underrepresented minority (URM) students at Seattle University, we will conduct multiple focus groups with current engineering and CS students. We are planning six focus groups and invite the following student populations to join the group that they most associate with: 1) US‐born women 2) URM women (including South East Asian and Pacific Islanders but not Asian); 3) URM men (including South East Asian and Pacific Islanders but not Asian); 4) international students (mix of men and women); 5) mixed group; and 6) students who are still at Seattle University who have left engineering and computer science or students still enrolled in any engineering program but with a GPA currently below what is required to graduate. We are interested in hearing from
evaluation findings, unexpected challenges,and planned modifications to continue to improve the program. I will share a bitabout our model and impact to date, including how that model has evolvedover time to best serve our community. Throughout this discussion, we’llengage in a few of the community-building activities we utilize within LATTICE. 3This program developed through two earlier iterations:WEBS: women in biological sciences, with an emphasis on ecology and evolutionarybiology. Five cohorts, 2007-2013BRAINS: for individuals belonging to racial/ethnic groups underrepresented withinNeuroscience and/or individuals with disabilities. Running biennially
Paper ID #25003Joyce B. Main is Assistant Professor of Engineering Education at Purdue University. She holds a Ph.D. inLearning, Teaching, and Social Policy from Cornell University, and an Ed.M. in Administration, Planning,and Social Policy from the Harvard Graduate School of Education. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2019 Race, Veteran, and Engineering Identities among Black Male Student VeteransAbstractUsing interviews with seven Black Student Veterans in Engineering (BSVEs) at threepredominantly White institutions (PWIs), we explore how the identities of Black, Male, Veteran,and Engineering student are enacted during their undergraduate engineering experience. Weapproach this study informed by
10 codes related to theproject’s overarching research questions around identity formation, makerspaces andunderrepresented students. The codes included “experiences that shape identity,” “road of trialsin engineering,” “stories of values, knowledge, skills, practices and norms in engineering,”“stories of bias, prejudice and stereotype,” “recommendations for makerspaces,” “pathways toengineering” and “aspirations, goals, desires or plans.” These deductive codes developed as aprovisional “start list” served as the first-cycle coding [39].Though all of the codes proved useful in establishing meaning, two of the codes became thefocal points for understanding unique aspects of these students’ experiences in makerspaces:stories of values