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Tuncay Aktosun, The University of Texas at Arlington; Yolanda Parker, Tarrant County College District; Jianzhong Su, The University of Texas at Arlington

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Paper ID #41087Board 406: The Transformation of a Mathematics DepartmentProf. Tuncay Aktosun, The University of Texas at Arlington Dr. Aktosun is a professor of mathematics at the University of Texas at Arlington. His research area is applied mathematics and differential equations with research interests in scattering and spectral theory, inverse problems, wave propagation, and integrable evolution equations. He is involved in various mentoring and scholarship programs benefiting students. He was the GAANN Fellowship Director in his department during 2006-2022, he has been the NSF S-STEM Scholarship Director in his

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First-Year Programs Division Technical Session 7: Retention & Success

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Krystal Corbett Cruse, Louisiana Tech University; Carl Boyet, Louisiana Tech University; James D. Palmer, Louisiana Tech University

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attaining a four-year university education (includingtuition and fees, as well as room and board) ranged from $23,250 for in-state students to $40,550for out-of-state students in 2022, individuals, particularly those from low-income backgrounds,can face significant financial challenges and stress [4].These financial burdens may be a deterrent for students to pursue degrees seen as morechallenging, like STEM degrees, in fear of having academic setbacks and incurring additionalcosts. Therefore, a key factor in strengthening the STEM workforce is creating opportunities toenhance capacity by ensuring accessibility to STEM education for individuals across allsocioeconomic groups [2]. Funding opportunities, like the National Science Foundation’s S-STEM

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Educational Research and Methods Division (ERM) Technical Session 3

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Brittany Boyd, American Institutes for Research; Jing Yan, Tennessee State University; Taylor Lightner, QEM Network; Mercy Mugo; Ivory A. Toldson, Howard University; Lin Li P.E., Tennessee State University

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(S-STEM) grant to increase engineering degree completion of low-income, high achievingundergraduate students. The project aims to increase engineering degree completion byimproving student engagement, boosting retention and academic performance, and enhancingstudent self-efficacy by providing useful programming, resources, and financial support (i.e.,scholarships). This work is part of a larger grant aimed at uncovering effective strategies tosupport low-income STEM students’ success at HBCUs. The next section will discuss thebackground of this work.Keywords: Historically black colleges/universities (HBCUs), learning environment,undergraduate, underrepresentationBackgroundA public historically black land-grant university in the southeastern

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Garrett Powell Lee, South Florida State College

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Paper ID #44361Board 253: Emerge Scholars Program: Increasing Enrollment in EngineeringTechnologyMr. Garrett Powell Lee, South Florida State College Instructor of Engineering Technology at South Florida State College in Avon Park, FL ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2024 Emerge Scholars Program: Increasing Enrollment in Engineering TechnologyOverviewIn 2022, an S-STEM project, titled Emerge: Preparing Students for an Innovative Future(Emerge Scholars Program) was proposed to NSF to try to answer one of the highest nationalpriorities in STEM education, namely, to increase

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

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Ricky T Castles, East Carolina University; Chris Venters, East Carolina University

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Exploration to Develop an Engineering Identity in Low-Income StudentsAbstractEast Carolina University (ECU) was funded by a multi-institutional Track 3 S-STEM Grant#1930497 in January 2020. The funds from this grant have been used to recruit and support threecohorts of students at ECU and three partnering community colleges. The project is referred tointernally as the PIRATES project for Providing Inclusive Residential and Transfer EngineeringSupport. In addition to funding scholarships, the research aim of this project uses Lee andMatusovich’s Model of Co-Curricular Support for Undergraduate Engineering Students [1] tostudy best practices in co-curricular support for both students who start their pathway towards

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Janna Jobel, University of Massachusetts, Lowell; Hsien-Yuan Hsu, University of Massachusetts, Lowell; Yanfen Li, University of Massachusetts, Lowell

