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Perspectives on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Beyond the Undergraduate Years

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2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Cliff Fitzmorris, University of Oklahoma; Deborah A. Trytten, University of Oklahoma; Randa L. Shehab, University of Oklahoma

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experience to quickly bolster their program in areas where more courses are neededbut more research faculty are not.We found that the diverse career experience among our participants was an asset to their departments andthey believe their experience provides unique perspectives and experience that enrich their courses.G. Self-Reported Motivation to TeachOur second research question explores the factors that non-tenure-track engineering faculty believe motivatethem to teach. Studies of non-tenure-track faculty from all disciplines have shown that non-tenure-trackfaculty are motivated to teach by interaction with students, the classroom environment, and the ability tostrike a satisfactory balance between work and personal responsibilities. We asked

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Action on Diversity - Engineering Workforce & Faculty Training

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Sevinj Iskandarova, James Madison University; Oris Griffin, James Madison University

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in many educational institutions. The purpose of thismixed method study was two-fold. First, the researchers examined faculty member’s reactions toworking in a culturally diverse environment. Secondly, the researchers wanted to uncover bestpractices or strategies that might improve cultural awareness in workforce development in termsof navigating daily life within an educational institution. This study delved into the experiencesfaculty members reported having in their workplace. The study involved 224 faculty membersacross various departments and career statuses working at a public coeducational researchinstitution in the United States of America. The survey and interview responses to apredetermined set of questions were analyzed in order

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Women in Engineering Division Technical Session - Retaining and Developing Women Faculty

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Elizabeth Dell, Rochester Institute of Technology (COE); Margaret B. Bailey P.E., Rochester Institute of Technology (COE); Maureen S. Valentine, Rochester Institute of Technology (CAST); Sharon Patricia Mason, Rochester Institute of Technology; Carol Elizabeth Marchetti, Rochester Institute of Technology (COS); DeLois Kijana Crawford, Rochester Institute of Technology; Wendy A. Dannels, Rochester Institute of Technology (NTID)

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Engineering and Public Policy, Women in Engineering

Technology. She is a co-PI for RIT’s ADVANCE grant, where her focus is on structural changes that can improve the climate for women faculty in STEM.Prof. Sharon Patricia Mason, Rochester Institute of Technology Professor Sharon Mason is an Associate Professor in the Department of Information Sciences and Tech- nology at RIT where she has served on the faculty since 1997. Sharon has been involved in computing security education at RIT since its inception. She is the PI of for the Department of Defense (DoD) In- formation Assurance Scholarship Program (IASP) awards to RIT. These scholarships enable students to study and do research in graduate programs in security, forensics and information assurance. To date

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Women in Engineering Division Technical Session - Understanding and Improving Female Faculty Experiences in STEM

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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J. Kasi Jackson, West Virginia University ; Joel Alejandro Mejia, Angelo State University; Maja Husar Holmes, West Virginia University; Rachel R. Stoiko, West Virginia University

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Women in Engineering

diversity efforts because of the low numbers ofwomen in departments and a highly masculinized culture. Academia, in particular in theengineering and science disciplines, remains inhospitable to the representation, advancement,and inclusion of women.1,2 Many, if not most, diversity efforts focus on students instead offaculty. Arguments for a student centered-approach include the idea that the pipeline of possibleunderrepresented faculty members must increase in order for there to be successful recruitment.However, women tend to disproportionately drop out of the pipeline, so that fewer apply for jobsat institutions than are present in postdoctoral positions or graduate schools. Our work focuses ongendered dynamics in departments. Our goal is to

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Action on Diversity - Supporting Students at Multiple Levels

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Beverly Louie, University of Colorado, Boulder; Beth A Myers, University of Colorado Boulder; Janet Y Tsai, University of Colorado Boulder; Tanya D Ennis, University of Colorado Boulder

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OutcomesThree pillars of excellence support the expanded diversity and inclusion work effort for theBOLD Center: access, retention and performance (Louie & Sullivan, 2010). Expecting anddriving towards excellence establishes the belief and means to accomplish the new program’sgoals. Along with seeking excellence, really understanding our data became, and still is, aguiding principle for our work. We slowly came to realize our passivity in creating andmaintaining systems rather than actively seeking real change. The gaps in graduation rates andperformance (shown in Figure 3) demonstrated to the BOLD Center that instilling an excellencemindset in students, faculty and staff would be critical to realize any narrowing of these gaps.Seeking to praise

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Women in Engineering Division Technical Session - Development Opportunities for Diverse Engineering Students

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Allie Copeland, Texas A&M University; Malini Natarajarathinam, Texas A&M University

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Minorities in Engineering, Women in Engineering

&M University Dr. Malini Natarajarathinam is an Associate professor with Department of Engineering Technology and Industrial Distribution. She teaches classes on strategic relationships for industrial distribution, distribu- tion information systems and new directions in Industrial Distribution. She is also the founding faculty and advisor for the Society of Women in Industrial Distribution (SWID). She works on many service learning projects with her students where they work with many local community agencies. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2016Women in Industrial Distribution: emerging opportunities and challenges for female college

