineeringstudents with ASD that offers peer mentoring to help with the transition to and engagement incollege life. The mentors offer guidance in honing executive functioning skills, identifyingessential resources, fostering social connections, developing self-advocacy skills, and effectivelynavigating the campus environment. Through an undergraduate research initiative, undergraduateengineering researchers have immersed themselves into this program, conducted research onneurodiverse learning and communication skills, and developed a prototype applicationspecifically for the peer mentoring program. Initially the student researchers developed surveysto determine the needs and interests in a customized application. Using the survey results, theydeveloped a

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Diverse Pathways: Exploring Inclusive Practices and Outreach in Engineering Education

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Amr Hassan, University of Pittsburgh; Mohamed A. S. Zaghloul; Irene Mena, University of Pittsburgh

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can be accessed easily through the CATME®website [12] as the authors used the default set of questions.The qualitative data in this paper consists of open-ended responses provided by students in their peerevaluations. As part of these evaluations, students are expected to complete peer-to-peer comments, inwhich they provide comments to each teammate, as well as write comments about themselves [14]. Theinstructor then releases these comments so that they are visible to the entire team via CATME®.This paper looks at the peer-to-peer comments submitted by students as part of their third peer evaluationassignment, completed at the end of the semester. Data analysis consisted of open coding, in whichcodes and categories emerged from the data [15

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Virtual Mentoring Program, Listening to Those That Matter, Moving Beyond Research, and Career Outcomes Tracking

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Lexy C. Arinze, Purdue University; Janet M. Beagle; Jacqueline E. McDermott

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institutions will be presented.IntroductionVirtual mentoring is not a new practice, it has been in existence for over 20 years [5], [6] [7], [8],[9]. The online setting can seamlessly connect undergraduate students across the country withmentors, and the GradTrack program was initially started in 2021 during the COVID-19pandemic. Virtual mentoring has also been shown to increase sense of community, STEMachievement, career self-efficacy, and drive to persist in mentors and mentees [10].The GradTrack mentoring structure is a scalable group and peer mentoring model, with 2graduate student mentors from Purdue with 5-7 URM undergraduate student mentees fromacross the United States and Puerto Rico joined in a mentoring circle. The second iteration of

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Cohort-Based Postdoctoral Scholars Program, Transforming the National Engineering Education, Defining Accountability, and Evaluating the Low-Stakes Assessment Performance

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Jameka Wiggins, The Ohio State University; Monica Farmer Cox, The Ohio State University; Ayanna Howard, The Ohio State University; Martina Leveni; Tatiana Z. Cuellar-Gaviria; Colin Lee Hisey; Daniel Raphael Ejike Ewim, The Ohio State University; Leonardo Rodrigues da Costa Moraes; Beenish Saba; Shawanee' Patrick, Texas A&M University

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in the areas of research, teaching, and service. LEGACY wasintentionally developed to prepare and diversify the next generation of engineering leaders inacademia. Rybarczyk et al. (2011) argue that postdoctoral training should include independentresearch experience, productivity in the form of peer-reviewed publications, and improvement inscholar’s skills in grant writing (Rybarczyk et al., 2011). To prepare scholars, LEGACY trainsscholars in grant creation and management, research program development, and career mapping.Additionally, as LEGACY Director, Dr. Cox works with scholars to independently brandthemselves using social and professional networks so that more people can learn about thescholar and their work. Scholars also receive

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Empowering Diversity in Engineering Education: Strategies and Impacts

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Anne E. Leak, University of California, Santa Barbara

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higher rates than theirpeers. Students who are likely to persist in engineering reported supportive relationships withmentors, positive near peer role models, a strong sense of community, and an intention tocomplete their engineering major. Yet, accessing these support systems is often challenging forlow-income students, who are more likely to work long hours and spend more time off campusand less likely to have adequate opportunities to interact with others in their major and seethemselves in role models and as part of that community. The COVID-19 pandemic disruptedthe higher education plans and financial viability of UCSB engineering students, especially thosefrom low-income families. In addition to increased financial hardships, these

