engineering(ECpE), a large Midwestern university developed a multidisciplinary S-STEM: Scholarships forScience, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics National Science Foundation (NSF)program. This program supports students financially, professionally, and interpersonally viascholarship funding, leadership development, and scholar seminars. Future research shouldexplore the long-term academic outcomes compared to matched peers to better understand thelasting impact of program supports.Method Participants. Program scholars were matched to a control group of similar ECpE peers.Student data were obtained from the Office of the Registrar and matched by academic outcomes(high school GPA, standardized test scores) and demographic variables (sex
[8] as well as courses utilizing active learning rather than a lecture-based approach have beenshown to predict GPA among engineering students [9]. In a further effort to close this divide, a multidisciplinary Scholarships for Science,Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (S-STEM) National Science Foundation (NSF)program was undertaken to recruit, retain, and develop leadership skills in underrepresentedstudents majoring in electrical, computer, and software engineering (ECSE) at a largeMidwestern university (computer science majors were not housed in this department). It washypothesized that the program would result in higher academic performance among programparticipants than in their non-participating peers, as indicated by their
materials. She is currently the PI of an NSF S-STEM. Dr. Vernaza is the chair of the ASEE North Central Section (2017-19). c American Society for Engineering Education, 2019 WIP: A Comprehensive Design & Prototyping Platform for Rapid HW/SW Development ClassesAbstract-Robotics, autonomous transportation, and other computerized physical systems become widely accessible subjects foreven a semester-long lecture and laboratory class. Sometimes, the physical systems are often transformed to cyber-physicalsystems (CPSs) by interfacing modules in physical systems to cyber system. It is often challenging for undergraduate students toimplement a CPS comprising of analog and digital hardware and software within