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Recruitment and Retention

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2003 Annual Conference

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Timothy Britt; Dr. Tom Eppes

, some students ask about pursuing anElectrical Engineering (EE) or Electronics Engineering Technology (EET) degree. This gatewayled Professor Britt (one of the co-authors) to obtain separate four-year degrees in ElectronicsEngineering Technology and Electrical Engineering.AET is a proven way to increase the number students that enroll and pursue careers inengineering and engineering technology. It has attracted the attention of the academiccommunity looking to reverse enrollment declines. A scan of ASEE member institutionsshows that Ward College offers the only baccalaureate program in Audio EngineeringTechnology (AET).Our AET program has grown from five (5) students to seventy-five (75) in the eight-year life ofthe program. Fall 2002 saw an

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ASEE Multimedia Session

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2003 Annual Conference

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Annette George; Gbekeloluwa Oguntimein

Session 2793 Impact of Federal Government Funding of an Internship Program at a Minority Institution Gbekeloluwa Oguntimein1, Annette George2 1 Department of Civil Engineering / 2Dean’s Office, Morgan State University, Baltimore, Maryland 21251.Abstract:Involving students in research has been recognized as a strategic method for developing andpreparing undergraduate students to gain valuable insights into the workforce, particularly intoscience and engineering careers. Federal funding to minority institutions has proven to be one ofthe most

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ASEE Multimedia Session

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2003 Annual Conference

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Martha Garcia-Saenz; Madonna Tirtle

; Exposition Copyright © 2003, American Society for Engineering Education”designing our program; and allowed us to quickly define our mission.The main focus of our program is to encourage women to study Engineering and Technologythrough the creation of an environment that helps nourish them during the completion of theirstudies and helps to retain them in their chosen fields. The program encourages students tosucceed not only academically, but personally and professionally through seminars, talks, anddiscussions with guest speakers from alumni, industry and academia. The goal is to provide ourfemale students with valuable resources, including career opportunities, and help them strengthentheir skills. A

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Global Engineering in an Interconnected World

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2003 Annual Conference

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Rafiqul Islam

@nsula.eduAbstract'Going global' is a popular term in academia and industry today. In order to maintain leadership ininterdependent global economy United States must possess an adequate technically literateworkforce. Unfortunately there has been a substantial decline in enrollment in the engineering andtechnology programs in North American colleges and Universities since early ninety's. At this timeof phenomenon growth, sweeping changes of technologies and the economic globalization it isrewarding to focus our whole hearted effort to recruitment. That is why, the author has identifiedthe related target areas: to influence the students towards engineering and technology career inthe K-12 level, to change the admission criteria and standards, to explore the need

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Outreach: Future Women in Engineering

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Heimdahl Peter; Brenda Puck; Danny Bee

experiences of “STEPS for Girls” graduatesand the influence this program has had on their high school course and career directions.Evaluation of the program is conducted centrally by SME-EF. Our first graduates are now highschool seniors. Surveys of their college plans will give us our first indication of the impact ofthe program. Results of the evaluation will be shared. In addition, the paper will present theinformal surveys of camp participants taken during their week of activities. UW-Stoutanticipates there will be an influx of female students into engineering programs in our region Page 8.1046.1over the next decade as a direct result of

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Developing Young MINDs

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2003 Annual Conference

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Rosa Cano; Howard Kimmel

schools. Many of the programs are targeted towards specific schools within thedistricts. In addition, we have been able to assist schools to address and meet their specificneeds.Engineering is used as the vehicle to involve pre-college populations in technologicaleducation and to motivate the children to pursue technological careers. For example, NJIT’sWomen in Engineering & Technology Initiative - FEMME program is an intensive four-week single-gender program offered in the summer to post-fourth through post-eighth gradegirls. Academic curricula and coursework is specially designed in alignment with the NewJersey Core Curriculum Standards (NJCCS). A main thematic unit created for each groupintroduces each grade level to a different

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ASEE Multimedia Session

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2003 Annual Conference

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Steven Kuennen; James Pocock

faculty development presentations during their first semester of teaching and unique,hands-on teaching experiences. Other facets of this faculty development program includeregular feedback sessions with the department chair, interaction with a new visiting professorevery year, attendance at professional conferences, a strong emphasis on professional registrationand working experience early in the teaching career. Feedback to instructors includes peerclassroom visits and student course critiques. This paper examines the total faculty developmentprogram with the intent of provoking discussion and sharing good ideas for faculty development.BackgroundThe Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the United States Air ForceAcademy employs

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Professional Graduate Programs

