. Currently, Dr. Rodriguez is involved with several large-scale interdisciplinary research projects focused on institutional environments and STEM identity development are sponsored by the National Science Foundation (NSF) and the Kapor Center. In recent years, she was selected as an Early Career Awardee and Faculty Fellow with the American Association of Hispanics in Higher Education (AAHHE) and a NASPA Emerging Faculty Leader. She also received the Barbara Townsend Early Career Scholar Award by the Council for the Study of Community Colleges (CSCC) and gave the distinguished ASHE-CAHEP Barbara Townsend Lecture. To learn more about her current projects, visit http://sarahlrodriguez.com/Dr. Saundra Johnson Austin, Virginia
Collaborative Programs, Northeastern University. She is also a member of the Leadership team for the Engineering PLUS Alliance. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 20241Author slideClaire Duggan, Jennifer Love & Elizabeth BlumeThe NSF INCLUDES Engineering PLUS Alliance has 5 Principal Investigators & co-PIs.Engineering PLUS stands for “Partnerships Launching Underrepresented Students”and is the only INCLUDES Alliance that focuses solely on engineering.https://engplusalliance.northeastern.edu/This is our presentation outline for a NSF-funded project that is now in its 3rd year.First, we will address the purpose of this presentation at CoNECD. Then we willbriefly review stEm PEER Academy’s background
University. In July 2020, she completed her bachelor’s degree in Environmental Engineering at the National University of Colombia. After graduation, Lorena worked as a research assistant investigat- ing the effects of development projects on environmental parameters and rural communities in Colombia, South America. Lorena has also been part of initiatives that promote access to high-quality education, gender equality, and environmental protection. Lorena recently started her doctoral studies at Mississippi State University, where she serves as a graduate assistant in the Office of Diversity Programs and Stu- dent Development at the Bagley College of Engineering. Currently, Lorena is interested in learning more about
Paper ID #35606Retaining a diverse group of undergraduate students in EngineeringTechnology MajorsProf. Melanie Villatoro, New York City College of Technology Melanie Villatoro, Chair of the Department of Construction Management and Civil Engineering Technol- ogy at NYC College of Technology, is a licensed Professional Engineer in the State of New York. Prof. Villatoro is passionate about student retention and performance, as well as STEM Outreach in K-12. She has served as Project Director for the National Transportation Summer Institute sponsored by the Federal Highway Administration multiple years. Prof. Villatoro leads a
Paper ID #40731The Role of an Artificial Intelligence Certificate in the ComputingIdentity Formation of Hispanic-Serving Community College Students whoWorkDr. Sarah L Rodriguez, Virginia Tech Sarah L. Rodriguez is an Associate Professor of Engineering Education and an affiliate faculty member with the Higher Education Program at Virginia Tech. Her engineering education research agenda centers upon engineering and computing identity development of historically marginalized populations at higher education institutions. Currently, Dr. Rodriguez is involved with several large-scale interdisciplinary research projects focused on
2006. Her most recent teaching position was in the First Year Engineering Program at Northeastern for 10 years, where she helped to establish the First Year Engineering Learning & Innovation Center makerspace and their new ”Cornerstone” integrated project-based learning curricula.Mrs. Claire Jean Duggan, Northeastern University Claire Duggan is the Executive Director of The Center for STEM Education at Northeastern University. She has led and/or collaborated on multiple educational initiatives impacting the science and engineering landscape.Dr. Jacqueline A. Isaacs, Northeastern University Dr. Jacqueline Isaacs joined Northeastern in 1995 and has focused her research pursuits on assessment of the regulatory
) in places of power and male-dominated environments. She has experience in inclusive project management and in supporting organizations in implementing EDI practices.Prof. Nathalie Roy, Universit´e de Sherbrooke Pre Nathalie Roy obtained her PhD in 2006 and she is professor in the Department of Building and Civil Engineering at the Universit´e de Sherbrooke since 2009. She has been the Faculty advisor of the Cana- dian Society for Civil Engineering (CSCE) student chapter from 2009 to 2020. She is currently Deputy co-chair of the Engineering Mechanics and Material Division and a member of the regional committee – Quebec. It was a great honor for her to chair the Technical Program Committee of the CSCE annual
