Conference Session

New Trends in CHE Education I

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Michael Hanyak, Bucknell University; Timothy Raymond, Bucknell University

Tagged Divisions

Chemical Engineering

subject matter and the application of the problem-solving methodology?These observations are made on the numerical solution, mathematical algorithm, mathematicalmodel, and conceptual model. They are general conclusions and/or recommendations thatstudents could apply to the solution of any well-defined problem. Basically, the development ofthe heuristic observations is a reflective activity that seeks answers to “What If” questions.The sixth and final step in the problem-solving methodology is the formal documentation of theproblem solution. Because the solution is more than just the numerical answers, the studentengineers of BEEF, Inc. are required to document their solution following the standardsprescribed in the company’s student handbook5

Conference Session

Engineering Professional Development using Robotics Activities

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Hye Sun You, NYU Tandon School of Engineering; Sonia Mary Chacko, NYU Tandon School of Engineering; Sheila Borges Rajguru, NYU Tandon School of Engineering; Vikram Kapila, NYU Tandon School of Engineering

Tagged Divisions

Pre-College Engineering Education

designing solutions. The NGSS has already been adopted by 19 states andan additional 16 states have revised their state science standards in ways that mirror the NGSS.Since the implementation of these standards, recent research has argued that familiarity andexperiences with concrete illustrations of standards-aligned lessons [4] and immersion instandards-aligned professional development (PD) [5] can prepare science teachers to comprehendand articulate the objectives of the NGSS as well as reflect the nature of specific content elementsand practices to build standard-aligned lessons.In addition to the national standards, an instructional model serves as an essential ingredient in thedevelopment of specific lesson plans and curricular materials [6

Conference Session

Social Responsibility and Social Justice II: From Classroom to Community

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Andrew Katz, Virginia Tech

Tagged Divisions

Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

effects of programmatic decisions on students.Those effects are then parlayed into a broader conversation about engineering education as awhole.This paper is an invitation to envision a more humanistic alternative to the unrestrained freemarket ideologies marshalling the state of affairs within engineering education. These sameideologies are steering the state of affairs elsewhere in society, but here we examine engineeringeducation as the local space that we occupy intellectually, physically, emotionally,epistemologically, and ontologically. Engineering education is a local reflection of a globalphenomenon. The paper begins with a brief contextual history of neoliberalism in highereducation before focusing on engineering education at Tulane. It

Conference Session

Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation Division Technical Session 2

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kathryn A. Neeley, University of Virginia; Bernd Steffensen, University of Applied Sciences Darmstadt

Tagged Divisions

Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

also tellingly—May 16, 2010 saw the space shuttleEndeavor take off on its last mission, which was also the second to last shuttle launch before theend of the space shuttle program. We hypothesize that these phenomena reflect a change in thecreative and aspirational energies of the United States. To some extent, at least in the U.S.context, entrepreneurship seemed to be becoming the frontier that had previously been occupiedby the space program.These hypotheses are supported by further evidence that 2009-2010 saw the emergence of whatmight be called the “cult of the entrepreneur,” a phenomenon in which entrepreneurship andentrepreneurs are viewed not only as the leading figures in business innovation, but also as Deleted

Conference Session

Professional Graduate Education & Industry

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Donald Keating, University of South Carolina; Thomas Stanford, University of South Carolina; John Bardo, Western Carolina University; Duane Dunlap, Western Carolina University; Stephen Tricamo, New Jersey Institute of Technology; Eugene DeLoatch, Morgan State University; Dennis Depew, Purdue University; Mark Schuver, Purdue University; Gary Bertoline, Purdue University; Albert McHenry, Arizona State University; Timothy Lindquist, Arizona State University; Joseph Tidwell, Boeing Co.; Mark Smith, Rochester Institute of Technology; Raymond Morrison, Lockheed Martin Aeronautics Co.; Harvey Palmer, Rochester Institute of Technology; Norman Egbert; David Quick, Rolls-Royce Corporation; Roger Olson, Rolls-Royce Corporation; Mohammad Noori, California State Polytechnic University; Samuel Truesdale, Rolls-Royce Corporation; Edward Sullivan, California Polytechnic State University; Joseph Rencis, University of Arkansas; Carla Purdy, University of Cincinnati