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Duane Dunlap

professionally oriented graduate educationto be more relevant to the needs of the practicing profession in industry to ensure a strong U.S. engineeringworkforce. This paper suggests a framework of guidelines for curricular design of innovative master,doctoral, and fellow level professional graduate programs crafted to meet the career-long needs ofengineering professionals in industry and guided by the incorporation of five major attributes of high-quality graduate programs that positively affect the growth and development of working professionals. Theguidelines are based on the functional requirements, tasks, and responsibilities that engineering leadersencounter throughout their professional careers. The paper presents a new vision for shaping

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Recruiting/Retention Lower Division

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2003 Annual Conference

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T. N. Fogarty; Kelvin Kirby

Session 2286 Innovations in Pre-College Outreach: Scouts Explorer Posts Kelvin K. Kirby Electrical Engineering Department Prairie View A&M University Prairie View, Texas 77446-0397AbstractPublic information indicates that fewer American youth are selecting science and engineering asdesired careers. General discussions with underrepresented populations revealed that moststudents view mathematics and science as very difficult subjects that require a lot of time and hardwork to achieve above

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ASEE Multimedia Session

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2003 Annual Conference

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Taryn Bayles

UMBC in July 2001. The objective of theworkshop was to better equip high school teachers and counselors to identify, guide, and prepareprospective students at each of their schools for a career in engineering. The three-day workshopwas developed and presented by UMBC faculty from the College of Engineering and wasmodeled after work done by Raymond Landis1, former Dean of Engineering and Technology atCalifornia State University, Los Angeles. Invitations to the workshop with a brochure andapplication form were sent to area high schools in Maryland. Each participant received a $150stipend, meals, and Maryland State Department of Education (MSDE) continuing educationcredits. The workshop was sponsored by a grant from the University System of

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Ethical & Industrial Issues in BME

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2003 Annual Conference

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Eugene Eckstein; Charla K. Triplett

Session 2209 Growth of the Alliance for Industrial Internships C.K. Triplett 1 and E.C. Eckstein2 1Biomedical Career Center, Ch andler, AZ 85226 2 U. Memphis & U. Tennessee Joint Graduat e Program in BME, Memphi s, TN 38152-32 10Abstract - The Alliance is a network of coordinators and faculty from BiomedicalEngineering units that place undergraduate and graduate students in industrial internshipexperiences. This network provides tools that aid in placing students in opportunitiesnearer home, in industries specializing in work that matches

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TYCD 2003 Lower Division Initiatives

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2003 Annual Conference

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Rod Townley; Stephen Kuyath

Foundation-funded institutions and national Information Technology professional organizations were the primary targets of this research. The national scans sought information from existing studies about new and emerging occupations and investigated activities occurring at colleges around the nation. Regional monitoring included observing classified employment advertisements for IT positions and analyzing employer requests from job fairs and college career centers. Local surveys included employer surveys, student surveys, and advisory committee meetings. National Research Results: The results showed that the fastest growing IT fields are web development and administration, e-commerce, and computer networking. The National

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Pre-College and ECE Education

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2003 Annual Conference

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Gary Goff; Elizabeth McCullough, Kansas State University; Marilyn Barger, Hillsborough Community College

teachers. Over 700 teachers from schoolsalong the Interstate 4 Corridor that runs from Tampa on the west coast through Orlando toDaytona Beach on the east coast have attended the camp. The two-day camp has a basicschedule that allows for variations to fit the local community where it is offered. The intendedaudience is primarily high school mathematics, science, computer science and technology teachersand curriculum specialists. The overarching goal of the event is to provide the teacher withinformation about the electronic microchip industry from the background science, themanufacturing or fabrication processes, employee qualifications for technical staff includingtechnicians, operators, engineers, etc., and career opportunities and business

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Retention of Minority Students

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2003 Annual Conference

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Claire Lynne McCullough

increasingly more critical. To address this issue,many universities, schools, and organizations have put in place programs to encourage under-represented groups to pursue technical careers. This paper will present a sampling of the manydifferent programs and approaches being directed toward this goal, concentrating on thosecurrently being funded through the National Science Foundation's education-related programs,including such programs as "Gender Equity" and "Bridges to Engineering Education." Whilethese programs address many areas of Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics(STEM) education, this paper will concentrate on exemplars of programs which are successfullyaddressing under-representation of such groups as women, the economically

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Computer Literacy Among Minority Students

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2003 Annual Conference

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Joseph Urban; James Collofello; Doris Roman; Faye Navabi; Mary Anderson-Rowland

Session 2270 COOL (Computer Outreach Opportunities for Learning) Project James S. Collofello, Joseph E. Urban, Mary R. Anderson-Rowland, Faye Navabi, Doris Roman Arizona State UniversityAbstract Although most secondary schools provide some education in computer programming andapplications such as spreadsheets and word processors, they are usually deficient in preparingstudents for careers in software development. The lack of focus on software development topicsand project level experiences fails to dispel the "hacker" mentality and "geek-image" myths mostsecondary school