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diversity ofperspective and experience. To help all students develop the skills necessary to attract, retain,and consider the needs of diverse populations, engineering students need to consider socialresponsibility in the context of their engineering careers and scope of practice [6].To help promote engineering students’ ability to develop their social responsibility capacity, theUniversity of Massachusetts Lowell S-STEM program began with an initial plan to recruit threecohorts of 8 low-income, high-achieving students (24 students total) who wish to pursue a careerin higher education (e.g., faculty at community colleges or universities) and engage them inongoing social responsibility and identity formation curriculum. Supporting scholars from

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Anna-Lena Dicke, University of California, Irvine; Athena Wong, University of California, Irvine; David A. Copp, University of California, Irvine; Analia E. Rao, University of California, Irvine; Lorenzo Valdevit

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negatively [5,6,7].Thus, more effective support for community college students transferring to four-yearinstitutions is needed to ensure their success [8]. One way to address this situation and secure thesuccess of transfer students is the creation of programs that provide institutionalized support totransfer students post-transfer. The NSF funded S-STEM scholarship programs are one exampleof such institutionalized support programs.They not only provide financial support to thestudents, but also have students engage in co-curriculum cohort activities including mentoring,academic advising, tutoring, social activities and career development activities [9].However, to develop the best support system possible, we need to have a clear understanding

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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EC Cline, University of Washington, Tacoma; Heather Dillon, University of Washington; Amanda K Sesko, University of Washington, Tacoma; Marc Nahmani; Zaher Kmail, University of Washington, Tacoma; Joyce Dinglasan-Panlilio; Seung-Jin Lee, University of Washington, Tacoma; Emily Cilli-Turner, University of San Diego; Elin A. Björling, University of Washington

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Paper ID #42729Board 317: Institutional Practices to Close the Equity GapEC Cline, University of Washington, Tacoma Associate Professor in Sciences and Mathematics, and Director of ACCESS in STEM, an NSF S-STEM supported program that supports students in natural science, mathematics, and engineering at UW Tacoma.Dr. Heather Dillon, University of Washington Dr. Heather Dillon is Professor and Chair of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Washington Tacoma. Her research team is working on energy efficiency, renewable energy, fundamental heat transfer, and engineering education.Amanda K Sesko, University of

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Satchi Venkataraman, San Diego State University; Dustin B. Thoman, San Diego State University; Susan Wainscott, University of Nevada, Las Vegas; Jose E Castillo, San Diego State University

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experience in developing programs for student professional development and broadening participation (co-PI and PI on three NSF S-STEM grants). He has led a number of undergraduate training and summer research programs focussed on supporting first-generation and underrepresented minority students.Dr. Dustin B. Thoman, San Diego State University Dr. Dustin Thoman is a Professor in the Department of Psychology and the Center for Research in Mathematics and Science Education at San Diego State University. His scholarship is grounded in social psychology, diversity science, and a social contextual framework of motivation. He studies how motivation can be supported or disrupted by the social and cultural contexts in which

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Rebekah J Hammack, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Tugba Boz, Indiana-Purdue University; Nicholas Lux Lux, Montana State University; Paul Gannon, Montana State University

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Reservation and 5th Grade Native 10 (White) rural American Students 2 Holly (White) Rural (Small town) 4th Grade White 15 2 Jennifer (White) Rural (Small town) 5th Grade White 9Data Collection and AnalysisTo address our first research question, we used two survey instruments: 1) the EngineeringIdentity Development Scale (EIDS) [13]; and 2) the Engineering & Technology subscale ofthe Student Attitudes toward STEM (S-STEM) survey [14]. We used the EIDS to comparestudents’ pre and post scores in their perceptions regarding their Academic Identity,Occupational Identity, and Engineering Aspirations. We used the S-STEM survey to examinestudents' pre and post survey

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Krusty's Creations: Robotics and Electronics in Springfield STEAM, Hey Hey!

