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Martha Mitchell; Paola Bandini

undergraduate engineering students at New Mexico StateUniversity. The presentation also discusses how the proposed mentoring model contributed to thesuccessful trajectories of the cohort participants in their engineering programs. A distinctive aspectof the one-on-one mentoring model is that it does not include an undergraduate researchexperience. Faculty members were not initially familiar with mentoring that was not based on anundergraduate research experience. Students were encouraged to pursue research, but it was notrequired in the mentoring program. New materials were developed for the faculty to increaseunderstanding of this model. Outcomes include: high satisfaction of students with the mentoringexperience and one hundred percent retention or

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Kenneth Van Treuren

spring one of Baylor’s much-loved engineering students committed suicide. He was a topstudent with what seemed like so many friends. After this occurred, questions were being raised bythe faculty but there did not seem to be any answers. While feelings of inadequacy about whathappened were prevalent in the School of Engineering and Computer Science, many faculty werefacing the same questions but were afraid to voice their concerns. The faculty, especially the“Legacy” faculty who were near retirement and did not grow up under the same circumstances asiGens, did not fully understand the new generation entering the university and their challenges. Thestatistics stated above were overwhelming and prompted the School of Engineering and

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AHMED HUSSAIN; Nizar Tayem; Jamal Nayfeh; Samir El-Nakla

” method that can be applied.This poses a significant challenge to new institutions/programs that have embarked on the process ofapplying for ABET accreditation. Each program/institution has to develop its own methodology orprocess8,9,10 for meeting the ABET requirements based on the resources available at its disposal.Successful ABET accreditation of an institution of higher learning requires several years of priorplanning and preparation11. It must have a strong up-to-date curriculum that meets internationalstandards, qualified faculty and staff in sufficient numbers, teaching and laboratory facilities, andstrong institutional support. It must also put in place a clear, well-defined, and implementableprocess for assessment and evaluation of

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Diana de la Rosa-Pohl; Catherine Horn

Statistics, 2017). However, just a fewyears later African American students were earning only 4% of the engineering degrees and lessthan 12% of degrees in each of the science and mathematics fields. At that same time Hispanics Proceedings of the 2020 ASEE Gulf-Southwest Annual Conference University of New Mexico, Albuquerque Copyright  2020, American Society for Engineering Education 2accounted for only 10% of the engineering degrees and less than 15% of science and mathematicsdegrees.For URM students from low-income families, the financial hardships create an additional drag onretention rates. Students from low-income

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John Carrell; Joshua Cruz; Stephanie Kuzmack

Society: History and Engineering in the Second World War” is co-taught byhumanities and STEM faculty, offering students different perspectives throughout the learningprocess. WWII pushed humans to their extremes, from their most courageous and hopeful to theirmost destructive and hateful. This backdrop provides an ideal framework in which to examinestudents as they develop engineering identities and empathy. “War, Machine, Culture, and Society:History and Engineering in the Second World War” provides a specific context for engineering and Proceedings of the 2020 ASEE Gulf-Southwest Annual Conference University of New Mexico, Albuquerque Copyright  2020, American

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Cody Crosby; Anita Patrick; Margo Cousins; Laura Suggs; Mia Markey

organizations such as the American Medical InformaticsAssociation, the American Society of Engineering Education, the American Cancer Society, and the Society forWomen’s Health Research. She is a Fellow of both the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)and the American Institute for Medical and Biomedical Engineering (AIMBE) and is a Senior Member of both the IEEEand SPIE. Correspondence concerning this paper may be sent to Dr. Markey at mia.markey@utexas.edu. Proceedings of the 2020 ASEE Gulf-Southwest Annual Conference University of New Mexico, Albuquerque Copyright © 2020, American Society for Engineering Education

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Roy Issa; Reinhard Puffing; Emad Manla

forglobal virtual teams to form. This international experience enlightened and exposed the students todifferent cultures, an essential capability to have as an engineer. Proceedings of the 2020 ASEE Gulf-Southwest Annual Conference University of New Mexico, Albuquerque Copyright ã 2020, American Society for Engineering Education 8The pilot project was assessed by comparing the performance of this particular group of WTAMUstudents in Senior Design with other project groups who worked on other senior design projects thatdid not have an international focus. The project was assessed by a group of engineering faculty atWTAMU