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2024 ASEE-GSW

Authors

Adam Weaver, Baylor University; Joseph Anthony Donndelinger, Baylor University

Paper ID #44710The Impacts of Reflective Writing on Peer Evaluations in EngineeringDesign CoursesMr. Adam Weaver, Baylor University Mr. Adam Weaver joined the Baylor Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering with over 15 years of experience in industry and government service. He served in the Active Duty Air Force as an engineer for over eight years, specializing in test and evaluation of avionics, guidance/navigation, and space systems. After his time in the military, he worked as a Propulsion Test and Integration Engineer with Space Exploration Technologies as well as multiple positions with L3Harris

Conference Session

Track 6: Technical Session 3: Teaching Equity through Assets-Based Journaling: Using Community Cultural Wealth to Guide Student Reflections

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2024 Collaborative Network for Engineering & Computing Diversity (CoNECD)

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Gabriella Coloyan Fleming, University of Texas at Austin; Jessica Deters, University of Nebraska - Lincoln; Maya Denton, University of Oklahoma

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water resources engineering from the University of Texas at Austin (UT-Austin), and her PhD in STEM education from UT-Austin. Before graduate school, she worked for an industrial gas company in a variety of engineering roles. Her research in engineering and STEM education focuses on career pathways within engineering and issues of diversity, equity, and inclusion. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2024Teaching Equity throughAssets-Based Journaling:Using Community Cultural Wealth to Guide Student Reflections Gabriella Coloyan Fleming, Jessica Deters, Maya Denton 1

Conference Session

Track 7: Technical Session 9: Preparing for ABET Changes regarding DEI: Results of the Big Ten++ DEI Summit

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2024 Collaborative Network for Engineering & Computing Diversity (CoNECD)

Authors

Sarah E Zappe, Pennsylvania State University; Stephanie Cutler, Pennsylvania State University; Ivan E. Esparragoza, Pennsylvania State University

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institutional policies on diversity, equity, and inclusion and demonstrate awareness appropriate to providing an equitable and inclusive environment for its students that respects the institution’s mission.”https://www.abet.org/accreditation/accreditation-criteria/criteria-for-accrediting-engineering-programs-2023-2024/ -In order to prepare for theupcoming changes to ABET,a Summit was held at PennState in October of 2022.A total of 71 participantsfrom 20 institutionsattended the meeting. • https://www.engr.psu.edu/equity-inclusion/dei-summit- 22.aspx -The Summit was held across 3 days and consistedof speakers, reflection, and team working time.The Summit also

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2024 ASEE-GSW

Authors

John Carrell, Texas Tech University; Tirhas Hailu, Texas Tech University

University Tirhas A. Hailu Edward E. Whitacre Jr. College of Engineering Texas Tech University AbstractEngineers are increasingly looking for inspiration in the design of structures and processes to solveproblems in engineering practice. Bioinspired design uses nature as the influence and inspiration forcreating and improving designs. Through its application, bioinspired design has a long and expandinginfluence on human technology. As a reflection of this impact, more and more engineering collegesare incorporating bioinspired design into their curricula. Starting in the fall of 2020 the Texas

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2024 South East Section Meeting

Authors

Elizabeth Zanin Flanagan, Clemson University; Kassidy Y. Maron, Clemson University; Angelina Cotto, Clemson University; Isha Vishal Raj, Clemson University; Ben S. Fields, Clemson University; Elijah Austin Wilbanks, Clemson University; Karen A High, Clemson University

people in this group, this CI is their first real experience with taking partin research, specifically qualitative research. Over the fall 2023 semester, the team has beencoding written student reflections using a priori coding [4] and we meet in a hybrid format. Theteam has processed over 100 pages of student reflection data on a curriculum intervention inengineering and improved their intercoder reliability continually over the past semester. Thegroup began to think about how they have grown as qualitative researchers and reflected on thefollowing questions to answer what has helped them grow as qualitative researchers. 1. What was it like to work on your first educational research project? Reflect on your classroom and out-of-class

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2024 South East Section Meeting

Authors

Sylmarie Davila-Montero, The Citadel

(covering objectives, required tools, and instructions), gradingrubrics, and students’ scores. Reflective insights from students highlight not only the successfulcreation of functional Morse code machines but also a profound appreciation for the practicalapplications of Computational Thinking and programming in the realm of Electrical Engineering.Classroom Activities Leading to ProjectIn the second part of the class, students were introduced to Python and various developmentenvironments, including Spyder from Anaconda 3, as well as the Python editor and simulator forthe BBC Micro:Bit. Following the completion of each class module or topic, students wereassigned brief programming exercises. These exercises required the use of Spyder to

