Leitch, K. R. (2024, March), Defining the Murky Middle for an Engineering Program  Paper presented at 2024 ASEE-GSW, Canyon, Texas. 10.18260/1-2--45369

\bibitem{asee_peer_45369}
  Leitch, K. R. (2024, March), \emph{Defining the Murky Middle for an Engineering Program}
  Paper presented at 2024 ASEE-GSW, Canyon, Texas.
  10.18260/1-2--45369

Kenneth R. Leitch P.E..  "Defining the Murky Middle for an Engineering Program".  2024 ASEE-GSW, Canyon, Texas, 2024, March.  ASEE Conferences, 2024.  https://peer.asee.org/45369 Internet.  10 May, 2025

\bibitem{asee_peer_45369}
  Kenneth R. Leitch P.E..
  "Defining the Murky Middle for an Engineering Program".
  \emph{2024 ASEE-GSW, Canyon, Texas, 2024, March}.
  ASEE Conferences, 2024.
  https://peer.asee.org/45369 Internet.  10 May, 2025

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TY  - CPAPER
AB  - Institutions of higher education have long sought ways to meet the needs of the workforce.  Research shows that there is a shortage of qualified STEM graduates in the workforce (Athanasia & Cota, 2022; Ice, et.al., 2021; Morrison, et.al., 2011). A challenge faced by the majority of institutions of higher education is student retention.  Universities will identify those students who are able to succeed on their own and allocate resources to those who are underprepared for university academics. Often missed are those in the middle population between these two – Identified by the Education Advisory Board (EAB) as the murky middle (MM) (EAB, 2014). The MM population in pre-engineering looks a little different than those of other disciplines. One university looked at identifying their MM population for early intervention and realized that the GPA criteria established by the EAB was not enough to identify the engineering MM. This paper outlines the process used to further identify the engineering MM.  A rubric was developed that can assist programs in identifying the engineering MM and target these students for intervention.
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