Conference Session

Marketing Engineering as a Career Path to URMs

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Robin Hensel, West Virginia University; Jason Wynne, West Virginia University; Reagan Curtis, West Virginia University; Gary Winn, West Virginia University

Tagged Divisions

Minorities in Engineering

included general demographic data, including the student’s age, grade in school, raceor ethnicity, and gender. Students were also asked if they had a family member who is anengineer, and if so, to list the relationship of that family member to the student (i.e., mother, Page 14.1014.4father, brother, sister, aunt, uncle, etc.). If a student had a relative who is an engineer, thatstudent was asked to estimate how much influence that relative had on the student’s decision toexplore engineering as a career option. Student responses were compiled and are presented inthe results section of this paper.3.2 Student preferences for

Conference Session

Innovative Methods to Teach Engineering to URMs

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Beverley Pickering-Reyna, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee

Tagged Divisions

Minorities in Engineering

students participated in a research seminar, as in Table 2, to help reinforce the terminalend of the pipeline. Graduate school faculty, coordinators, and students assisted ECSE III withscholarly writing, research protocol, and analytical co-curricular activities (e.g., scavenger huntthroughout UWM libraries, tour of an industrial research facility). That effort helped ECSE IIIstudents prepare a year earlier for the Sophomore Research Experience b (SRE) program. RonaldE. McNair Post Baccalaureate Achievement Program interns shared their projects with ECSE IIIstudents in a mutual learning exchange, also. The Committee on Institutional CooperationSummer Research Opportunity Program (CIC/SROP) participants explained to ECSE IIIstudents how to prepare