priorities to advance diversity, equity and inclusion in the College. Fatima earned her Ph.D. and M.S. degrees in materials science and engineering from UC Berkeley and a B.A. in chemistry from City Uni- versity of New York, Hunter College.Mr. Ricky Vides, University of California, Berkeley Ricky Vides is the Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion advisor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of California, Berkeley. He is also the staff director for the Combining Forces: Putting Equity to Work project. Ricky Vides is an alumnus of the University of California. He also received advanced degrees in Higher Education Student Development and Marriage and Family Therapy from Saint Mary’s College of
Programs Girl Day at UT Austin and high school summer camps are designed to increase awareness and interest in STEM fields, strengthen STEM identity and increase self-efficacy for pre-college students. WiSTEM also serves as the administrative home for the Texas Girls Collaborative Project (TXGCP), connecting nonprofits, K-12 schools,higher education institutions, companies, organizations and individuals across the state of Texas committed to informing and motivating girls to pursue careers in STEM. Undergraduate ProgramsFocus on strengthening STEM identity, creating a sense of belonging and increasing self-efficacy for all undergraduate women in STEM. WiSTEM creates opportunities for mentoring
Research, Teaching, and Learning) at the University of Pittsburgh. April studied at Winthrop University, earning a BS degree in Chemistry and BA degree in Psychology in 2000. She then completed her PhD in 2007 at the University of Pittsburgh, studying oxidative stress in in vitro models of Parkinson’s disease. During her prior graduate and postdoctoral work in neurodegeneration, April mentored several undergraduate, graduate, and clinical researchers and developed new methods for imaging and tracking mitochondria from living zebrafish neurons. In her work for the EERC and Pitt-CIRTL, April Dukes collaborates on educational research projects and facilitates professional development (PD) on instructional and mentoring
Paper ID #36421External review letters for promotion and tenure decisions atresearch-intensive institutions: An analysis of the content of templateletters for bias and recommendations for inclusive languageProf. Cinzia Cervato, Iowa State University Cinzia Cervato is the lead PI of the NSF-funded ADVANCE Midwest Partnership project and Morrill Professor of Geological and Atmospheric Sciences. She has served as a faculty fellow for early career and term faculty in the Office of the Provost and faculty fellow for strategic planning in the College of Liberal Arts & Sciences. She earned a doctor of geology degree from the
● Project Context ● Problem Context ● Developing the Situational Judgement Inventory (SJI) ● SJI Pilot Results ● Moving Forward 2In order to fully contextualize our SJI instrument, we will first provide backgroundinformation related to our research team, project context, and education plan. Thenwe will explain our process for developing the SJI and talk through some of ourpreliminary findings
comprise 47% of the workforce, they are overrepresented in education and healthservices, and underrepresented in industries such as manufacturing, information,transportation, utilities, and construction [4]. Those with STEM degrees are most likely towork in these industries. STEM United States Department of Labor US Bureau of Labor Statistics Occupations Last Modified Date: April 9, 2021 Table 1.11 Employment in STEM occupations, 2019 and projected 2029(Numbers in thousands
worked at Iowa State University for 4 years as a student’s program coordinator for the Science Bound program, a pre-college through college program focused on working with scholars from underrepresented backgrounds to pursue a degree in STEM. He has been a research affiliate on multiple NSF-funded projects surrounding equity in STEM. Brian’s research interests are college access, retention, marginalized students, community colleges, first-generation, STEM education, STEM identity development and engineering education.Dr. Spencer Platt, University of South carolinaRuiqin Gao, University of South Carolina Ruiqin Gao is a doctoral candidate in the program of Educational Psychology and Research in the Col- lege of
projects and group members are described at pawleyresearch.org. She was a National Academy of Engineering CASEE Fellow in 2007, received a CAREER award in 2010 and a PECASE award in 2012 for her project researching the stories of undergraduate engineering women and men of color and white women, and received the Denice Denton Emerging Leader award from the Anita Borg Institute in 2013. She has been author or co-author on papers receiving ASEE-ERM’s best paper award, the AAEE Best Paper Award, the Benjamin Dasher award, and co-authored the paper nominated by the ASEE Committee on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion for ASEE Best PIC Paper for 2018. More recently, she received her school’s Award for Excellence in
