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MIND - Poster Session

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Tremayne Waller, Virginia Tech; Sharnnia Artis, Virginia Tech; Bevlee Watford, Virginia Tech

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to her efforts to increase the recruitment, retention, and graduation rates of under-represented students in engineering. She is currently working for the National Science Foundation as a rotator in the Division of Undergraduate Education. Page 12.1451.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2007 The Pact: st A framework for retaining 1 year African American Engineering MenIn 2001, the National Science Foundation (NSF) reported that 8.1% of the total science andengineering degrees offered at the baccalaureate level were awarded to African

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Special programs and activities for minorities in engineering

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Edward Brown

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stands for Stay Tech @ RIT) is an initiativesponsored by the Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA) seeking to study new andinnovative methods to increase the recruitment and retention rates of these underrepresentedpopulations. The ST@R Project achieves these goals by focusing its efforts on three majorareas: (1) Student Support Services and Outreach Efforts, (2) Mentoring and Coaching, and (3)Career Exploration and Professional Development. To improve the pipeline of electricalengineers as well as increase the number of underrepresented individuals, the ST@R project alsofocuses on researching and developing a pedagogical system that addresses diverse teaching andlearning styles within the engineering classroom. The main objective is to

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Factors Affecting Minority Engineering Students

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Leo McAfee, University of Michigan

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Subsystems, (r2)Environmental Sensors and Subsystems, (r3) Wireless Interfaces including MEMS, (r4)Micropower Circuits, and (r5) Advanced Materials, Packaging, and Processes; two engineeredsystems testbeds: (t1) Neural Prostheses, and (t2) Environmental Monitoring; an EducationPrograms Thrust; and an Industrial Liason for external and industry relations.Education Programs Thrust Structure: The goals of the WIMS Education Programs Thrustare to educate the next generations of engineers and scientists about WIMS and with WIMS, andto rapidly transfer results from the research domain to the classroom domain. Proactive diversityand outreach initiatives, as well as evaluation, are to be integrated within each program. Asdepicted in Figure 1, the Education

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Multimedia Tutorials and Web Development

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Ramin Sadeghi, Power & Water University of Technology; Ali Mehrabian, University of Central Florida; Saeid Moslehpour, University of Hartford

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. In this presentation, we focus on two approaches to distance learning and their relationshipto deaf student: (1) web-based distance learning that enhances classroom instruction, (2)synchronous videoconferencing that supports staff development, admissions and recruitmentefforts.What is Distance Learning? The PWUT (Power and Water University of Technology) uses the term Distance Educationto include Distance Teaching, the instructor’s role in the process, and Distance Learning, thestudent’s role in the process. Distance Education takes place when teachers and students are separated by physicaldistance; and technology (e.g., voice, video, data, graphics, print), often with face-to-facecommunication, is used to bridge the instructional gap

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Research Infrastructure in STEM Disciplines

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Abhijit Nagchaudhuri, University of Maryland-Eastern Shore; Madhumi Mitra, University of Maryland-Eastern Shore; Rose Stoakley, University of Maryland-Eastern Shore; Tiara Turner, University of Maryland-Eastern Shore; Suraf Cherinet, University of Maryland-Eastern Shore; Gabriel Ladd, University of Maryland-Eastern Shore; Harsha Chalyam, University of Maryland-Eastern Shore; Christopher Hartman, University of Maryland-Eastern Shore; James B. Burrows-Mcelwain, University of Maryland-Eastern Shore

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author to work on a chosen aspect of the ongoingeffort. For this ACTION project students decided to focus on aspects of yield monitoringand remote sensing for the precision agriculture project at UMES. This paper willhighlight the student efforts related to the ACTION project for 2006 summer and discusshow the out of classroom, field, and laboratory based activities enhanced learning.1. IntroductionUndergraduate research projects offer students with opportunities that provide motivationfor them to learn and refine their knowledge independently in the same vein as a researchscientist or engineer,[1] increases student participation in interdisciplinary, authenticproblem solving,[2] and help universities move from teaching oriented to

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Influence of Race and Culture

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Leslie Wilkins, Maui Economic Development Board; Sheryl Hom, isisHawaii and Women in Technology; Jenilynne Gaskin, Maui Economic Development Board; Kawailehua Kuluhiwa, Maui Economic Development Board, Inc.; Christine Andrews, Maui Eco Dev Board

