Abstract Background According to a growing body of research, many Latinas/os experience dissonance between their everyday cultural practices and the prevalent in engineering. This contributes Latinas/os' sense that engineering is “not for me.” Purpose study sought explore meaning relationship funds knowledge found Latina/o adolescents' familial, community, recreational settings. Design/Method ethnographic followed seven groups adolescents as they identified problems communities solved them...

Abstract The purpose of this multiple case study was to identify the forms science capital that six groups adolescents mobilized toward realization their self‐selected engineering projects during after‐school meetings. Research participants were high school students who self‐identified as Hispanic, Latina, or Latino; had received English a Second Language (ESL) services; and whose parents guardians immigrated United States held working class jobs. research team used categories from...

Abstract Funds of Knowledge in Hispanic Students’ Communities and Households that Enhance Engineering Design ThinkingReports consistently indicate Hispanics remain profoundly underrepresented the field ofengineering, including undergraduate graduate engineering programs. Unfortunately,many students opt out pipeline as early middle school highschool when they develop beliefs “engineering is not for me” (Aschbacher, Li, & Roth,2010). Several scholars (Stevens et al., 2008) have offered...

According to recently published national standards, elementary students should engage in engineering design activities. This article outlines ways that teachers can use literacy instruction support young students’ activity, such as by selecting texts which characters face problems be solved through engineering, providing with opportunities practice comprehension strategies while reading those texts, and modeling for them how write a variety of are relevant engineers’ practices. The authors...

Abstract Changes in Latino/a Adolescents' Engineering Self-Efficacy and Perceptions of After Addressing Authentic Design Challenges (RTP-Strand 5)Hispanics remain underrepresented engineering careers, a fact that has prompted severalorganizations (National Academy Engineering, 2002; Steering Committee the NationalEngineering Education Research Colloquies, 2006) to call for instructional approaches drawHispanic students into STEM pipeline encourage them stay there. Some research(Aschbacher,...

Multilingual students should have opportunities to learn and do engineering in learning environments that foreground sustain their cultural linguistic practices. However, little is known about how middle school teachers enact these environments. To address this gap research practice, comparative case study describes the different ways which two technology enacted pedagogies rooted funds of knowledge translanguaging. The team engaged a professional community, focused on language-based...

Globally, many people spend most of their time interacting with the products engineering design as they wear clothes, drink clean water, use transportation systems, and more. Given omnipresence design, whose material results are felt daily in people's lives, it seems especially important that students learn to recognize question how certain designs promote welfare interests some while remaining inaccessible others. In this article, we outline a vision for critical literacy instruction...

Abstract People who practice engineering can make a difference through designing products, procedures, and systems that improve people's quality of life. Literacy, including the interpretation, evaluation, critique, production texts representations, is important throughout design process. In this commentary, authors outline interpretive frameworks are common to each stage process as it defined by Next Generation Science Standards. The describe how disciplinary literacy also account for...

Due to economic inequality in society, millions of Latinx high school youth work after-school jobs and summer order provide additional income for their families. The purpose this qualitative study, conducted with transnational youth, was identify the engineering-related skills bodies knowledge they developed applied while different workplaces. This study is framed complementary theories funds knowledge, Vygotskian mediated action, resistant capital. Specifically, based premise that can...

He is interested in research regarding underrepresentation of minority groups Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM), especially the use culturally responsive practices engineering education

For decades, researchers have asserted that K–12 teachers should embed reading comprehension instruction within each academic discipline, including ''technical subjects'' such as engineering. Recently, this assertion has become a source of controversy among and practitioners who believe time spent on teaching strategies may detract from more authentic activities engineering design. The purpose exploratory study was to investigate whether how elementary students' applications overlapped with...

ABSTRACT The purpose of this comparative case study, conducted with eight engineers in different firms who specialized disciplines engineering, was to identify and describe the patterned ways which they used written genres context object‐oriented activity, as well their evaluative frameworks literacy practices. research team descriptive coding analyze field notes from twelve two‐hour observations per engineer; also categorical thematic analysis transcripts six interviews retrospective...

Abstract In this theory paper, we set out to consider, as a matter of methodological interest, the use quantitative measures inter-coder reliability (e.g., percentage agreement, correlation, Cohen’s Kappa, etc.) necessary and/or sufficient correlates for quality within qualitative research in engineering education. It is well known that phrase represents diverse body scholarship conducted across range epistemological viewpoints and methodologies. Given diversity, concur with those who state...

Abstract Argumentation has become an important classroom tool to increase academic performance in science education. Tools have been developed and validated around assessing students’ learning progressions argumentation science. However, similar instruments for engineering are lacking. The purpose of this exploratory study was analyze middle arguments identify dimensions levels engineering, so that these could later be into assessment rubric. To end, we examined written work 69 school...

Abstract Engineering and Data Science for Environmental Justice (Resource Exchange) This resource exchange will explore the intersection of engineering education, spatial data, environmental justice. injustices have disproportionately adversely impacted health Communities Color generations. For example, race is most powerful variable in predicting where waste facilities are sited (United Church Christ Commission Racial Justice, 1987), pollutants "disproportionately systematically" harm Black...

Program whose mission aims to broaden participation and build interest in engineering through hands-on learning experiences for K-12

Abstract This methods paper describes the application of aspects an emerging methodology, agile ethnography, to study workplace literacy practices and habits mind engineers working in industry. Prior research has suggested that there is a misalignment between what taught undergraduate engineering programs types work do practice. Students may graduate from without knowledge, skills, strategies will allow them be successful as Traditional ethnographic approaches, which require extensive...

Abstract Historically, Communities of Color have been disproportionately harmed by engineered technologies, systems, and infrastructures. As an example, highways ports usually placed near or through Asian, Black, Latiné communities, resulting in their systematic over-exposure to toxic emissions. We are a historical moment during which national global transportation technologies infrastructures being redesigned promote sustainability. In this moment, it is imperative these large-scale...