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WEDNESDAY PLENARY: Featuring Best Zone and PIC Papers & Corporate Member Council Keynote Speaker, Sponsored by EngineeringCAS

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Samara Rose Boyle, Rice University ; Canek Moises Luna Phillips, Rice University; Yvette E. Pearson P.E., Rice University; Reginald DesRoches, Rice University; Stephen P. Mattingly, The University of Texas at Arlington; Anne Nordberg, University of Texas at Arlington; Wei Wayne Li, Texas Southern University; Hanadi S. Rifai P.E., University of Houston

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recruit members of these groups. In 2018, only 2.4% of tenured and tenure trackengineering faculty were African American, and only 3.8% were Hispanic [1], despite AfricanAmericans and Hispanics comprising an estimated 13.4% and 18.3% of the US population,respectively [2]. The need for professors from underrepresented minority (URM) groups is notonly felt on university campuses. Rather, the deficit impacts all stages of STEM pathways, fromeducation to the workforce; the exclusion of diverse perspectives and lived experiences fromclassrooms and industry spheres ultimately stunts the potential for advancement within STEMdisciplines overall. The National Science Foundation (NSF), through its Alliances for Graduate Educationand the

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WEDNESDAY PLENARY: Featuring Best Zone and PIC Papers & Corporate Member Council Keynote Speaker, Sponsored by EngineeringCAS

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Chao Wang, Arizona State University

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provision of choice and control has a more prominentimpact on female students’ motivation than on male students. The perceived need satisfaction ofcompetence may play a role in shaping students’ motivational responses.IntroductionHands-on team-based open-ended design projects in freshman engineering courses have beenshown to significantly improve student retention due to the benefits of active hands-on learning,self-directed acquisition of knowledge, development of skills and confidence necessary tosucceed in engineering and a growing sense of community [1, 2]. These open-ended designprojects range from highly structured [3] to theme-based [1, 2] to free choice [4, 5]. Combiningentrepreneurial thinking and maker technology, student-driven free

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WEDNESDAY PLENARY: Featuring Best Zone and PIC Papers & Corporate Member Council Keynote Speaker, Sponsored by EngineeringCAS

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Deborah Won, California State University, Los Angeles; Gisele Ragusa, University of Southern California; Gustavo B. Menezes, California State University, Los Angeles; Adel Sharif, California State University, Los Angeles; Masood Shahverdi, California State University, Los Angeles; Ni Li, California State University, Los Angeles; Arturo Pacheco-Vega, California State University, Los Angeles

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critical formational period and yet often neglected in student successinitiatives [1-3]. The sophomore year is a defining moment in the college career, and also a timethat is filled with uncertainty and a sense of losing support students had in their freshmen year [2,4-6]. We recognized the need for students to strengthen their motivation, resolve, and capabilityto persevere through the challenges that tend to hit them particularly hard when they reach theirfirst engineering courses, typically in their sophomore year. We hypothesized that servicelearning projects during the students’ freshman-to-sophomore transition would address theseneeds and thus build engineering identity and improve their academic performance in theirsophomore year