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ASEE Multimedia Session

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Linda Almstead; Karen Williams; James Hedrick

workshop for talented high school girls with an interest in engineeringwas created and offered for the first time in 2002. Called Educating Girls as Engineers (EDGE),the program had several major goals. It was designed to encourage these girls to continue on tocollege to pursue engineering careers and to provide them with an intensive, real-life collegelearning and living experience. A unifying theme of “Designing Tools and Toys for DisabledChildren” was chosen to illustrate the humanitarian aspects of engineering – that engineers solveproblems to help people.II. Institutional BackgroundUnion College is a small liberal arts college in Schenectady, NY. Founded in 1795, it was thefirst liberal arts college to offer engineering as part of its

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Mathematics in the Transition

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2003 Annual Conference

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Claudia Morrell; Taryn Bayles; Anne Spence

American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright© 2003, American Society for Engineering Education”MOTIVATION FOR THE PROJECTWhile the number of science and engineering jobs is projected to grow modestly in the nextdecade, fewer students are choosing to enroll in engineering programs.1 In order to recruit morestudents, they must be made aware of the benefits and opportunities that an engineeringprofession would provide. Second, they must take challenging upper level math and sciencecourses necessary to prepare students for college programs. The need to increase both theawareness of and interest in career opportunities in engineering can be addressed, in part, bydeveloping supplemental

Conference Session

Engineering Education; An International Perspective

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Jason Bittner

national level activities have broad transportation foci. The American Association of StateHighway and Transportation Officials (AASHTO) has a Transportation and Civil Engineering(TRAC) program that offers computers and related transportation focused software to elementaryand secondary schools. TRAC volunteers, typically transportation engineers from the statetransportation agencies. At a basic level, TRAC is a program designed for integration intoscience, math, and social studies classes. The Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) sponsors Page 8.449.1a variety of programs on workforce development, including construction career programs

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TYCD 2003 Lower Division Initiatives

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2003 Annual Conference

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Gary Goff; Hugh Rogers, University of Central Florida; Marilyn Barger, Hillsborough Community College

educational system moreefficient as well as more productive. As part of this more global effort, Florida implemented astatewide transferable Associate of Science (A.S.) degree in 2000 for twelve (12) career fields.Previously, the A.S. degree was considered to be a terminal degree and a course of study where astudent could obtain significant workplace skills in a particular discipline with only the mostnecessary supporting general education requirements. The paradigm shift to define A.S. degreesas transferable also outlined the criteria for the community colleges to define Associate inApplied Science (A.A.S.) degree as a terminal degree.Most of the community college program and degree programs have been restructured, and effortsare beginning

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Related Engineering Programs

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert Bowman

engineering laboratory setting if the experience is hands-onand involves personal exploration. It also became clear that their perception of what electricalengineers do was changed to the point where they would consider electrical engineering as aviable career option.Undeclared engineering students make up about 20% (about 100 students) of the incoming classat RIT. These students have comparable academic credentials to the general engineering studentpopulation. The College of Engineering offers five engineering programs (Computer, Electrical,Mechanical, Microelectronic, and Industrial) and Electrical Engineering usually attracts less than15% of these students. Freshmen and sophomore experiential courses, which are viewed as notrequiring a major time

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Promoting ET Through K-12 Projects

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2003 Annual Conference

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Tom Wulf; Hazem Said

. Page 8.916.1 Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2003, American Society for Engineering EducationProgram DescriptionThe Summer Academy of Information Technology (SAIT) is a forty-hour, two-weekprogram for high school students. During the program participants are exposed to severaldifferent areas of IT. The goal of this program is to engender an interest among theparticipants in IT as a possible career choice by exposing them to various areas of focusfrom the discipline, introducing them to college life, and providing them with experienceworking on a community focused IT project.Achieving the first part of the goal was a major challenge for

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Pre-College Initiatives in Engineering Education

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Pauline Sexton; Monique Wade; Bevlee Watford

Copyright © 2003, American Society for Engineering Educationmiddle and high school to consider engineering as a career path. IMAGINATION is one of themany programs that Virginia Tech provides to expose students to technical fields of study.Camp HistoryOriginally known as the Academic Enrichment Camp, this one-week day camp was run twice eachsummer by the College of Engineering dean’s office. In 1995, the Center for the Enhancement ofEngineering Diversity (formerly known as the Office of Minority Engineering Programs) assumedresponsibility for camp implementation. The camp name was eventually changed to its presentname, IMAGINATION.During the summer of 2002 the camp came under new direction and was revamped. Suggestionsmade on post camp surveys were

