Paper ID #48759How NSF S-STEM Scholarships Impact Community College Transfer Decision-MakingDr. Will Tyson, University of South Florida Dr. Will Tyson is a Professor of Sociology at the University of South Florida.Geeti Anwar, University of South Florida ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2025 How the S-STEM Scholarship Factors into Students’ Decision-Making in STEM Degrees and CareersABSTRACTThe purpose of the study is to explore how the S-STEM scholarship factors into communitycollege transfer students’ decision- making to pursue a STEM degree, how that shapes theirexperiences in these
Paper ID #47681Navigating S-STEM: Student Perspectives on Success in Community College[work-in progress]Dr. Elizabeth Meza, University of Washington Dr. Elizabeth Meza is a senior research scientist at the University of Washington Evans School of Public Policy & Governance and a co-principal investigator for the Community College S-STEM Network.Dr. Maria L Espino, University of California, Los Angeles Maria Luz Espino completed her doctorate in the Higher Administration Program in the School of Education at Iowa State University. She obtained her Masters’s degree in Educational Policy and Leadership at Marquette
Paper ID #47108Examining an NSF S-STEM Community College program through an IdentityLensDr. Jan Edwards, College of Lake County Jan L. Edwards is a Professor of Engineering at the College of Lake County in Illinois. She received her Bachelor’s and Master’s degree in Materials Science and Engineering at Michigan Technological University. She completed her Ed.D. at Northern Illinois University with an emphasis in College Teaching. Dr. Edwards teaches general engineering courses, manages outreach initiatives and the CLC Baxter Innovation Lab at the community college. She is also serving as the Principal Investigator on the
Paper ID #43718[Work-In-Progress] A Systematic Review of S-STEM Programs in CommunityColleges: Program Features and Student Decision-makingDr. Maria L Espino, University of Washington Maria Luz Espino her doctorate in the Higher Administration Program in the School of Education at Iowa State University. She obtained her Masters’s degree in Educational Policy and Leadership at Marquette University in her hometown of Milwaukee, WI. She completed her Bachelors degrees at the University of Wisconsin-Madison with a double major in Community and Nonprofit Leadership and Gender and Women studies. As a scholar and a student advocate
Paper ID #47682From Staff to Students: Centering Critical Relevant Pedagogy and CommunityCultural Wealth in an S-STEM program [work in progress]Dr. Maria L Espino, University of California, Los Angeles Maria Luz Espino completed her doctorate in the Higher Administration Program in the School of Education at Iowa State University. She obtained her Masters’s degree in Educational Policy and Leadership at Marquette University in her hometown of Milwaukee, WI. She completed her Bachelors degrees at the University of Wisconsin-Madison with a double major in Community and Nonprofit Leadership and Gender and Women studies. As a
project intended to assist two-year college faculty andadministrators to prepare proposals for the National Science Foundation Scholarships in Science,Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (S-STEM) Program. S-STEM proposals are expectedto be built on a foundation of deep needs analyses specific to the targeted population of studentsin STEM disciplines. Based on needs assessment, programs can then focus on implementingappropriate interventions and supports that will be most effective in improving the retention andcompletion of their students. Guidelines for streamlining the acquisition and organization ofcritical elements of student needs analyses can be useful for two-year college faculty andadministrators to develop NSF S-STEM proposals and
those participating in the SPECTRAresearch courses, we found the SPECTRA students had a higher sense of belonging intheir research course compared to traditional students in various courses across the entireengineering college [7]. Our work has shown that active students find value in theirparticipation; however, we have not until this point analyzed the long-term impacts of theprogram, specifically after the participants' graduation. S-STEM programs commonly interview and survey students as they enter and exit theirtransfer programs as well as to check in periodically and continually improve [8,9,10,11]. It isless common to follow up with graduated students who are in the midst of career searches, havebeen working engineering jobs, or
Paper ID #41826Work in Progress: Transformation Course-Based Undergraduate ResearchExperience (T-CURE)Dr. Heather Dillon, University of Washington Dr. Heather Dillon is Professor and Chair of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Washington Tacoma. Her research team is working on energy efficiency, renewable energy, fundamental heat transfer, and engineering education.EC Cline, University of Washington Tacoma Associate Professor in Sciences and Mathematics, and Director of ACCESS in STEM, an NSF S-STEM supported program that supports students in natural science, mathematics, and engineering at UW Tacoma.Dr. Emese
, Computing, and Applied Sciences at Clemson University. His work focuses on how technology supports knowledge building and transfer in a range of learning environments. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2024 Examining the motivations and experiences of transfer students participating in an undergraduate research courseAbstractIn this paper, we use both quantitative and qualitative methods to examine transfer student’s in ascholarship program to better understand their university experiences and what drives them tosucceed. The Student Pathways in Engineering and Computing for Transfers (SPECTRA)program is an NSF S-STEM (Award#1834081) that aims to aid students in their transfer fromtwo
developed in technology-enhanced learning environments. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2023 Examining Student Experiences Related to Transfer from Two-Year Technical Colleges to Engineering and Computer Science Degree Programs at a Four-Year InstitutionAbstractIn this paper, we explore issues related to student transfer from two-year technical colleges tofour-year institutions in the context of SPECTRA, an NSF Scholarships in STEM (S-STEM)project (Award#1834081) led by Clemson University in Upstate South Carolina. The program'spurpose is to provide financial support to low-income transfer students who intend to transferfrom South Carolina's two-year technical
Careers, vol. 5, no. 1, pp. 23–46, 2021, [Online]. Available: https://dist.lib.usu.edu/login?url=https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=eric&A N=EJ1301288&site=ehost-live[40] *A. Mohammadi, K. Grosskopf, and J. Killingsworth, “Workforce Development Through Online Experiential Learning for STEM Education,” Adult Learning, vol. 31, no. 1, pp. 27–35, Feb. 2020, doi: 10.1177/1045159519854547.[41] *T. Dallas, H. Greenhalgh-Spencer, and K. M. Frias, “Board 339: NSF S-STEM: Educating Engineering Undergraduates to be Intrapreneurs,” in ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition, Conference Proceedings, American Society for Engineering Education, 2024. [Online]. Available: https