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Joshua E. Katz, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign; Robin Jephthah Rajarathinam, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign; Yang Victoria Shao, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign; Yuting W. Chen, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

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school students participated in a week-long summer camp thatfocused on electrical and computer engineering (ECE) concepts and practices. The five-daysummer camp consisted of hands-on activities, tours of different laboratories in ECE disciplines,and a group project that spanned the whole week where students built circuits using theSparkFun Inventor’s kit. During the group activity, the students were organized into eightgroups, and each group was mentored by an undergraduate mentor who facilitated thecollaborative hands-on activities. The middle school students completed validated and reliablepre and post-surveys adapted from the Student Attitudes Toward STEM (S-STEM) Survey andthe Group Work Skills Questionnaire Manual. The S-STEM survey is

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Burcu Ozden, Pennsylvania State University; Andrei Blinkouski, Pennsylvania State University; Matthew A. Fury, Pennsylvania State University; Michael Kagan, Pennsylvania State University; John Majewicz, Pennsylvania State University; Laura McGhee, The Pennsylvania State University; Zafer Hatahet, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Prescott

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Abington, Abington, PA, 19001, USA 2 Institutional Researcher, Penn State Abington, Abington, PA, 19001, USA 3 College of Arts and Sciences, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Prescott, AZ, 86301, USAAbstractAt its essence, collaborative efforts define STEM research. Likewise, one can anticipate thatfostering interdisciplinary collaboration in STEM education will yield positive outcomes. Arecent NSF S-STEM grant has empowered us to formulate and implement integrated courses atPenn State Abington, covering subjects in mathematics, physics, and engineering.Despite calculus being a prerequisite for physics across many undergraduate programs in theUnited States, a

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Tiana Solis, Florida International University; Stephen Secules, Florida International University; Nivedita Kumar, Florida International University; Jacqueline Faith Sullivan, University of Central Florida; Michael Georgiopoulos, University of Central Florida; Mark Allen Weiss, Florida International University

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describes an NSF (National Science Foundation) S-STEM-funded scholarshipprogram, representing a collaborative five-year grant project among three prominent universitiesin the Southeast region of the United States. Its primary objective is to support dedicated scholarsin graduating and finding a professional pathway. Each institution recruited a cohort of 15-20scholars annually for three years. The project offers scholarships and provides curricular and co-curricular support to academically talented but financially challenged students in the computingdisciplines, including Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Cybersecurity, and InformationTechnology majors, starting from their junior years. The program aims to impact 150 scholars,most of whom are

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Vellore S. Gopalaratnam, University of Missouri, Columbia; Douglas J Hacker; Sarah Lynn Orton P.E., University of Missouri, Columbia; Rose M Marra, University of Missouri, Columbia

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S-STEM (Scholarships in Science, Technology, Engineering,Mathematics) project titled “Increasing Retention and Success of Students from Low-IncomeBackgrounds in Civil Engineering.” Over the past three years, our Mizzou Engineering STEMScholars Program at the University of Missouri-Columbia has provided two-year scholarships toa total of 32 freshmen and sophomores from low-income backgrounds. Each year, our programsupports a cohort of 8 to 13 students. In addition to the financial support during the freshmen andsophomore years, Scholars receive customized academic mentoring to succeed in 8 coursesconsidered “gateway” to engineering (Gateway 8 - math, basic sciences, and introductoryengineering classes). During the junior and senior years, we

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Student Division Technical Session 6: Belonging

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Skylar Hubbarth, Clemson University; Anna Grace Hunter; Shannon Conner, Clemson University; D. Matthew Boyer, Clemson University

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Significance of Scholarship Programs in STEMIntroductionIn this Work-in-Progress paper, we share our ongoing work with an NSF Scholarships in STEM(S-STEM) program related to an iteration of analysis that looked across specific aspects in amore summative manner than our typical analyses during the five years of the project that aremore formative. As the project will soon enter an extension into a sixth year to use existingscholarship funds, we took this opportunity to begin to reflect on overarching goals toward thedevelopment and submission of a new S-STEM proposal to continue this work. The StudentPathways in Engineering and Computing for Transfers (SPECTRA) program in the ClemsonUniversity College of Computing, Engineering