demographic methods and a concentration in social statisticDr. Emily Knaphus-Soran, University of Washington Emily Knaphus-Soran is a Senior Research Scientist at the Center for Evaluation and Research for STEM Equity (CERSE) at the University of Washington. She works on the evaluation of several projects aimed at improving diversity, equity, and inclusion in STEM fields. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2024 Logic Models: How this tool can help you make the case for your DEI programs CoNECD 2024 Dr. Liz Litzler (she/they) Dr. Erin Carll (she/her) Dr. Emily Knaphus-Soran (she/her)Hello, we are happy to be sharing with you about how logic models may be helpful for you.We are
3 3 Positionality Statement Before continuing this presentation, and in the spirit of self- reflection, I acknowledge my standpoint as an educated Black American woman. I have not been an instructor of record yet, but I have experienced and observed both positive and harmful situations within and outside of the engineering classroom involving minoritized and historically marginalized students. I acknowledge that my positionality has given me a unique perspective while working on this project. Inspired by Davis (2018) 4Positionality statement will also introduce the presenter(s
Institution STEM Articulation grant ($4.4 million) from the USDepartment of Education. This ongoing project which serves as a STEM pipeline is incollaboration with two local state/community colleges. Collaborating with BrowardCollege and Palm Beach State College, the three institutions are promoting therecruitment of Hispanic and low-income students who matriculate from the statecolleges where they complete their AA degree and then enter FAU to complete a BSdegree in computer science and related fields. This project assists students at everylevel as they transition from state college to FAU so as to ensure a more diversifiedand successful technological workforce
Paper ID #35545Sharing Exemplary Admissions Practices that Promote Diversity inEngineering Panel DiscussionDr. Elizabeth Cady, National Academy of Engineering Dr. Elizabeth T. Cady is a Senior Program Officer at the National Academy of Engineering (NAE). She has worked on a variety of projects that examine and enhance systems for the formal, informal, and life- long education of engineers and improving diversity and inclusion in engineering. She is leading a project that will recognize and share innovative practices that improve diversity in undergraduate engineering education and also staffs a consensus study examining
Engineering and Computer Science at Ohio Northern University, where he currently teaches first-year programming and user interface design courses, and serves on the college’s Capstone Design Committee. Much of his research involves design education pedagogy, including for- mative assessment of client-student interactions, modeling sources of engineering design constraints, and applying the entrepreneurial mindset to first-year programming projects through student engagement in educational software development. Estell earned his BS in Computer Science and Engineering degree from The University of Toledo and both his MS and PhD degrees in computer science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.Dr. Stephany
artificial intelligence titled ”Generative Artificial Intelligence: A Double- Edged Sword,” which was given at the World Engineering Education Forum & Global Engineering Dean’s Council in October 2023. His work demonstrates his keen interest in cutting-edge technology, engineering solutions, and a passion for DEI topics. In addition to his academic pursuits, Kevin has gained valuable experience through various internships and work roles. He served as a Mechanical Engineering Intern at Jacobs, where he contributed to HVAC and MEP design projects, created energy models using HAP, and performed essential calculations for mechanical equipment selection. His involvement in report writing summarizing ultrasonic pipe testing
-sponsored andmentored project begins at the beginning of the two weeks and culminates with a presentationwith proof of concept and presentation in participant teams. Figure 1 shows the initial logicmodel representing the inputs, activities, outputs, and outcomes created for this paper. This logicmodel was created to organize key components and outcomes of DISTINCTION based on statesgoals for participants as well as insider knowledge from a co-author of the paper who is also aDISTINCTION co-director.Figure 1. Initial Logic Model of the DISTINCTION ProgramThe program coordinators were intentional about the need for culturally responsiveactivities, training, and opportunities related to African American/Black culture andexperience. Intentional events
diversity in Engineering beforebeing guided through an exercise to identify inclusive practices they could establish to promotediversity.In 2019, The DEI instructor did not teach this course but instead guest-lectured in the twosections that were offered. The course instructor for each of those sections was asked to assignthe Wolf article as a reading exercise for homework. The next day, the DEI instructor gave ashort lesson on the need for diversity in engineering. Students were guided through an exercise tofirst identify engineering projects that would benefit from a diverse perspective, then to identifythe unique perspectives they bring to the table, and finally to identify inclusive practices theycould start now that would promote diversity
