majority of lab experience in LU’s IE curriculum occursduring the first two years in chemistry and physics that is not part of the 2+2 online program.After the 2nd year, a single weekend lab is used for our material process lab where studentsmake a hammer in our machine shop. The Work Design lab is mostly observational studies thatcan be conducted offsite. Computer aid manufacturing and automation labs are software based.Another challenge is students having consecutive multi-semester internship, co-ops and full-timeemployment where they take classes part time that extends the average time to graduation andcomplicates reporting program effectiveness including NSF S-STEM grant effectiveness. Highperforming students tend to take longer than 4 years
andjunior years responded to a semi-structured list of questions through focus group participation,with some individual follow-up interviews. Sophomore experiences were examined in theacademic year 2018-2019, while the experiences of primarily junior participants were capturedin 2019-2020. Themes from data analysis of the qualitative responses were developed. The workdraws from a larger investigation conducted under an NSF S-STEM award.BackgroundRedShirt Programs and the Consortium ModelThe Redshirt in Engineering Consortium was established in 2016 with funding from an NSF S-STEM award (#1564494) to bring together six universities in the Midwest and West working toimprove the success of students from low-income backgrounds. Beginning with three
recruitment and retention ofstudents to the Engineering Technology (ET) programs within the College of EngineeringTechnology (CET) at the Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT). This project is funded by aNational Science Foundation Scholarships in Science Technology & Math (S-STEM; NSFAward No. 1930313) awarded in 2020. The SD-COMETS program is a comprehensive programaimed at increasing enrollment of economically disadvantaged, academically talented students inET academic programs at RIT, with targeted recruitment of underrepresented groups. The projectis designed to increase first and second year persistence, known to be the critical years for degreecompletion. Using a research based approach, factors in the engineering education
Department of Technology and Society. She is currently the Assistant Director of STEM Smart programs, which include programs S-STEM ASSETS, LSAMP, and NASA NY Space Grant. Lauren has had the opportunity to participate in many professional development programs, such as the first cohort of the Research Foundation Leadership Academy, and Research Foundation Mentoring Program. Lauren received her Master of Arts in Higher Education Ad- ministration from Stony Brook University in May 2017. Her current research analyzes the gender equity in higher education, with a focus of females in STEM. With her research background, Lauren is a Women in Science and Engineering (WISE) affiliated member, and instructs the course, Society and
mainprogrammatic components aimed at improving the engagement, retention, and graduation ofstudents underrepresented in engineering. These components include: “intrusive” academicadvising and support services, an intensive first-year academic curriculum, community-building(including pre-matriculation summer programs), career awareness and vision, facultymentorship, NSF S-STEM scholarships, and second-year support. Successful implementation ofthese activities is intended to produce two main long-term outcomes: a six-year graduation rateof 60%-75% for Redshirt students, and increased rates of enrollment and graduation of Pell-eligible, URM, and women students in engineering at participating universities. In the first yearof the grant (AY 16-17), SSPs
external motivation to keep their teams moving forward and makeprogress towards their STEM goals through the following forums and community activities: • Attend Cohort Monthly Meetings to share best practices and hear from guest speakers. • Participate in KickStarter’s NSF program-specific group meetings and related KickStarter communications including access to existing resources such as NSF proposal preparation workbooks (e.g., join the S-STEM working group to share ideas and discuss aspects of the S-STEM proposal). • Get the latest updates on NSF proposals and webinars with access to the STEM Network and KickStarter group. • Support and training provided for new and additional faculty and proposal teams
socialsupport to my students, as well as enrichment and research or practical experienceopportunities. I have been the PI and Co-PI for grants received from NSF, NASA and theDepartment of Education amounting to over $5 million to develop the engineeringprogram and award CSEMS/S- STEM (Science, Technology Engineering and Math)scholarships to students at San Antonio College. An NSF discretionary grant from EngineeringEducation I obtained in 2003 allowed me to initiate the EDGE (Early Development ofGeneral Engineering) 13 a summer program, designed to attract and retain high schoolstudents into the engineering field. The program continued through 2015 with help fromDepartment of Education MSEIP funding. A majority of my mentees have participated in