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minority outreach, and the U.S. Air Force offered studentsthe opportunity to visit the Maui Space Surveillance Complex, as well as technical and programdevelopment assistance.The first Excite Camp was held August 1-3, 2001. The three-day event was designed to serve asa model for integrating the scientific traditions of indigenous peoples into current scienceeducation. The goals were: To provide a venue for WIT to reach middle school girls of Native Hawaiian ancestry and other ethnic minorities in Hawaii To develop a model workshop/curricular program integrating hands-on math and science learning with exposure to science and technology positions on Maui that will “excite” middle school girls into pursuing careers

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Recruitment and Retention

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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James Northern, Prairie View A&M University

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preparation. To minimize the impact ofthis disturbing trend of students not pursuing an engineering degree, a priority must be set togenerate student interest in the field of engineering. In this paper, we outline strategies toincrease enrollment through five programs: (1) increase retention by creating a coaching andfuture leadership program for freshmen and sophomore students; (2) increase retention byhosting a design competition for engineering students; (3) recruit high school students intoengineering programs by enhancing and expanding summer camp programs; (4) generateawareness of engineering programs through workshops for students and teachers at theirrespective high schools; (5) generate interest in engineering for 5th through 12th grade

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Special programs and activities for minorities in engineering

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Peter Stroot, University of South Florida; Bernard Batson, University of South Florida; BK Robertson, Alabama State University

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education and future demandsfor engineers and scientists in the United States, the NSF has established two goals: (1) improvethe education and research abilities of engineers and scientists; and (2) increase the number ofengineers and scientists by expanding outreach activities that target students from historically,underrepresented groups5.Most compelling, Environmental Engineering is one of the fastest growing careers with anexpected increase of 54% by 20126. Environmental engineering relies heavily on properlytrained students in biotechnology, which includes an understanding of basic microbiology,biological modeling, and molecular biology. The development of molecular biology tools overthe past twenty years has improved our understanding

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Special programs and activities for minorities in engineering

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Mary Anderson-Rowland, Arizona State University; Dana Newell, Arizona State University

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leader, but works closely with many other organizationsto achieve their aim.1 NACME is widely known as the nation’s largest private source ofscholarships for underrepresented minority women and men in engineering. Over 15% of allminority engineering graduates since 1974 have received scholarship support from NACME andare now leaders in government, industry and academics.2In 2003 NACME embarked on a new NACME Success Strategy. Although NACME hadworked with certain universities over the years, in an effort to dramatically increase therepresentation of African American, American Indians, and Latinos (underrepresentedminorities) in the critical field of engineering, NACME selected key institution to participate in anew scholarship program. This

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Research Infrastructure in STEM Disciplines

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Carlotta Berry, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; Cordelia Brown, Purdue University; Ingrid St. Omer, University of Kentucky; Stephanie Adams, University of Nebraska-Lincoln; Michael Smith, National Society of Black Engineers

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learning preferences of AfricanAmerican graduate and undergraduate students in engineering. The motivation for this workstems from the fact that there is much published literature on the importance of recruiting andretaining underrepresented populations in engineering, but not much on the learning preferencesof these populations in the engineering classroom. There have been books written on whystudents leave engineering or switch majors but none of it focuses solely on the classroomexperience of African American students. Figure 1 demonstrates that there is a serious decline inthe enrollment of African American students in undergraduate engineering1. The importance ofthis study is based upon the hypothesis that if the learning preferences and

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Marketing Engineering to Minority Students

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Angela Lemons, NC A&T State University

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Conference Session

Foster Excellence

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Jacqueline Fairley, Georgia Institute of Tehnology; Leyla Conrad, Georgia Institute of Technology; Gary May, Georgia Institute of Technology

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mathematics (STEM). These disparitiesamong the number of whites and minorities who pursue graduate studies are apparent inthe findings of Foertsch[1] The latter reported that about 30% of whites with a BS degreego on to graduate school, while only 19% of non-Asian minorities with a BS do the same.In 1995, blacks accounted for only 2.0% of all STEM PhDs, Hispanics for 2.5%, andAmerican Indians for 0.3% - even though within the same year African Americans madeup about 12% of the U.S. population, Hispanics 10.2%, and American Indians 0.7%.The Summer Undergraduate Research in Engineering/Science (SURE) program is a ten-week summer research program, at the Georgia Institute of Technology, designed toattract qualified minority students to attend graduate

