2025 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

BOARD # 433: RED: Faculty Co-Create Community, Mentoring, Transformation

Presented at NSF Grantees Poster Session II

This paper provides insight into recent work of our NSF Revolutionizing Engineering Departments (RED) grant *******. We are in a five-year process of transformation with the following goals: #1 Enhance critical consciousness and expand group capacity - Make visible personal and institutional structures and Grow faculty capacity for revolutionary justice-based change; #2: Interrupt structures that inhibit action - Deepen relationships between and among students, staff, and faculty and Heal from oppression; and #3: Dismantle and Reimagine - Identify and understand structures of oppression within, impacting, and impacted by **department** and Ideate, prototype, and test alternative structures in a continual reflective process. Significant work this past year includes department-driven calls around supporting (new) faculty in their success, engagement, sense of belonging, and any other way (new) faculty might define their experiences in the ****** department. Faculty identified three key areas to be attentive to: onboarding (from informational to creating the conditions for transformation), mentoring, and community through facilitated dialogue sessions. We initiated research strands on the student experience and equitable teaching practices in our department. This paper and accompanying poster highlights key aspects of our work during the past year.

Authors

Dr. Lynne A Slivovsky http://orcid.org/https://0000-0001-8815-9312 California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo [biography]

Dr. Lynne Slivovsky is the Inaugural Chair of Computer Engineering at California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, California, USA.
Dr. Lizabeth L Thompson P.E. California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo [biography]

Dr. Lizabeth Thompson is the Director of General Engineering and a professor in Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering. She has been at Cal Poly for 32 years and has held various positions on campus including Co-Director of Liberal Arts and Engineering Studies, Director of Women’s Engineering Programs, and CENG Interim Associate Dean. Although she has taught over 25 different courses, she currently teaches Financial Decision making, First Year engineering, Senior Project, and Change Management. Her research is in Engineering Education where she has received $11.8 million of funding from NSF as either PI or Co-PI. She researches equitable classroom practices, integrated learning, and institutional change. She spent the 2019-2020 academic year at Cal State LA.
Dr. Jane L. Lehr California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo [biography]

Jane Lehr is a Professor in Ethnic Studies and Women's and Gender Studies and Director of the Office of Student Research at California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo. She is affiliated faculty in Computer Science & Software Engineering and
Dr. Andrew Danowitz http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4842-2005 California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo [biography]

Andrew Danowitz received his PhD in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University in 2014, and is currently an Associate Professor of Computer Engineering at California Polytechnic State University in San Luis Obispo. His research interests involve student mental health and accessibility in engineering education.
Dr. Bridget Benson California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo [biography]

Bridget Benson received a Bachelor's degree in Computer Engineering at California Polytechnic State University San Luis Obipso in 2005, a Master's degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of California Santa Barbara in 2007 and a Ph
Dr. John Y Oliver http://orcid.org/https://0000-0003-2877-6751 California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo [biography]

Dr. Oliver is a professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Engineering at Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo. His field of expertise is in computer architecture and system performance analysis, dabbler in cybersecurity and passionate about broadening pathway
Prof. Nina J. Truch [biography]

Prof. Truch is a lecturer in the communication studies department at Cal Poly.

Note

The full paper will be available to logged in and registered conference attendees once the conference starts on June 22, 2025, and to all visitors after the conference ends on June 25, 2025

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