Tagged Divisions

Graduate Studies

productiveengineering careers in industry. As reflected by the National Society of Professional Engineers(NSPE), there are “nine levels” of progressive professional responsibility and leadership abilitiesrequired in creative engineering practice. Undergraduate engineering education prepares the engineerfor entry into the profession at Level I Engineer. But, it does not prepare the engineer for creativepractice at all levels of engineering. Further professional studies, experience, and actual creativeperformance are required beyond entry-level for further professional development in engineering.Finding # 5: Revitalizing the U.S. Engineering Workforce for leadership of technologicaldevelopment & innovation in industry is one of the nation’s primary engines

Conference Session

Research on Engineering Design Education

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ryan C. Campbell, University of Washington; Ken Yasuhara, University of Washington; Cynthia J. Atman, University of Washington; Sheri Sheppard, Stanford University

Tagged Divisions

Educational Research and Methods

students what factors they would take into account indesigning a retaining wall system to contain flooding of the Mississippi River. The follow-upinterviews then asked the students to reflect on their design task responses and includedquestions about their knowledge of Hurricane Katrina, which had occurred the previous summer,and the influence such knowledge might have had on their responses.The research question driving this analysis can be articulated as follows: In what qualitativelydifferent ways does knowledge of a humanitarian disaster influence student thinking on a con-ceptually related design task? Given the qualitative nature of the data and the exploratory natureof our research question, our analysis follows a descriptive approach that

Conference Session

Undergraduate Retention Activities

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Laura Kramer

approach is methodologicallyunwieldy, however; it more typical that researchers “hold constant” one or more of theorganizational levels.33 In the interviews, engineering faculty reflected on the student experience, and on theeveryday realities of lives as faculty members. I asked about approaches to common pedagogicalissues, and possible links between these practices and the retention of women and students ofcolor. Interviews also explored views of group differences, as they might pertain to theacademic experience, and ideas about "climate" and its relation (if any) to retention patterns,particularly in underrepresented groups. We discussed attitudes toward various schools ofthought on curriculum and curricular change. The

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Technical Session

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Lisa R. Lattuca, Pennsylvania State University, University Park; Lois Calian Trautvetter, Northwestern University; Sarah L. Codd, Montana State University; David B. Knight, Pennsylvania State University, University Park; Carla M. Cortes, Northwestern University

Tagged Divisions

Multidisciplinary Engineering

of knowledge and ideas that are distinctive to different fields of study. I'm good at figuring out what experts in different fields have missed in explaining a problem or proposing a solution Reflective Behavior (alpha = .73) Do you agree or disagree?A I frequently stop to think about where I might be going wrong or right with a problem solution. I often step back and reflect on what I am thinking to determine whether I might be missing something. Page 22.1711.12 Teamwork Skills (alpha = .86) Please rate your ability to:A Work in teams of people with a variety of skills

Conference Session

K-12 Teachers: PD, Implementation, and Beyond

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Yan Sun, Purdue University; Nikki Boots, Purdue University; Johannes Strobel, Purdue University, West Lafayette

Tagged Divisions

K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

of engineering teaching. Thismodel is intended to diachronically capture the developmental process of EEE adoption and EEEexpertise development by elementary teachers, and to synchronically reflect individual differences Page 25.497.3and personal experiences during the process. The construction of this model was oriented by tworesearch questions: 1) What are stages of EEE adoption and what are the descriptivecharacterizations associated with each stage? 2) What are the stages of EEE expertise developmentand what are the descriptive characterizations associated with each stage?The EEE adoption and expertise development model construction in

Conference Session

Educational Research and Methods Division (ERM) Technical Session 12

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Matthew Bahnson, Purdue University; Eric Trevor McChesney, University of Pittsburgh; Carlie Laton Cooper, University of Georgia; Allison Godwin, Cornell University; Linda DeAngelo, University of Pittsburgh; Kevin R. Binning

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Educational Research and Methods Division (ERM)

women and BLIstudents often leverage a deficit-based approach, which frames students as the subjects that needto be fixed rather than systems that perpetuate inequities [39], [40]. Ultimately, a deficit frameworkfails to acknowledge the larger ecological context in engineering that shapes student experiencesand the development of their identities as engineers.Theoretical Framework Our research questions seek to identify a variable structure for predicting first-year studentengineering identity recognition by self and others. Engineering role identity reflects the ways inwhich students describe themselves as the kind of people who can do engineering [41] and consistsof three constructs: interest in the subject, beliefs about the ability