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2024 South East Section Meeting

Authors

Natalia Cardelino, Mercer University; Laura E Moody, Mercer University

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reflection [3].The service provided can take many forms. It may include a community project, communityeducation, or the administration of a community survey to understand what problems need to beaddressed [4]. The academic connection refers to the learning aspect students gain throughcoursework and hands-on experiences, and is oftentimes, multidisciplinary. The reciprocalpartnership between the university and the community partner must be beneficial for both. Onechallenge of service learning versus traditional capstone projects is that a meaningful, ongoingrelationship with the community must be maintained [4]. In addition, many projects cannot becompleted in a single course and need the buy-in from the local community to ensure their long-term

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2024 South East Section Meeting

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Amy Borello Gruss, Kennesaw State University ; Nicholas Anthony Clegorne

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decades, research is still in its infancy within the discipline of engineering educationwith only one research team studying VTS on engineering students. In 2017, Campbell and hiscollaborators introduced VTS to upper-level engineering students in hopes of creating morereflective engineers [14]. A comparison of essay responses before and after the VTS experienceshowed that students were indeed more reflective afterward, though the essay prompt was relatedto the art they previously viewed rather than engineering concepts [14]. They expanded upontheir work with graduate engineering students using instrumentations for insight, contextualcompetence, reflective skepticism, and interdisciplinary skills [15] and using reflective prompts[16] [17] [18

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2024 ASEE-GSW

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Matthew Kuester, University of Mary Hardin-Baylor; Paul R Griesemer, University of Mary Hardin-Baylor

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University of Mary Hardin-Baylor (UMHB) was redesignedfor the Fall 2022 semester to improve student engagement and retention in the engineering program.The course design centered around an individual design project, with supporting modules to preparestudents for the project. Student feedback (in the form of student reflections) provided insight intohow students interacted with the project. Despite being an individual project, many students describedcommunity building that occurred through collaboration. Students also described a sense ofaccomplishment from completing a difficult, open-ended design problem. The redesigned course hasbeen offered in two semesters (Fall 2022, Fall 2023), and the retention rates for students enrolled inthese courses

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2024 ASEE North Central Section Conference

Authors

Mary M McCall M.A., University of Detroit Mercy; Nassif E Rayess, University of Detroit Mercy

tobe robust, repeated, and experienced over the course of the student’s college career.Another approach – Embedded technical writingIn 2016, the Mechanical Engineering curriculum at University of Detroit Mercy moved from thetraditional one-semester Technical Writing class offered through the English Department to anEmbedded Technical Writing approach. Among other “soft” or “people” skills, teamwork isdiscussed and practiced from day one through graduation. Over a series of five technical writingclasses from first through third year, students grow in their understanding of the value teams canbring to problem solving, project management and relationship development. Hands-on practiceand reflections help them internalize a teamwork approach to

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2023 PSW

Authors

Lessa Grunenfelder

and abilities) are treated iteratively throughout the program. Finally, theelement of reflection, outlined in black in Figure 1, is not part of Prather’s model, but is a criticalcomponent of the faculty learning program and a key tool in the development of STEMEducation expertise.As outlined by Tran and Halverson [3], the objectives of the program are to: • Deepen faculty’s understanding of how people learn • Change teaching behavior to support student learning • Engage STEM faculty in habits of reflection • Nurture a tradition of continued learning about teaching • Build a faculty learning communityThe FLP is a full year (two-semester) course completed by a faculty cohort and lead by a team offacilitators. The

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2024 South East Section Meeting

Authors

Raghu Pucha, Georgia Institute of Technology; Shivani Kundalia, Georgia Institute of Technology

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activities in freshman engineering design course. Pre-activity surveys and post-activity reflection instruments are currently being developed and willbe presented for the assessment of students’ appreciation for diversity, improved intrinsicmotivation and quality of performance.KeywordsDiverse Teams, Engineering Design, Culture-inspired design activities, intrinsic motivationFreshman students’ well-beingThe first year of college constitutes a time of substantial transition for incoming students. As aresult, a great deal of attention has been paid to improving college students' first-yearexperience(Bowman 2010). Research on the well-being of diverse college students has focusedlargely on adjustment processes that are specific to the college

Conference Session

Track 8: Technical Session 7: Designing an open course to highlight the work of underrepresented STEM scholars

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2024 Collaborative Network for Engineering & Computing Diversity (CoNECD)

Authors

Brianna B Buljung, Colorado School of Mines; Seth Vuletich, Colorado School of Mines; Madison Schaefer

