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Pranav Bhounsule, The University of Illinois at Chicago; Cynthia Lima, University of Texas at San Antonio

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2022 ASEE Illinois-Indiana Section Conference Proceedings | Paper ID 35749 Coding Camp for Middle School Girls Helps Improve Awareness of Science/Engineering Careers and Pathways Pranav A. Bhounsule* Lorena Claeys, Belinda Harmon, 842 W. Taylor St. Cynthia Lima, Emily Young University of Illinois at Chicago, 1 UTSA Circle, Chicago, IL, USA 60525 The University of Texas at San Antonio pranav@uic.edu San Antonio, TX, USA 78249AbstractAlthough jobs and career opportunities in computer science continue to grow rapidly, womenconstitute only 28% of the

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Rashmi Deodeshmukh, Purdue University at West Lafayette (COE)

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andmentors, seeing women that look like them is a significant factor in both recruitment and retention [2, 3].Data showed that in the U.S. only 6% of 15-year old young women are interested in engineering careers[1]. Researchers believe that the low level of interest in young women is due to lack of exposure and thebelief that it is too hard and by engaging young women with university faculty and women engineers inthe industry as early as middle school could result in a higher interest to pursue engineering education inthe future [2]. A program at Worcester Polytechnic Institute showed that early intervention was associatedwith better engineering and university recruitment outcomes [4]. Another study showed that a sustainedintervention led to

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La'Tonia Stiner-Jones, The Ohio State University

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been from an underrepresented minority group.Thus, enrollment of our participants in graduate programs has begun to enhance diversity inengineering. Moving forward we will continue to track student progress through their degreesand the careers they ultimately pursue in comparison to their original intent as reported duringour program.IntroductionMany graduate programs in science and engineering seek students who have participated in anundergraduate research experience. Undergraduate research provides participants with hands-onresearch skills such as how to review the literature, conduct experiments, and analyze data,which are all important for graduate level research. Research experience for undergraduateprograms often offer additional

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Anand Nageswaran Bharath, Cummins Engine Company; Archana V Kulkarni; Dinesh Balaji Ramaraj; Jennifer M. Thomasson, Cummins Inc; Alexa Davis; Demario Robinson; Malavika Panicker; Elizabeth A. Spratt; Tina Henselmeier; Nora Guzman; Arul Antony; Sonya Ware-Meguiar; Danielle Fawbush, Cummins Inc.; Daniel J. O’Connor, Cummins; Kenneth Francis; Jennifer G. Warrenburg

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inkindergarten and elementary school to pursue a career in the STEM fields by exposing them tosimple, age-appropriate engineering projects such as building a jet-toy cart and designing andtesting a skimmer. Since its conception in 2019, this program has served about 150 to 200 girlsfrom Kindergarten through 4th grade in the Franklin, Indiana school district. This work-in-progresspaper will describe in detail the specific objectives of the AWIM program, the curriculumdevelopment strategy, and outlines our future plans to assess the effectiveness of the pedagogiesemployed in achieving the program outcome of encouraging young women to continue developingtheir science and engineering skills and eventually gravitate towards STEM careers

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2022 ASEE Illinois-Indiana Section Conference

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Shantanu Gupta, Purdue University at West Lafayette (PPI); Mary E. Johnson Ph.D., Purdue University at West Lafayette (PPI); Jiansen Wang, Purdue University

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countries, cultures, and academicbackgrounds.The motivation to recruit diverse teams may be summarized as being prompted from thesequestions: Why study an academic discipline that leads to careers in a global arena and notexperience working with people with experiences unlike you own? Why come to the US to studyand have this rich mixture of students with varying perspectives and not take advantage of theopportunity to work in diverse teams? How can the course projects address complex problems andprovide teams that are more similar to industry (and research) teams? How can this project meetthe ABET and AABI needs? The achievement of this is much easier said than done. © American Society for Engineering Education, 2022 2022

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Marcelo Caplan, Columbia College

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