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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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senior engineer in Combustion Research at Cummins Inc., where in addition to his primary role in developing future engine systems, he leads a planning team of Cummins engineers in organizing an after-school STEM Outreach Program at Girls Inc. to encourage girls to pursue STEM Careers.Archana K. KulkarniMr. Dinesh Balaji Ramaraj,Jennifer M. ThomassonAlexa Davis Alexa Davis graduated with her Bachelors of Science in Psychology from the University of Indianapolis in 2020. She has served at Girls Inc. of Johnson County for 4 years, and has begun her role as Program Director within this affiliate as of August 2021. Along with her experience at Girls Inc. of Johnson County, Alexa has worked with children and teenagers on

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Benjamin D McPheron, Anderson University

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’, and1 being ‘Strongly Disagree’. The statements assessed were: 1. I found my peer mentor to be a useful resource for completing my design project 2. I had an easier time adjusting to college life thanks to my peer mentor (RQ1) 3. My peer mentor helped me better connect with the engineering program community (RQ1) 4. I plan to continue studying engineering at this institution next semester (RQ2)To directly measure the impact of the peer mentorship program on RQ2, retention data wereused. For this work-in-progress study, the short term retention rate (persisting to semester 2) © American Society for Engineering Education, 2022 2022 ASEE Illinois-Indiana Section Conference Proceedings | Paper ID 36054was

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

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Proceedings | Paper ID 35749Our camp had some limitations too. Although we planned to involve parents in the camp byhaving a STEM career session we were unable to execute this piece because our camp was heldMon to Friday (i.e., on working days). We consider that for future implementations, onlineresources about STEM careers can be provided to parents to address the limitation of meeting inperson. Our sponsor required 6th to 8th-grade girls only hence we had to turn down girls fromother grades. Thus, although we targeted 150 girls we were only able to have a total of 116 girlsspread over the 6 weeks. This was in spite of inviting all girls who met the criteria and whocompleted the application process. Some of the free responses from the girls

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La'Tonia Stiner-Jones, The Ohio State University

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for success as a graduate student. Thus far,80% of our participants are currently enrolled in or have accepted admission to a graduateprogram. Thus far, all of the participants have been URM’s. Our outcomes indicate that wehave been successful at helping to prepare students for success in graduate school and increasediversity of BMMB at the graduate level.Future WorkWe plan to continue tracking participant progress through their degrees and into the careers theypursue in comparison to their original intent as reported during the program.This research is supported by the National Science Foundation grant number 1852298. © American Society for Engineering Education, 2022 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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not aware of the specificregulations at airports, and aviation management or airport planning students were able to identifythose problems. The graduate students experienced that teams with diverse educationalbackground attacked the problem from diverse perspectives. This facilitated in achieving anoptimal solution to the problem.By working with team members with diverse educational background and experiences, thegraduate students learned different work styles, approaches, attitudes, and ethics. For example, thegraduate students experienced that team members with engineering backgrounds strived for bestresults and settled for most optimal work possible, whereas members with managementbackgrounds were focused on effective task completion and

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Rashmi Deodeshmukh, Purdue University at West Lafayette (COE)

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youngwomen? Did a higher percentage of young women from the cohort pursue an Engineering or Technologydegree in their undergraduate program?Other instruments will be evaluated that could be used with the STEM semantics survey to improve theaccuracy of the measurements. For example, the researchers plan to track the enrollment of the cohort inProject Lead the Way program at school that could be a short term predictor of STEM interest.References[1] National Center for Science and Engineering Statistics (NCSES). 2019 . Women, minorities, andpersons with disabilities in science and engineering. Tables 1-1, 5-2, Alexandria, VA: National ScienceFoundation. Available at [https://ncses.nsf.gov/pubs/nsf21321/data-tables#].[2] Women in Science, Technology