Employing the Rio Grande Basin as a Resource for Encouraging Hispanic-Americans to Pursue Engineering Education Work in Progress
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Portland, Oregon
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June 23, 2024
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June 23, 2024
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July 12, 2024
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Minorities in Engineering Division(MIND) Technical Session 14
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Minorities in Engineering Division(MIND)
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Diversity
- Permanent URL
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https://peer.asee.org/47238
Paper Authors
Daniel Tillman University of Texas at El Paso
Dr. Tillman is an Associate Professor in Educational Technology, working primarily within the El Paso region of the southwestern United States. His research focuses on the implementation and assessment of innovative pedagogical approaches that address STEM inequities.
Diane Elisa Golding University of Texas at El Paso
Diane works diligently to support minorities, especially women in STEM and preparing future educators to be STEM strong in knowledge and skills. She is an assistant professor at the University of Texas at El Paso (UTEP) and serves as the director for the University of Texas El Paso's YES! She Can and STEMShine programs.
Song An University of Texas at El Paso
Marianne Katherine Steele
Alice Carron Navajo Technical University
Alice Carron is a Science Communication and Education Affiliate at BMSIS.org. Her primary interests are in advancing Interdisciplinary studies and serving as a STEM Education and public outreach facilitator through grant management. Ms. Carron served as the NSF Marketing Coordinator for Navajo Technical University as well as being a STEM Education and Public Outreach advocate. Prior to her positions at Navajo Tech she served as a documentary film producer for numerous women's aviation and women's studies films. She is an active multicultural collaboration facilitator and dog rescuer.
Karime H Smith University of Texas at El Paso
Doctoral Candidate at the University of Texas at El Paso in the Teaching, Learning and Culture, specialization in STEM Education.
Thomas Joseph Soto University of Texas at El Paso
Thomas Soto is a Ph.D. student in the Teaching, Learning, and Culture program with a focus on STEM Education at the University of Texas at El Paso UTEP. He is also a Certified Medical Simulation Educator and Operations Specialist under the Society for Simulation in Healthcare, currently working as the Administrator for the William Beaumont Army Medical Center. Previously, Thomas served as a Combat Medic with a tour to Iraq as part of the 1rst Armored Division.
Thomas began his work in Medical Simulation as an Instructor Course Developer in 2012, creating a program that provided education to deploying military personnel on initial life-saving measures for casualties. He continues his work in Simulation and has demonstrated strong leadership skills as the Administrator for the WBAMC Simulation Program at Ft Bliss. Under his leadership, the organization achieved accreditation in Teaching and Education from the Society for Simulation in Healthcare. He also played a crucial role in establishing the center as a designated testing site for Fundamentals of Laparoscopic and Endoscopic testing through the creation of memorandums of agreement between academic institutions and the military.
During the Covid-19 pandemic, Thomas facilitated educational opportunities in austere environments and clinical settings for the resuscitation of emergent patients with coronavirus. He presented his findings on the training exercises to the Defense Medical Modeling and Simulation Office, which was seeking education solutions at the time. Thomas also served as the Administrator Representative for the Army’s Central Simulation Committee Executive Council.
At UTEP, Thomas facilitates dialogue between the medical simulation program and military stakeholders to create student learning opportunities. He has also represented UTEP to external academic organizations such as Texas Tech University of Health Sciences Center. In addition to his work, Thomas is also contributing to a book on creativity in classrooms with a simulation chapter and conducting research in Medical Simulation. Currently, he is developing his dissertation proposal on mixed reality.
Abstract
This paper describes a project wherein engineering education focused on investigation of the Rio Grande Basin and its impact on Hispanic-Americans is supported by consolidating resources from diverse collections within the Library of Congress, university libraries, and other trusted sources, into a centralized web module. The designated module will offer an extensive range of educational resources, organized to encourage investigation of the Rio Grande Basin from an engineering perspective: Using these resources highlights the history and impacts of the Rio Grande Basin upon the lives of Hispanic-Americans, and is bolstered by our university’s educational technology resources designed for serving Spanish-English bilingual audiences. Additionally, a bilingual user-friendly interface will provide convenient access to the Rio Grande Basin web module resource areas, specifically tailored to advance our users' academic abilities and their engineering problem-solving acumen. The resources will eventually be made available to all university students and faculty in our system, but will be initiated and developed at one university during the initial stage of this project, so that improvements can be implemented prior to a system-wide rollout.
Tillman, D., & Golding, D. E., & An, S., & Steele, M. K., & Carron, A., & Smith, K. H., & Soto, T. J. (2024, June), Employing the Rio Grande Basin as a Resource for Encouraging Hispanic-Americans to Pursue Engineering Education Work in Progress Paper presented at 2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, Portland, Oregon. https://peer.asee.org/47238
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