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Understanding Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion from Students' Perspectives

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2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Susannah C. Davis, Oregon State University; Naeun Cheon, University of Washington; Elba Camila Moise, University of Washington; Susan Bobbitt Nolen, University of Washington

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education; learning in the workplace; curricular and pedagogical development; and the preparation of professionals for social justice goals.Naeun Cheon, University of WashingtonMs. Elba Camila Moise, University of WashingtonDr. Susan Bobbitt Nolen, University of Washington Professor of Learning Sciences & Human Development c American Society for Engineering Education, 2018 Investigating Student Perceptions of an Engineering Department’s Climate: The Role of Peer RelationsDiversity in engineering remains low despite decades of rhetoric and efforts to broadenparticipation and retention. Social and cultural groups historically underrepresented in STEMeducation and careers

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Women in Engineering Division Technical Session - Understanding and Improving Female Faculty Experiences in STEM

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Deborah Ilana Karpman, University of California San Diego

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Women in Engineering

career progressed, and frequently stated that thistrait is necessary for a successful career in engineering, but is not always an attribute that womendisplay. The sections that follow outline the findings of the study, including both the key factorsof support that helped women to be successful in academic engineering programs (ResearchQuestion 1) and the challenges that women frequently faced and overcame in their career(Research Question 2).  The Challenge of Balancing Work and Family Demands: Making Tradeoffs Women at all three campuses described balancing work and family as one of the mostchallenging aspects of their careers in engineering. Female faculty members explained that theyhad to make significant tradeoffs to have children

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Action on Diversity - Supporting Students at Multiple Levels

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Stephanie Farrell, Rowan University; Tiago R Forin, Rowan University; Kauser Jahan P.E., Rowan University; Ralph Alan Dusseau P.E., Rowan University; Parth Bhavsar, Rowan University; Beena Sukumaran, Rowan University

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-of-class is to offer students theopportunity to self-identify through their names or pronouns. This helps set up a classroomenvironment where students feel more comfortable and welcome. One faculty member at RowanUniversity learns more about her students’ personal identities by using a poem activity to learnmore about the students, including their family background and important holidays. The facultymember also shares her background as an ice breaker activity.Introductory Engineering CourseThere are more course-oriented ways to incorporate diversity. Within a student’s undergraduatecareer, certain courses can explore engineering in the broader context. At Midsized NortheasternUniversity, the introductory engineering course was redesigned to

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Action on Diversity - Engineering Workforce & Faculty Training

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Su Li, U. C. Hastings, College of the Law; Roberta Rincon, Society of Women Engineers; joan Chalmers Williams, University of California, Hastings College of the Law

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, finding solutions and making5 Since the Maternal Wall bias is focused on gender based bias, we would not elaborate on the regressioncoefficients of the race variables. Model 5 does show Latino/Latina reported lower level agreement with thestatement. We do not have enough data in this study to offer an explanation to this result.improvements are what researchers and practitioners should focus on next. Various attemptshave been made or are in the making. For instance, a group of graduate students and faculty atthe Purdue University Engineering Education program published a report with proposedsolutions to improve African-American women’s presence in engineering (Fletcher et al 2016).The Center for WorkLife law at U. C. Hastings are working on

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Understanding Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion from Students' Perspectives

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2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Amy Trauth, University of Delaware; Tia Navelene Barnes, University of Delaware; Jenni Buckley, University of Delaware; Joshua A. Enszer, University of Delaware; Sarah Ilkhanipour Rooney, University of Delaware; Rachel Davidson, University of Delaware; Xiaoxue 'Vera' Zhang, University of Delaware

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Arbor) and her Ph.D. (2015) in Bioengineering from the University of Pennsylvania.Dr. Rachel Davidson, University of Delaware Professor, Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering Associate Dean for Diversity, College of Engi- neering Core Faculty Member, Disaster Research Center University of Delaware Newark, DE c American Society for Engineering Education, 2018 Paper ID #23178Xiaoxue ’Vera’ Zhang, University of Delaware Xiaoxue ’Vera’ Zhang is a doctoral student researcher at the University of Delaware. She is passionate about working with teachers and other education practitioners to improve

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Expanding Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in Engineering Cultures from a Theoretical Perspective

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2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Alice L. Pawley, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Joel Alejandro Mejia, University of San Diego; Renata A. Revelo, University of Illinois at Chicago

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identitybecause of her experiences and observations as a woman of color in engineering education. JoelAlejandro (Alex) Mejia identifies as Latino and is a tenure-track faculty member at apredominantly White institution with a religious affiliation in the Pacific West. He becameinterested in issues of race and social justice because of his transnational experiences, and hisjourney as an engineer working for the military and mining industries. As does everyone, weeach inhabit different additional intersections of social identity than those we have identifiedhere.MethodWe initiated this paper after participating in ASEE 2017 in Columbus, OH. One of us attendedsessions by the other two of us, and thought that we might share an interest in exploring the

