track, ● support networking of these and other members, ● development of a STEM pipeline of female STEM academics.SWE, like other professional societies, recognizes the significance of mentoring, relationships,and retention of like-minded engineers. In the case of this discussion, it has been recognized fordecades that female STEM faculty benefit from mentoring due to their unique position inacademia.1 Not only are there issues based on gender, but female STEM faculty are often part ofa non-traditional group, which may include older, minority, and disabled women. Due to thenature of this paper, we will consider these topics as appropriate, but will focus on retention ofwomen in academia, support from other professional societies, networking
Paper ID #14811Dialogues Toward Gender Equity: Engaging Engineering Faculty to Promotean Inclusive Department ClimateJ. Kasi Jackson, West Virginia University Dr. J. Kasi Jackson is an Associate Professor of Women’s and Gender Studies at West Virginia University. Her research covers supporting women faculty in STEM, STEM education, gendered impacts on animal behavior research, and the representation of science in popular culture. She completed her PhD in biology, with a focus on animal behavior, and graduate certificate in women’s studies at the University of Kentucky. She is a Co-Investigator on a National Science
scientist for the Center for Research on Education in Science, Mathematics, Engineering and Technology (CRESMET), and an evaluator for several NSF projects. His first research strand concentrates on the relationship be- tween educational policy and STEM education. His second research strand focuses on studying STEM classroom interactions and subsequent effects on student understanding. He is a co-developer of the Re- formed Teaching Observation Protocol (RTOP) and his work has been cited more than 1500 times and his publications have been published in multiple peer-reviewed journals such as Science Education and the Journal of Research in Science Teaching.Prof. Stephen J Krause, Arizona State University Stephen
Paper ID #15411Connectivity at RIT - Developing & Delivering an Effective Professional De-velopment Workshop Series for Women Faculty in STEMProf. Elizabeth Dell, Rochester Institute of Technology (COE) Professor Dell is an associate professor in the Manufacturing & Mechanical Engineering Technology department at RIT. She serves as the Faculty Associate to the Provost for Women Faculty and is co-PI for RIT’s NSF ADVANCE project. Her research interests include: characterization of biodegradable plastics and environmental consideration in materials selection for production design, the impact of technology paired
Paper ID #16882Exploring Barriers in the Engineering Workplace: Hostile, Unsupportive,and Otherwise Chilly ConditionsRachel Yonemura , University of Washington Rachel Yonemura is currently working on her B.S. in Environmental Science and Resource Management at the University of Washington, Seattle, Washington. She has been working at the University as a Re- search Assistant under Dr. Denise Wilson on projects regarding the Engineering Workplace as well as E-waste Sustainability. Motivation for these projects stem from an interest in public discourse and the interrelationships that occur among people of different
Paper ID #14763Leaning into Engineering: Tenured Women Faculty and the Policies and Pro-grams that Support ThemDr. Deborah Ilana Karpman, University of California San Diego Deborah Karpman currently works as an administrator at the University of California San Diego in the Office of Research Affairs coordinating limited submission opportunities. Prior to that, she directed the planning and coordination of efforts to increase the external recognition of faculty in the Viterbi School of Engineering at the University of Southern California. Her dissertation (UCLA, 2015), ”Leaning into Engineering: Tenured Women Faculty and
higher numbers of disclosed disabilities, there is some indication that reporting is still not where it needs to be. The 2016 Healthy Minds Study suggested that up to 35% of students enrolled in higher education institutions met the criteria for at least one mental disorder in the prior 12 months [2]. This statistic indicates that the rate of reporting dramatically underrepresents the number of students in need of accommodation and demonstrates the importance of universal design in all classrooms to truly serve all students. Universal Design Principles (UDP) were introduced in 1997 in order to make space more usable for people with diverse abilities by a group of architects, product designers, engineers and environmental design researchers to
Paper ID #18517Unpacking Latent DiversityDr. Allison Godwin, Purdue University, West Lafayette (College of Engineering) Allison Godwin, Ph.D. is an Assistant Professor of 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
Paper ID #19343Engineering Faculty Perceptions of Diversity in the ClassroomDr. Kelly J Cross, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign Dr. Cross completed her doctoral program in the Engineering Education department at Virginia Tech in 2015 and worked as a post-doctoral researcher with the Illinois Foundry for Innovation in Engineering Education at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. At UIUC she has collaborated with mul- tiple teams of engineering faculty on implementing and assessing instructional innovation. Dr. Cross is currently a Research Scientist in the Department of Bioengineering working to
Paper ID #14975Barriers to Broadening Participation in Engineering Competition TeamsRui (Celia) Pan, Toyota Financial Services Dr. Pan is currently working as a sales, product and remarketing analyst at Toyota Financial Services. She received her Ph.D in Engineering Education from Purdue University. She hold a M.S. in Statistics and a B.S. in Electrical Engineering.Dr. Randa L. Shehab, University of Oklahoma Dr. Randa L. Shehab is a professor and the Director of the School of Industrial and Systems Engineering at the University of Oklahoma. She was recently appointed as Director of the Sooner Engineering Education
