universitylevel.The number of students who complete the required courses in high school, pursue STEMdegrees, and graduate with STEM degrees, demonstrate that ANSEP is successful at encouragingAlaska Native students to consider STEM degrees, pursue STEM degrees, persist in STEMdegrees, and pursue STEM careers upon graduation11–14. Because of this success, ANSEPPrecollege component participants were the focus of this study. ANSEP is a longitudinal STEMeducation and academic enrichment model that works with Alaskan students starting in middleschool through doctoral degrees and subsequent professional endeavors11–14. ANSEP targets therecruitment of Alaska Native students, but it does not discriminate, so all students are welcometo apply to attend ANSEP
mentoring, and community building 3. Participation by students in research-focused activities such as research seminars and undergraduate experiences 4. Participation by students in career and professional development activities Results: 1. Feel a stronger sense of community on the campus over the non-scholar affiliated Colleagues 2. Women in the S-STEM have an easier time integrating academically as well as transfer students in the program5) ECE Scholars [21]University: Seattle UniversityDiscipline: Electrical and Computer EngineeringNumber of students: 32 students, 5 yearsInitiatives:1. Peer tutoring, informal study partners and industry mentorship program2. Professional development seminars and
2006-2407: IMPROVING A NACME CLASS WITH AN EMPHASIS ON DETAILEDTIME MANAGEMENTMary Anderson-Rowland, Arizona State University MARY R. ANDERSON-ROWLAND is an Associate Professor in Industrial Engineering. She was the Associate Dean of Student Affairs in the Fulton School of Engineering at ASU from 1993-2004. She was named the SHPE Educator of the Year 2005 and selected for the National Engineering Award in 2003, the highest honor given by the American Association of Engineering Societies. In 2002 the Society of Women Engineers named her the Distinguished Engineering Educator. She has received many other awards for her support of students. An ASEE Fellow, she is a frequent speaker on the career
STEM fields. (3) (6)These programs are often characterized by the rigorous on campus academic training to preparematriculating students for freshman courses and social activities to help familiarize students with“college-life.” Reports on current summer bridge programs suggest that students who participatein such programs are more apt to successfully complete their first and second year of theiracademic careers when compared to their peers who did not participate in such programs. (4) (6)The National Science Foundation (NSF) funded Louis Stokes Alliances for MinorityParticipation (LSAMP) Program provides support for a number of universities as they implementprograms to increase the number of URM students successfully completing STEM
375 academically prepared STEM majors from seven different collegesand universities, Seymour and Hewett (1997) indicated that the most commonly reported factorsamong all students entering as a STEM major were: intrinsic interest in STEM; persuasion orinfluence of individuals such as parents, teachers, and mentors; desire for a high paying job orprestigious career; strong high school performance in math and science; family tradition; andrecruitment. Closely related to self-motivation in STEM was a social commitment to specificcareer goals (Seymour, 1997). A 2000 report by the National Center for Educational Statisticsfound the racial gap that exists in STEM program enrollment between white or Asian and
AC 2011-2141: GOLDSHIRT TRANSITIONAL PROGRAM: FIRST-YEARRESULTS AND LESSONS LEARNED ON CREATING ENGINEERINGCAPACITY AND EXPANDING DIVERSITYTanya D Ennis, University of Colorado Boulder TANYA D. ENNIS is the current Engineering GoldShirt Program Director at the University of Colorado Boulder’s College of Engineering and Applied Science. She received her M.S. in Computer Engineering from the University of Southern California in Los Angeles and her B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Southern University in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Her career in the telecommunications industry included positions in software and systems engineering and technical project management. Tanya most recently taught mathematics at the Denver
student interestin, and knowledge of, an engineering career — supported by creating a strong community amongGoldShirt students and the larger college population. Another goal is to ensure that students areprepared to academically perform in a traditional engineering program after their transitionalGoldShirt year. By achieving all Program goals, we seek to create a national model forsignificantly boosting recruitment, retention and graduation of under-prepared students inengineering.The Engineering GoldShirt Program enrolled its first cohort of 16 highly-motivated yet under-prepared students in fall 2009. In the pilot group, 11 represent the first-generation in theirfamilies to attend college, 13 are underrepresented minority students, and seven
general education classes, First Year Florida (a freshmen introductorycourse), courses to complete a minor, and other introductory courses offered by the College.Students are required to attend study hall sessions at a minimum of 4 hours per week and aminimum of two Student Success Workshops offered by Student Affairs staff on topics rangingfrom time management, resume development, test-taking skills, etc. Regular group meetingswith the coordinators, mentors, and peer participants are scheduled at the beginning of eachsemester and over the course of the semester as needed. Program participants are also preparedto participate in a large career fair in the fall (well-attended by potential employers and hosted bythe University of Florida Career
