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Lily Gossage

143  On Exploring the Connection between Hispanic Engineering Students’ Educational Goals and Communal Obligations: for Project-Based Learning through Community Engagement Lily Gossage, College of Engineering California State University, Long BeachAbstractThe goal of this research was to acquire a deeper understanding of the perceptions held byLatino/Hispanic engineering students, specifically what factors students associate theireducational efforts with and the extent to which their communal goals impact their academicgoals. Blending the concurrent nested and

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Rafael D. Alvarez; Raga M. Bakhiet; Theresa M. Garcia; Angeline V. Yang

achieving STEMindustry positions or graduate school. The STEM Partnership of San Diego (SPSD) which, as awork in progress in its fourth of five years, is a student success initiative built on best practicesof the Mathematics, Engineering, and Science Achievement (MESA) Program and grant fundsfrom the National Science Foundation (NSF). The SPSD provides essential academic and careerdevelopment services to students majoring in STEM fields. Services include internships and/orundergraduate research experiences for diverse students. More than 600 STEM students areserved annually at the community college and university level. The best practices of MESAfocus on student groups that historically had low levels of attainment; SPSD enhances academicsupport

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) – Indicates a Work in Progress Friday, April 1, 2011 (Morning)08:30 – 09:45 AM Concurrent Session Presentations Experiential Learning  Jim Helbling, et al., Configuration Of Senior Capstone Course Using Team- 1 Teaching To Maximize Communication Skills And Minimize Team Conflict  Mohammad Amin, et al., Investigation of a Masters Research Project for 13 Validation of Program's Goals and Student Learning Outcomes  Jennifer Van Donk, et al., Developing a low cost prosthetic foot for the Vida Nueva 30 Clinic: A multidisciplinary senior design project Instrumentation & Lab Studies  Ricardo Medina, et

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Shoba Krishnan; Ruth Davis; Marco Bravo; Melissa Gilbert

STEM outreach component. Our goals in designing this program were to:  Develop a strong curriculum that engages students in taking responsibility for the definition and integration of their educational experience;  Educate the community to the value of engineering as a discipline for designing a better world, resulting in a wider pool of students with the knowledge of engineering as a viable option for study; and  Improve the diversity of the engineering workforce through both retention of underrepresented undergraduates participating in the program and recruitment of minority middle school students to pursue engineering.Projects for Walden West Science Center This program supports senior design