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Rahman Tashakkori, Appalachian State University; Jennifer R. McGee, Appalachian State University; Cindy Norris, Appalachian State University

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Paper ID #43077Board 188: A Legacy of Success: The High Achievers in STEMDr. Rahman Tashakkori, Appalachian State University Rahman Tashakkori received his PhD in Computer Science from Louisiana State University in 2001. He serves as the Lowe’s Distinguished Professor of CS and director for LSAMP and S-STEM programs at Appalachian State University.Dr. Jennifer R. McGee, Appalachian State UniversityDr. Cindy Norris, Appalachian State University ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2024 A Legacy of Success: The High Achievers in STEM Abstract - There are well-known and widespread

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Educational Research and Methods Division (ERM) Technical Session 21

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Kelsey Scalaro, University of Nevada, Reno; Indira Chatterjee, University of Nevada, Reno; Ann-Marie Vollstedt, University of Nevada, Reno; Adam Kirn, University of Nevada, Reno

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Transfer issues between 2-year colleges and 4-year Engineering and Engineering Technology programs 3

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Heather Dillon, University of Washington; EC Cline, University of Washington Tacoma; Emese Hadnagy, University of Washington Tacoma ; Sarah L Rodriguez, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Amanda K Sesko, University of Washington Tacoma; Rebecca N Sliger, Tacoma Community College; Noelle Wilson

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Paper ID #41826Work in Progress: Transformation Course-Based Undergraduate ResearchExperience (T-CURE)Dr. Heather Dillon, University of Washington Dr. Heather Dillon is Professor and Chair of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Washington Tacoma. Her research team is working on energy efficiency, renewable energy, fundamental heat transfer, and engineering education.EC Cline, University of Washington Tacoma Associate Professor in Sciences and Mathematics, and Director of ACCESS in STEM, an NSF S-STEM supported program that supports students in natural science, mathematics, and engineering at UW Tacoma.Dr. Emese

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Katherine Acton, University of St. Thomas; Jennifer E. Holte, University of St. Thomas; Deborah Besser, University of St. Thomas; Kundan Nepal, University of St. Thomas

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©American Society for Engineering Education, 2024 A layered mentoring approach for engineering excellence.Abstract:The Alternative Pathways to Excellence (APEX) Program at the University of St. Thomas,funded by NSF as an S-STEM Track 2 project, aims to solidify transfer pathways, and assistEngineering students by providing financial, academic, and practical support. The successfulintegration of transfer students into engineering programs presents a unique set of challenges andopportunities for higher education institutions. The APEX program provides a comprehensivesupport system, including structured and informal mentoring, guidance for both academics andextracurricular activities, and collaborative teamwork experiences. The program is

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Melanie B Butler, Mount St. Mary's University; Rosina Bolen; DINA YAGODICH, Frederick Community College; Aubrey Allen Smith, Montgomery College; Christine McCauslin; Isaac N Mills, Mount Saint Mary College; Jeffrey Simmons; Kraig E Sheetz

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Paper ID #42367Board 350: Preliminary Results from Community Colleges Collaborating inSTEMDr. Melanie B Butler, Mount St. Mary’s University Dr. Melanie Butler is the Principal Investigator for C3STEM: Community Colleges Collaborating in STEM, which is an S-STEM Track 2 National Science Foundation grant that has established pre- and post-transfer support, co-curricular, and career development activities for supporting recruitment, retention, and student success in STEM. She is a professor of mathematics in the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science at Mount St. Mary’s University.Rosina BolenDINA YAGODICH

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MECH - Technical Session 14: Advanced Pedagogical Techniques

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Israd Hakim Jaafar, Utah Valley University; Matthew J Jensen, Utah Valley University; Sean Tolman P.E., Utah Valley University; Amanda C Bordelon, Utah Valley University; Bennington J Willardson, Utah Valley University; Janis P Raje