Paper ID #17478The Relationship Between Course Assignments and Academic Performance:An Analysis of Predictive Characteristics of Student PerformanceMrs. Deborah Ann Pedraza, Texas Tech University I am a Systems and Engineering doctoral student at Texas Tech University. I have Bachelor’s degree in the Mathematics from The University of Houston - Victoria, an MBA - The University of Houston - Vic- toria, and a Master’s Degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering - The University of Massachusetts- Amherst. I teach Mathematics, Engineering, and Computer Science at Cuero High School in Cuero, TX and adjunct for The Victoria
Paper ID #15028A Review of the Literature Relevant to Engineering IdentityAnita D. Patrick, University of Texas, Austin Anita Patrick is a STEM Education doctoral student and Graduate Research Assistant in the Department of Mechanical Engineering and College of Liberal Arts at UT Austin’s Population Research Center. She received her BS in Bioengineering from Clemson University where she tutored undergraduate mathemat- ics and science courses, and mentored undergraduate engineering majors. Prior to coming to UT, she independently tutored K12 and undergraduate mathematics and science. Her research interests include
Paper ID #18938Developing Multiple Strategies for an Inclusive Curriculum in Civil Engi-neeringDr. Stephanie Farrell, Rowan University Dr. Stephanie Farrell is Professor and Founding Chair of Experiential Engineering Education at Rowan University (USA) and was 2014-15 Fulbright Scholar in Engineering Education at Dublin Institute of Technology (Ireland). From 1998-2016, Stephanie was a faculty member in Chemical Engineering at Rowan. Dr. Farrell has contributed to engineering education through her work in experiential learning, focusing on areas of pharmaceutical, biomedical and food engineering. She has been honored by the
Paper ID #14736”Turning away” from the Struggling Individual Student: An Account of theCultural Construction of Engineering Ability in an Undergraduate Program-ming ClassMr. Stephen Douglas Secules, University of Maryland, College Park Stephen is an Education PhD student at UMD, researching engineering education. He has a prior academic and professional background in engineering, having worked professionally as an acoustical engineer. He has taught introduction to engineering design in the Keystone Department at the UMD A. James Clark Engineering School. Stephen’s research interests include equity, culture, and the
. Again, ASEE was the full sponsor for the booth.4. Highlighting Scholarly ActivityIn 2017, the Diversity Committee introduced traditional publish-to-present paper sessions at theASEE Annual Conference. This was in part a response to the papers nominated for the BestDiversity Paper award. The Diversity Committee maintains a position of supporting a broaddefinition of diversity and recognized a need to provide a space for papers on diversity-relatedtopics that were not the historical focus of other divisions within the organization. That year,twenty-two papers were accepted for presentation at the annual conference; this was above andbeyond the papers submitted to the Minorities in Engineering Division (MIND), the Women inEngineering Division
]. At the same time, a large proportion of oursample was first year engineering students in a general engineering program where a portion ofthe content focuses on choosing academic majors so this may have been on student’s minds. Ofparticular note is the perceived importance (or lack thereof) of sexual orientation on the qualityof engineering solutions. Such a result is challenging to interpret; for example, the low score forthe importance of sexual orientation does not necessarily imply that respondents do not “value”diversity in sexual orientation, though it could. Instead, a low score might imply that respondentsdo not understand how or why someone’s sexual orientation might influence the quality of anengineering solution. In this way
Paper ID #21733Translating Theory on Color-blind Racism to an Engineering Education Con-text: Illustrations from the Field of Engineering EducationDr. Alice L. Pawley, Purdue University, West Lafayette Alice Pawley is an Associate Professor in the School of Engineering Education and an affiliate faculty member in the Gender, Women’s and Sexuality Studies Program and the Division of Environmental and Ecological Engineering at Purdue University. Prof. Pawley’s goal through her work at Purdue is to help people, including the engineering education profession, develop a vision of engineering education as more inclusive, engaged
Paper ID #16129Engineering Students’ Self-Concept Differentiation: Investigation of Identity,Personality, and Authenticity with Implications for Program RetentionMs. Kylie Denise Stoup, James Madison University Kylie Stoup is a senior honors engineering student at James Madison University. Ms. Kylie Stoup grad- uates with a BS in Engineering in May 2016. She is in the second year of her 2-year-long engineering capstone project so far, involving the design and implementation of a greenway system in Harrisonburg. Her career interests include transportation infrastructure and city planning with a focus in social equity, as
. Also why allies are important in diversity/inclusion efforts. Simply put, awareness of the extent, complexity, and purpose of problem. I gained insight on topic from a white man's perspective. I gained confidence in having good balanced values towards underrepresented groups. I learned a lot from this experience about the prevalence of women being disenfranchised in the engineering environment and about what it means to have privileges as a white male, and what I can do to help. Whole new insight about how women feel, what things are inappropriate. I still have a lot I need to work on. Experience has opened my mind to a lot. Gained a new perspective from hearing so many different people speak. Feel way more educated about the experiences