Conference Session

Engineering Leadership Development Division (LEAD) Technical Session: Engineering Leadership in Industry

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Elizabeth Volpe, University of Florida; Denise Rutledge Simmons P.E., University of Florida

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Leadership Development Division (LEAD)

engineers and to highlight strategies for creating moreinclusive engineering imagery.This initiative is a part of a broader qualitative narrative study, focusing on the stories of sevenearly-career women civil engineers (within their first 0-4 years professionally). Data wasamassed through diverse methods, including semi-structured interviews, field observations,reflective diaries, and AI-generated illustrations of participants' dream workplaces. The researchunderscores the essence of inclusive engineering environments, championing the creation ofparticipant-inspired spaces via AI visualizations. Findings reveal that these women picture theiroptimal engineering spaces as vibrant, lively, and cooperative havens. Alongside advocating foropen-concept

Conference Session

"Green" Topics in Architectural Engineering

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jacob Dunn, University of Idaho Integrated Design Lab, Boise; Gunnar Ryan Gladics, University of Idaho, Integrated Design Lab; Kevin Van Den Wymelenberg, University of Idaho Integrated Design Lab, Boise; Ery Djunaedy, University of Idaho Integrated Design Lab, Boise; Sherry McKibben, University of Idaho IURDC, McKibben + Cooper Architects

Tagged Divisions

Architectural

building and to deliver human comfort, reflected a further schismbetween the professions and reached an apex in the years after World War II. According to Dr.Joseph Lstiburek, “During the post-war building boom, the emphasis on educating architectsshifted to aesthetics and design theory relating to aesthetics and away from the fundamentalaspects of construction and understanding of materials, assemblies, building systems, andsubsystems2.” The division of labor is a logical outgrowth of the increased knowledge needed to masterthe expanding profession. For instance, it would be quite a challenge to learn all the newcomplex structural technologies and theories concurrently with a full architectural education.This could again be said of the

Conference Session

Program Criteria, Assessment, and Sustainability in Civil Engineering

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mikhail Gershfeld, S.E., California State Polytechnic University, Pomona; Judith Ellen Sheine, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona; Gary LeMarr McGavin, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona, Department of Architecture

Tagged Divisions

Civil Engineering

at the end. Strict deadlines were established for engineering-sensitive decisions and engineering students were required to monitor these deadlines and soundan alert to the architecture students and faculty (who also monitored the design process) if thesewere slipping.Following are comments from some of the architectural and engineering judges that have beeninvolved in the studio for the last three years. They were asked to provide some reflection onwhy they are willing to take 6-8 hrs of their time, typically on Fridays, to judge students’ de-signs.Will Shepphired is a registered engineer and architect. He is a principal of his own successfularchitectural firm. He has been an active member of our judging panel for the last three years

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Vincent Pizziconi, Arizona State University; Susan Haag, Arizona State University; Tirupalavanam Ganesh, Arizona State University; Lynn Cozort, Arkansas State University; Stephen Krause, Arizona State University; B.L. Ramakrishna, Arizona State University; Deirdre Meldrum, Arizona State University; Brian Lunt, Arizona State University; Amaneh Tasooji, Arizona State University; Albert Valdez, Arizona State University; Victoria Yarbrough, Arizona State University

“Engineering, Go for It”, and 6) a reflection about the project by students and their parents.The overall outcome of the P3E2 pilot project is that careful incorporation of engineering designinto the middle school STEM curricula significantly enhances STEM learning and producesmore informed students who are able to make better STEM-related career choices and who areable to better appreciate the societal relevance of engineering. The next step to further the P3E2project is to address the challenges and opportunities that lay ahead in order to achievesustainability and scalability. Page 15.469.4IntroductionA central issue affecting the enrollment and

Conference Session

Assessment of Student Learning 2

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Debra Gilbuena, Oregon State University; Audrey Briggs Champagne, University at Albany, SUNY; Milo Koretsky, Oregon State University