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faculty to find appropriate materials, creating barriers both to underrepresented scholars andto those who seek to use their work [9].The glaring gap in guidance for faculty led us to develop the Representation in STEM (RIS) openmini-course. This course was designed to provide faculty with a single page of adaptable contentrelated to representation in a specific discipline or topic area that can be easily used in theirdisciplinary courses. The full course currently contains five modules with the following content: 1. Introduction – details on course development and guidance for using and adapting the course 2. Disciplines – 16 single page lessons for STEM disciplines with readings, videos, websites to explore, and reflection

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2024 South East Section Meeting

Authors

Sreekanth Gopi, Kennesaw State University; Nasrin Dehbozorgi, Kennesaw State University; Md Abdullah Al Hafiz Khan, Kennesaw State University

academic skillssuch as concentration and time management [24]. Similarly, O’Donnchadha (2018) reported that mindfulness-basedinterventions not only alleviated stress in caregivers but also enhanced their ability to disengage from distressingthoughts and be more mindfully aware [25]. These practices, when integrated with the reflective observation ofpast problems can release the pressure of unresolved issues, providing mental clarity and a structured approach toproblem-solving [26]. This enhances cognitive reappraisal (re-considering the perspective) which can help studentsmanage stress and bring clarity on challenges and priorities. Visualisation: Visualization meditation has emerged as a potent tool for reducing stress and enhancing

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2024 ASEE North Central Section Conference

Authors

Claudio Freitas, Purdue University Fort Wayne

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Diversity

Section 1 Section 2 Section 3 Section 4 Spring 2023 23 students 20 students 20 students 20 students Spring 2024 24 students 16 students 24 students 21 studentsData Collection Data collection is being carried out in several distinct phases. The initial phase, in Spring2023, involved the researcher's direct observations, research journal, and reflections whileteaching the narrative pedagogy. The subsequent phase, currently underway in Spring 2024, hasreceived institutional IRB approval and involves student-produced artifacts and surveys. Thefinal phase, planned for Spring 2025, will adopt a quasi-experimental design to collect

Collection

2024 ASEE-GSW

Authors

Shadi Balawi, Texas A&M University; Jonathan Weaver-Rosen, Texas A&M University; Joanna Tsenn, Texas A&M University; Mohammad Waqar Mohiuddin; Carlos R. Corleto P.E., Texas A&M University

strategies charter for their class project reflection on team building activity • Short reflection/assessment• Short reflection/assessment • Short reflection/assessment Proceedings of the 2024 ASEE Gulf-Southwest Annual Conference West Texas A&M University, Canyon, TX Copyright  2024, American Society for Engineering Education 4 Implementation PlanThe UNITES teamwork skill development project was launched to enhance our undergraduatecurriculum in the mechanical engineering

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2024 South East Section Meeting

Authors

Evelyn Abagayle Boyd, Clemson University and Colorado School of Mines ; David E Vaughn, Clemson University; Jeffery M Plumblee II, JMP2 LLC; Bridget Trogden, American University

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form of the industry experience so the reason why I joined is kind of similar to what the reason why I did Co-OP. I wanted an experience that would teach me something that I probably wasn't going to get from classes and would be more team based as well.” -JohnJohn was not alone in his reflection that he wanted to participate in a humanitarian engineeringproject but did not have the terminology before participating in CEDC. Clemson University doesnot currently offer a humanitarian engineering major, so CEDC allows students to be introducedto and explore humanitarian engineering within their various curricular structures. In addition toreal world connections, Sam and Rachel heard about specific projects within CEDC and

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2024 ASEE-GSW

Authors

Tonia Haikal, Texas A&M University; Robert Harold Lightfoot Jr, Texas A&M University

LLM, like ChatGPT, into educational settings has the potential to enhancemotivation and self-efficacy among students1, but excess use of these resources can yield adverseeffects. Students' cognitive skills rely on their self-efficiency and self-motivation. Studies haveshown that the lower their motivation and self-efficacy to acquire cognitive skills, the higher theiravoidance of tasks. In contrast, those with higher motivation, self-efficacy, and self-motivation arelikely to engage with tasks using their knowledge and expand their borders7. LLMs could restrictstudents from reflecting on their learning process; instead, students might overlook their strengthsand areas for improvement. LLMs could suppress the development of a growth mindset8

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2024 South East Section Meeting

