- Conference Session
- First-year Programs Division Postcard Session 1: Retention and Student Success Strategies
- Collection
- 2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
- Authors
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Elizabeth R. Kurban, University of Maryland, College Park; Paige E. Smith, University of Maryland, College Park; Kurubel Belay, University of Maryland
- Tagged Topics
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Diversity
- Tagged Divisions
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First-Year Programs
leadership, the Women in Engineering Pro- gram received the 2008 National Engineers Week Introduce a Girl to Engineering Day Award. She is the principal investigator for a National Science Foundation’s Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics Talent Expansion Program (STEP) grant called the Successful Engineering Education and Development Support (SEEDS) Program. SEEDS extends successful women in engineering retention programs to all first-year and new external transfer students in the Clark School. Paige is the co-lead for the Mid-Atlantic Girls Collaborative (MAGiC), a regional collaborative within the NSF-funded National Girls Collaborative Project which brings together girl-serving organizations across