to expect to find them as faculty members in these colleges. In aneffort to create a pool of Black women who qualified to pursue academic careers in engineeringor computer science, there must be intentional initiatives focused on understanding the authenticexperiences of these women. Strategies, grounded in research, must be developed to enhance therecruitment and retention of Black women across all academic levels. The academic communitymust also gain a better understanding of how to increase the awareness and interests of Blackwomen to pursue careers in the professoriate. Once these most promising practices are unveiled,meaningful avenues must be created to share how they can be effectively implemented.Project OverviewThe Niela Project is
College.Dr. Katherine M Steele, University of Washington Dr. Steele is an associate professor in mechanical engineering at the University of Washington. She received her BS in engineering from the Colorado School of Mines and MS and PhD in mechanical engineering from Stanford University. She is the head of the Ability Lab, dedicated to designing new tools and techniques to improve human ability through engineering, and also a leader of AccessEngineering to enable individuals with disabilities to pursue careers in engineering. Dr. Steele previously worked in multiple hospitals as an engineer, including The Children’s Hospital of Colorado, Lucille Packard Children’s Hospital, and the Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago
workshop is to equip students with multidisciplinarycutting-edge theories and technologies in GIS, remote sensing, biology, and water chemistry. Itfurther improves the students’ success in their academic study and future career. In the first twoweeks of the workshop, students participated in lectures, lab experiments, technologydemonstration, field trips, research lab visiting, and etc. Through these activities, studentparticipants had opportunities to develop hands-on experience on multiple novel technologiesand instrument, including ArcMap, ArcGIS Pro, Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV), GPS,Inducted Coupled Plasma Mass Spectroscopy (ICP-MS), and ASD spectroradiometer. In thethird week, participants were assigned with project tasks: select an Ohio
overview of theretention strategy. Next, HMHY is described in detail. Then the assessment strategy willbe discussed as well as how the support program impacted the participating students. Thepaper concludes with advice for others interested in starting a similar program.IntroductionIn an attempt to create a positive environment and provide support to undergraduatestudents, universities often offer student support in various forms such as mentoring,living-learning communities, and summer bridge programs. This paper will focus onmentoring. Formalized mentoring is a popular form of support 1, 2 and allows individualsto provide undergraduates with career advice, success strategies, academic assistance,counseling, and encouragement 3. In situations
financial support from the program due to low GPA or major change. During thetwo years of Phase 2, 13 scholars participated with seven chosen as second semester freshmenand six chosen as second semester sophomores.The one-on-one mentoring element of the program was directed by the ExxonMobil liaison whoselected ExxonMobil engineers and matched them with an LSU ExxonMobil scholar.Additionally, the liaison coordinated workshops with the mentors and protégés, and these eventswere utilized to communicate expectations, roles and responsibilities of each person. Thementors helped the scholars with professional development and career planning. Feedback forthis part of the program was obtained through discussions during Phase 1, and a formal survey
talent is important for the future vitalityof scientific research. This development is essential because demographic trends show that in thenext 20 years minorities will constitute an increasing portion of the US population, especially inthe pool of potential college students. Despite the growing number of STEM careers in theAmerican economy, education statistics suggest that far too few Hispanic students are beingencouraged and enabled to take advantage of opportunities in technical disciplines. According tonational statistics, Hispanics are not only the largest minority in the United States but also one ofthe fastest growing.This paper describes the Catalyzing and Supporting Minority Talent Development modeldeveloped to attract and retain
AC 2007-2871: ATTRACTING UNDERREPRESENTED GROUPS TOENGINEERING WITH SERVICE-LEARNINGLinda Barrington, University of Massachusetts-Lowell Linda Barrington is the Service-Learning Coordinator for the Francis College of Engineering at the University of Massachusetts Lowell. She is a second career Mechanical Engineer, who also brings over twenty years of human services management to this position. She assists faculty in all five engineering departments to develop course-based service-learning projects by linking them with appropriate non-profit organizations to meet real community needs.John Duffy, University of Massachusetts-Lowell Professor of Mechanical and Solar Engineering, faculty coordinator of
