Conference Session

Track: Special Topic - Student Organizations Technical Session 13

Collection

2019 CoNECD - The Collaborative Network for Engineering and Computing Diversity

Authors

Tasha Zephirin, Purdue University, West Lafayette

Tagged Topics

Diversity, Special Topic: Student Organizations

over that whole, "I don't want to ask for help." And everyone was struggling, and once I realized everyone's struggling, I mean we might as well try to struggle together, help each other get through versus you do this by yourself and drown miserably when they’re at least helping you stay afloat. In my first year I learned, you really have to learn to lean on the people who are also going through the same experiences as you are. – Black female, SeniorZephirin, T., & Jesiek, B. K. (2018, June), WIP: Unpacking the Black Box: How does a Cultural Engineering

Conference Session

Track: Special Topic - Student Organizations Technical Session 14

Collection

2019 CoNECD - The Collaborative Network for Engineering and Computing Diversity

Authors

Jennifer Sheridan, University of Wisconsin, Madison; Manuela Romero, University of Wisconsin, Madison; Mary E. Fitzpatrick, University of Wisconsin, Madison; Christine Fabian Bell, University of Wisconsin-Madison; Eve Fine, University of Wisconsin, Madison; Carmen Juniper Neimeko; Katherine Fallon, University of Wisconsin, Madison

Tagged Topics

Diversity, Special Topic: Student Organizations

education, and study abroad), undergraduate learning center (academic enhancement and tutoring) and diversity affairs (K-12 outreach, recruitment, retention of underrepresented populations in engineering). She also serves as the Principal Investigator for the Pre-Engineering Education Collaborative, which is a partnership with the College of Menominee Nation; and Co-Principal Investigator of Wisconsin Alliance for Minority Participation. Romero serves on numerous boards and chairs or co-chairs various campus-wide committees. Dr. Romero is an applied organizational sociologist with expertise in quantitative and qualitative meth- ods. Her academic expertise focuses on guiding organizational policies and practices to help