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Thomas Shepard; Michaela Andrews; Cole Harris

Retention, ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition, Salt Lake City, UT, Paper 13579.[5] Plessix, P., Armitage, G., Chomistek, K., Johnston, C., Caswell, D., Nazir, M., Eggermont, M., Douglas, D.,Knecht, B., (2007). Tool and Safety Training as Part of Engineering Design Education, ASEE Annual Conferenceand Exposition, Honolulu, HI, AC 2007-1486.[6] Pappas, E. and Prins, R., (2010). Design and Build: Teaching Cognitive Skills Through Tool Use, ASEE SouthEast Sectional Conference, Blacksburg, VA[7] Pappas, E. and Prins, R., (2010). Exploring the Value of Design and Build Experiences for UndergraduateEngineering Students, ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition, Louisville, KY, AC 2010-437.[8] Fastenal. (n.d.). Screw Thread Design. Retrieved September 2

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Bakr M. Aly Ahmed; Khaled Nassar; Mike Christenson

, thegame focuses on everyday communication in the field. The game emphasizes the importance ofcommunicating terms from geometry (e. g., “point,” “line,” “circle,” “square,” “triangle,” 389“center,” “tangent”), orientation (e. g., “start,” “right,” “left,” “up,” “down,” “45-degree,”“straight,” “end”), materials (e. g., “glass,” “wood,” “concrete,” “bars,” “steel,” “granite”),structures (e. g., “beam,” “column,” “arch,” “frame,” “Vierendeel,” “girder,” “gusset plate”),surfaces (e. g., “slab,” “wall,” “partition,” “panel,” “box”), and environmental control systems (e.g., “chiller,” “boiler,” “economizer,” “AC,” “WC,” “PC,” “cooling tower,” “pipes,” “ducts”), butis not limited to these terms.In designing

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Audrey LaVallie; Eakalak Khan; G. Padmanabhan

. 14 In Sitting Bull College (SBC), out of 104 registered in 2007, only one graduated with anAssociate degree in 2009 and 9 graduated in 2010-11. Out of a total of six students whoparticipated in TCURMP, all graduated and went on to enroll in their BS in environmentalSciences program. Most of the students who were not retained were much weaker students andusually did not make it to the point where they were ready for the research program. United Tribes Technical College (UTTC) participated only minimally in TCURMP. Inthe last four years, UTTC did not have students in this program. Therefore, they were not able toassess the impact of TCURMP on their retention. Besides, UTTC also runs a STEM researchproject mentoring program of

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Naima Kaabouch; Deborah L. Worley; Jeremiah Neubert; Mohammad Khavanin

actual engineering problems. Moreover,about half of the students remained only “somewhat confident” in their mathematical abilitiesand their ability to succeed in the engineering field after college.AcknowledgementThe authors acknowledge the support of the National Science Foundation under the grantnumber DUE-0942270.References1. “Rising Above the Gathering Storm: Energizing and employing America for a brighter economic future,” National Academy of Science, Washington DC, National Academies Press, 2005.2. “Rising Above the Gathering Storm, Revisited: Rapidly Approaching Category 5,” National Academy of Science, Washington DC, National Academiy Press, 2010. 3643. “Science