Paper ID #37244WIP: ASEE Year of Impact on Racial Equity: Impetus &VisionJeremi S London (Assistant Professor) Associate Professor of Engineering Education at Virginia Tech Chair of ASEE's CDEI during the Year of Impact on Racial EquityHomero Murzi Dr. Homero Murzi (he/él/his) is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Engineering Education at Virginia Tech with honorary appointments at the University of Queensland (Australia) and University of Los Andes (Venezuela). Homero is the leader of the Engineering Competencies, Learning, and Inclusive Practices for Success (ECLIPS) Lab where he leads a
student empowerment to address climate change. Currently, Miguel Andrés is developing teaching and evaluation pedagogy that directs a philosophy of seeking excellence as a pillar to eradicate corruption.Victor ViteriHomero Murzi Dr. Homero Murzi (he/él/his) is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Engineering Education at Virginia Tech with honorary appointments at the University of Queensland (Australia) and University of Los Andes (Venezuela). Homero is the leader of the Engineering Competencies, Learning, and Inclusive Practices for Success (ECLIPS) Lab where he leads a team focused on doing research on contemporary, culturally relevant, and inclusive pedagogical practices, emotions in engineering
Paper ID #37098Understanding Academics Motivation to Engage in aVoluntary Research ProgramHomero Murzi (Assistant Professor) Dr. Homero Murzi (he/él/his) is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Engineering Education at Virginia Tech with honorary appointments at the University of Queensland (Australia) and University of Los Andes (Venezuela). Homero is the leader of the Engineering Competencies, Learning, and Inclusive Practices for Success (ECLIPS) Lab where he leads a team focused on doing research on contemporary, culturally relevant, and inclusive pedagogical practices, emotions in engineering
Paper ID #37101WIP: ASEE Year of Impact on Racial Equity: P-12 Parentsand Guardians EngagementHomero Murzi (Assistant Professor) Dr. Homero Murzi (he/él/his) is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Engineering Education at Virginia Tech with honorary appointments at the University of Queensland (Australia) and University of Los Andes (Venezuela). Homero is the leader of the Engineering Competencies, Learning, and Inclusive Practices for Success (ECLIPS) Lab where he leads a team focused on doing research on contemporary, culturally relevant, and inclusive pedagogical practices, emotions in engineering
Chair of ASEE's CDEI during the Year of Impact on Racial EquityHomero Murzi (Assistant Professor) Dr. Homero Murzi (he/él/his) is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Engineering Education at Virginia Tech with honorary appointments at the University of Queensland (Australia) and University of Los Andes (Venezuela). Homero is the leader of the Engineering Competencies, Learning, and Inclusive Practices for Success (ECLIPS) Lab where he leads a team focused on doing research on contemporary, culturally relevant, and inclusive pedagogical practices, emotions in engineering, competency development, and understanding the experiences of traditionally marginalized people (e.g., Latinx, international students
state of Colorado.Sarah Vigmostad (Associate Professor) Faculty in Biomedical Engineering and Interim Assoc Dean for Diversity, Equity and Inclusion at the University of IowaDesen Sevi Ozkan (Postdoctoral Researcher) Desen Ozkan is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Center for Engineering Education and Outreach (CEEO) and the Institute for Research on Learning and Education (IRLI). She holds a Ph.D. from Virginia Tech in engineering education and a B.S. from Tufts University in Chemical Engineering. Her primary research is on interdisciplinarity and engineering decisions as they relate to broader social, political, and economic contexts.Homero Murzi Dr. Homero Murzi (he/él/his) is an Assistant Professor in the Department
Tech. His research broadly focuses on inclusion, diversity, and educational equity—particularly related to students from groups that are historically marginalized or underrepresented in engineering. Lee 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.Dr. Homero Murzi, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University Homero Murzi (he|´el|him|his) is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Engineering Education at Virginia Tech with honorary appointments at the University of Queensland (Australia) and University of Los Andes (Venezuela). Homero is the leader of the
that peer assessment can promote effective teamwork (Bacon, 2005;Chowdhury & Murzi 2019; Riebe et al., 2016). These peer assessments often contain bothrating and open-ended questions that reveal students' opinions about their interactions with theirteammates. In reality, many researchers utilize quantitative metrics acquired via surveys for this kindof data collection, and they depend on predefined rubric guidelines that may not considercertain aspects of students' opinions (Balahadia et al., 2016). It is important to note thatinstructors need to monitor not only team progress toward completion of tasks and activities, butalso to evaluate students' self-assessment and peer-assessment on a frequent basis. If aninstructor teaches
