Conference Session

Student Diversity: attracting and retaining a diverse population of students

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Kelly Crittenden, Louisiana Tech University; Galen Turner, Louisiana Tech University; Alicia Boudreaux, Louisiana Tech University; James Nelson, Louisiana Tech University

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Educational Research and Methods

will be sending my application to Tech within the next couple of days. I am very interested in becoming a Civil Engineer. -Seth Bond, Airline High School Senior (TechSTEP pilot participant 2005-06)LaTechSTEP targets students who have shown an aptitude for math and science but needadditional encouragement to consider a STEM discipline as a career choice. Participatingteachers select these students based on their personal experiences with them. “Allowing the high school teachers to select a few students from their classes gives us the ability to identify the students best suited for this program, the ones

Conference Session

Student Diversity: attracting and retaining a diverse population of students

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Deborah Kilgore, University of Washington; Debbie Chachra, Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering; Heidi Loshbaugh, Colorado School of Mines; Janice McCain, Howard University; Marcus Jones, Howard University; Ken Yasuhara, University of Washington

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education include the role of gender and immigration status on student progress in engineering education. Her scientific research interest focus on skeletal biology and mechanics, as well as biological and bioderived materials.Heidi Loshbaugh, Colorado School of Mines HEIDI G. LOSHBAUGH is an Assistant Research Professor in the Center for the Advancement of Engineering Education at Colorado School of Mines. She is also the Associate Director for CSM's Center for Engineering Education. Dr. Loshbaugh taught in CSM's EPICS program, for which she developed extensive course and faculty-support materials, and designed and implemented a leadership course and overseas summer field session. She

Conference Session

Knowing Our Students, Part 2

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ozgur Eris, Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering; Debbie Chachra, Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering; Helen Chen, Stanford University; Camelia Rosca, Boston College; Larry Ludlow, Boston College; Sheri Sheppard, Stanford University; Krista Donaldson, Stanford University

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, 2007 A Preliminary Analysis of Correlates of Engineering Persistence: Results from a Longitudinal StudyAbstractThis paper outlines the preliminary findings of a longitudinal survey-based study, the Persistencein Engineering (PIE) survey. This survey was designed to identify and characterize thefundamental factors that influence students’ intentions to pursue an engineering degree over thecourse of their undergraduate career, and upon graduation, to pursue a career in an engineering-related field, including practicing engineering as a profession, teaching, or conducting research.In addition, it is also designed to broaden our understanding of how students navigate theireducation and begin to form identities as

Conference Session

Knowing our Students, Part 1

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Heidi Loshbaugh, Colorado School of Mines; Brittany Claar, Regis University

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develop a clearer picture of how campus culture fails certain students andwhat that might mean for changing recruiting and retention practices for our campus to improvethe quality of personal and educational experience for MT’s students.Conclusions and SignificanceAstin, Pascarella and Terenzini, and others report findings indicating the importance of studentengagement with an institution and with members of a campus community to the graduation andmovement into the workplace for undergraduate students.14, 15, 16Although in the first year geekiness is important to some MT students’ satisfaction, others rejectbeing so narrowly channeled. Strikingly, some students who

Conference Session

Innovations in Teaching and Learning

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Elizabeth Godfrey, University of Auckland; Gerard Rowe, University of Auckland

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evaluation of learning outcomes / graduate attributes with reference to these objectives. • Statistical evidence had recently been presented to the Faculty that conclusively demonstrated that, when incoming Grade Point Equivalent scores were used as a measure of the relative strength of a degree cohort, engineering students were not achieving an appropriate proportion of A and B grades relative to those given to students from other degrees. Very capable incoming engineering students were not receiving the grades they might have achieved in another degree path. This was of particular disadvantage when engineering students applied for cross disciplinary scholarship and post graduate research awards