. Her research has been published in journals such as Theory into Practice, Action in Teacher Education, and Journal of Hispanic Higher Education. She earned her Ph.D. in Reading/Writing/Literacy from the University of Pennsylvania. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2019 Shifting Pre-Calculus from a Gatekeeper to a Gateway CourseAbstractThe national need to transform STEM education is paramount, as evidenced by the persistent gapin STEM degree attainment between whites and minorities, which continues to be a wide chasmin spite of greater numbers of minority students entering into STEM studies as compared to tenyears ago. This gap may be attributed in part to the systemic problem of
Paper ID #24932Exploring the Experiences of Prospective Transfer Students in a Global En-gineering ProgramJessica R Deters, Virginia Tech Department of Engineering Education Jessica Deters is a PhD student at Virginia Tech in the Department of Engineering Education. She holds a B.S. in Applied Mathematics & Statistics and a minor in the McBride Honors Program in Public Affairs from the Colorado School of Mines.Ms. Ashley R Taylor, Virginia Tech Ashley Taylor is a doctoral candidate in engineering education at Virginia Polytechnic and State Univer- sity, where she also serves as a program assistant for the Center