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Factors Affecting Minority Engineering Students

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Carolyn Vallas, University of Virginia; Susan Donohue, University of Virginia

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affecting persistence rates at the School of Engineering at theUniversity of Virginia (U.Va. SEAS), the developmental form of which is presented in thispaper, as the first step in creating retention programs that will work effectively in ourinstitutional culture.Keywords: Persistence, retention, underrepresented populations in engineeringIntroductionResearch into the factors affecting persistence among undergraduate engineering students fromunderrepresented populations addresses a critical need. There is a well documented gap betweenthe demand for technically educated professionals needed to maintain the United States’competitiveness in science and engineering and the supply graduating from U.S. schools andcolleges of engineering.1 Overall

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Academic Boot Camp

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Eric Brittain, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Reginald Bryant, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Lincoln Chandler, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Robbin Chapman, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Shaundra Daily, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Mark Hampton, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Ishara Mills-Henry; Aisha Walcott, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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Page 12.1386.3graduate student3. This comes in contrast to undergraduate success where academics are deemedto be the major determining factor that led to successful graduation. The ACME model of peersupport and academic goal attainment, established in 2003, supports a common-interest group forthe express purpose of enhancing existing intellectual merits of its members by providing aprofessional environment with increased emotional support.BackgroundScience and Engineering Graduate Minorities in a Majority EnvironmentElements of majority climate of the university that have traditionally hindered the persistence ofminority doctoral students fall within three representative areas: 1) social dynamics, 2) physicalresources, and 3) epistemological

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Foster Excellence

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Tony Mitchell, North Carolina State University; Angelitha Daniel, North Carolina State University

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Minorities in Engineering (NACME), Inc., October 1998, Vol. 8, No. 2, pp. 1-11.4. Astin, A.W., Tsui, L., Avalos, J., “Degree Attainment Rates at American Colleges and Universities: Effects of Race, Gender, and Institutional Type,” Graduate School of Education, Univ. of California, Los Angeles, p. 22, 1996.5. Morning, C., Fleming, J., “Project Preserve: A Program to Retain Minorities in Engineering,” Journal of Engineering Education, 83(2), 237-242, 1994.6. Reichert, M., Absher, M., “Taking Another Look at Educating African-American Engineers: The Importance of Undergraduate Retention,” Journal of Engineering Education 86(3), 1997.7. Seymour, E., Hewitt, N., Talking about Leaving: Why Undergraduates Leave the

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Influence of Race and Culture

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Tony Mitchell, North Carolina State University; John F. Flannigan, III, III, Sloan Construction Company; Renee M. Wooten, SAS Institute, Inc.; Eric P. Pearson, Northrop Grumman Corporation; Angelitha Daniel, North Carolina State University

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GoalsThe mission of our Minority Engineering Programs is to develop and maintain programs thatassist in the recruitment, retention, mentoring, placement, and graduation of top quality, under-represented (African-American, Native-American, and Hispanic) students within our College ofEngineering.Programs goals, as approved by our National Minority Engineering Advisory Board, are to: • Increase under-represented minority enrollment to 20 percent within the College of Engineering; • Achieve persistence and graduation rates of under-represented minority students comparable to the general engineering student body; • Become #1 among major colleges in awarding African-American undergraduate engineering degrees; • Achieve engineering

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MIND - Poster Session

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Andrea Ogilvie, University of Texas-Austin

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semesters, EOE’s FIG initiative is a 28week retention focused cohort program. EOE FIGs assist students with building a supportnetwork that includes peers, upper division students, faculty, and professional engineers. EachFIG consists of: (1) 20 to 26 first year engineering students; (2) two FIG Peer Leaders - upperdivision minority engineering students; (3) one FIG Academic Tutor – upper division minorityengineering student; (4) one FIG Facilitator - staff member from the EOE Program. Theparticipants in each FIG cohort share a common class schedule that includes three to four basicsequence courses in the engineering degree plan. One of these courses is a small, one-hourweekly seminar where students can get to know each other. Led by Peer Leaders

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Marketing Engineering to Minority Students

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Linda Barrington, University of Massachusetts-Lowell; John Duffy, University of Massachusetts-Lowell

