Conference Session

Research on Learning, Performance, and Impact

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ananda Mani Paudel, Colorado State University-Pueblo; Sylvester A. Kalevela, Colorado State University, Pueblo

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Minorities in Engineering

Page 23.615.3As shown in Figure 1, the chart displayed the number of students enrolled in engineering andengineering technology program in an HSI, and their graduation rate. Students are grouped underwhite and minority category according to their ethnicity. The female gender is consideredunderrepresented in engineering and is also considered in this study as a separate category. Theminority category includes all those traditionally considered as underrepresented ethnicities:African American, Hispanics and Asian American. However, the number of students withHispanic background is the largest in HSIs, and Hispanic is used instead of minority student inthe later sections of this paper. Although white student’s enrollment is the largest in the

Conference Session

Mentoring Minority Students

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Walter C. Lee, Virginia Tech; Kelly J Cross, Virginia Tech

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Minorities in Engineering

hospital, Lenoir Memorial Hospital(LHM) 8. Due to financial constraints and staffing shortages, LHM used a group-mentoring team to support a larger group of nurses than they could have with one-on-onementoring. Benefits noted by the new graduate nurses included: an easier transition, anintroduction to the first year experience, knowing there were people who were willing tohelp and cared, emotional support, awareness of common experiences, and a place to gowith questions. We assert that group-mentoring can similarly benefit engineeringstudents, particularly in situations where students outnumber the available mentors andresources are limited.The Virginia Tech College of Engineering (VT COE) similarly developed a group-mentoring program, Help Me

Conference Session

Research on Learning, Performance, and Impact

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Sylvanus N. Wosu, University of Pittsburgh

Tagged Divisions

Minorities in Engineering

risk-taking andleadership1-4 cited as the most common barriers. Studies sponsored by the National ScienceFoundation also show that although the preparation for college is improving for AfricanAmericans students, the percent of high school graduates who enroll in college has not increaseddue to deficiencies in quantitative literacy in K-12 curricula and the lack of activities that relatescience, mathematics, engineering and technology (STEM) to real world experience.1 TheAmerican Association for the Advancement of Science Project 2061 has noted that merely"covering" the topic or teaching unit is not sufficient to assure that the material will actually helpstudents learn important ideas within those topics.2 In contrast, Project CARE research