students find internships, scholarships and even jobs. Companies’ positive experiences with our graduates and interns have helped us obtainthese positions. During the last ten years about 17 of our students, five of them my mentees,have found internships with local companies.NASA Community College Aerospace Scholars Program Since 2002, I have coordinated NASA’sCommunity College Aerospace Scholars Program forSAC and been NASA’s point of contact for the entireAlamo Community College District. The programexposes students to projects simulating NASA activities. Students have to complete several modules andprojects online and have them evaluated by NASAengineers. Then I select the best projects and take thesestudents to NASA for three
engineering at Rowan Univer- sity. He is a fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), an associate fellow of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA), a member of the AIAA Adaptive Structures Technical Committee, and an editorial board member for the International Journal of Aerospace Engi- neering. Dr. Jha earned his Ph.D. in mechanical engineering from Arizona State University, and holds an MS in aerospace engineering from Georgia Tech. He received his BS in aeronautical engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2019An Innovative Mechanical Engineering Technology Pathway Aligned with Industry
efforts that support students in their STEM education and career pathways pursuits. Prior to Science Foundation Arizona, Ms. VanIngen-Dunn served as President of CVID Consulting, build- ing on years of experience as engineer and project manager in human crashworthiness and safety design, development and testing, working for contractors in commuter rail, aerospace and defense industries. VanIngen-Dunn has an MS degree in Mechanical Engineering from Stanford University and a BSE degree in Biomedical Engineering from the University of Iowa. She serves on the University of Iowa’s College of Engineering Advisory Board, the YWCA Metropolitan Phoenix Board of Directors, and the Maricopa Community College Workforce
Management and Applied Engineering (ATMAE).Prof. Ratneshwar Jha, Rowan University Dr. Ratneshwar (Ratan) Jha is Department Head & Professor of mechanical engineering at Rowan Univer- sity. He is a fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), an associate fellow of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA), a member of the AIAA Adaptive Structures Technical Committee, and an editorial board member for the International Journal of Aerospace Engi- neering. Dr. Jha earned his Ph.D. in mechanical engineering from Arizona State University, and holds an MS in aerospace engineering from Georgia Tech. He received his BS in aeronautical engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology
NASA’s CommunityCollege Aerospace Scholars Program. The program exposes students to projects simulatingNASA activities in which students have to complete several modules and projects online andhave them evaluated by NASA engineers. Then those students go to NASA’s Johnson SpaceCenter for three days. There they learn scientific concepts, get experience with the way thatengineers invent and solve problems together, and learn how the aerospace industry works. Thisprogram was an important element in our efforts to attract and retain students in our STEMprograms. In 2012 NASA recognized our ten years of continuous participation in the program.Another major initiative was the opening of the one and only MESA (Math, Engineering, andScience Achievements
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. All weretransitioning to a four-year institution from a two-year institution. Three were transitioning to theuniversity in which the REU program was held with another transitioning to a differentuniversity. Two participants were sophomores, and two were juniors. The community collegeparticipants fields of study were; Civil Engineering, Computer Engineering, MechanicalEngineering, and Aerospace Engineering.The pre- and post-surveys focused on topics such as engineering self-efficacy, feelings ofinclusion, career success, engineering creativity, and global kinship based on Assessing Womenand Men in Engineering (AWE)’s Longitudinal Assessment of Engineering Self-Efficacy(LAESE) assessment design [6] as well as Ragusa [7] literature. The data
Dean and Nariman Farvardin Professor of Engineering at the Clark School on Jan- uary 5, 2009, having come to the school in 1995 as an assistant professor and served as chair of the school’s Department of Aerospace Engineering from 2006 to 2009. As dean, Pines has led the devel- opment of the Clark School’s current strategic plan and achieved notable successes in key areas such as improving teaching in fundamental undergraduate courses and raising student retention; achieving suc- cess in national and international student competitions; giving new emphasis to sustainability engineering and service learning; promoting STEM education among high school students; increasing the impact of research programs; and expanding
participates on various Boards including the Dean’s Advisory Committee, the Chemical Engi- neering Advisory Committee, the Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering Advisory Committee, the Lead- ership in Engineering Advancement Diversity and Retention Advisory Committee (LEADR) and the Av- enue E Community College Transfer Program Advisory Board at University of California, Davis; the Broadening Opportunity through Leadership and Diversity Advisory Committee (BOLD) at University of Colorado, Boulder; the Viterbi Center for Engineering Diversity Industry Advisory Board at University of Southern California; the Industry Advisory Council for Minority Education at Massachusetts Insti- tute of Technology; the President’s
