Paper ID #39902Evaluation of a Work-Integrated Learning Program for Undergraduate STEMOutreach InstructorsDr. Lisa Romkey, University of Toronto Lisa Romkey serves as Associate Professor, Teaching and Associate Director of the Institute for Studies in Transdisciplinary Engineering Education and Practice.Daniel Munro, University of TorontoVirginia HallMs. Tracy L. Ross, Actua Tracy Ross holds a B.Sc. (Hons) in Environmental Chemistry from Queenˆa C™s University and a M.A. in the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology from University of Toronto. She has overseen high quality, targeted STEM outreach programs at a
participate in co-op programs.A significant part of this recruitment process includes evaluating the students in both terms of thequality of a potential new full-time employee but also to understand if the student is interested orgaining interest in the type of engineering discipline(s) that a particular company performs in theindustry [4]. Since recruitment is a significant expense, employers are very concerned withyields from the expense and effort devoted to recruitment. Studies from 1984 and 2015, bothshow that employers were satisfied with recruitment goals resulting from co-op programs [5] [1].Other significant factors that employers want to reduce are employee training costs and turnoverrates. Employer surveys revealed that co-op hires had
funding, so it reduced the number of students that had to seek employmentoutside of FAMU. Moreover, by 2020, a federal NSF S-STEM grant was acquired in addition toother industry partnerships that provided additional funding and the ability to ensure no studentshad to work outside of FAMU, which reduced students' financial needs and heavily increasedretention and average GPAs.E. ConclusionThe EESI program has varied over the years with the change of funding offered, which led to theability to meet goal (1) of the program. However, the core concept of incorporating experientiallearning with academic support has been the same to ensure that the seven (7) program goals aremet. The quantitative results in this study show that the EESI students are
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group meeting with all theirlearning coach students. This gave the students an opportunity to learn what other students aredoing on co-ops and internships, talk about common challenges, and build a sense of comraderywith each other.While learning coaches are rotated each semester so that students have the opportunity to learntips, techniques, knowledge, and more from multiple facilitators, students and learning coachesalike are always welcomed and encouraged to reach out to past learning coach relationshipparticipants if desired. In the end, Iron Range Engineering hopes “that our relationship(s) canevolve from ‘learning coach’ to ‘lifetime mentor’” (Facilitator 3, para. 3).Adapting to Student NeedsOnce the foundation of the relationship is
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