Tagged Divisions

Educational Research and Methods

Collection

2023 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

Authors

Stuart Berntein

in managing a company or a project are based on, and result in, a socialimpact [22]. Gallagher explains that service learning (SL) is intended to provide experientiallearning opportunities for students that are directly related to a course’s topic. They also pointout that the SL project needs to be relevant, meaningful, and worthwhile to the communitypartner and the students. The SL project used on campus 2 was all of these. Furthermore, lessonslearned are reinforced through reflection exercises where each student identifies the significance,to them, of the SL partnership. This was an important component of the campus 2 SLP.Gallagher [22] further claims that students accrue many benefits by participating in andreflecting on their experiences

Conference Session

Engineering Design

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ann P. McMahon Ph.D., Ann P. McMahon, LLC

Tagged Divisions

K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

apedagogical approach such as guided inquiry. Before viewing the IDEO video, participantsmentioned students working in pairs or small groups in the context of managing their classroom.Four participants mentioned their student grouping strategies without prompting. Prior to viewing the designers at work, the participants and I spoke about our teachingpractices from a cognitive and pedagogical perspective. Our comments reflected the codingcategories in our shared knowledge and beliefs about school science, specifically that: 1)students should engage with prescribed topics and experiences through inquiry, 2) studentsshould know vocabulary associated with each topic, and 3) students should be able to use thatvocabulary to write about the processes

Conference Session

Student Division (STDT) Technical Session 4: Minoritized Student Experiences

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Aimee Sayster, Clemson University ; Jessica Allison Manning, Clemson University; Catherine E. Brawner, Research Triangle Educational Consultants; Catherine Mobley, Clemson University; Marisa K. Orr, Clemson University; Rebecca Brent, Education Designs, Inc

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Student Division (STDT)

third point of reference to reflect on and givea rich description of their experience in the US. Through qualitative analysis of these cases, wewill address the question: In what ways do Black students who are first- or second-generationimmigrants from Africa and have studied abroad leverage community cultural wealth inengineering in the US?We use Yosso’s Community Cultural Wealth (CCW) framework to highlight the strengths thesestudents leverage in engineering. CCW is an asset-based framework developed to highlight thestrengths of the students from Communities of Color. There are six assets used as a guiding lensto inform research in these communities: familial, social, aspirational, navigational, resistance,and linguistic capital that students

Conference Session

Pre-College Engineering Education Division (PCEE) Technical Session 7: Partnerships Making It Real! II

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Sabina Anne Schill, Florida International University; Stacy S. Klein-Gardner, Vanderbilt University

Tagged Divisions

Pre-College Engineering Education Division (PCEE)

, and one preferred not to answer.They represented 19 states or US territories and 28 unique universities.Each liaison typically supported one high school, though some supported two or three. Afterobtaining IRB approval, the e4usa research team used a protocol for focus groups with universityliaisons to encourage reflection and discussion. Questions asked included, ● What, if any, prior existing relationships did you and/or your university have with your partner school(s) prior to your involvement with the e4usa course? ● What support resources provided by e4usa have been most helpful to you? In what ways have these resources been helpful? ● Do you have any suggestions for how to increase liaison participation?This

Conference Session

Equity, Culture & Social Justice in Education Division (EQUITY) Technical Session 3

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Eleazar Marquez, The University of Texas, Rio Grande Valley; Samuel Garcia, The University of Texas, Rio Grande Valley

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Culture & Social Justice in Education Division (EQUITY), Equity

student populated surveyed consisted of 68% male and 32%female, of which 95% are Hispanic/Latino. The authors employed a qualitative research design,and the primary method of data collection was a self-developed survey instrument consisting of atotal five open-ended questions. The process for developing the survey items consisted ofquestions that sought to examine instructional and pedagogical strategies implemented to teachstudents rigorous engineering concepts based on students’ experiences in the course. As such, thequestions provided students the opportunity to delineate, reflect, and share valuable insight andexperiences that can help develop and refine effective and equitable engineering pedagogy.The data analysis consisted of an open

