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Barriers to Broadening Participation in Engineering Competition Teams
Abstract Despite years of efforts to increase diversity in STEM, engineering continues to be a white male dominated discipline. This low representation of female and minority students is especially visible in student, experiential-learning, engineering competition teams (SELECT). SELECT provide some … Continue reading
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Advisor Perspectives on Diversity in Student Design Competition Teams
Abstract Engineering competition teams provide some students the opportunity to design authentic engineering artifacts, manage budgets and logistics, exercise engineering analysis and decision making, build an engineering artifact and develop and practice professional skills. In a research study examining the … Continue reading
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Leadership, Management, and Diversity: Missed Opportunities within Student Design Competition Teams
Abstract Engineering competition teams provide some students the opportunity to design authentic engineering artifacts, manage budgets and logistics, exercise engineering analysis and decision making, build an engineering artifact and develop and practice professional skills. In a research study examining the … Continue reading
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Inclusion or Exclusion? The Impact of the Intersection of Team Culture and Student Identity and Pathway on Team Diversity
Abstract Student, Experiential-Learning, Engineering Competition Teams (SELECT) provide an opportunity for engineering students to practice technical and professional engineering skills. Tremendous academic and financial resources are dedicated to SELECT teams, both from institutions of higher education and from companies that … Continue reading
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Motivating Factors for Choosing Engineering as Reported by Racial and Ethnic Minority Students.
Abstract We examined the pre-college factors that motivated racial and ethnic minority students to pursue a major in engineering and how these factors related to personal or professional goals. A set of over 150 semi-structured interviews with African American, Asian … Continue reading
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Building Diversity in Engineering Competition Teams by Modeling Industry Best-Practices
Abstract Each year, thousands of students compete in student, experiential-learning, engineering competition teams (SELECT) to practice and improve their engineering skills. SELECT attract tremendous resources from both industry and academia. Despite considerable efforts over the past decades to recruit and … Continue reading
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“You choose between TEAM A, good grades, and a girlfriend – you get to choose two!” – How a culture of exclusion is constructed and maintained in an engineering design competition team
Abstract Engineering student design-build competition teams provide an opportunity for engineering students to practice engineering technical and professional skills. However, as the student quoted in the title states, the opportunity has conditions attached to inclusion and acceptance. Using a case … Continue reading
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“Success is Different to Different People”: A Qualitative Study of how African American Engineering Students Define Success
Abstract There have been many calls to build the Nation’s STEM workforce by attracting and educating more students in academic STEM programs.1-4 Much of the emphasis has been placed on building more diversity in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) … Continue reading
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What They Say Matters: Parental Impact on Pre-College Academic Identity of Successful African American Engineering Students
Abstract Prevailing disidentification literature confirms that African American students academically disidentify via a weakened connection between academic achievement and global self-esteem.1-5 Research on achievement provides insight as to the people and factors that may influence the academic achievement of African … Continue reading
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Where Successful Latino/a Engineering Undergraduates find Community at a Predominately White Research University
Abstract The Research Institute for STEM Education conducts mixed-methods research seeking to identify the factors contributing to successful completion of an engineering degree by under-represented and under-served minority students at a predominately white, research institution. STEM stands for science, technology, … Continue reading
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Racial Inequality Exists in Spite of Over-Representation: The Case of Asian-American Students in Engineering Education
Abstract While Asian American students are not under-represented in engineering, they are still members of a minority population. In the last three years we interviewed 165 engineering students in a large scale research project that identifies factors leading to differential … Continue reading
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‘I Feel Like Forest Gump:’ Mixed-Race Native American Students Find Community in a College of Engineering
Abstract Defining, achieving and retaining diversity in undergraduate education continues to be an important focus of research, policy and programmatic efforts in the science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) community.1-8 The Research Institute for STEM Education contributes to this discourse … Continue reading
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Is Transfer Credit a Strategy for Success or a Prescription for Failure?
Abstract Identifying the factors contributing to successful completion of an engineering degree at a predominately white, research institution by under-represented and under-served minority students is one goal of the {name deleted for anonymity}. Additionally, we seek to differentiate the strategies … Continue reading
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Social Science Research in Engineering Education: Lessons Learned
Abstract Although it is possible for engineers to read social science literature and adapt the methods to educational research on their own, this is similar to having an electrical engineer muddle through a chemical engineering problem rather than working with … Continue reading
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Academic Struggles and Strategies: How Minority Students Persist
Abstract Insufficient progress has been made on advancing the representation of minorities in engineering professions. Our research seeks to identify characteristics and experiences that distinguish successful URM students in order to understand the complex relationships that affect a student’s choices … Continue reading
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I Wish Someone Would Have Told Me: Undergraduate Engineering Students Offer Advice to Incoming Students
Abstract Under the aegis of investigating an undergraduate engineering program’s successful achievement of gender parity, 200 undergraduate engineering and physics majors were interviewed (232 total interviews). Near the end of the conversations, students were asked what advice they would offer … Continue reading
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Industrial Engineering: Why Students Come and What Makes Them Stay?
Abstract The relative anonymity of industrial engineering may be a significant reason for the slow growth of the discipline and the relatively low enrollment in industrial engineering academic programs. In order to inform industrial engineering (IE) degree programs of factors … Continue reading
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The Contribution of Office-Hours-Type Interactions to Female Student Satisfaction with the Educational Experience in Engineering.
Abstract Recent literature includes discussion about many female students’ need for a personal type of a professional, professor-student relationship to feel connected to the course and to a major.1,2 Our research builds on these findings to emphasize the importance of … Continue reading
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‘Inviteful’ Engineering: Student Perceptions of Industrial Engineering
Abstract Interviews of twenty-six Industrial Engineering students and graduates were conducted during the first year of a three year study of the unexpected attainment of gender parity in the School of Industrial Engineering at the University of Oklahoma (OU). An … Continue reading
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