) A comparatively large portion of current STEM professionals retiring athigh rates, particularly as baby boomers transition toward the end of their careers; and 2) Ashortage of younger STEM professionals with requisite knowledge, skills, and abilities in thesefields (Committee on Prospering in the Global Economy of the 21st Century, 2007; NationalScience Foundation, 2006b; Southern Education Foundation, 2005; Perna et al., 2009). A morealarming explanation, however, given our nation’s changing demographic landscape, is the shortsupply of minorities in the STEM pipeline (American Institutes for Research, 2012, 2014). Among Blacks, in particular, this low rate of participation in the sciences and engineeringis well documented (Bowen
gravitational force of Dark Matter. Eachengineering department (system) has its own black hole where all of the elements of thedepartment process in orbit, as shown in Figure 3.2. The department chair, senior and juniorfaculty, staff, students, courses, new and mature research programs, federally research centersare all in orbit around the departmental black hole. Figure 3.2 also illustrates a damaged researchprogram and a struggling student and junior faculty member. This is a crowded orbit. In closeorbit to the black hole are the department chair and senior and ‘star’ faculty who, during thecourse of their careers, have developed enough momentum and skill to withstand thegravitational forces and opposing forces in this orbit and to assist others in
in Chemistry & Chemical Biology and Chemical En- gineering at Northeastern University. During his academic career at Carnegie Mellon University, Boston University, and Olin College he has been the recipient of the first Whitaker Young Investigator Award from the BMES, a Searle Scholar Award, and an Early Career Development Award from the NSF as well as a three-time recipient of the Omega Chi Epsilon Outstanding Faculty Award from the North- eastern Student Affiliate of AIChE. He also has led industrial R&D teams at Organogenesis Inc. and Polymerix Corporation developing tissue-engineered medical products and drug- generating biodegrad- able polymers, respectively, and has co-founded Automated Cell, Inc. In
that any analysis that does nottake intersectionality into account does not adequately address the manner in which Blackwomen are subordinated16. Being sure to look at the Black woman as she is, both a woman and ablack person, is both powerful and insightful. The studies in this literature review use anintersectionality lens by looking specifically at African American women.For the African American woman faculty member oppressions take the form of invisibility,isolation, and other barriers that stand in the way of career advancement as faculty. Malcom,Hall, & Brown discovered in their analysis almost forty years ago that, “[t]he more an individualresembles the ‘typical scientist’ the lower are the costs. Each deviation from the norm raises
careers. The state’s universities produced21,191 STEM graduates in 2014, the 10th most in the United States according to the Departmentof Education. Between the 2012-2013 and 2013-2014 academic years, North Carolinauniversities produced the 10th most underrepresented minority graduates in STEM fields in thenation. My College Options and STEMconnector report 26.2% of North Carolina High Schoolstudents are interested in STEM compared to 25.5% nationally for 2013. Statistically, NorthCarolina is a model for increasing diversity in STEM fields, but a large inclusion gap remains inSTEM graduates. From 2009 through 2013, North Carolina universities produced four timesmore White engineering and computer science undergraduates than African American
attract, inspire and retain more girls in STEM to make it the new norm. She has also architected SFAz’s enhanced Community College STEM Pathways Guide that has received the national STEMx seal of approval for STEM tools. She integrated the STEM Pathways Guide with the KickStarter processes for improving competitive proposal writing of Community College Hispanic Serving Institutions. Throughout her career, Ms. Pickering has written robotics software, diagnostic expert systems for space station, manufacturing equipment models, and architected complex IT systems for global collaboration that included engagement analytics. She holds a US Patent # 7904323, Multi-Team Immersive Integrated Collaboration Workspace awarded
Paper ID #8199Academic and Social Barriers to Black and Latino Male Collegians’ Successin Engineering and Related STEM FieldsDr. Terrell Lamont Strayhorn, Ohio State University Dr. Terrell Strayhorn is Associate Professor of Higher Education at The Ohio State University, where he also serves as Senior Research Associate for the Kirwan Institute for the Study of Race & Ethnicity, and holds courtesy appointments in Black Studies, Engineering Education, and Sociology. Recipient of a 2008 NSF CAREER Award, Professor Strayhorn studies issues of equity and diversity in education, broadening minority participation in STEM
top 5% engineering teacher for 2009-2010. She received the WEPAN Engineering Educator Award 2009, ASEE Minorities Award 2006, the SHPE Educator of the Year 2005, and the National En- gineering Award in 2003, the highest honor given by AAES. In 2002 she was named the Distinguished Engineering Educator by the Society of Women Engineers. Her awards are based on her mentoring of students, especially women and underrepresented minority students, and her research in the areas of re- cruitment and retention. A SWE and ASEE Fellow, she is a frequent speaker on career opportunities and diversity in engineering.Anita Grierson, Arizona State UniversityDr. Rakesh Pangasa, Arizona Western College PAKESH PANGASA is the PI of the