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Self-Advocacy, Sense of Belonging, Measuring Authentic Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, and Construction Management Education Programs

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Carmen Maria Lilley, The University of Illinois, Chicago

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first workshop by Lindsay Marshall was focused onhelping PhD students overcome barriers to writing their dissertation, which is a source of anxietyfor PhD students and was a topic requested by members of the program. Students learned aboutmethods to organize their writing and overcome writing blocks. Resources for PhD graduatestudents to support their thesis writing were also shared with the group. The second workshopwas on time management for the busy student offered by the UIC Wellness Center. Finally, therewas a seminar on leadership by Dr. Jarrad Hampton-Marcell on science and being competitive inSTEM. We had a seminar on how to prepare for the postdoctoral search and maximizing theexperience as part of supporting their professional

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Diverse Pathways in Engineering Education: Exploring Experiences and Opportunities

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Julian Rodrigo Sosa-Molano, Florida International University; Alexandra Coso Strong, Florida International University

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discipline), and anarticle published in 2013 or later. The sources consulted to find the peer review articles for thismapping review were the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) PEER DocumentRepository and the Educational Resources Information Center (ERIC). In the remaining of thisarticle, we will refer to students with physical and sensory disabilities as students withdisabilities.Among the exclusion criteria, we chose to exclude studies that focused on students’ experiencesin online education, settings and accessibility in online or learning systems. K-12 and graduateeducation-focused students were also excluded for this review. Studies that focused on theperceptions and experiences of engineering educators, instructors or teachers

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Virtual Mentoring Program, Listening to Those That Matter, Moving Beyond Research, and Career Outcomes Tracking

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Gerard Dorvè-Lewis, University of Pittsburgh; Danielle Vegas Lewis, SUNY Fredonia; Maricela Bañuelos, University of California, Irvine; Natascha Trellinger Buswell, University of California, Irvine; Linda DeAngelo, University of Pittsburgh

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, stereotype threat, and impostersyndrome [2], [3]. The systemic racism that BLI students experience manifests through STEMcurriculums that center the experiences of white1 people and exclude minoritized populations,BLI stereotypes that assume academic incompetence, persistent microaggressions, intersectionaloppression, exclusion and isolation, and lack of representation among faculty and peers of thesame race or ethnicity [4]–[7]. Systemic racism leads to heightened stereotype threat andimposter syndrome in BLI students, by increasing the pressure to prove one's academic ability,1 We deliberately chose to capitalize the terms Black, Latinx, and Indigenous while intentionally using lowercasewhen discussing whites and whiteness. In doing so, we resist

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Empowering Marginalized Voices in STEM: Perspectives and Initiatives

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Adrian Rodriguez, The University of Texas at Austin

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research. The students in the proposed undergraduate research programwere recruited from student organizations and success programs at the University of Texas atAustin that predominately target first-generation and/or socioeconomically disadvantagedstudents. The program bookends the research experience with a lecture series at the start and aresearch conference at the end. The lectures are an instructional component designed to providestudents with the skills to write a research question, create effective search strings, andcommunicate technical subject matter. The lecture series springboards students into a researchexperience where they are matched with a graduate student or faculty member that will mentorthem on their research. Thus, this work

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Promoting Social Sustainability, Cultural Assets, and Assessing Equity and Diversity Index

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Collette Patricia Higgins; Emily Joanna Kamp; Kenneth Stewart; Azadeh Bolhari, P.E., University of Colorado, Boulder; Daniel Ivan Castaneda, James Madison University

