Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Clifton L Kussmaul, Muhlenberg College; Heidi Ellis, Western New England University; Gregory W Hislop, Drexel University (Eng. & Eng. Tech.); Lori Postner, Nassau Community College; Darci Burdge, Nassau Community College

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

objectives, curricular mapping, and identification of relevant process skills and learningactivities. For goal 2, existing materials are being reviewed and refined, and new materials are indevelopment. For goal 3, POSSE materials have been revised, and POGIL practices have beenincorporated into several POSSE sessions so that instructors experience a POGIL classroomenvironment and better understand the benefits and limitations of POGIL [33].Ongoing EffortThe OpenFE project is currently winding down while the OpenPath project is still ongoing withan expected end date of August 2019. The community of HFOSS educators continues to expand.A longitudinal study of the impact of POSSE is underway with a combination of questionnaireand structured interview

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Amy L Freeman, Pennsylvania State University, University Park; Pradip K Bandyopadhyay, Penn State University (Berks Campus); Mark Johnson, Pennsylvania State University ; Mikhail Kagan, Pennsylvania State University, Ogontz Campus; Ann Marie Schmiedekamp; Peter J. Shull, Pennsylvania State University, Altoona Campus; Catherine Cohan, The Pennsylvania State University

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Diversity, NSF Grantees Poster Session

Engineering students.Second, the Penn State College of Engineering strives to meet the national benchmark fordiversity in Engineering set by the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) byawarding baccalaureate Engineering degrees to at least 130 African American and Hispanicstudents annually. In 2013, Penn State awarded 74 baccalaureate Engineering degrees to raciallyunderrepresented students. Therefore, our long-term goal is to achieve a net gain of at least 56Engineering degrees to racially underrepresented undergraduates. If we can improve our junior-year retention for University Park racially underrepresented Engineering students from 43% to63% (net gain of 86 students, from Table 1: 429 x .63) and our junior-year retention forAbington