Paper ID #29800The Motivation of Low-Income Engineering Transfer Students thatInfluences Choosing and Pursuing a Baccalaureate Degree Attainment inEngineeringLEO SALGADO, University of California, Irvine Leo Salgado earned his Bachelor of Science in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering from the Unversity of California, Irvine in 2018. After graduation, he continues his education at the University of California, Irvine and is pursuing a Masters of Science degree in Solid Mechanics and researching in Engineering Education.Dr. Sharnnia Artis, University of California, Irvine Dr. Sharnnia Artis is the Assistant Dean of
University of California, San Diego, and her current research focuses on sustainability outreach and education, as well as teaching creative problem solving in science.Prof. Marcial Gonzalez, School of Mechanical Engineering, Purdue University Dr. Marcial Gonzalez is an Assistant Professor in the School of Mechanical Engineering at Purdue Uni- versity since 2014. He is affiliated with the Center for Particulate Products and Process (CP3), the Purdue Energetics Research Center (PERC) and the Ray W. Herrick Laboratories. He was a Research Associate at Rutgers University with an affiliation with the Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Department and with the NSF Engineering Research Center for Structured Organic
Paper ID #33405The Path from Community College to Engineering Bachelor’s Degree ThroughPartnerships and NSF S-STEM Funded ScholarshipsDr. A. Fort Gwinn, Lipscomb University Dr Fort Gwinn is associate dean of the Raymond B Jones College of Engineering at Lipscomb University and also teaches Mechanical Engineering courses in machine design, vibrations, and finite element anal- ysis. Prior to coming to Lipscomb University in 1999, he spent 22 years in the automotive and aerospace testing industry where he gained valuable insights in engineering design and analysis.Dr. Todd Gary Todd Gary is the external evaluation for Lipscomb
support students in their STEM education and career pathways pursuits. Ms. VanIngen-Dunn served as President of CVID Consulting, building on years of experience as engineer and project manager in human crashworthiness and safety design, development and testing, working for contractors in commuter rail, aerospace and defense industries. VanIngen-Dunn has an MS degree in Mechanical Engineering from Stanford University and a BSE degree in Biomedical Engineering from the University of Iowa. She serves on the University of Iowa’s College of Engineering Advisory Board, the Arizona Career and Technical Education Quality Skills Commission, and on the YWCA Metropolitan Phoenix Board of Directors whose mission it is to
) Aerospace Engineering (2) Mechanical Engineering (2) Non-STEM Major (2) Biological and Agricultural Engineering (1) Chemical Engineering (1) Civil Engineering (1) Radiological Health Engineering (1)Eight of the nine ECE students in Cohort 3 completed the ETS program. Further, all nine of theECE ETS Cohort 3 students graduated from TAMU with an average GPA greater than 3.0.The twenty-nine (29) students who graduated from TAMU had an average GPA of 3.001 and anaverage time to degree (TTD) of 3.41 years. Note that the TTD does not account for the timestudents spent before transferring to TAMU. For graduates who completed the ETS program, theaverage GPA was 3.203, and the TTD was 3.18 years. Those students who
process leading to improvements in their capacity building, infrastructure, and proposal development efforts that support students in their STEM education and career pathways pursuits. VanIngen-Dunn as built her career on years of experience as engineer and project manager in human crashworthiness and safety design, development and testing, working for contractors in commuter rail, aerospace and defense industries. VanIngen-Dunn has an MS degree in Mechanical Engineering from Stanford University and a BSE degree in Biomedical Engineering from the University of Iowa. She serves on the University of Iowa’s College of Engineering Advisory Board, and the YWCA Metropolitan Phoenix Board of Directors whose mission it
in their capacity building, infrastructure, and proposal development efforts that support students in their STEM education and career pathways pursuits. Prior to Science Foundation Arizona, Ms. VanIngen-Dunn served as President of CVID Consulting, build- ing on years of experience as engineer and project manager in human crashworthiness and safety design, development and testing, working for contractors in commuter rail, aerospace and defense industries. VanIngen-Dunn has an MS degree in Mechanical Engineering from Stanford University and a BSE degree in Biomedical Engineering from the University of Iowa. She serves on the University of Iowa’s College of Engineering Advisory Board, the YWCA Metropolitan Phoenix
an ongoing assessmentmodel to improve the congruence between what employers want and what is taught in two-yearAM degree programs.Acknowledgements: This material is based upon work supported, in part, by National ScienceFoundation grant 1700581.1.0. BackgroundFlorida had over 20,000 manufacturers in 2019, among the nation’s highest [1, 2]. Floridamanufacturers produce a wide variety of goods including aerospace components,communications equipment, pharmaceuticals, semiconductors, and wood products. Florida’sover 20 airports, 15 deep water seaports, 3,000 miles of freight rail tracks, and 2 spaceports givesthe industry many options for transporting products [2]. While manufacturing may not beFlorida’s leading industry, the state ranks 27
programs and resources designed to assist community col- leges, particularly rural and Hispanic Serving Institutions (HSIs), through a rigorous process leading to improvements in their capacity building, infrastructure, and proposal development efforts that support and better serve students in their STEM education and career pathways pursuits. VanIngen-Dunn has built her career on years of experience as engineer and project manager in human crashworthiness and safety design, development and testing, working for contractors in commuter rail, aerospace and defense industries. VanIngen-Dunn has an MS degree in Mechanical Engineering from Stanford University and a BSE degree in Biomedical Engineering from the University