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draw upon theirLinguistic, Familial, and Social Capitals more readily when compared to non-First-Generationstudents (see Table 5). The understanding and belief that First-Generation students possessunique cultural resources to their peers are evident in many other additional studies [Verdin &Godwin, 2015] and our survey results suggest these differences are emergent in the Linguisticand Familial capitals they possess and leverage.First-Generation students readily draw upon their Linguistic Capital assets as it relates to having(and sensing importance) to speak or write about engineering in more than one language (ItemsB and H). Moreover, First-Generation students tend to agree that it is necessary to speak or writeabout engineering in more

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Self-Advocacy, Sense of Belonging, Measuring Authentic Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, and Construction Management Education Programs

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Claude Brathwaite, City University of New York, City College

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limited number of Graduate Research Assistantships, International Research Programs, Peer Mentoring, Professional Development Institute, Weekly Research Presentations, Global CUNY Conference. Ongoing Program Components - Collaborative Infrastructure, Institutionalized Workshop Instruction in Gatekeeper courses, Research AssistantshipsWhile in Phase I, the Learning Centers formed the hub of the activities for the NYC LSAMPproviding tutoring in STEM courses and workshops for the restructured gatekeeper courses, theACs did not require a STEM background and were full time positions at each campus. Initiallyfocused on the operation of the STEM Learning Centers across the LSAMP in Phase I (1992-1997), the role was institutionalized and changed to

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Mentorship, Retention, Minority Participation, and Examining the Experiences of Women

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Claude Brathwaite, City University of New York, City College

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LSAMP Scholars were also allowed to participatein BTD activities and are encouraged to apply directly to doctoral programs nationally and tocompete for Graduate Research fellowships. BTD scholars also act as peer mentors and rolemodels to undergraduate NYC LSAMP Scholars. Workshops on science and engineeringpresentations, writing workshops, the transition to graduate school, and survival skills ingraduate school are conducted by NYC LSAMP doctoral students and BTD Scholars. BTDScholars come from a variety of disciplines, have graduated from ten BA/BS degree grantingunits of CUNY, with five graduating from non-CUNY schools.Table 1. Bridge to the Doctorate Program Activity Bridge Scholar Activity Description 1

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Mentoring, Case Study of Racial and Ethnic Diversity, Identity Dilemmas, Cultural Homelessness and Intersectionality, and Transfer Students

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Maimuna Begum Kali, Florida International University; Stephen Secules, Florida International University

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marginalization in engineering settings, specifically focusing on students’ hiddenor non-apparent identities that their peers or professors are unaware of or maybe do not understand. Forrecruitment, we adopted an intentional nationwide strategy. We conducted 21 zoom interviews withstudents, each lasting 45 to 90 minutes and representing a variety of marginalized identity groups.As a way to establish rapport during the interview, we utilized a scaffolding strategy of showing aniceberg or identity wheel [14] containing many identities, including the concept that some identities aremore visible and/or apparent. In contrast, depending on context and person, some are less visible or non-apparent. Some prompts for all participants included: 1) How do you

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Empowering Marginalized Voices in STEM: Perspectives and Initiatives

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Tryphenia B. Peele-Eady Ph.D., University of New Mexico; Tahira Reid, Penn State University; Lizandra C. Godwin, University of New Mexico

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Studies. She has served as Chair of her department and Associate Dean for Equity, Inclusion, and Faculty. Dr. Peele-Eady’s research examines African American students’ learning and identity formation and, more broadly, the social, cultural, and linguistic contexts of teaching and learning. Her publications appear in several peer-reviewed journals and edited books, including the International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education, the Anthropology and Education Quarterly, and the Handbook of the Cultural Foundations of Learning.Prof. Tahira Reid, Penn State University Dr. Tahira Reid Smith (publishes under ”Reid”) is a Professor at Pennsylvania State University in Mechanical Engineering and Engineering Design

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External Factors, Shifting Identity Trajectories, Persistence Analysis of Cultural Models, and Exploring the Experiences of Black University Students

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Claude Brathwaite, City University of New York, City College