mentor) acts as arole model and guide for a less experienced person (a protégé) specifically advising he or she inacademic, personal, and/or professional aspects of their lives 14-16. The term “mentor” comesfrom the Greek poet Homer, in which Odysseus in The Odyssey selected “a trusted friend,Mentor, to educate, tutor, protect, and guide his son” (p. 66) 17. Professional mentoringoriginates in teaching, medical, and clinical practices 18,19. The meaning of the word “mentor”can have multiple contextual meanings such as “teacher”, “counselor”, or “advisor” relative tocorporate and educational environments. In general, mentors provide feedback regarding career plans and interpersonaldevelopment and are committed to helping protégés succeed in
author for the ”Dissertation House Model” (2016), published by CBE Life Sciences, which was acknowl- edged at the 2018 AGEP National Research Conference, ”Pathways to a Diverse Professoriate,” at the University of California, Berkeley. Dr. Carter-Veale co-authored ”Structured Interventions for Under- represented Students and Faculty Members in STEM” (2014), as part of the 2012 Conference Summary for ”Understanding interventions that broaden participation in research careers: Intervening to Critical Mass,” and she co-authored the book chapter, ”Successful Ph.D. Pathways to Advanced STEM Careers for Black Women” (2011). Carter-Veale is Co-PI on the Career Pathways project (Council of Graduate Schools), and she has had
math, offering Statway and Quantway as alternative developmentalcourse sequences that progress students “to and through” their college mathematicssequence. Statway and Quantway utilize a non-traditional intuitive problem-based andcollaborative learning pedagogy. Statway and Quantway Pathways engage students inthe statistical and quantitative reasoning concepts increasingly seen as more relevant tomany students’ educational and career goals than those in the traditional algebraicsequence (Huang 2018). Although there is nothing completely new under the sun, thisteaching and learning methodology puts several components together in a homogenousclassroom operation. Essentially it's answering that collective student question, “am Iever going to use
by the United Negro College Fund Special Programs(UNCFSP) through a contract with NASA / Office of Education. More detailed informationregarding the NAFP program as well as application procedures and forms can be found on theUNCFSP website at http://www.uncfsp.org.Typically, applicants to the program fall under one of two categories: NASA Career Employeesand STEM Faculty of Minority Serving Institutions. Applicants who are already NASAemployees will teach and / or conduct research at a MSI and then participate in a professionaldevelopmental assignment at a NASA or NASA related agency, other government agency, or inthe private sector. Those who fall under the STEM Faculty category are those who currentlywork in academia who will conduct
college students (FGCS) face considerable obstacles to college success,including a lack of role models in the family, a lack of familial mentoring and support, a lack offamiliarity with the college climate, and, generally, lower socioeconomic status [1-6]. They tendto be less academically prepared for college, and English is not their native language for a higherproportion than of continuing-generation college students (CGCS) [3]. However, in many ways,recent research suggests that FGCS are very similar to CGCS. They respond to the same factorsencouraging college persistence and success [7-8], and often demonstrate considerable “grit” inpursuing their undergraduate careers (9), a factor instrumental in undergraduate achievement.Indeed, Boone and
first-generationcollege students [9, 10].The CAMP-YES program design is based on the attributes described above, which are known topromote academic success, especially for under-represented groups. CAMP-YES is a S-STEMprogram funded by the National Science Foundation with a goal of preparing academicallyjjjjtalented, financially needy students to successfully transition to the workforce, graduate school,or create/work at a startup company. This diverse, cohort-based program has 124 junior andsenior STEM students (48% First Generation, 28% Women, 39% Hispanic, and 11% AfricanAmerican). CAMP-YES students choose from three career preparation pathways (Internship,Research, or Entrepreneurship Path) to explore their professional interests and make
- Page 26.1156.2year college bottleneck courses within three weeks. Each team is required to prepare a poster,presentation, and report. Exposing undergraduate students to research projects early in theiracademic career has been demonstrated, with strong evidence of success, to improve student-persistence. The survey data from the first year SRP also supports this approach. 3. First Year SRPSRP is an integral part of the MERIT program. This activity was offered for the first time duringsummer 2014 to TAMU-K students in their freshman or sophomore year who had activelyparticipated in the EMT program and to community college students from South Texas. The totalnumber of students participated in 2014 summer was 24, which exceeded the proposed