The ASEE Best Diversity Paper Award was started during the Year of ACTION on Diversity, authorized by the ASEE Board as 2014-2015. In the YOA discussed, engaged, and highlighted individual and collective activities that serve to advance the Society's diversity efforts and inclusivity. Engineering is empowering society in unprecedented ways. It is at the core of all innovation and the most important discipline to address current and emerging challenges in the US and on a global scale. A fundamental requirement to enabling this, however, is for the engineering education community and the engineering profession to enlarge the engagement in engineering of all segments of our society. In particular, engineering must include and help promote the pursuit of engineering education and engineering careers for all those who have been historically under-represented within engineering. ASEE believes that diversity and inclusiveness enrich and are essential to educational experiences and innovations that drive the development of creative solutions in addressing the world’s challenges. The true power of diverse engineering disciplines is that we learn from experiences, perspectives, and approaches that are different from our own. Diversity, both intellectually and socially, can only fuel innovation and the development of imaginative and enduring solutions to global problems. The ASEE Statement on Diversity and Inclusiveness is available here: http://diversity.asee.org/about. For more information about the Best Diversity Paper Award, the nomination process and evaluation criteria, check out the Best Diversity Paper page. Winners from previous years can be found below.
Finalists for the 2016 Best Diversity Paper Award, listed below, presented their award winning papers at a Best Diversity Papers session at the annual meeting.
| Paper Title | Division/Zone |
|---|---|
| (WINNER) Mapping Assets of Diverse Groups for Chemical Engineering Design Problem Framing Ability by Vanessa Svihla, Abhaya K. Datye, Jamie R Gomez, Victor Law, and Sophia Bowers (University of New Mexico) |
Chemical Engineering Division |
| Instructional Strategies for Incorporating Empathy in Transdisciplinary Technology Education by Colin M. Gray, Luciana de Cresce El Debs, Marisa Exter, and Terri S. Krause (Purdue University, West Lafayette) |
Engineering Ethics Division |
| Where are they Now? Analyses of Alumnae Data by Andrea L Welker (Villanova University) |
Civil Engineering Division |
| 'Turning away' from the Struggling Individual Student: An Account of the Cultural Construction of Engineering Ability in an Undergraduate Programming Class by Stephen Douglas Secules, Andrew Elby, and Ayush Gupta (University of Maryland, College Park) |
Educational Research and Methods Division |
| The Effect of Financial Support on Academic Achievement and Retention of Female Engineering Students by Yang Lydia Yang and Bette Grauer (Kansas State University) | Women in Engineering Division |
| A Multi-Institutional Study of the Relationships between Nontraditional and Traditional Undergraduate Engineering Students by Tressa Kay Mikel, Frank Q. Hoang, Emi Okada, Pedro Sung Hoe Kim, Audrianna Rodriguez, Maria-Isabel Carnasciali, Shannon Ciston (University of California, Berkeley/ University of New Haven) |
Pacific Southwest Section |
Winners of the 2015 Best Diversity Paper Award will present their award winning papers at a Best Diversity Papers session at the annual meeting (Monday, June 12:30 - 2 pm, Washington State Convention Center, Room 309).
Come join us and celebrate their contributions!
The winners of the 2015 Best Diversity Paper Award are listed below:
| Rank | Paper Title | Division/Zone |
|---|---|---|
| 1st Place | Creating Inclusive Environments in First-Year Engineering Classes to Support Student Retention and Learning by Dr. Christina H. Paguyo (Colorado State University), Dr. Rebecca A. Atadero (Colorado State University), Dr. Karen E. Rambo-Hernandez (West Virginia University), and Jennifer Francis (West Virginia University) |
First-Year Programs |
| 2nd Place | Into the pipeline: A freshman student’s experiences of stories 'told' about engineering by Mr. Michael Brewer (Affiliation unknown), Dr. Nicola Sochacka (University of Georgia), and Dr. Joachim Walther (University of Georgia) |
Liberal Education/ Engineering & Society |
| 3rd Place | Leadership, Management, and Diversity: Missed Opportunities within Student Design Competition Teams by Dr. Susan E. Walden (University of Oklahoma), Ms. Cindy E. Foor (University of Oklahoma), Dr. Rui Pan (University of Oklahoma), Dr. Randa L. Shehab (University of Oklahoma), and Dr. Deborah A. TryYen (University of Oklahoma) |
Mechanical Engineering |
| 4th Place | Students Seeking Different Paths to Entrepreneurial Education by Dr. Sergio Celis (Universidad de Chile) and Dr. Aileen Huang-Saad (University of Michigan) | Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation |