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from the NSFScholarships in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (NSF-S-STEM) program.This project is focused on supporting the retention and degree completion of low-income andhigh-achieving students with proven financial need in the Civil and Mechanical Engineeringprograms at the Scott M. Smith College of Engineering and Technology (CET) at the Utah ValleyUniversity (UVU). UVU is an open-admissions public institution of higher education with a dualmission model that aims to combine the resources and rigor of a major university yet keep theaccessibility of a community college. The institution’s student body is markedly different thanthose at research focused institutions. Student demographics are like those of a communitycollege

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Dominic J Dal Bello, Allan Hancock College; Jens-Uwe Kuhn, Santa Barbara City College; Jason Curtis, Cuesta College; Christine L Reed, Allan Hancock College; Eva Schiorring, STEMEVAL; Sean Marc Gottlieb, Allan Hancock College; Sarah Hulick, Cabrillo College; Francisco E Jimenez, Cabrillo College; Gabriel Cuarenta-Gallegos, Cuesta College; Leila Jewell, Monterey Peninsula College; Thomas Rebold, Monterey Peninsula College; Marcella Klein Williams, Oxnard College; Justin William Miller, Oxnard College; Franco Javier Mancini, Santa Barbara City College; Joe Selzler, Ventura College

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Paper ID #41096Board 219: C6-LSAMP - Building Bridges to the BaccalaureateDominic J Dal Bello, Allan Hancock College Dom Dal Bello is Professor of Engineering at Allan Hancock College (AHC), a California community college between UC Santa Barbara and Cal Poly San Luis Obispo. At AHC, he is Department Chair of Mathematical Sciences, Faculty Advisor of MESA (the Mathematics, Engineering, Science Achievement Program), and Principal/Co-Principal Investigator of several National Science Foundation projects (S-STEM, LSAMP, IUSE). In ASEE, he is chair of the Two-Year College Division, and Vice-Chair/Community Colleges of the

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Empowering Diversity in Engineering Education: Strategies and Impacts

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Anne E. Leak, University of California, Santa Barbara

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engineering students through community building (Evaluation) AbstractOver the past twelve years, the ESTEEM program, funded by the NSF S-STEM, at University ofCalifornia Santa Barbara (UCSB) has supported 161 low-income undergraduate students inengineering. This paper emphasizes the students’ changing needs and what they foundsupportive over time with a special focus on the shifting needs for community building before,during, and after COVID-19 pandemic remote learning. Without additional support, low-incomeengineering students, who often reflect additional intersecting minoritized identities and are morelikely to be the first in their family to attend college, leave the field at

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Women in Engineering Division (WIED) Technical Session 3 - Belongingness and Community

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Krystal Corbett Cruse, Louisiana Tech University; Kacie Mennie, Louisiana Tech University; Ashton Garner Ward, Louisiana Tech University; Mary E Caldorera-Moore, Louisiana Tech University

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for the retention of first-year students [10]. A report entitled“STEM Students & Their Sense of Belonging: S-STEM Programs’ Practices & EmpiricallyBased Recommendations” identifies cohort experiences as an important factor in academicintegration and success [9]. Offering retention programs is valuable, but if students do not attendor participate, they will not receive the maximum benefits that these programs can provide.Students are more likely to participate in retention programs if they feel a sense of communitywithin the institution [9]. Furthermore, female engineering students, who have been found tohighly value the sense of connectedness, benefit from the positive impact of a supportivecommunity, enhancing their resilience. Thus

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Graduate Studies Division (GSD) Technical Session 4: Interdisciplinary Graduate Education

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Susan Wainscott, University of Nevada, Las Vegas; Dustin B. Thoman, San Diego State University; Satchi Venkataraman, San Diego State University

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Venkataraman, San Diego State University Satchi Venkataraman, Ph.D., is a Professor of Aerospace Engineering. He has served as Graduate Advisor for the Aerospace Engineering program (17 years) and as an Associate Director at the Computational Sciences Research Center at San Diego State University (11 years). His expertise is in computational mechanics and optimization applied to design of lightweight and durable composite aircraft structures. He has extensive experience in developing programs for student professional development and broadening participation (co-PI and PI on three NSF S-STEM grants). ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2024Exploring Interdisciplinary Identity Formation in