U.S. Merchant Marine Academy. Her pri- mary teaching responsibilities are in the solid mechanics and materials areas. She was awarded the 2012 ASEE NCS Outstanding Teacher Award. Vernaza consults for GE Transportation and does research in the area of alternative fuels (biodiesel), engineering education (project based learning and service learning), and high strain deformation of materials. She is one of the PIs of two NSF S-STEM grants and one NSF ADVANCE-PAID grant.Dr. Barry J Brinkman, Gannon UniversityDr. Scott E Steinbrink, Gannon University Dr. Scott Steinbrink is an associate professor of Mechanical Engineering
speaker on career opportunities and diversity in engineering. Page 23.21.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2013 A Better Mousetrap: Why Did They Come?AbstractAn Academic Success and Professional Development Class, FSE 394, has been offered for over10 years for engineering and computer science students at Arizona State University (ASU).Seminars were first held for 22 students with scholarships from one NSF S-STEM program, withan emphasis on females and underrepresented minority students and both transfer and non-transfer students. The seminars have now grown to a
from the NSFScholarships in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (NSF-S-STEM) program.This project is focused on supporting the retention and degree completion of low-income andhigh-achieving students with proven financial need in the Civil and Mechanical Engineeringprograms at the Scott M. Smith College of Engineering and Technology (CET) at the Utah ValleyUniversity (UVU). UVU is an open-admissions public institution of higher education with a dualmission model that aims to combine the resources and rigor of a major university yet keep theaccessibility of a community college. The institution’s student body is markedly different thanthose at research focused institutions. Student demographics are like those of a communitycollege
process, and supporting transfer students at theuniversity.Transfer students at the Ira A. Fulton School of Engineering at Arizona State Universityare supported by a Motivated Engineering Transfer Student (METS) Center wherestudents can network, study, socialize, and receive informal mentoring. In addition,transfer students can enroll in an Academic Success Class for one credit and attendadditional workshops which are held in the Center. Scholarship for over 30 qualifiedtransfer students are provided each year through an NSF S-STEM Scholarship Program.An experimental scholarship program, for transfer students who do not qualify for NSFS-STEM scholarships, was also evaluated. An emphasis in this project was placed oninvolving women and
transferring in the fall semester following participation in theprogram. Students in the program work with researchers from San Francisco State University,UC Merced, and NASA Ames Research Center.Implementation of the Summer Group and Individual Research Internship Programs showssuccess in helping students in solidify their choice of major, improving preparation for transfer,enhancing student self-efficacy in pursuing careers in engineering, and acquiring knowledge andskills needed to succeed in a four-year engineering program. As a result of their researchexperience, the participants have also expressed that they are now more likely to apply for otherinternships and consider pursuing advanced degrees in engineering [27].F. NSF S-STEM Scholarship
StudentsIntroductionThe College of Engineering at Rowan University, a four-year, mid-sized, suburban, publicuniversity in the North East, is in the fourth year of a six year NSF S-STEM grant (Scholarshipsfor Science, Technology, Engineering and Math). In addition to providing two cohorts ofstudents with four year $3,000 dollar annual scholarships, students are provided targetedmentoring, participate in an Engineering Learning Community (ELC) in the first year, and areprovided with tutoring-on-demand for core engineering courses throughout the four-year degreeprogram.Only students with financial need were accepted into the S-STEM scholarship program and ELC.Students from under-represented groups in Engineering were aggressively recruited, i.e., women,African
) offers three undergraduate-only engineeringprograms: Electrical and Computer Engineering (EECE), Manufacturing Engineering (MFGE),and Polymer Materials Engineering (PME). The Becoming Engaged Engineering Scholars(BEES) S-STEM scholarship program, funded by the National Science Foundation, providesacademic and financial support to 4 cohorts of low-income undergraduate students interested inmajoring in engineering. The BEES program supports scholars for the first two years of theirstudy at WWU.In addition to two years of financial support, the scholarship program that provides the focalpoint of this study offers curricular and co-curricular supports for pre-major engineering studentsduring their first and second years of undergraduate study. These
, how to dress, eat and hold a professional conversation at a formal meal during aninterview; and how to network and follow-up after meeting people professionally. The guestspeakers, veterans themselves, were excited to present to these highly motivated student veteransand to share their stories, and in the process, they inspired this next generation of engineers andengineering technologists.Keywords: adult learners, engineering, learning communities, STEM workforce preparationIntroductionThe goal of the National Science Foundation S-STEM project, A Pathway to Completion forVeterans Pursuing Engineering and Engineering Technology Degrees, is to provide professionaldevelopment and scholarships to student veterans who are attending Old Dominion
