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2019 Fall Mid Atlantic States Conference

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Janet Liou-Mark, New York City College of Technology; Reina Li; Reggie Blake

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Gender and Minority Status Differences Janet Liou-Mark1, Reina Li1, and Reginald Blake1 1 New York City College of TechnologyAbstractUndergraduate research is a notable best practice for keeping engineering students on pathwaysthat lead to Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) careers. The benefitsSTEM students (particularly females and underrepresented minorities) have obtained fromundergraduate research experiences are well documented. The New York City College ofTechnology in partnership with the City College of New York have been offering a year-longresearch program to students who attend an institution within the City University of New Yorksystem. Since the

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2019 Fall Mid Atlantic States Conference

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Marvin Gayle, Queensborough Community College of the City University of New York; Dugwon Seo, Queensborough Community College; Danny Mangra, Queensborough Community College

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including Mechanical Engineering, Electronic Engineering,Computer Programming and Mathematics concepts to a select group of the local high schoolstudents. This effort is intended to encourage students to consider a career in STEM andhopefully choose one of the many STEM programs at QCC. The Coding and 3D printingTechnology workshops were conceived to encourage more female participation in Engineering.The department realized that although female students represent 50% of our population, theirrepresentation in the STEM programs were significantly below 50% of our enrollment. Thisprogram was designed to address some of these concerns. This paper will also examine the goalsand efforts taken to reorganize our curriculum to help our department with

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2019 Fall Mid Atlantic States Conference

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Hui-Ching Kayla Hsu, New York University

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innovative technology in the course she designs to offer students an active learning environment. Because of her previous career as a journalist and internship at the United Nations, she is highly aware of her social responsibility as a global citizen. She would like to work with educators in the STEM fields to develop the next generation of engineers who can be catalysts in solving strategic challenges of the global society. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2019 Creating a Diverse and Inclusive STEM-eLearning Environment through an Online Graduate Teaching Assistant Training Module Hui-Ching Kayla Hsu Tandon Online, NYU Tandon School of