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ASEE Multimedia Session

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2003 Annual Conference

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James Middleton; Cheryl Gengler; Antonio Garciq; D. L. Evans; Sharon Robinson Kurpius; Peter Crouch; Dale Baker; Mary Anderson-Rowland; Chell Roberts; Stephen Krause

andcurriculum needed to set up high school courses in this subject at their respective schools.MTI-trained teachers found this training to be very beneficial to their teaching. Their students(221 students at 7 high schools) reported that the courses: a) made them much more interested in Page 8.378.3a science career b) increased their enjoyment of laboratory activities; and c) helped them developProceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright3 © 2003, American Society for Engineering Educationtheir skills fo r working with equipment and in the laboratory

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Mobile Robotics in Education

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2003 Annual Conference

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Darcy Schein; Cathryne Stein

that Botball influenced their career choice, and 37% felt Botball influenced their desired program of study when they went to college; • 86% wanted to participate in a college level Botball program.Botball is national in scope and takes place in regional programs across the country. The programculminates in an open National Botball Tournament.Motivation and purpose of growing a tournament into a conferenceIn previous years, our National Botball Tournament was hosted by the American Association forArtificial Intelligence (AAAI) at its annual professional conference. AAAI also donated travelgrants to students. Students benefited from seeing what professional scientists and researcherswere doing in the field, and there was great value

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Recruiting/Retention Lower Division

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Terrence Freeman; Jessica du Maine

students over the lastfive years.Introduction The twenty-first century will be dominated by technological change as the United Stateseconomy becomes increasingly dependent on a technically literate workforce. Engineering is oneof the careers that will help fuel the engine of economic growth1. If the United States is tomaintain its technological leadership in this interdependent global economy, it must takeadvantage of the entire pool of talent that the nation has to offer. Many major corporations nowsupport the thesis that diversity makes good business sense. Hispanics, African Americans andNative Americans, however, still remain significantly underrepresented in science andengineering with roughly half of the science and engineering

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Technology, Communication, & Ethics

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Paul Ross

precision: Future work should define the nature of technical leadership in detail and evaluate the interests and motivations of engineers to develop skills in technical leadership; the relationships between traditional management and technical leadership must be examined; the interests of engineers and of business and industry in career development for “technical leaders” must be assessed. Additionally, the continuing task of improving online education for technical professionals will continue to be a challenging area of development.The development of “Communicating Technical Information” has three stages.Stage 1 – a largely completed task: the infrastructure of the online setting had to beunderstood and

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ASEE Multimedia Session

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Susan Miller; Mara Wasburn

. Page 8.964.1 Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2003, American Society for Engineering EducationBy the time they are at the point where they must choose careers, girls have less experience withcomputers and perceive that they are behind, decreasing their likelihood of entering the fields ofscience, engineering, and/or technology 8.Nationwide, few young women enroll in secondary school computer science advanced placementclasses. Their absence does not appear to stem from disinterest in computers but rather fromapplications that seem more attuned to the interests of boys 5, 10 . Therefore, as these youngwomen enter colleges and universities

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Trends in Engineering Economy

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

David Dryer; Paul Kauffmann; William Peterson

course) is asemester project, which is reported in a 15-page (maximum) paper. The following is theassignment sheet for the semester project from the syllabus: “Semester Project Description Focus: To build the bridge from the course material to the work place, each student will evaluate one or several of the financial tools, methods, or practices employed by his / her firm. This is an opportunity to expand job and career related understanding of financial practices into new areas. Purpose: The purpose of the semester project is to allow you to use the tools and information from class to address or investigate a financial issue on the job. We hope it is a

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ASEE Multimedia Session

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Sue Scheff

” female student in engineering developing relationships before school begins.Developing relationships with women faculty is highlighted. “Engineering schools with highnumbers of female students say the best, albeit the most obvious, way to attract female studentsis to increase the number of female faculty members” (5)E-Mentoring Opportunities: "MentorNet®", the national electronic industrial mentoringnetwork for women in engineering and science, offers UK undergraduate students theopportunity to be paired with female or male engineers across the country. Mentors offersupport and provide encouragement to students as they progress through their coursework, andprepare to embark on their professional careers. Mentoring has been found to be an

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Recruitment & Outreach in CHE

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Claudia Morrell; Taryn Bayles; Anne Spence

yet inexpensive recruitment strategy that introduces 1620 high school students to STEM careers, but also aids in the retention of the 270 UMBC undergraduate students who participate. 2. The relative effectiveness of a summer bridge program, a scholarship program, and an internship program on student retention in STEM compared to partial or no intervention. Both academic and economic supports have been shown to be effective in recruitment, enrollment, and retention at universities and colleges. But how much time and resources are needed to provide a strong positive outcome? A pilot project involving 30 CCBC and 30 UMBC students seeks to answer this question.Project Goal and Objectives for