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Women in Engineering Division Technical Session - Retention Programs for Diverse Students

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Abbie B Liel P.E., University of Colorado, Boulder; Eva Leong

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persistence of various groups ofstudents in civil engineering education and careers, this paper describes findings from a surveytaken by 223 undergraduate (165) and graduate students (58) in civil engineering. The surveyaims to address the following questions:•   What are the factors that affect why women and minorities choose to pursue education in civil engineering?•   What aspects of the civil engineering curriculum and course work do students find particularly motivating and interesting? Do students feel that they have a mentor? What kind of work experience and internships have students had? Are they members of student/professional engineering organizations? Do the answers to this question depend on the gender or ethnic/racial

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Engineering Cultures and Identity

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Dina Verdin, Purdue University, West Lafayette ; Allison Godwin, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Brenda Capobianco, Purdue University, West Lafayette

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Educational Research and Methods

Engineering Education at Purdue University. Her research focuses what factors influence diverse students to choose engineering and stay in engineering through their careers and how different experiences within the practice and culture of engineering foster or hinder belongingness and identity development. Dr. Godwin graduated from Clemson University with a B.S. in Chemical Engineering and Ph.D. in Engineering and Science Education. She is the recipient of a 2014 American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) Educational Research and Methods Division Apprentice Faculty Grant. She also was an NSF Graduate Research Fellow for her work on female empowerment in engineering which won the National Association for Research in

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Creating Equity Through Structure and Pedagogy

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2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Chelsea Nneka Onyeador, Stanford University; Shannon Katherine Gilmartin, Stanford University; Sheri Sheppard, Stanford University; Gloriana Trujillo, Stanford University; Carol B. Muller, Stanford University

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biology classrooms. Throughout her scientific career, Gloriana has been an advocate for underrepresented and underprivileged populations, and is an active member of SACNAS.Dr. Carol B. Muller, Stanford University Carol B. Muller is the Executive Director of WISE Ventures, an internal initiative at Stanford, designed to communicate, build networks, and help seed new and needed ventures across the Stanford campus to c American Society for Engineering Education, 2018 Paper ID #23735advance gender equity in science and engineering. She also directs Stanford’s Faculty Women’s Forum.A longtime university

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Women in Engineering Division Technical Session - Retention Programs for Diverse Students

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Jennifer L. Groh, Purdue University, West Lafayette

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ASEE Diversity Committee, Diversity

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Minorities in Engineering, Women in Engineering

with engineering colleagues and students”. 10Most recently, a similar approach in the form of career management courses, is recommended forall engineering students, and not just women.3 A course was introduced at the Women inEngineering ProActive Network (WEPAN) 2015 Change Leader Forum entitled “Empower andIgnite Future Women Leaders”.11 Another group of researchers created an extracurricularoffering, entitled “Gender and Engineering” for interested students and faculty. One goal of thisoffering is to provide female students “with a framework to understand their experience has thecapacity to transform their individually internalized messages of personal inadequacy or notbelonging into a larger contextualized experience that they can name

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Action on Diversity - Institutional Change & Perspectives on Diversity

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mayra S Artiles, Virginia Tech Department of Engineering Education; Raeven Carmelita Waters; Ashley R Taylor, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Karis Boyd-Sinkler, Virginia Tech; Sarah Anne Blackowski, Virginia Tech; Cynthia Hampton, Virginia Tech; Amy Hermundstad Nave, Virginia Tech; Benjamin David Lutz, Virginia Tech; Walter C. Lee, Virginia Tech

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Engineering Diversity (CEED), both at Virginia Tech. Lee’s research interests include co-curricular support, student success and retention, and diversity in STEM. Among his honors and awards, Lee received a 2012 NSF GRFP Award and an ASEE Appren- tice Faculty Grant Award in 2015. He received his Ph.D in Engineering Education from Virginia Tech, his M.S. in Industrial & Systems Engineering from Virginia Tech, and his B.S. in Industrial Engineering from Clemson University.Mr. Benjamin David Lutz, Virginia Tech Ben Lutz is a PhD student in the Department of Engineering Education at Virginia Tech. His research in- terests include innovative pedagogies in engineering design, exploring student experiences within design

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Building and Engaging Communities for Scholarship, Advocacy, and Action for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion

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2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Janet Callahan, Boise State University; Stephanie Farrell, Rowan University; Adrienne Robyn Minerick, Michigan Technological University

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ASEE Diversity Committee, Diversity

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International, Minorities in Engineering

et al., [5] performed an exploratory on a non-traditional first year college student’sexperiences with messaging about engineering by an administrator, engineering faculty, and anacademic advisor. Their ethnographic research revealed tensions between the career goals of thestudent and the prioritization of national economic strength, an emphasis on quantitative andtechnical aspects of engineering practice over social or qualitative aspects, and a focus on theimportance of producing a large number of engineers to bolster the workforce over theeducational goals of the students. The messaging is created and reinforced by individuals atdifferent levels of the university system. This work underscores the need for criticalintrospection by