ASEE is honored to congratulate former ASEE President Dr. Bevlee Watford for being appointed recently by President Biden as a Member of the National Science Board. ASEE is proud to have nominated Dr. Watford. #ASEE #Leadership #EngineeringEducation

Students "leverage familial, navigational, & resistant capital to succeed in higher education computing spaces" according to this piece by @SROD_VT & UCLA colleagues. Scholars & practitioners can help support Latina students...Read more: 📰 dl.begellhouse.com/journals/00551…

I'm excited to share that our article was published in Feb 2023 issue of the Communications of the ACM entitled, An Analysis of Black Faculty in CS Research Departments! Thank you Association for Computing Machinery and co-authors Juan E. Gilbert, PhD and Simone! cacm.acm.org/magazines/2023…

I'm excited about this conversation next Saturday. NSBE connected D'Andre (D'Andre Wilson) & me way back in Toronto. I had to say yes to sharing how mentorship can make STEMM more inclusive! It's also my first chance to be on (the virtual) stage with THEE Walter Lee, PhD! #BESTEMM2023

Grateful to join VT Engineering Education today to hear about the global issues VT Rising Sophomore Abroad Program engineers care about and the ways they are working toward impact. Stay encouraged and keep pressing on- I’m inspired by this collaborative vision!

Great lunch time panel with NSF CAREER awardees in engineering education sharing how they keep doing DEI work in light of attacks on our field: “You have to feed your soul.” Dr. Idalis Villanueva Alarcón Dr. Darryl Dickerson Jeremi London, PhD @profe_alexmejia

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Big thank you to Walter Lee, PhD for speaking with FIU_SUCCEED and FIU's STEM Transformation Institute about student support infrastructure in grad and ugrad education! It sparked lots of good discussion among the faculty and grad students in the room.

Congrats to ENGE graduate student, Adam S. Masters 🏳️‍🌈 🥄, on receiving the Graduate Teaching Excellence - Assistant Award from the @VTGradCommunity for their work as a graduate teaching assistant (GTA) for ENGE 5304 (Graduate Student Success in Multicultural Environments [GSSME)].

We are pleased to share the full April issue, featuring 13 research articles! Cover art: Developed by the University of Houston Cullen College of Engineering Office of Communications, inspired by the Henderson et al. article in this issue.

What can the Virginia Tech Engineering do with $1.2 million? Let's start with transforming the engineering graduate student experience. 📰vtx.vt.edu/articles/2023/…

This really is no joke. People act like toxic environments in research is the price we have to pay for genius to succeed. But have we considered that there might be more success in positive work environments where everyone feels properly supported? /1 nature.com/articles/d4158…

What a profound honor to work alongside these brilliant @Rice360 interns! Bidirectional exchange launching next week to support global health innovation— we can’t wait to welcome scholars to OEDK-Rice University from MUBAS MUST UNILAG DESIGN STUDIO University of Ibadan Design Studio & DIT.

"Schools are places where future generations either come alive with possibility or are crushed by the weight of odds stacked against them." - Ruha Benjamin #ViralJustice

For the engineering education folks and decision-makers in these spaces, we discuss why location of high school attendance matters here for undergraduate engineering specifically: doi.org/10.1002/jee.20…

For those of you interested, see what Engineering Education is all about! Find out about amazing programs nationwide and new programs like ours! UF Engineering Education

We're discussing this paper on Tuesday in GUIDE Research! You should definitely give it a read if you haven't already.

Hello everyone! For my dissertation, I am looking for current participants and alumni of LSAMP programs to take an online survey about their experiences in undergraduate research. The survey should take no more than 15 minutes. Feel free to share! virginiatech.questionpro.com/epistemic-excl…

With a $1.2 million U.S. National Science Foundation grant, Walter Lee, PhD (in collaboration with Vanderbilt University & Ohio State) will study efforts to overcome isolation and scholarly devaluation among Black discipline-based education researchers. 👏 news.vt.edu/articles/2024/…

#NewPublication: Want to advance your understanding of #BroadeningParticipation? Check out "Broadening Participation in Engineering as a Sociopolitical Phenomenon" by Walter Lee, PhD, Jeremi London, PhD, and colleagues! seejournal.org/articles/10.21… #OpenAccess #EngineeringEducation