mathematics: STEMing the tide and broadening participation in STEM careers. Policy Insights from the Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 1(1), 21–29 Retrieved from https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/2372732214549471[8] J. W. Creswell, & J. D. Creswell, (2017). Research design: Qualitative, quantitative, and mixed methods approaches. Sage publications. [9] H. M. Matusovich, H. Murzi, D. Gray, B. Chambers, and M. James, (2020, January). An Autoethnography: Outcomes from Faculty Engagement in Course Development in a Large First-Year Engineering Program. ASEE Conferences. [10] L.Anderson, (2006). Analytic autoethnography. Journal of contemporary ethnography, 35(4), 373-395
, immigrating, educator of color, whowas the first in his family to receive graduate education, and who continues to weather thewrath of the pandemic separated by many thousand miles from his family.Creswell and Creswell (2017) describe auto-ethnography as a research methodology thatanalyzes a phenomenon through the use of self-narratives, which would otherwise remain“private or buried.” Auto-ethnography was an appropriate strategy to use in this study becauseit provides the primary authors the opportunity to shift from being an outsider to an insider inthe research, which further enables their voices to be better heard within the community, thuspromoting convergence and inclusion.Similar to Matusovich, Murzi, Gray, Chambers and James (2020) we
7 on peer ratings of teammates between international and domestic students. American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition.West, J., & Graham, J. L. (2004). A linguistic-based measure of cultural distance and its relationship to managerial values. MIR: Management International Review, 44(3), 239-260.Woods, J. C., Murzi, H., & Schuman, A. L. (2021). Effects of uncertainty avoidance and country culture on perceptions of power distance in the learning process. 2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access. 8
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.[17] M. A. Guerra, H. Murzi, J. Woods Jr., and A. Diaz-Strandberg, “Understanding Students’ Perceptions of Dimensions of Engineering Culture in Ecuador,” in 2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access Proceedings, Virtual On line, Jun. 2020, p. 35429. doi: 10.18260/1-2--35429.[18] H. Murzi et al., “Cultural Dimensions in Academic Disciplines, a Comparison Between Ecuador and the United States of America,” presented at the 2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access, Jul. 2021. Accessed: Feb. 04, 2022. [Online]. Available: https://peer.asee.org/cultural-dimensions-in-academic-disciplines-a-comparison-between- ecuador-and-the-united-states-of-america[19] L. Paura and I. Arhipova, “STUDENT DROPOUT RATE
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student experience», Stud. High. Educ., vol. 44, n.o 3, pp. 554-570, 2019.[2] I. Ashby y M. Exter, «Designing for interdisciplinarity in higher education: Considerations for instructional designers», TechTrends, vol. 63, n.o 2, pp. 202-208, 2019.[3] P. Brandão y A. Remesar, «Interdisciplinarity-Urban Design practice, a research and teaching matrix», W Terfront, n.o 16, pp. 3-33, 2010.[4] H. Murzi et al., «Cultural dimensions in academic disciplines, a comparison between Ecuador and the United States of America», 2021.[5] M. A. Guerra, H. Murzi, J. Woods Jr, y A. Diaz-Strandberg, «Understanding Students’ Perceptions of Dimensions of Engineering Culture in Ecuador», 2020.[6] A. Sedaghat, «Factors affecting the team formation and work in
, and practice of teamwork and intercultural communication are taught inengineering classrooms; in short, they are not. Although engineering programs work towardhelping their students develop teamwork competencies, teamwork in engineering classrooms hasbeen largely bereft of direct teaching about the communication-rooted components of teamwork(Kedrowicz & Nelson, 2007), tending instead to focus on the process and organizationalelements of teamwork and various levels of assessment, such as peer-assessment and observation(Chowdhry & Murzi, 2019). Intercultural competency in engineering classrooms suffers asimilar fate (Warnick, 2011; Ndubuisi, et al., 2020) and is often discussed in essentialist termswherein intercultural competency is
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Adaptation for Children with Disabilities: A Translatable Means to Engage Engineering Students in Community Engaged Learning,” Adv. Eng. Educ., vol. 8, no. 3, pp. 1–19, 2021.[31] G. B. Rossman and S. F. Rallis, Learning in the field: An introduction to qualitative research. Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE Publications, Inc., 2003.[32] R. A. Louis, M. J. Mohammadi-Aragh, and W. C. Lee, ““Wait... There is a Ph.D. in engineering education?" The first-year experience of three students in an engineering education department,” in American Society for Engineering Education - Southeastern Section Annual Conference, 2012.[33] H. M. Matusovich, H. Murzi, D. Gray, B. D. Chambers, and M. B. James, “An autoethnography
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, “Development of assessment tool for workforce sustainability,” Journal Construction Engineering and Management, vol. 146, no. 4, p. 04020017, Apr. 2020.[17] F. W. Ngunjiri, K.-A. C. Hernandez, and H. Chang, “Living autoethnography: Connecting life and research,” Journal of Research Practice, vol. 6, no. 1, art. 1, Aug. 2010.[18] N. W. Sochacka, Kelly. W. Guyotte, and J. Walther, “Learning together: A collaborative autoethnographic exploration of STEAM (STEM + the arts) education,” Journal of Engineering Education, vol. 105, no. 1, pp. 15–42, 2016.[19] H. M. Matusovich, H. Murzi, D. Gray, B. D. Chambers, and M. B. James. (June 2020). An autoethnography: Outcomes from faculty engagement in course development in a large first
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