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Articulation Programs; established the. Urban University Conference Series; established. NASA-Institute on Climate and Planets; and NASA Teacher Prep Program. Phase III 2002-2007 Bridge To the Doctorate began; Bridge to Teaching Program; DOE-MOU/Brookhaven National Lab Partnerships. Phase IV 2007-2012 Integrating Research Strategies (Course restructuring); CUNY Collaborations – College- Science and Technology Entry Programs, and the CUNY Black Male Initiatives; Bridge to the Doctorate Program ended. Phase V 2012-2018 Undergraduate and a limited number of Graduate Research Assistantships, International Research Programs, Peer Mentoring, Professional Development Institute, Weekly Research Presentations, Global CUNY Conference. Ongoing Program Components

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Advancing Equity in Engineering Education

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Benjamin C. Flores, University of Texas at El Paso; Audrey Boklage, University of Texas at Austin; Maura Borrego, University of Texas at Austin; Emily Violet Landgren, University of Texas at Austin; Karina Ivette Vielma, The University of Texas at San Antonio; Ernest Chavez, Colorado State University

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-term and long-term educational planning, and discussing time management. Advocating. Recommending or supporting the protégé. Examples: writing support letters for graduate school applications, serving as a reference for scholarship applications, and nominating the protégé for special recognition. Facilitating. Assisting to make processes easy to bring about an outcome. Examples: Guiding conversations in the classroom or laboratory, referring the protégé to a campus resource or office. Mitigating. Lessening the adverse effects of circumstances, undue burden, or mistakes. Examples: sharing tactics to deal with micro-aggressions, giving words of encouragement, and providing perspective

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Diverse Pathways: Exploring Inclusive Practices and Outreach in Engineering Education

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Aref Majdara, Washington State University, Vancouver; Dave Kim, Washington State University, Vancouver

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, Vancouver Dr. Dave Kim is Professor and Mechanical Engineering Program Coordinator in the School of Engineering and Computer Science at Washington State University Vancouver. His teaching and research have been in the areas of engineering materials, fracture mechanics, and manufacturing processes. In particular, he has been very active in pedagogical research in the area of writing pedagogy in engineering laboratory courses. Dr. Kim and his collaborators attracted close to $1M in research grants to study writing transfer of engineering undergraduates. For technical research, he has a long-standing involvement in research concerned with the manufacturing of advanced composite materials (CFRP/titanium stack, GFRP

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Advancing Equity in STEM Academia: Insights and Strategies

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Joseph Leon Henry, University of California, Irvine; Natascha Trellinger Buswell, University of California, Irvine; Eva Fuentes-Lopez, University of California, San Diego

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% of all assistant engineering professors, which pales incomparison to even the tiny amount of Latine/Hispanic student representation in the field. Thereis a dire need to create parity in who is taught and who is teaching. Previous research (Bañuelos& Flores, 2020) supports the benefits of creating this parity and the current disparity's negativeeffects. While we are wary of relying on panethnic labels, as our population of TFF spans arange of identities, backgrounds, and immigration statuses, we do use the terms Latine andHispanic (not interchangeably). However, we write, analyze, and theorize with the understandingthat identities are not monolithic; rather, they are intersectional and complex. We create a dialogwith our research

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Fostering Diversity and Inclusion in STEM Education

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Royce A Francis, The George Washington University

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therealities around them to then act on this reality as intelligent subjects. As Charmaz (2014) writes,it is “situated in conceptions of justice and injustice”. For example, in discussing the role ofconscientizão in revolutionary leadership, Friere writes (p.67): The revolutionary leaders must realize that their own conviction of the necessity for struggle (an indispensable dimension of revolutionary wisdom) was not given to them by anyone else—if it is authentic. This conviction cannot be packaged and sold; it is reached, rather, by means of a totality of reflection and action. Only the leaders’ own involvement in reality, within an historical situation, led them to criticize this situation and wish to change it.Here

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Fostering Diversity and Inclusion in STEM Education