Authors

Adeel Khalid, Kennesaw State University

recommendations for increasing the quality of teaching. The results of the survey arediscussed.Literature ReviewHigher education, just like any other organization, requires leaders. The most suitable leaders inhigher education tend to be the academics that come up the ranks. Most of these leaders havebackgrounds in research and teaching. Betof [1] argues that leaders as teachers help stimulatelearning and development, strengthens the organizational structure and communications,promotes positive changes, and reduces costs by leveraging top talent. Bowan [2] asserts thatleadership is a key element in meeting the needs of the engineering profession in an era ofheightened global competition. Urbanski et al [3] present the reflections on teachers as

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2024 South East Section Meeting

Authors

Autar Kaw, University of South Florida; Renee M Clark, University of Pittsburgh

. The questions rangedfrom making a meme to describing a difficult or intuitive concept. Despite the opportunity forextra credit and the unique prompts, the participation rate was only 59% of the possiblesubmissions, and no clear trend was observed between the participation of high- or low-performing students.KeywordsFlipped classroom, active learning, metacognition, reflection.1 IntroductionReflection [1-3] is crucial for fostering metacognition, supporting effective learning, academicsuccess, and lifelong learning beyond college. It is not only about absorbing information but alsoabout actively thinking about one's thinking. By engaging in metacognitive practices, studentscan set learning goals, evaluate their understanding of course material

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Track 3: Technical Session 1: An Ecosystem of Support Initiatives for BIPOC, Women, and Domestic Graduate Students in STEM

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2024 Collaborative Network for Engineering & Computing Diversity (CoNECD)

Authors

Andrew Edmunds, Clemson University; Melissa Smith, Clemson University

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Investments Investments CECAS graduate students make up between 28-33% of graduate student enrollment at Clemson UniversityThe graphics on this slide show the overall trends in graduate student enrollment inengineering and computing graduate programs (domestic and international studentscombined). These graphics will reflect fluctuations and illustrated that as overallenrollment at the university has increased at a rate of ~2% graudate

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2024 South East Section Meeting

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Gafar Abbas Elamin P.E., The Citadel; Nathan John Washuta P.E., The Citadel; James Righter, The Citadel; Kevin Skenes, The Citadel

students who workedacross a variety of disciplines and collected efficient and systematic data from posters. Theyreported that the students’ feedback provided informed reflective instructional practice toenhance the capstone project teaching and assessment process.The Course Grading SchemeAt the Citadel, the senior capstone project takes the form of a two-semester course sequence. Thefirst phase is offered during the Fall semester and the second during the Spring semester. Eachcourse is graded separately and contributes three credit hours to the fulfillment of the mechanicalengineering degree. During the first phase of the project students identify, define, select conceptdesign, perform engineering analysis, prototype, finalize their detailed

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Track 3: Technical Session 2: Using a Collective Impact Approach to Establish a Center for Equity in Engineering Focused on Graduate Education: Lessons Learned from Phase I

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2024 Collaborative Network for Engineering & Computing Diversity (CoNECD)

Authors

Teirra K Holloman, Virginia Tech Department of Engineering Education; Natali Huggins; Julia Machele Brisbane, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Walter C. Lee, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Michelle D Klopfer, Virginia Tech Department of Engineering Education; David B Knight, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Tremayne O'Brian Waller, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Jeremi S London, Vanderbilt University

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faculty and graduate students. 12 [Discuss the center team, their roles at the university and how they contribute to the center]We have spent the last year or so working to translate the collective impactapproach to this particular context.Phase 1 Activities❏ Team Meetings❏ Audit Trails❏ Backbone Activities❏ Reflection Activities❏ Advisory Board Meeting❏ Mini Projects 13 This is a list of the different types of activities we have engaged in to establish the center’s infrastructure and learn from our initial efforts.Example Activities ★ Audit Plan

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2024 South East Section Meeting

Authors

Hoda Ghassab, Tennessee Technological University; Priyanka Mahajan, Tennessee Technological University; Pedro E. Arce, Tennessee Technological University; Andrea Arce-Trigatti, Tallahassee Community College

by the kinematics of fluid flow that works as the “microscopic” levelof the application to the learning topic (please see Figure 1). More details about the learningprocess and how it works are presented in the sections below.A Dual Level Learning Approach through a Practitioner’s LensResearch FrameworkThis work adopts a practitioner research methodology that reflects a praxis-based approach thatidentifies challenges in the classroom and leverages effective practices to enhance studentlearning.1 Manfra and colleagues1 indicate that, “Practitioner research is grounded in notions ofreflective inquiry and experiential education…(and) reflection-in-action” (p. 6). Specifically, thiswork is inspired by practitioner reflections and observations of