focus on the aspects that make the program mostmeaningful for the students. This mentorship program is a concerted effort with an engineeringlearning community (ELC) for first-year students [1, 2], which was initially designed to increasestudent retention at the engineering college. Moreover, eligible students voluntarily take part inan NSF-funded Scholarships for STEM (S-STEM) program where participation in both ELC andthe mentorship program is required. On the other hand, incoming students who are not eligiblefor the S-STEM program are encouraged to participate in the ELC and are offered mentorship.There are a variety of mentorship programs at different institutions, created for engineeringstudents, that have assorted but generally
Students and Developing Professional Support NetworksIntroduction The Purdue University Rising Scholars program was initially funded in 2016 by NSF S-STEM#1644143 Rising Scholars: Web of Support Used as an Indicator of Success in Engineering. Theterm ‘Rising Scholars’ has come to represent the strata of the population that are of low socio-economic status (SES) striving to complete a collegiate education (Kent State University, 2021;Stanford University, 2020). The current collegiate entrance metrics favored by many well-regarded state institutions for their STEM programs have certain gateway values, and in general,do not select equitably across many notable factors, including gender; race; ethnicity; first-time,full-time status; and low-SES
Paper ID #37111Finding a Place to Belong: Understanding the Role of Place inDeveloping Learner Identity Among Students Returning toIn-person LearningDiana G. De La Rosa-pohl (Instructional Associate Professor) Diana de la Rosa-Pohl is an Instructional Associate Professor in the Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering at the University of Houston. She is also currently the Director of the Endeavour S-STEM Program. Her areas of interest are motivation and engagement and how they relate to the success of low-SES STEM students in higher ed. © American Society for Engineering Education
program was grant-funded and provided busing to and from AMSA’s campus fromstudents’ homes for student populations that identified this need, as well as to and from bothinstitutions the second week for all participants. The overall cost of the program broke down to$708 per pupil. The S-STEM survey [14] was used as a pre- and post-intervention measure, aswell as an additional exit survey. The S-STEM survey indicated no statistically significantchanges in interest in or attitudes towards STEM. Program coordinators felt this was probablynot the correct program metric instrument considering the population involved and the brevity ofthe program. The additional exit survey in comparison to the entrance survey saw no differencein students planning to
multiple“layers”, including senior mentors, graduate students, and faculty. A majority, but not all, of thepeer mentors and mentees are recipients of scholarship funds from a NSF S-STEM grant.The researchers focus on the peer mentorship component of the ELC program as a critical andcatalyzing practice that promotes STEM identity, which is corelated with academic success andretention. Furthermore, the relational and communal aspects of the mentorship program areposited as particularly critical supports in context of the global pandemic. The researchershypothesize that participation in the LMP will be correlated with improvements in studentretention and academic performance, and that there will be a change in students’ STEM identityas they progress
Jovanovic, Ph.D., Rafael Landaeta, Ph.D. Old Dominion University, Norfolk, VA 23529Abstract— With the growing number of adult and military veterans entering highereducation, it is important to understand and incorporate the basics of andragogy incurriculum, course development, and the learning environment to facilitate learning anddegree completion. Researchers in this S-STEM project funded by the NSF shareobservations of a student-faculty partnership that resulted from the development of aformal learning community. A series of targeted seminars were conducted that appear tohave increased adult and military veteran engineering and technology students’ levels ofconnectedness and self-efficacy. Results of this pilot study are
Engineering Education, 2015 Development and Implementation of a Pathway Assessment Model for the ASPIRE ProgramAbstractThe University of New Haven received S-STEM funding for A Scholarship Program to IncreaseRetention in Engineering (ASPIRE): Improving Work-Study-Life Balance. The goal of the 5 yearprogram is to improve retention, particularly in the sophomore and junior years, for engineeringstudents who show academic potential but are at risk of not completing their studies due tofinancial concerns and/or life-work-study balance issues. The ASPIRE program aims toaccomplish this by: providing scholarships for sophomore and junior level matriculated studentsbased on both financial need and merit; recruiting and