Conference Session

Computing and Information Technology Division (CIT) Technical Session 3

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jeff Erickson, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign; Jason Xia, University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign; Eliot Wong Robson; Tue Do; Aidan Tzur Glickman; Zhuofan Jia; Eric Jin; Jiwon Lee; Patrick Lin; Steven Pan; Samuel Ruggerio; Tomoko Sakurayama, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign ; Andrew Yin; Yael Gertner, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; Brad Solomon, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

Tagged Divisions

Computing and Information Technology Division (CIT)

are organized into “guided problem sets”,each containing a series of exercises related to a single problem or skill. Guided problem sets arenot intended to replace written homeworks or exams, but rather to replicate the kind of interactiveleading questions that a student might be asked in a discussion/lab section or in office hours.The design goals for these guided problem sets reflect the goals for other components of the course,including lectures, labs, and grading rubrics. First, for each type of problem, auto-graded exercisesshould reinforce the solution process recommended in other parts of the course for that problemtype. Said differently, we want to proved the students with working examples, not just more workedexamples. A good example

Conference Session

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

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Carl Anthony Moore Jr., Florida A&M University - Florida State University; Chiang Shih, Florida A&M University - Florida State University

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Minorities in Engineering Division(MIND)

, and career traineeship inaerospace-centric fields. The streamlined process of recruitment and project-based learning incollaboration with NASA and other aerospace professionals has shown to be effective in trainingthe first cohort of undergraduate and graduate students during the first year of programimplementation.During the summer of 2022, 6 NASA interns and 6 summer Research Experiences forUndergraduate (REU) students participated in the 10-week summer program with professionaldevelopment (PD) program featuring project management, career planning, RCR training,self-reflection, and technical communication. Because research shows that STEM students citepositive mentoring experiences as the most crucial factor in their retention, we developed

Conference Session

Faculty Development Division (FDD) Technical Session 12

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Amy L Brooks, Oregon State University; Jeff Knowles; Elliott Clement, Oregon State University; Prateek Shekhar, New Jersey Institute of Technology; Shane A. Brown, P.E., Oregon State University

Tagged Divisions

Faculty Development Division (FDD)

87 students in a class session are called upon to do other than simply watching, listening, and taking notes. Case-based teaching Asking students to analyze case studies of historical or 65 hypothetical situations that involve solving problems and/or making decisions. Collaborative Asking students to work together in small groups toward a 65 learning common goal. Concept tests Asking multiple-choice conceptual questions with distracters 50 (incorrect responses) that reflect common student misconceptions. Cooperative

Conference Session

Ocean & Marine Engineering Division Technical Session 2

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Daniel Brahan, US Coast Guard Academy; Thomas W. Denucci, United States Coast Guard Academy; Jaye Falls, United States Naval Academy; Paul H. Miller, P.E., United States Coast Guard Academy; Peter A. Sousa, United States Coast Guard Academy

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Ocean and Marine Division (OMED)

professional woodworkers employed inthe machine shop will lend a hand for a special piece or two if extra skill is required. Thestudents create a jig and begin assembly after all pieces have been cut. Up to this point most ofthe work is done in one large group, but once boat assembly begins the students typically pick ateam and focus on just one hull. This fosters some friendly competition in class and tends to keepthe students focused and engaged as they strive to build the “better” boat. Figures 1 and 2 showthe students early in the assembly process, stitching the panels and frames of the boats.Homework in the class is a weekly reflection on the construction process. Students areintroduced to new tools and techniques during the week and are

Conference Session

Values in Engineering: Ethics and Justice-Oriented Engineering

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Madeline Polmear, Vrije Universiteit Brussel

Tagged Divisions

Liberal Education/Engineering & Society Division (LEES)

questions to establish the context from which the students were speaking. I approachedthese conversations with humility as I sought to learn with the participants as they are experts intheir own experience.LimitationsThe findings are reflective of the students who chose to participate in the study and thus self-selected to engage in an interview on ethics and responsibility that was conducted in English.The university at which the interviews took place is Dutch and English speaking, but mostBachelor’s programs are taught in Dutch, which was the native language of all of theparticipants.There is ongoing conversation around the inclusion of demographic questions in interviews [28],including where they should be placed and what effect they might have

Conference Session

AERO 5: Student Success

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Brian D. Ritchie, The Ohio State University