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2024 ASEE North Central Section Conference

Authors

Andrew James Goodling, Grand Valley State University; Erik Fredericks, Grand Valley State University; Sara Jo Alsum-Wassenaar, Grand Valley State University

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student interest and development in science,technology, engineering, art, and mathematics (STEAM). This paper introduces Walk andDraw, a collaborative effort between the disciplines of Computing, Arts, and Interactive Mediato support students as they navigate the STEAM disciplines. The Walk and Draw applicationenables students to experience nature while documenting their findings. We have built anopen-source prototype system that supports students in conducting and documenting theirexperiences in varying environments, thereby providing the opportunities for self-reflection andsharing their experiences with their peers. Ideally, Walk and Draw will support students intheir lifelong goals of communication, exploration, and creativity. Walk and Draw

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2022 CIEC

Authors

Joseph Parlier

for Engineering Education ETD 315At the post-secondary level, a meta-analysis of 225 studies of undergraduate STEM courses,comparing student performance in traditional lecture and active learning courses, students intraditional lecture courses were 1.5 times more likely to fail the courses than their peers in activelearning courses [2].When designing instruction, the active learning model [3] of experiential learning includes fourkey components: 1) engaging students in a concrete experience based on the content beingtaught, 2) providing students with the opportunity to make observations and reflect on theseobservations, 3) allowing students to analyze

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2024 ASEE-GSW

Authors

Kendra L Wallis, The University of Texas at Arlington

,formative assessment approaches aim to develop talent, which is more likely to reduce barriers facedby female engineering students as well as those students in underrepresented groups in STEM fields.These methods encourage reflection, which enhances learning, and they increase the intrinsicmotivation to learn, which teaches skills and creates enthusiasm for life-long learning. This is thegoal of education. Engineering education reimagined to allow a cycle of try, fail, study, try again,and learn, based on a growth mindset, is progress toward providing true quality education. It alsolevels the playing field, increasing the possibility of success for women in engineering, and reducingbarriers often encountered by students of color, indigenous

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Track 6: Technical Session 5: Exploring Gender Representation Issues In Computing by Writing Interactive Fiction

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2024 Collaborative Network for Engineering & Computing Diversity (CoNECD)

Authors

John K. Estell, Ohio Northern University; Stephany Coffman-Wolph, Ohio Northern University

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implement change in boththe media industries and their products. 6 GENDER AND COMPUTER GAMES • Women make up about half of video game players • Significantly underrepresented as protagonists in video games • Portrayal of women in games often reflects: • traditional gender roles • sexual objectification • stereotypical female tropesWhile women play video games on par with men, they are not represented as protagonistsat similar levels.Instead, when women are portrayed in games, they are placed into secondary and/orobjectified roles, and often presented in a stereotypical fashion.Data Sources

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Track 5: Technical Session 2: Adoption of an Advocates and Allies Program to a Predominantly STEM Campus

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2024 Collaborative Network for Engineering & Computing Diversity (CoNECD)

Authors

Adrienne Robyn Minerick, Michigan Technological University; Sonia Goltz, Michigan Tech; andrew storer, Michigan Technological University; Patricia Sotirin, Michigan Technological University

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discrimination manifests inuniversities and include the institution’s own data. We highlight adaptations we made specificto our institution in order to encourage other institutions to be responsive to the contexts thatimpact DEIS work on their campuses. For instance, our initial adaptation of the Advocates andAllies program sought to be more inclusive by including LGBTQIA+ and staff on the Advocatesteam and A&A Advisory Board (A3B). Our adaptations have also reflected an ongoingcommitment to present race and ethnicity data in addition to gender data1. Other adaptationswe discuss concern developing the credibility of the team presenting the workshops andincorporating an ongoing Journal Club to discuss the relevant literature.This paper also shares

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Track 4: Technical Session 2: PWE: An Inclusive Summer "Bootcamp" for First year students

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2024 Collaborative Network for Engineering & Computing Diversity (CoNECD)

Authors

Serita W Acker Mrs., Clemson University

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Highlights• 1 Credit Course to be taken first Fall semester• Mentoring & Coaching Hours Requirements• Weekly Reflection AssignmentsPWE Impact: RetentionAre PWE students more likely to remain enrolled at Clemson? Are PWE students more likely to remain in STEM? PWE 2017 PWE 2018 Total at Clemson 49 Total at Clemson 34 Total Attended 50 Total Attended 34 PWE Participants 72% PWE Participants 73.5% Retained in CECAS Retained in CECAS PWE Participants 98% PWE Participants 100% Retained at