phase of an initiative to shift more power tograduate students through community engagement, ensuring that graduate students will have avoice within PROTEGE. The phases of the project include: 1) Gaining graduate studentperspective for structuring graduate student engagement in PROTEGE, and 2) Developing a planfor involving graduate student perspectives in PROTEGE moving forward. This work is beingled by a graduate student working in the collective, who has experience with doing equity workand wanted to find a mechanism to give graduate students a voice.With community engagement, by involving community members in the decision-making andoutcome-production process, they can feel more invested in the results of the work and feel asense of
) the NSF Pathway Fellowsprogram, 2) work published in a 2016 ASEE Paper, 3) redefinition of the programgoals to include retention of underrepresented students and exposure to globalengagement and 4) the evolution & connection to the Penn State Clark ScholarsProgram 8U NITED S TATES F ULBRIGHT S CHOLAR 2015 AT U NIVERSIDADN ACIONAL DE INGENIERIA (UNI) – L IMA , P ERU• PILOT: NSF PATHWAY FELLOWS TRIP TO PERUPilot 2015: The research question in this project was: While conventional retentionprograms for underrepresented students have shown to achieve graduation ratesequal to or surpassing those of the majority male population over an extendedperiod, could
earned a BS in Civil Engineering from The Pennsylvania State University, an MBA from the University of Notre Dame, and EdD in Organizational Change and Leadership from the University of Southern California. At the University of South Florida (USF) she leads the project coordination for the National Science Foundation Florida Alliance for Graduate Education and the Professoriate (FL-AGEP), a $2.4M award to Florida A&M University (with a subaward to USF and Virginia Tech), Bethune-Cookman University, Florida International, and Florida Memorial University. Also, Dr. Johnson Austin is the project coordi- nator and Co-Principal Investigator for Project Racism In School Exclusionary Suspensions (RISES), a $30k grant
supportInitiative success • Identify programs that work for specific student audiences • Communicate evidence-based practices and partner with institutions to implement these. Action Plan• 4 brainstorming sessions with national experts in Spring 2022 to identify successful programs & initiatives, as well as areas for improvement• Conversations with the Engineering Societies Education Pathways Roundtable Task Force in 2022 on ways to partner once the project reaches implementation stage• Engineering Research Visioning Alliance-ASEE co- sponsored Listening Session in October 2022 to hear voices of engineering students• NSF-funded NAE-ASEE Conference
the number of international,experiential learning opportunities for students. While these two topics are in constant fluxand contention with one another, online learning could provide a valuable exploratoryoption for those seeking to improve their numbers both financially and domestically toachieve access to quality education for all students. Global learning was born to helpstudents become more globally aware [7]. It also grew out of a need to help strategicallysolve complex problems that affect humanity. The lens of global learning is often directlylinked to exchanges and travel. Those two concepts will always be valuable. However,project collaboration, community building, and connection online could help bridgeexperiences and student
Paper ID #40776Grading: The (Mis)use of Mathematics in Measuring Student Learning andits Disproportionate Impact on Equity and InclusionProf. Sharona Krinsky, California State University, Los Angeles Sharona Krinsky is an instructor and course coordinator in the Mathematics department at California State University, Los Angeles and the co-PI of the NSF funded project ”Commitment to Learning Instilled by a Mastery-Based Undergraduate Program (CLIMB-UP). She works with faculty on redesigning courses to utilize the principles of mastery-based grading in order to enhance student success and enable increased equity, inclusion
Science and Engineering group, existing within the university. We alsoimplement virtual COVID19 pandemic programming, and then assessed the results and best practices for our mentoring program. 9The Lean Six Sigma DMAIC methodology was applied with many tools that helped tocollect the voice of the customer, or potential mentors and mentees, women in scienceand engineering.In the Define phase, the project charter is developed to understand the problem, thegoals and scope of the project. A stakeholder analysis is performed to understand whohas a stake in the project. The project plan is developed and the working team isformed.In the Measure phase, the