Conference Session

Marketing Engineering as a Career Path to URMs

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jonathan Lambright, Savannah State University; Wayne Johnson, Armstrong Atlantic State University; Cameron Coates, Armstrong Atlantic State University

Tagged Divisions

Minorities in Engineering

scenarios. Hands-on activities such as community service projects canalso be employed. Self-reflection activities again consist of journaling.Tenth grade students will be introduced to self-regulated learning concepts to bolster strong workethic principles. The first step will be to assess their level of readiness to become self-regulatedlearners. This will be accomplished using Guglielmino’s Self-directed Learning Readiness Scale(SDLRS) 14. This tool has been used previously in many studies including work by Litzinger etal. to assess the impact of capstone design courses on students’ readiness for SDL 15. Page 14.265.7Next the students would be

Conference Session

Attracting Young Minds: Part II

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Anant Kukreti, University of Cincinnati; Kenneth Simonson, University of Cincinnati; Kathleen Johnson, University of Cincinnati; Latiera Evans, University of Cincinnati

Tagged Divisions

Minorities in Engineering

EVANS is a Post Doctoral Fellow and Research Associate in the Evaluation Services center, College of Education, Criminal Justice, and Human Services, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati Ohio, USA. Page 14.80.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2009 A NSF-Supported S-STEM Scholarship Program for Recruitment and Retention of Underrepresented Ethnic and Women Students in Engineering AbstractThis paper describes a scholarship project, funded by the National Science Foundation’s S-STEM Program, to enhance recruitment of underrepresented