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Lowell because of S-L. Thus, there is growingevidence in this study and elsewhere that S-L may be able to attract and keep students, Page 12.298.2particularly females and other underrepresented groups, in engineering.1. IntroductionUniversity of Massachusetts Lowell Francis College of Engineering’s objective to integrateservice-learning into core courses comes out of a desire to improve engineering education andthe community as well as to attract and retain underrepresented groups. This college ofengineering has its base as a commuter school, originally established to train talent for itsindustrial city center. The decline of manufacturing was

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Retention of STEM Students

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Annita Alting, City College of the City University of New York; Ardie Walser, City College of the City University of New York

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findings show that attrition in the second and third years is at its highest, but that itstabilizes after four years.1. Introduction Engineering programs must find better ways to attract and retain minoritystudents if the United States is to remain a technological leader. As presented in the PhaseI report, The Engineer of 2020: Visions of Engineering in the New Century, the changingdemographics within countries, including the United States, where the number ofminorities will grow rapidly in comparison with traditional majority groups, has majorimplications for the future of engineering, a profession where minorities and women areunderrepresented1. In order to develop more effective tools to increase retention anunderstanding of what

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Learning Needs and Educational Success

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Karen Crosby, Southern University; Samuel Ibekwe, Southern University; Guoqiang Li, Southern University; Su-Seng Pang, Louisiana State University-Baton Rouge; Kun Lian, Center for Advanced Microstructures and Devices (CAMD)

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© American Society for Engineering Education, 2007 research field. He has published over 160 journal papers/conference proceedings in the areas of composite materials and structures, pressure vessel and piping, and various joining technologies. Currently, he is an editorial board member of the journal Composites -- Part B: Engineering; Technical Program Committee Member of SPE Joining of Plastics and Composites Group; ACAP Board of Director Member; Symposium Co-Chairman and Conference Sessions Developer of ICCE/1-12, etc. He has been the PI/Co-PI/Key Investigator for over 80 research/educational projects funded by NSF, NASA, ATP/NIST, U.S. Navy, Louisiana Board of Regents, various

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Factors Affecting Minority Engineering Students

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Klod Kokini, Purdue University

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wouldcollaborate across academic disciplines. The faculty of the college have been active inattracting outstanding new colleagues in the nine interdisciplinary signature areasthrough this strategic cluster hiring process.According to this process, all existing search committees, including the nine signaturearea cluster committees, the individual school committees, and any special searchcommittees participated in the faculty hiring as long as they met the objectives describedpreviously, i.e.(see Figure 1): improve the quality of our programs and diversify the faculty according to the objectives of the strategic plan strengthen the college in the signature areas and create a truly multidisciplinary

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Multimedia Tutorials and Web Development

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Anne Donnelly, University of Florida

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the life of the grant, and it is expected that this will result in significant increases in thenumbers of advanced degrees earned by minority students in the future. In addition, SEAGEPoffers research experiences to minority undergraduate STEM students to increase their interest inand preparedness for graduate school. Specific program offerings and program evaluationresults will be described, as well as recommendations on how faculty can become part of theseprograms across the country.IntroductionThe need to diversify the American scientific workforce 1-4 has been well documented. The NSFhas taken a leadership role in efforts to meet this need, by developing programs to directlyaddress the issue through the Directorate for Education and Human

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NAFP Panel Discussion

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Louis Everett, University of Texas-El Paso; Paul Racette, NASA; Scott Askew, NASA; Rafic Bachnak, Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi; Belay Demoz; Paul Mogan, NASA

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capacity of minority institutions.In the first ten years there is a total of 72 participating institutions andorganization that have participated in the program. Table 1 shows the list ofparticipating institutions and organizations. All the NASA centers and NASAHeadquarters have participated in the program. Forty minority institutions have Page 12.1098.4participated either by hosting a NAFP Fellow or by providing a faculty member toparticipate in the program. Twenty-one other institutions and organizations haveparticipated as host for NAFP Fellows. Table 2 through Table 4 give more detailsregarding the participating centers and schools.Figure 2 clearly

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Multimedia Tutorials and Web Development

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Maria M. Larrondo Petrie, Florida Atlantic University; Ivan Esparragoza, Pennsylvania State University