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Bahaa Ansaf, Colorado State University, Pueblo; Nebojsa I Jaksic P.E., Colorado State University, Pueblo; Abby Davidson, Colorado State University, Pueblo; Jim S Carsella Ph.D, Colorado State University, Pueblo; Sanaa Sh. Al-Samahi, University of Baghdad; Mohammed Al-Shammaa

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opportunities on campus. More than half of the students who completethe program continue to an intensive, upper-division research training program at CSULB. Earlyintervention program has resulted in significant growth for student trainees in several key areas,including their sense of belonging to the BUILD Program, their interest in science and research,and their understanding of the skills required for conducting research (such as scientific writing,oral presentation, and data analysis). Comparisons between students who continued to upper-division research training and those who did not showed that those who continued reported higherlevels of science and research interests, regardless of when they were surveyed. They alsodemonstrated a more

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Voices of Diversity: Perspectives and Experiences in STEM Education

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Nagash Clarke; Joi-Lynn Mondisa, University of Michigan

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oneself when faced with obstacles to determinehow she felt about a situation and what support there was to assist her: But yeah, being mindful and making time to be with myself, so that I'm checking in and also recognizing, "Okay, you're kind of drowning in this area. What's going on? Who is your support around you? What can they do? How can you reach out to them? And then, what can you now do for yourself?"Family Support/PeersMentees also report appreciating the ability to seek out family/peer support, and being able to be honestand transparent with their support networks. For example, Amy leaned into family for guidance: Yeah. Within my troubles, I go to my family first. I say, "Okay, I don't know what I'm

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Diverse Pathways: Exploring Inclusive Practices and Outreach in Engineering Education

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Lexy Chiwete Arinze, Purdue University at West Lafayette; Jacqueline E McDermott, Purdue University at West Lafayette; Janet M Beagle

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success, such as navigating mentor-mentee relationships, sense of belonging, and findingsupport services, but additional opportunities exist to help prepare them for academicparticulars such as grant writing and publishing (RQ2)Navigating mentor-mentee relationshipsThe second highest average of the measures that were evaluated was the collection of questionssurrounding “Navigating future mentor-mentee relationships” (Fig 2). Alumni from theGradTrack program highlighted how their participation in GradTrack influenced how theyapproach mentoring during their time as a graduate student. Alumni said that GradTrackprovided them with a foundation to establish relationships with other mentees and mentors. Onealumnus who is now a mentor, mentioned the

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Advancing Equity in STEM Academia: Insights and Strategies

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Sylvia L. Mendez, University of Colorado, Colorado Springs; Jennifer Tygret

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doctoral education and postdoctoralappointment. A lack of resources and support can be even more acute for postdoctoral scholars ofcolor. For example, postdoctoral women of color report encountering discrimination morefrequently than their White peers (Burke et al., 2019; Jach & Gloeckner, 2020). Proudfoot andHoffer (2016) argued that a comprehensive strategy is needed to properly support, inspire, andequip postdoctoral scholars for success. Moreover, to increase the number of postdoctoralscholars of color who continue into the professoriate or other permanent positions in academia,they need policies, programs, and resources that include professional skills in writing and publicspeaking, as well as opportunities to build a community and social

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Minorities in Engineering Division(MIND) Technical Session 14

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Mary S Jia, Duke University; Mostafa Elsaadany, University of Arkansas

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three sections that: (1) asks students to write apaper on a treatment plan including an orthopedic implant for a provided patient profile, (2) createa presentation presenting this plan to the stakeholders, and (3) determine the biomechanicalproperties that the implant and any selected materials need to satisfy. Using a pre- and post-projectsurvey from two cohorts of students, we determined the effectiveness of the assignment andgauged the extent to which students believed that their demographics influenced their motivation.Demographic-based influences are defined here as whether students believe that they are moremotivated to be successful in their major based on their race, gender, community, etc. Our datademonstrate that EML scores, which is