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Minorities in Engineering Division(MIND) Technical Session 16

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2025 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Mary J Combs, Quality Measures, LLC; Codjo AC Akpovo, Quality Measures, LLC; Gwen Lee-Thomas, Quality Measures LLC

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AchievementAbstractThe National Science Foundation (NSF) Scholarships in Science, Technology, Engineering, andMathematics (S-STEM) program supports low-income, high-achieving STEM students throughscholarships and tailored support services. This paper compares the implementation and impactof three different S-STEM projects across three diverse institutions—Rowan University, AlbanyState University, and Tennessee University, highlighting their distinct approaches and outcomesfor diverse student populations.At Rowan University (RU), a public R2 university in the northeastern United States, the 5-yearS-STEM project — Engineering Persistence: Support System for Low-Income Students toCatalyze Diversity and Success — targets undergraduate engineering students

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Minorities in Engineering Division(MIND) Technical Session 8

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2025 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Yvette E. Pearson; Casey Harris; Charmane Caldwell, Florida A&M University - Florida State University; Reginald Perry, Florida A&M University - Florida State University; Melanie L Wicinski, Arkansas State University

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) Scholarships in Science, Technology,Engineering and Mathematics (S-STEM) program. S-STEM aims to increase the inclusion ofgraduates from low-income backgrounds in the STEM workforce and/or STEM graduateprograms. We administered a Post-Graduation Plans Survey (PGPS) to all participants tounderstand their post-graduation intentions and the factors that influenced those intentions.To capture post-graduation intentions, we asked if they planned to enter the STEM workforce,STEM master’s or doctoral programs or other advanced degree programs within six months ofgraduating. Due to the small numbers of respondents in each category, we aggregated responsesof intentions to pursue careers in the STEM workforce, graduate degrees (STEM master’s,STEM doctoral), and

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Minorities in Engineering Division(MIND) Technical Session 6

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2025 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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

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encounter along with a tendency to engage inengineering-like tasks from an early age [10]. These attitudes are likely to positively affectstudents’ engagement with their engineering studies. More research is needed to betterunderstand whether these factors play a similar role for transfer students and which other assetsand challenges are relevant to their unique engineering journeys.Thus, the current study aims to explore the challenges and obstacles along with the invaluablepersonal assets of engineering transfer students enrolled in an NSF S-STEM scholarship programfor academically talented, community college transfer students with unmet financial needs fromdiverse backgrounds. More specifically, we analyzed essays from 122 engineering

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Minorities in Engineering Division(MIND) Technical Session 16

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2025 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Daniel I. Adeniranye, Florida International University; Bruk T Berhane, Florida International University; Jingjing Liu, Florida International University; Julian Rodrigo Sosa-Molano, Florida International University; Gabriel Najera

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partnership model for expanding and diversifying the talent pipeline to the jobs of tomorrow,” presented at the 2019 CoNECD-The Collaborative Network for Engineering and Computing Diversity, 2019.[33] J. Yowell, G. Hanzel-Sello, G. Barnak, and M. Venn, “Mathematics Success for Underrepresented Community College Students through STEM Core: A Wrap-Around Student Services Model,” presented at the 2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, 2022.[34] D. D. Arola, S. B. Maddox, C. Margherio, L. Pozzo, E. Roumeli, and I. Fajardo, “An S-STEM Scholarship Program Engaging Transfer Students in the Materials Intensive Engineering Departments: Successes And Unexpected Challenges,” presented at the 2022 ASEE Zone IV Conference, 2022

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Minorities in Engineering Division(MIND) Technical Session 10

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2025 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Elodie Billionniere, Miami Dade College; Lawrence Eric Meyer Jr, Miami Dade College

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meet the scheduling needs of scholars. These effortswill continue to support the development of a diverse, well-prepared workforce for the EmTechindustry.AcknowledgmentThis material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation Scholarships inScience, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (S-STEM) program under Award No.2220260. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this materialare those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National ScienceFoundation.References[1] National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. Information Technology and the US Workforce: Where Are We and Where Do We Go From Here?, National Academies Press, 2017.[2] E