Paper ID #17160Gaining Insights into the Effects of Culturally Responsive Curriculum onHistorically Underrepresented Students’ Desire for Computer ScienceMs. Omoju Miller, UC Berkeley Omoju Miller is the lead researcher on the ”Hiphopathy” project at UC Berkeley. She has an undergrad- uate degree in Computer Science (2001) and a Master’s degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering (2004) from the University of Memphis. She has over a decade of experience in the technology indus- try. She is currently a doctoral candidate at UC Berkeley in Computer Science Education. Omoju also served in a volunteer capacity as an advisor to
&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
Paper ID #23735Adding Diversity and Culture to the Engineer’s Toolkit: Evaluating a UniqueCourse Option for Engineering StudentsMs. Chelsea Nneka Onyeador, Stanford University I am a 4th year Mechanical Engineering B.S. student at Stanford University, planning to pursue graduate work in Aeronautics and Astronautics at MIT next year. I am a Nigerian-American from central Texas, and I am a devoted advocate for diversity in engineering.Dr. Shannon Katherine Gilmartin, Stanford University Shannon K. Gilmartin, Ph.D., is a Senior Research Scholar at the Michelle R. Clayman Institute for Gender Research and Adjunct Professor in
; 2) the pedagogy of ePortfolios and reflective practice in higher education; and 3) reimagining the traditional academic transcript.Ms. Beth Rieken, Stanford University Beth Rieken is a PhD Candidate at Stanford University in the Mechanical Engineering Department. She is in the Designing Education Lab advised by Prof. Sheri Sheppard. Her work focuses on fostering mindful awareness, empathy and curiosity in engineering students. Beth completed a BS in Aerospace Engineering from the University of Virginia in 2010 and a MS in Mechanical Engineering from Stanford in 2012.Dr. Sheri Sheppard, Stanford University Sheri D. Sheppard, Ph.D., P.E., is professor of Mechanical Engineering at Stanford University. Besides
, hiring committees and faculty mentors follow this implicit model of astraightforward academic pathway to the detriment of a diverse professoriate. We address thisby presenting an alternate model that better reflects alternate pathways that currently exist andcould be better encouraged and supported through infrastructure and social means.A Traditional Model of a Faculty CareerA traditional engineering faculty career moves from high school, to a bachelors degree, to a PhDprogram and then into a tenure track position, followed by promotions to associate and fullprofessor and then eventually a happy retirement, perhaps with an emeritus position to maintainan active mind until death. This is shown in Figure 2. In attempting to follow the
students in this program, and what evidence, if any, do you have that these goals may have been met?5. Do you see a difference in their interest in STEM since the beginning of the year? girls versus boys?6. I wonder if you saw any kind of increase or less messing around and more doing the work.7. Can you give an example of something that comes to mind of what they are interested in?Appendix COpen-ended Survey Questions The Future 1. What do you want to be when you grow up? 2. Why do you want to be that when you grow up? 3. I think girls belong in engineering because__________________________________ 4. An example I know of how engineering makes the world a better place
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Paper ID #23155Preliminary Findings of a Phenomenological Study of Middle Eastern Women’sExperiences Studying Engineering in IrelandProf. Shannon Massie Chance, University College London & Dublin Institute of Technology Prof. Shannon Chance is a licensed architect with 18 years of experience teaching three major subjects: ar- chitecture (at Virginia Tech and Hampton University, where she was Professor of Architecture), education (at William and Mary University), and engineering (at Dublin Institute of Technology in Ireland where she serves as Lecturer in the School of Multidisciplinary Technologies). Alongside
Paper ID #20467Fostering an Asset Mindset to Broaden Participation through the Transfor-mation of an Engineering Diversity ProgramDr. Beverly Louie, University of Colorado, Boulder Beverly Louie is the Director for Teaching and Learning Initiatives in the Broadening Opportunities through the Leadership and Diversity (BOLD) Center in The University of Colorado Boulder’s College of Engineering and Applied Science. She holds B.S. and M.S. degrees in chemical engineering from CU, and a D.Phil. in mechanical engineering from the University of Oxford, England. Louie’s research inter- ests are in the areas of engineering student
Paper ID #15120Gender in the Workplace: Peer Coaching to Empower Women in the Class-room and as ProfessionalsDr. Jennifer L. Groh, Purdue University, West Lafayette Dr. Groh joined the Purdue Women in Engineering Program (WIEP) in 2009. She received a B.S. in microbiology from Purdue University, and a Ph.D. in microbiology from the University of Oklahoma. Prior to joining WIEP, she was the Graduate Programs Coordinator in the Purdue Weldon School of Biomedical Engineering. As Associate Director of WIEP, Dr. Groh administers the undergraduate Mentee & Mentor Program and the Graduate Mentoring Program, teaches two Women in
Paper ID #15160Listening and NegotiationDr. Janet Callahan, Boise State University Janet Callahan is Professor and Chair of Materials Science and Engineering at Boise State University. Dr. Callahan received her Ph.D. in Materials Science, her M.S. in Metallurgy, and her B.S. in Chemical En- gineering from the University of Connecticut. Her research interests include institutional change, women in engineering, mathematics, and materials science and engineering.Dr. Mary E. Besterfield-Sacre, University of Pittsburgh Dr. Mary Besterfield-Sacre is an Associate Professor and Fulton C. Noss Faculty Fellow in Industrial