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professionalengineers. Table 1 shows a listing of engineering professional societies. The computer scienceand engineering technologies societies are included in this table because the computer scienceand engineering technology programs are often housed in the college of engineering. The tablealso includes architecture, because students may want to explore the differences between thisdiscipline and construction or civil engineering. Table 2 lists the engineering related honorsocieties. Table 3 lists other engineering-related societies, including science, mathematics,medical, and education societies. Table 4 lists engineering, technology, science and educationalsocieties that specifically target underrepresented minorities, and the list in Table 5 targetswomen

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Foster Excellence

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Claude Villiers, Florida Gulf Coast University; Neville Parker, The City College of The City University of New York

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of the STI Page 12.758.2students attend the opening day and the closing ceremony. A group picture taken right after the2005 closing ceremony is shown in Figure 1.An effective internship component is embedded in the program to accommodate the STIgraduates. Upon commencement of the internship components, the students (11th or 12th graders)are paired with faculty professors to conduct research in transportation-related topics. Thestudents commence on a journey that will impact their lives forever. The Summer TransportationInstitute (STI) experiences afford them the opportunity to explore the Transportation Industry.They are initially apprised

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Marketing Engineering to Minority Students

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Willie Ofosu, Pennsylvania State University-Wilkes-Barre; Ahmed Abdul-Rahman, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology; Emmanuel Nutsuklo, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology; Michael Brenu Osae, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology

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point. Note the coordinate of the second point with the GPS.5. Tie the rope to the two pegs and mark sections of 10m lengths along the rope.6. Connect the two rods of the magnetometer together7. Initialize the magnetometer by setting each of the three knobs to zero, and turn the Milligauss Range to the 1999.9 scale.8. Place the white pointed end of the rod, and record the magnitude and direction.9. Repeat steps 2 through 8 at each of the 10m marks.10. Repeat steps 1 through 9 at each selected site, while covering as much land areas around UST as possible11. Plot all these on a map of UST. Lab ReportWrite a report on the experiment performed using the following

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NAFP Panel Discussion

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Rafic Bachnak, Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi; Jack Esparza, Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi; Zack lopez, Texas A&M-Corpus ChristiTexas A&M University-Corpus Christi; Allen Anton, Texas A&M-Corpus ChristiTexas A&M University-Corpus Christi; Marc Mendez, Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi

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engineering technology programs have used research for a variety ofpurposes, including student recruitment [1, 2], student retention [3], outreach programsthat target minority students [4], and exposure to engineering research throughmultidisciplinary projects [5]. Similarly, the engineering technology programs at TexasA&M University-Corpus Christi (A&M-CC) have used applied research projects to help“Recruit, Retain and Graduate a Diverse and Highly Qualified Student Body.” Thispaper describes a research project in which a good number of minority students havebeen involved. The project involves the development of a remotely operated vessel usedas a supplemental tool for our studies of South Texas Coastal waters. An importantapplication is

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NAFP Panel Discussion

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Goang-Shin Liaw, Alabama A&M University

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Factors Affecting Minority Engineering Students

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Brad Matanin, Virginia Tech; Tremayne Waller, Virginia Tech; Jean Kampe, Virginia Tech; Cory Brozina, Virginia Tech; Bevlee Watford, Virginia Tech

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Bridge – Student Transition to Engineering Program.History of ASPIREASPIRE (The Academic Summer Program Introducing Resources for Engineers) was a fiveweek long summer bridge program that assisted both African American and Hispanic studentswho were accepted to enroll in the COE at Virginia Tech. The average ASPIRE enrollment was29 students per year. Program goals were implemented through three main components: (1)academic enrichment in math, chemistry, and engineering fundamentals, (2) social developmentwithin the university community, and (3) professional and personal development. The followingis a brief overview of each component which provides the foundation for expansion to STEPBridge.Classes were designed to be similar to those taught in

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Retention of STEM Students

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Lauren Davis, North Carolina A&T State University; Stephanie Luster-Teasley, North Carolina A&T State University; Funda Samanlioglu, North Carolina A&T State University; Leotis Parrish, North Carolina A&T State University

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math (STEM). A three year license was secured with MentorNetwhich allows the university to register and match A&T Alumni with undergraduate students inthe program. The intent of the program is to develop a mechanism which advances theUniversity’s retention objectives by: 1. Providing the opportunity for students to be matched with working professionals that can assist with time management, career counseling and other life skills that will enable them to be successful as a student and future employee. 2. Providing the opportunity for students to connect with A&T alumni with similar backgrounds. 3. Creating a pipeline of future engineers that will mentor undergraduate students at