Tagged Divisions

Aerospace Division (AERO)

generated a map of all the questions they had about theirproject. This tied Making Connections to Curiosity, helping them see that the 3C’s worktogether. At the end of the second semester, the students again generated concept maps for theirproject and combined them into one overall map for the team as well as reflecting on the changesfrom their initial map. Creating Value is also tied to an assignment done at the start of theproject as well as after it ended. In this case, teams filled out a stakeholder value matrix.In addition to the small assignments directly tied to one of the 3C’s, the TILT framework wasused for the major assignments (project proposal, proposal presentation, final report, finalpresentation) in the courses to explain how each of

Conference Session

Pre-College Engineering Education Division (PCEE) Technical Session 11: Summer Camps and more!

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Moses Ling P.E., Pennsylvania State University; Maureen Kelliher; Jonathan Michael Broyles, Pennsylvania State University; Ryan L. Solnosky P.E., Pennsylvania State University; Heui Young Park; Lily X. Li, Pennsylvania State University; Baraa J. Alkhatatbeh; Lorine Awuor Ouma

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Pre-College Engineering Education Division (PCEE)

exercise gave thestudents an opportunity to examine their current understanding of sustainable building practices. The groupnext traveled to the MorningStar solar home, a net-zero home built for the 2007 Solar Decathlon. A memberof the AE faculty who helped create the home for the competition guided the campers through the homeand explained the team’s considerations when designing the net-zone house. Campers learned about theenergy efficiency standards in passive house designs and how they can be implemented in today's buildingenvironments.Lighting The lighting design portion of the summer camp consisted of a short interactive lecture using visualdemonstrations with Top Hat to facilitate discussion, reflection and engagement with the

Conference Session

Construction Engineering Division (CONST) Technical Session 2

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Raúl Esteban Toscano; Vanessa Guerra, University of Virginia; Miguel Andres Guerra, Universidad San Francisco de Quito USFQ

Tagged Divisions

Construction Engineering Division (CONST)

as memory, concentration, information processing and problem solving[26][27],functions that play a fundamental role when taking an exam.It has been shown that approximately 60% of students who have high levels of stress do notmeet the minimum score on exams, affecting the purpose of the exam [28],alternativemethods have been proposed to reduce stress levels, such as: multiple choice tests,increasing test time, open book tests, home tests. Some of these alternative evaluationmethods have benefits over traditional exams; since they enhance skills such as criticalthinking, reflection, and problem solving, instead of having to focus on the need tomemorize as in open book exams [17].In the case of open book exams, as well as theimplementation of

Conference Session

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

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Idalis Villanueva Alarcon, University of Florida; Denise Rutledge Simmons P.E., University of Florida; Jasmine McNealy, University of Florida

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Minorities in Engineering Division(MIND)

& Sellers, 2023) by which ideas can be shared and differences that fall outside thetraditional norms of engineering are reflected upon, discussed, and disrupted. Without anintentional breakdown of the communicated (and often, uncommunicated) power structures thatsystemically message exclusion to Black engineering students via its hidden curriculum (e.g.,Villanueva et al., 2020), the liminal spaces that continue to sustain systemic racism remain intact,restricting students’ agency in breaking down systemic barriers, and formation as engineeringprofessionals. For these barriers to break down, a use-inspired approach was deemed necessary by theauthors in where the target population, Black engineering Ph.D. students and their

Conference Session

Equity, Culture & Social Justice in Education Division (EQUITY) Technical Session 12

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Gabriel Van Dyke, Utah State University; Cassandra McCall, Utah State University; Maimuna Begum Kali, Florida International University; Stephen Secules, Florida International University

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Culture & Social Justice in Education Division (EQUITY), Equity

Figured Worlds serves as a powerful frame for ourwork because it captures the complex influence of socially- and culturally-produced systems(i.e., figured worlds) on one’s capacity (i.e., agency) to purposefully and reflectively act withinthem. The ways we choose to – or choose not to – represent ourselves as we navigate figuredworlds, and the feedback we receive while interacting with them, serve as indicators ofidentification with social groups and their privileges [13]. For a system to be considered afigured world, it must have four characteristics: (1) historically developed through the works ofparticipants; (2) include social encounters in which participant positions matter; (3) sociallyorganized and reproduced; and (4) relate individuals to