Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Approaches to Sustainability and Grand Challenges

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Teresa J. Cutright, University of Akron

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Diversity

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Multidisciplinary Engineering

initialscholarship recipients left the program to pursue non-STEM majors where theycould help others and four left for that they perceived to be less time consumingundergraduate programs so that they could spend more time working or on socialactivities.In this program, NSF S-STEM scholarships were awarded to 15 students. Therequirements for students to maintain their NSF scholarship were continuousenrollment in courses leading toward a STEM degree, 3.0 GPA, and activeparticipation in the one-credit course associated with the scholarship eachsemester. The course was used to enable more one-on-one interactions betweenstudents and faculty as well as with their teammates from different disciplines.Interacting with faculty, whether in the classroom, the

Conference Session

Multidisiplinary Student Research Experiences

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jeanne R. Garland, New Mexico State University; Michele A. Auzenne, New Mexico State University; Ricardo B. Jacquez, New Mexico State University

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Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Multidisciplinary Engineering

assistantships and assistance with transfer. SCCORE has been held at NMSU since 2002, and will also be held for the first time at several alliance university partner campuses.Ms. Michele A. Auzenne, New Mexico State University Michele Auzenne has 18 years of experience managing student support programs and has served as Pro- gram Manager and Assistant Director for the New Mexico Alliance for Minority Participation (New Mex- ico AMP) since 1997. She has served in the same capacity for the NMSU Hewlett Foundation Engineering Schools of the West Initiative (ESWI), the NSF Scholarships in STEM (S-STEM), the NSF STEM Talent Expansion Program (STEP), among others. Ms. Auzenne holds a B.A. in English and an M.A. in Tech- nical