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Mohsen Ayoobi, Wayne State University; Mukasa E. Ssemakula, Wayne State University; David Merolla, Wayne State University; Ece Yaprak, Wayne State University; Mark A Jager, Wayne State University

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are eager toanalyze the preliminary results for the continuous improvement of the project. It is noted that PIswere able to have three scholars accepted for participating in the AAAS S-STEM ScholarsMeeting that was held on September 14-16, 2023, in Washington, DC. In the following, some ofthe activities implemented in this project along with the lessons learned are described:Recruitment. PIs examined different recruitment strategies and learned important lessons:• The full-time enrollment requirement was changed to a minimum of 8 credit hours per semester to allow students more flexibility as most of them already have other work and familial responsivities.• The minimum number of credit hours to transfer at the time of application was

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Katerina Goseva-Popstojanova, West Virginia University; Daniel Mackin Freeman, University of Washington; Robin A.M. Hensel, West Virginia University

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recognized for her teaching, advising, service, and research and as an Exemplary Faculty Member for Excellence in Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2024 Supporting students’ success in the cybersecurity field: Accomplishments and lessons learned by the ACCESS projectAbstractThe NSF S-STEM funded project “Attracting and Cultivating Cybersecurity Experts andScholars through Scholarships” (ACCESS) has a goal to increase the number of high-achievingundergraduate students with demonstrated financial need who complete a degree in thecybersecurity field. This goal contributes towards addressing the huge unmet need forcybersecurity experts. This paper

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Jill Davishahl, Western Washington University; Audrey Boklage, University of Texas at Austin

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culturewith a focus on better supporting traditionally underrepresented students. Subsequent researchwill explore how student participation in these types of engagement activities correlate to thedevelopment of an inclusive makerspace and engineering education culture.Acknowledgement – This material is based upon work supported by the National ScienceFoundation S-STEM program under Grant No. 1834139. Any opinions, findings, andconclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the authors and do notnecessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.References[1] M. Galaleldin, F. Bouchard, H. Anis and C. Lague, "The impact of makerspaces on engineering education," in Proceedings of the Canadian Engineering

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Software Engineering Division (SWED) Technical Session #2

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Afsaneh Minaie, Utah Valley University; Reza Sanati-Mehrizy, Utah Valley University

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control the car from video. When the RC car went over anRFID sensor/tag it disabled the controls for one second. This project was funded by NSF S-STEM Scholarship program at UVU.Sample Project 2: Snake Game: A Verilog ImplementationIn this project, a team of two computer engineering students worked together to design a SnakeGame video game on a FPGA (Field Programmable Gate Array) using Verilog language. Thegame was uploaded to a tinyFPGA-BX board. The users controlled the game using simple pushbuttons that are wired to the board. A Video Graphics Array (VGA) display was used so that thegame could be transported and played on modern displays. Figure 5: Top Level View [16]Specialized hardware was built to run this

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Advancing Equity in STEM Academia: Insights and Strategies

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Amani Qasrawi, The University of Texas at San Antonio; Tulio Sulbaran, The University of Texas at San Antonio; Sandeep Langar, The University of Texas at San Antonio

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," Journal of Education in Science, Environment and Health, Jan. 2021, doi: 10.21891/jeseh.771331.[6] M. Sorroza Aguilar, "Soft Skills in STEM," Honors Undergraduate Theses, Jan. 2023, [Online]. Available: https://stars.library.ucf.edu/honorstheses/1425[7] T. R. Brown and M. Ahmadian, "Improving Students' Soft Skills through a NSF-Supported S-STEM Scholarship Program," presented at the 2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, Jun. 2014, p. 24.722.1-24.722.6. Accessed: Dec. 15, 2023. [Online]. Available: https://peer.asee.org/improving-students-soft-skills-through-a-nsf-supported-s-stem- scholarship-program[8] S. Langar and T. Sulbaran, "Framework for a Summer Experience Based on Transformational Leadership and