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Purdue. Her current capacity is as Recruitment and Retention Data Analyst for the Minority Engineering Program at Purdue, where she aids the organization assisting historically underrepresented groups of students in engineering. Her work with the Rising Scholar NSF S-STEM program includes the collection, analysis, and management of the data pertaining to the outreach, recruitment, retention and graduation of the Rising Scholars students, as well as serving as the program interface with the under- graduate participants.Dr. Robert Merton Stwalley III P.E., Purdue University at West Lafayette (COE) Dr. Robert M. Stwalley III, P.E. joined the Agricultural & Biological Engineering department as a faculty member in the