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2021 First-Year Engineering Experience

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Tracy Anne Hammond, Texas A&M University; Jacques C. Richard, Texas A&M University; Charles Patrick Jr, Texas A&M University; Lance Leon Allen White, Texas A&M University; Samantha Ray, Texas A&M University; Robert Harold Lightfoot Jr, Texas A&M University; Karan Watson P.E., Texas A&M University; Randy Hugh Brooks, Texas A&M University; Donna Jaison, Texas A&M University

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), American Institute for Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA), ASEE, ASME). Dr. Richard has authored or co-authored about 35 technical articles (about 30 of which are refereed publications). Dr. Richard teaches courses ranging from first-year engineering design, fluid mechanics, to space plasma propulsion.Dr. Charles Patrick Jr, Texas A&M University Charles Patrick Jr. is a Professor of Practice in the Department of Biomedical Engineering, Texas A & M University (TAMU). He is also a teaching and research fellow at the Institute for Engineering Education Innovation, TAMU and a member of the Engineering Education Faculty, TAMU. He has worked in higher education for more than 30 years at state and private universities

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2021 First-Year Engineering Experience

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Charmane Caldwell, Florida A&M University - Florida State University; Roxanne Hughes, National High Magnetic Field Laboratory

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for participants.This paper focuses on Black engineering students at a Historically Black College and University(HBCU) that participate in a 5-day summer bridge program that creates a safe space for studentsto close the mathematics knowledge gap. The study will focus on students’ math knowledge andperformance in their first entry math course as a measure of the impact of the program. Thispaper provides best practices of a non-credit short engineering summer bridge model.B. Engineering Concepts Institute HistoryThe Engineering Concepts Institute (ECI) Summer Bridge program has been around off and onat Florida A&M University (FAMU) for students matriculating through the FAMU-FSU Collegeof Engineering since 1987 [2]. The program was created