| 5th Place | Changes in Latino/a Adolescents' Engineering Self-Efficacy and Perceptions of Engineering After Addressing Authentic Engineering Design Challenges by Dr. Joel Alejandro Mejia (West Virginia University), Mr. Dustin Drake (Utah State University), and Dr. Amy Wilson-Lopez (Utah State University - Teacher Education and Leadership) |
K-12 and Pre-College Engineering |
| 6th Place | The Summer Undergraduate Research Bridge Experience for Community College Students: Providing Connections from Community College to the Four-Year Institution by Ms. Jeanne R. Garland (New Mexico State University), Ms. Michele A. Auzenne (New Mexico State University), and Dr. Ricardo B. Jacquez (New Mexico State University) |
Multidisciplinary Engineering |
The following nominees fit within one of two categories: (a) paper directly addresses a diversity project, topic and/or initiative or (b) paper describes a project, topic and/or initiative while integrating themes of broader impact and diversity. While these papers were not selected as winners, they are recognized for their contribution and listed below in alphabetical order:
| Paper Title | Division/Zone |
|---|---|
| A Series of Singular Testimonies: A New Way to Explore Unearned Advantages and Unearned Disadvantages by Dr. Julie P Martin (Clemson University), Ms. Aubrie Lynn Pfirman (Clemson University), Rachel K. Anderson (Clemson University), Ms. Shannon K Stefl (Clemson University), Mr. Frederick Paige (Clemson University ), and Mrs. Lindsey Whitfield Cain (Clemson University) |
Educational Research and Methods Division |
| Assessing the Impact of Research Experiences on the Success of Underrepresented Community College Students by Dr. Amelito G. Enriquez (Canada College), Prof. Wenshen Pong P.E. (San Francisco State University), Prof. Hamid Shahnasser (San Francisco State University), Hamid Mahmoodi (San Francisco State University), Dr. Cheng Chen (San Francisco State University), Dr. Xiaorong Zhang (San Francisco State University), Dr. Kwok Siong Teh (San Francisco State University), and Mr. Nick Patrick Rentsch (Canada College) |
Minorities in Engineering Division |
| Building The Two-Way Bridge: A Software Engineering Master’s Program for Liberal Arts Graduates by Professor Linda Laird (Stevens Institute of Technology) and Dr. Ye Yang (Stevens Institute of Technology) |
Spring 2015 ASEE Mid-Atlantic Conference |
| Career Advancement through Academic Commercialization: Acknowledging and Reducing Barriers for Women Engineering Faculty by Ari Turrentine (VentureWell) | Women in Engineering Division |
| Comparison of Mastery Learning and Traditional Lecture-Exam Models in a Large Enrollment Physics Course by Dr. Barbara Masi (University of Rochester), Dan M. Watson (University of Rochester), Prof. Arie Bodek (University of Rochester), Mr. Dev Ashish Khaitan (Affiliation unknown), and Erik Garcell (Affiliation unknown) |
Engineering Physics & Physics Division |
| Design for Aging with BIM and Game Engine Integration by Dr. Wei Wu (California State University, Fresno) and Mr. Ishan Kanshik (Affiliation Unknown) |
Architectural Division |
| Diversity in Chemical Engineering Education: Status and Perspectives by Dr. Cheryl A. Bodnar (University of Pittsburgh), Dr. Arthur Felse (Northwestern University), Dr. Karen A. High (Oklahoma State University), Dr. Jason M. Keith (Mississippi State University), Dr. Adrienne Minerick (Michigan Technological University), Dr. Ann Saterbak (Rice University), and Dr. Jennifer Cole (Northwestern University) |
Chemical Engineering Division |
| Enhance Computing Curricula with High Performance Computing Teaching and Research by Dr. Suxia Cui (Prairie View A&M University), Dr. Lin Li (Prairie View A&M University), Dr. Lei Huang (Prairie View A&M University), and Dr. Yonghui Wang (Prairie View A&M University) |
Systems Engineering Division |
| Human-Centered Computing Scholars: Fostering a New Generation of Underrepresented and Financially Disadvantaged Researchers by Juan E. Gilbert (University of Florida) and Lamont A. Flowers (Clemson University) |
2015 ASEE Southeast Section Conference |
| Impacts of Service Learning Projects on the Technical and Professional Engineering Confidence of First Year Engineering Students by Dr. Matthew Siniawski (Loyola Marymount University), Dr. Sandra G. Luca (Loyola Marymount University), Prof. Jeremy S. Pal (Loyola Marymount University), and Dr. Jose A. Saez (Loyola Marymount University) | Community Engagement Division |
| Incorporating Engineering in a High School FACS and Chemistry Class by Bonnie Boyd (Saint Paul Public Schools), AnnMarie Thomas (University of St. Thomas), and Alex Zierden (University of St. Thomas/ University of Minnesota Duluth) |
2014 ASEE North Midwest Section Conference |
| Increasing Diversity in Engineering: Capacity Building Matters by Joanita M. Kant (South Dakota State University), Suzettee R. Burckhard (South Dakota State University), Whitney K. Kilts (South Dakota State University), and Kyungnan Min (South Dakota State University) |
2014 ASEE North Midwest Section Conference |