programs such as S-STEM for just such students with unmet financial need. Thescholarships allow the students to work less or not at all, and to put more of their energy intoacademics. At Arizona State University, the author has led such scholarship programs with anAcademic Success and Professional Development classes for nearly 15 years. During this timeshe has continually done research on the best way to support and encourage students to do wellacademically, to graduate, and to go right on to graduate school. This research has used groundedtheory and Social Cognitive Career Theory to understand how best to recruit and retain students.Beginning with seminars, over the years, the author developed a successful two-credit AcademicSuccess and
programs at our university. The objectives of the program are to: (i)expand and diversify the engineering/technology workforce of the future, (ii) develop linkagesand articulations with 2-year schools and their S-STEM (Scholarships in Science, Technology,Engineering and Mathematics) programs, (iii) provide increased career opportunities and jobplacement rates through mandatory paid co-op experiences, and (iv) serve as a model for otheruniversities to provide vertical transfer students access to the baccalaureate degree.The program is in its third year. It recruited its first group of 25 students in Fall 2017, andanother group of 27 students in Fall 2018. We hope to recruit 26 more students in Fall 2019 for atotal of 78 vertical transfers. The goal
for Working Families (IIWF) report [3] recommendsaligning education systems with economic development initiatives. Advanced manufacturing andengineering disciplines have key roles in the state of Indiana and the nation’s economic growth.By increasing the number of graduates in both MET and SM, this project supports and enhancesthe economic growth within the state and nationally. Also, being involved in the co-curricularactivities and industry partnerships will help the students improve the very skills the workplacedemands and build on the initial support provided by the scholarship to produce highlyemployable graduates.BackgroundIn fall of 2009, ISU was awarded its first S-STEM program (NSF #0966219) and initially had anundergraduate
to their questions. Having questions answered can be veryimportant to a student, especially a first-generation student who does not have others close whoknow the answers.III. Identifying Critical QuestionsThe authors have been working with engineering students for over 10 years through the NSF S-STEM Scholarship Programs. As a part of this program, an Academic Success Class is held andthrough this class the authors have been asked many questions. Some questions come through Page 25.367.4evaluations of the meeting in answer to the question. “Are there topics about which you want toknow more?” Some questions come through emails from the student
in any complex human system, such as education, there is muchvariation present, most of which cannot be controlled in any meaningful sense. Hence, we havetaken a design-based approach that can yield improvements that can be measured locally andaggregated over time, while at the same time giving us insight into how to be effective inimplementing change.References[1] Gattis, C., Hill, B., & Lachowsky, A. (2007). A successful engineering peer mentoring program. In American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference and Exposition, Conference Proceedings.[2] Jones, S., Rusch, K., Waggenspack, W., Seals, R., & Henderson, V. (2010). S-STEM: Eng^2 scholars for success engineering engagement. In American Society for
Paper ID #41096Board 219: C6-LSAMP - Building Bridges to the BaccalaureateDominic J Dal Bello, Allan Hancock College Dom Dal Bello is Professor of Engineering at Allan Hancock College (AHC), a California community college between UC Santa Barbara and Cal Poly San Luis Obispo. At AHC, he is Department Chair of Mathematical Sciences, Faculty Advisor of MESA (the Mathematics, Engineering, Science Achievement Program), and Principal/Co-Principal Investigator of several National Science Foundation projects (S-STEM, LSAMP, IUSE). In ASEE, he is chair of the Two-Year College Division, and Vice-Chair/Community Colleges of the
themselves“active” or at least “interested” shared that “they are trying to take advantage of everyopportunity” and that they “enjoy the opportunity to learn about what others are doing”(interview notes).Additional evidence of the immediate value of the project is the actual use of the MISO-basedresources available to partners. Specifically, the initial use of the teacher and student evaluationsurvey instruments (T-STEM survey and S-STEM survey) has proven to be a big help amongthose partners who feel their existing evaluation systems are lacking in appropriate, high qualitydata:We were doing evaluation before, but the worst kind of evaluation. By that I mean, we werecollecting data and not looking at the results. We weren’t always asking the right
research topics, and course work optionsenabling completion of B.S. and M.S. degrees in 5.5 total years. This program advances thediscovery and dissemination of research that bridges undergraduate experiences with theattainment of graduate engineering degrees. Furthermore, it strengthens industry partnershipsand develops highly trained workforces, by systematically creating a pipeline of diverseengineering professionals. This program developed can be readily adapted and implemented atother programs across the nation.IntroductionThe Student Integrated Intern Research Experience (SIIRE) program at the University ofArkansas is funded via the NSF S-STEM program. The NSF S-STEM program provides studentscholarship funds to encourage and enable