Whom Are We Serving? An Exploration of Student Demographics in a Large Engineering Design Projects Ecosystem

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in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering. Prior to joining UCI, he was a Senior Member of the Technical Staff at Sandia National Laboratories and an adjunct faculty member in Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of New Mexico. His broad research interests include engineering education, as well as control and optimization of nonlinear and hybrid systems with applications to power and energy systems, multi-agent systems, robotics, and biomedicine. He is a recipient of UCSB's Center for Control, Dynamical Systems, and Computation Best PhD Thesis award.

Team Formation and Function Decisions and Student Roles on Diverse Engineering Design Teams

“…Our previous research [17] asked students to indicate their teaming experiences on a Likert scale, and while we saw some small differences in how various groups experienced teaming, the experiences between different demographic groups was largely the same. From literature on experiences of marginalized students in engineering however, we know there are more nuanced components to the teaming experiences that we wanted to learn more about, in particular about psychological safety and team culture.…”